THE PERSONAL ELEMENT IN FARMING.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 98, 22 July 1902, Page 4

THE PERSONAL ELEMENT IN FARMING.

:\L i ■ r.~vr , ; h Our reader&'bari ea9l t<4 mincFa her pf itheir acquaintances who,,, with apparently the same advantages and opportunities, nave widely varied success iji; their farming operations. Their lands may bb of the same quality, lying side, by side, the buildings much /the satine,- thd line of farming totich the same, and yet one man succeeds and adds farm to -farm, another merelv makes a living, am. . another goes back from year to year until finally from a landowner be becoibes a tenant, a hired hand. Why is it? Each apparently the same opportunity," the same rotation, the same kind of a farm, .and. the same climate, yet l one succeeds, another barely holds his own, and another fails. It is the same in eve; / other line of business.,Three mere’ start side by side ; one gets rich, another holds his own or gets ahead but a little, and another fails. The only difference is in the personal element. It is generally to be found that the man who takes delight in his work, takes a hopeful view of things, is not given to grumbling or kicking, takes things as they come, adaiefes himself to them or makes the best fdf them, still looking for better, is tae man who succeeds, while the man-who does not apply himself to the business, does not study, takes a despeyndent view*, becomes a kicker or* pessimist, fails. It . is/not yM* efarm, not so much in the rotation, not so much in the man’s family, as in himself. In farming, as in everything else, we are largely the architects of our own fortunes .; we are mainly what we make ourselves. , Good luck is usually good management ; bad luck, bad management. The man who imagines that his neighbours are trying to get the advantage of him, or that the world is against him, seldom succeeds, nor d )e.s he deserve to succeed. The man who takes a hopeful view of things, does all his work thoroughly and honestly, may not get rich by farming, but he can have health, long life, a reasonable degree of prosperity, the maximum of oomf >rt and the minimum of discomfort. After all, what more does a man want ? —Wallace’s Farmer.