Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Farming vs. Profession. [ARTICLE]

Farming

vs. Profession.

The Maine Mirror gives the testimony of a New Hampshire boy, now a resident of Wisconsin, a line scholar, a graduate of Dartmouth, and a law student in Merrimac County, who, just previous to his admission to the bar, took a severe cold, which rendered him veiy deaf, and no medical skill was able to restore his hearing. The affliction compelled him to give up his chosen profession, and he went West veiy much broken down in spirits. For ten years he has been farming, cultivating about 200 acres of prairie land, and, as he expressed it, making a good living, and salting down something every year. And he declares that if, knowing what he now knows, he was to begin bis active life over again, he would do just as be was compelled to do so unwillingly ten years ago; that is, he would throw aside liis profession and settle down upon a farm. Said he: “There isn’t much glory on a farm, bnt you get a good, sure living. You are your own master ; you can’t be starved or be turned oat of business; and as far as the * work is concerned in these days of horse-power; a man needn’t kill himself farming any more than at any other business. It is brains that win on a farm as well Ss everywhere-etee, and the sm&rt man is going to ride, while the stupid one goes afoot, in the corn-field as well as In the bar or pnlpit. I should like to have my hearing again, 6ttt I wouldn’t leave my farm if 1 had it.”