Excerpt from The Business of Farming

Business is nothing more than being industriously engaged in the affairs of some occupation from which we derive our support.

Farming is our biggest business. It feeds the nations of the world and is the basis of all prosperity and happiness, and therefore should receive our biggest consideration, and be safeguarded by our best brains and legislation.

In pioneer days when farming implements and machinery were of the crudest kind, requiring muscle to use them, brawn, more than brains, was needed in the business of farming, in order to rescue soils from the wilderness of timber and prairie growth.

In these days of worn and worn-out soils and the abandoned farm, with the most improved labor-saving farm machinery, the business of farming needs brains more than brawn, that our soils may be rescued from the wilderness of wasted fertility that has stifled them.

Although the business of farming requires in its operations constant industry and the exercise of thought and study in its every detail, in order to make it successful, yet it affords greater opportunities for the best and right living, and the achievement of happiness, than any other business.

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