American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1826-03-14
For THE WATcRMAN.

FOR THE WATCRMAN.
Having heard great deal sad and often read that econ
omy efecua remedy for the distress ed b,
the hard times and you Editors are, ought be
showing men; will you be oblgng inform u
Farmers how to practice it. As far depends
myself do well enough ;by sitting III the dark (atte
candle hght) using rye coffee, molasses mush and milk
&c. &c., you have idea how much save; but, wher
others concerned, | am confoundedly bauked a
Brother jonathan says; for though it takes least
make bargain, yet my schemes to mise BAN
boozed by the tradesmen employ Snip asks The sam
price for making coat, &C., thai he did when got thre
dollars per bushel for wheat Heel Tap, "who should b
the last man to take undue and ends" is qnle
match for Snip, not for last year he took bush
els of potatoes for pair of shoes fo my negro by ahc
lasted him three weeks, and then zcere not zvorh mend
ing My particular friend Rackoo, Who has made hats TO
me least fifteen years. charged me precisely the sam
price for the last one, that he did for the first and
stating, that tVo bushels Of wheas paid him for the rsl hat
gnt Of him, how he reconcied char ing bashe
for got, he told me fur as high re
piled, it took great many things besides fur to make
hat, that knew had fallen from to hundred per cen,
Can your journeymen make many hats without eating Nr
Then they work cheaper for you, than they did ~he
got So for my wheat-and corn hay, &c. in proportion
Thus reasoned C1Uih my trtend Rackoon. good deal
for he is man of excellent understanding yet had
give him the money had JUS got for 90 bushels of corn
pay for the as hat got Of him Now, they all compai
Of the hard times, though they get these high prces
account for it thus make hat coa, &C. serve me co
taking great and seldom uearsng them, three times
long did when times good-and believe others
The same for the last time Burlington in th
Steam Boat which left Philadelphia al clock. A. NJ
Of so odd passengers, only euen including yae SAT dow
When the captain collected the money for the mea
so each, told him that the price of two bnshe
OF he said he sunk money, for he had provide
enough for 70 peone to eat and only III had eaten at teas
half The passengers counrymen and farmers, and the
knezv he charged so ignorant Of the CHARGE
would have tasted hours aid beakfasted with my broth
and saved two bushels of When the captain ha
done his collecting and leisure, addressed him thus
INV Captain, as good many years older and perhap
better calculator, am going to reason and advise =
you had 80 passengers at least this morning. and you sa
only breakfasted then you received $3.50 for all yo
provided ;-yes said he, and have los' or sunk S3
least told him it altogether his own doings, and
next fog, would tell hY how he might have made 81 in
sead of losing S3 this mor'ng he promised. BY th
Time nearly all the passengers had collected round u.s.
told him to charge IS cents for breakfast and then a
board would have partaken and instead of getting SIS
lie would have received at eat S5 for fell certain that
board would have sat down. and eaten. DO you thin
So said he when the greatest number of them said yes
would The trip he lowered his fare. and aerward
told my brother that he thanked indebted to me o
The advice gave him. Will not this lesson serve the me
chancs, apply with equal weight and force! AS res
poets myself truly say, ha many job do myself
thai would give the wheelwr ght, pener, clock maker
sadder ta lor and doctor ftey would reduce their
erorbtan charges. Befo produce fell used to put u
public house. (for though love economy, hate spon
ging but since it takes bushe of oats for nights odg
ingtwo bushels of corn for dinnerand bushe of pc
tatoes for two glasses of wineI generally meet friend
fnilaueEnla,
my home with him; and "mine host of the Carter
disappointed If getting wagon load OF my produce for les
than weeks living at his satuaton shop. would advis
brother farmers to strive and all to introduce tn
good old custom of barter and exchange with the trades
they employs they cant ot live without the prodc
of the farmer and why in and common sense far
should be paving the tradesmen and mechanics donbl
for their work, they did ten years ago. cannot com
prehend. Let every farmer evod giving those Saltwater
any Job he possibly make out T. do himself until the
their charges, and then paw them in produce. Ne
cessy is h. mother of invention Ilsve done fifty thing
though, impossible until resolntey commenced them
and my neighbors think COOPER carpenter, Joiner
wa ch MAKER wheelw igh' by trade. tell them no
hut leisure undertake those Jobs and by having so dol
lars worth of tools, hat annually by employing
the time that would be otherwise misspent; and away
have my utensils in good order
commenced writing the foregoing in the fall of 1872
and forgot send t. you nothing has materially al
tered excep advance corn and oats, occasoned b.
The drought of last summer, which benefit TO the farmer
he only raised abou third of CROP which has
the advances and produce selling for aud heating
him about the 1S24you may publish it in your pa
per you thnkproper, and perhaps it may benefit many
CLODHOPPER.
p s. IN the spring of 1926 sold my and delivered
them for 18 cents bushel host of the Garter,
offered excellent hay the lime for dollars per on and y
straw S7 per dozen batens the two latter cout
sell. Immediately after, went to Philadelphia, will
my horse and gig and for nights and days keeping ht
horse made pay 1879 for % quarts of oats,
mine host said the horse got during the ne and hay say
As lbs Now the oats and hay could not have cost
han 81 cents, and The hostler told he got nothing bur hi
board and lodgings, and depended on The generosity gentle
to make up his 7oages Now, would advise my brother
farmers take their oats with hem and by giving horse
half bushe per day he will do without hay for few days