The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-10-05
From the Farmers Cabinet.
ECONOMY.

M,ssrs misunderstanding TO the re-
norts from all parts Of our vast country, II
vould appear that the crop of wheat. rye
oats and grass, have been good. Ihe
wheat and rye will probably y notprove quite
80 heavy as was at one time anticipated;
the rust having at late period in the sea-
son. done considerable injury. In some
districts of Maryland and Virginia. this
injury was very serious. Still the crops
above mentioned, throughout the country,
will he full average ones. Aud | know
nothing more thoroughly calculated t" re-
ceive the dropping aspect OF the times,
than good crops, economical habits, and
cheerful spirits. Should the autumn add
10 the summers abundance, and give us
full crop of Indian corn, that prince OF
prains-and should the cotton and tobacco
erops ofthe South prove also luxurlant,
our garners will be overhowing, and we
may hope, that however the means ol ma
nv NAV be inconveniently reduced, the
prospect of suffering will be greatly di-
miinished, and we need have little fear of
starvation threatening us, by the side of
popertu. The wheat harvest in Eng land
has promised favorably, and unless for
eign market shall open extensively, the
products of our fields must necessarily
command low prices. With abundance
in the market. limited demand, and with
al, a deranged and crippled state of our
monied institutions, and money matters
generally. it will of course be more dill
cult than it has sometimes been, 10 make
: -rust,r suies of onr- grain. beef, pork, &c,
that will at all pay the expense OF raising
aud getting them 10 market. Wages c"H-
tinue high, Notwithstanding we hear SD
much said about the thousands that are
thrown out Unemployment We have all
howeve:, long ago observed, tIat the price
oflabor IS slow to fall. though the p'odnr's
Of il NAV have greatly diminished /" rai"e'
Wh,, then is to be done! With ovrrfi'w-
ing garners, and all The potentiollties "i
living, is the farmer to be obliged to hang
I,;s head ir chcerfulnpss? We trust not.
The farmer who is in debt, or who is bare
" out of debt, or living on rented land'
and depending entirely upon the yearly
products of his farm,-if he would rise
above the perplexities Of city business,
must bring all his wits into play; put on
his STUDYING cap, and practice retrench-
mcnt. He must study economy in every
know from experience, that
a system Of cash payments, for all we buy
is among the very best, and most etilclent
incentives to this necessary virtue. The
good credit and fair character of many a
farmer, have placed him upon his lastlegs.
and iheir abuse has proved his ruin. L
don't mean that farmer shall ncDer make
use of his credit: but it is so easy to buy
what we think we need, when pan day is
put off for six months, or year. that the
temptation to purchase what we might
we'll do without, is o(tentimes SO strong,
that its indulgence leads to the most Sc.
rious results. Let MS then pay the cash
for what we buy, and we will save in the
purchase, five or ten per cent I'VE shall
often avoid buying wha. we only imagine
We need, and spare ourselves the harrass
meuts of unpaid biIls-the chagrin of
working for ''dead horse" Our better
half will examine the old coat and see if it
won't bear turniDg-we'll make the old
carriage Jog along for another year or two,
or three; and when the younkers ask for
some indulgence they can we'll do without,
we'll put our hand in The pocket, and find
ing it minus, bid them aoait alrhilc. There
are thousand ways to economize in our
expenditures, without diminishing the
comforts of family. We shall thus find
it convenient to educate our children prop
erly, and to furnish them with tha, food
for the mind, which really adds to lilies
comforts, and gives responsibility to their
calling, whatever it may be.
Let none mistake me, and suppose |
would plead for a false economy. that
would save at the s2igot and waste at the
qnng. Such for instance. as raising poor
stock, when good might just as easily be
had; keeping on hand miserable tools.
that murder The business and cause more
delay in the using than the difference of
price between them and good ones: or in
taking up the idea that we can't afford.
these hard times to take an agricultural