Farming sale Pursuit in Lie, and Conlmtye Of Helt
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Farming is a safe business. There
is none that incurs SO little risk, or
that yields more certain returns. If
large fortunes are not realized, d
comfortable and honest living is at
least obtained-income enough to
support family, pay taxes and other
necessary expenses and that is
more than is accomplished by large
town to engage in trade. An old
and observing merchant in Boston,
remarked a few years ago, that he
had, for forty years, kept his eye on
the young men who commenced
business in certain street, and that
to his knowledge, bat one in twenty
succeeded.-Nineteen out of twenty,
or ninety-6ve out Of a hundred, failed
and compounded with their creditors
for few shillings on dollar, making
total loss ofcapital in the aggregate,
sufficient, perhaps, to have purchased
n snug farm for each, on which they
could have lived in competency.


Gen. Dearborn, in speech before
an Agricultural meeting in Boston, in
l840, said" After IA pretty exten
sive acquaintance with business men,
and no limited observation of the
common course Of things, he was salts.
fed that among one hundred mer>
chants and tradesman, not more than
three in the city ever acquired
independence. 1t was with great
distrust that he came to this conclusion,
but upon consultation with an
experienced merchant, he fully admit
ted the truth"


Do not understand me, by these
remarks, as undertaking trade. No
one respects it more. 1t benefits the
farmer, and enriches the country, and
lrejoice ] that there are those whose
tact and talent qualify them to succeed
in il. But observation has taught me
something Of its reverses as we'll as O
its! charms; and If farmers sor
prefers safe employ and moderate
compensation. to business with al
many chances Of bankruptcy as ther,
are snags and sawyers in the Mis-
sissippi-If he would escape tn,
torment of professional "shoppers"--
the vexation of delinquent debtors-th
incubus Of fluctuating markets, an,
the horrible spectres Of refused dis
counts, "two per cent. a month";" an
protested paper,-let him accept hi
fathers proposition, and keep tn
homestead, or invest his first earning
in small farm.


But there are other and still NOR
important reasons for choosin
agricultural pursuits These ar
health, social enjoyment, and tn
Improvement of the moral affection.
] believe health is more general, an
The average oflife is longer, 10 rura
districts, where due attention is pai
ta the laws of physiology. than is foun
elsewhere, owing, probably, 10 simple
habits Of living, comparative freedom