Start Right And Then Stick

If every young man who is on the eve of commencing life on the farm, for hiinself, eould read the following, elipped from the Golden Rule, and thoroughly take in the meaning and intent of the writer, it would help to increase the number of really successf ui farmers in the country. There is nothing like starting right and then stickine toil: "Want of foresight in choosing, ana stability of purpose and effort, are at the bottom of half the f ailures in farming, f or it is even more disastrous for a farmer to make sudden and radical changes in bis business plans, than to 'put all lus eggs in one basket,' by depending on one erop. The farmer who 'rotates' from sheep to eows, and f rom cows to grain, and from grain to fruit, with every fluctuation of the market, is pretty sure to get in one erop that he can't 'raise'- a mortgage. _ "Every farm is better adapted to some industries than to others. If the land is low and springy and cold, footrot or other diseases will take the pronta off of sneep. If there is not plenty of pure, cold water, and pasturage specially adapted to cows m lts Chemical characteristics, and that does not shrivel up by the end of July, dai ying will not prosper. If the gra1n-producing elements in the soü are i exhausted, or insect-enemies or climatie influences interfere, grain crops will fail. If fruit trees must stand 'with their feet in water, owmg to a lack of drainage, orchards will prove disappointing. "Then, again, men are as dineren as their farms. Some have just the nackl to bring together a dairy of cows, near y every one of which shall be a 'good milker.' and by gentle, clean, m-ovident management, secure large returns for the best of producís. Another has the faculty of having his land his seed, his fertilizers, his times and seasons, just rightto coax flelds of waving grain from the soil. Another will have a flock of sheep, every one of which looks as though bred to enter for the premium at the county fair. Still another will plant and prune and shape an orchard of half a thousand apple trces.so that they shall all stand uniform, smooth, symmetrical, yielding just such apples in just such tities as he planned, when lie brougnt the trees f rom the nursery. The point is, that every man, in farming as in other occupations, should ascertain what his combined inward forcea and outward cireumstances will enable him to do bc st, and do that. As a rule, diversified farming is the best, except in localities pre-eminently adapted to one branch, like the dairy regions of New York, or the natural grain üelds of the West. "A snug little orchard; fields ot grain, grass, corn, and root crops ; a manageable drove of cows or sheep ; a pair of choice breeding mares; a pen of good hogs ; a yard of poultry ; some extra crops to experiment on- this oldfashioned method is about the safest and most comfort ble after all, for specialities require cpecial knowledge and special conditions of success. "They are like onf legged milking stools- can't stand alone ; while varied farming has various supports."