Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876 [PAGE 219]

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219 This department calls for constant care and the exercise of a sound judgment and skill, and entails a fearful responsibility on the mistress of every farmer's household. I might enumerate almost indefinitely the condition necessary to success in the farmer's pursuit, but there is one more only that I will name, one that is requisite to success in all other pursuits as well as this, that is business capacity and economy. There are men who can never succeed in any business; their efforts are always abortive and lamentable failures and no amount of direction or instruction would change the result, while others have that sound practical common sense that never fails—and between the two are all grades of business talent. Many of the latter class will be much benefited by specific direction in their calling, but the first described never will. Where nature's handiwork is a failure, man's efforts will avail little.