The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-05-30
VIM. n, Brainard, s'ec'v.
Geneseo, May 10Th 1850.
HINTS TO BROTHER FAR MERs.

Friends. buy nothing that you can profitabiy
produce yourself. If you find yonr means r..
stricled and not sufficiently able to supply all
your necessary wants, extend your system OF cul.
tlre, and do not stop Until it embraces all those
title matters that enter into the consumption of
your family. Enlightened economy, state and
personal pride, all concur, says some one, in indi-
eating that farmer should never 60 abroad for
the necessares and comforts ofliie, so long as he
possesses the ability 10 produce them for himself;
ior every dollr sent from The farm for such a
purpose, is reck less waste OF means, as the nee
essary consequence is, that to the amount oil It's
value, II tends TO impoverishthe producer, or en-
rich a third party who had no agency in its pro-
duction and who from the rcmoteness ofhi local
position, and has no identity OF interests in or af
finity Of feeling with, the persons whom he has
thus, in measure, rendered tributary to its en-
richmenf. s. 4k4. +3tf
Always endeavor TO secure good tools. This
is Of paramount importance. No man can work
contentedly, or perform his work successfully,
with imperfect implements. Il often costs more
to keep poor axe or plough. or scythe in order,
during that particular portion of the year when
its assistance is most required, than it would to
purchase new one. 1t is, at best, but poor econ
omy, that which requires US to earn one dollar at
at the expense oftwO.
"Take the papers' An intelligent farmer
was conyersing the other day upon the advantages
of newspapers. He had recently become sub
scriber to an excellent and well managed family
paper in which from one to two columns are de-
voied, weekly, to agricultural matter. In one of
the numbers he noticed receipt for the cure OF a
certain disease common to swine, and BY the rava-
ges, of which ne had, IN previous years, lost sew
eral amin lis without applying or attempting to
apply, any remedy, having always been induced
| to regard the disease in question, as one wholly
incurable. A friend Of his, had, at that time, a
fine poriSer suffering from the attack, and appar-
emily in the last stages OF the same disease The
receipt was communicated to him, the prescribed
medicine and mode of treatment, and the animal
CURED! An earlier knowledge of this, he assert
ed, would in all probability, have saved ham
hundred dollars! Few farmers can afford to loose
that amount; therefore, say to all--"Take the
papers," astA tH
| If you have superior cow, sheep, mare. 81
bull, do not dispose of it; keep il to propagate
| from, and sell your poorer animals. O5tain the
test seed the best scions, the best tools; in pr-
chasing do not attach so much importance to a
few extra shlings or dollars, as to lei i be the
means Of depriving You Of good article, and sub
stituting in its stead, poor or comparatively
worthless one. Remember that good articles are
cheapest in the end. Poor purchases never real
ize ones expectati and are a source OF never
ending perplexity and expense. H.
Beasale,a, .Harch sS, 1850.
'sJim. suppose my wife should fall over
board, what letter in the alphabet would
express my wish in regard to her?' "Whs
the letter B Of course"