Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1890 — A Farmer on Farming, [ARTICLE]

A Farmer on Farming,

Indlanipo’ia News. S. W. Duncan, one of the most successful farmers of Johnson County, was in the city this morning. r.Speakiag of the relative prosperity of farmers, he said: “It is not the farmers who stay at home and read and study the best methods of business who are complainof hard times. About- 89 per cent, of the men who enter other departments of business fail, whrle the number of farmers who fail is certainly an insignificant per cent, of the number engaged in agriculture. When a farmer beginga dabling in politics and med. dling with outside affairs, times get hard with him of course, just as they do with a man who neglects his mercantile or manufacturing business. The business of agriculture is of the most profitable and is the surest of success of any a man can engage in.