Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1875 — How He Succeeds. [ARTICLE]

How He Succeeds.

We have a German fanner in this neighborhood who sets us all a good example. He commenced life as a hired man. He has now one of the -best farms in the town and is adding acre to acre. Whatever he does is done well. He never seems to be in a hurry. But he commences to plow in the spring before some of us begin to think about getting the plpws ready, and he has ten or twenty acres of barley sown before some of us have plowed a furrow. He is always Everything is in its place; everything in good repair and ready for use at a moment’s notice. His land is getting cleaner every year—and I was going to say richer, but I am not so sure on this latter point I have sometimes thought he was running his land rather hard. But there is certainly no diminution in the crops. His farm would sell for 50 per cent, more than he paid for it, while other farms have not increased in value.' The secret of success in his case is first in the man himself—in his industry, sobriety and good judgment. And in the next place, I think it is due principally to the fact that he plows early and plows late and plows well and plows often; and he uses the harrow and the roller until his soil is mellow and in good order for the seed. Then he cultivates his com and* potatoes and beans the moment he cap see the rows, and he/suffers not a weed to grow and go to feed. I ought to add that he has five energetic sons to help him, and while he hires little or no labor there is a large amount of‘work done on the farm. In fact, say what you will, there is, never has been and never will be, good farming without the expenditure of considerable labor.— Joaeph Harris. ■—A St Louis woman knows twenty-two fashionable ladies who hare become bald from wearing masses of false hair.