Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-09-29
From the N. Y. Tribune
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The American Harvest of 1855 is a
great one, after making all reasonable
deductions for partial failures Of Wheat
from the ravages OF insects or from foul
weather in July. and for the loss or dam
age of Hay from the latter source. In
dian Corn is very late, and liable to lie
seriously injured by early frosts; but the
yield will be great, though the quality
NAV be inferior This county never before
produced so much food for cattle as this
year, and the annual product of Butter
and Cheese must exceed all precedent.
Rye and Oats were never better; and
there will be great yield of Buckwheat,
even il early frosts shoul dkill part Of it.
Potatoes suffer considerably in this vicinity
from the fatal rot; but there was a great
area planted and their general appearance
is still thrifty and luxuriant The crop
will be large, at the worst; while for other
roots there never was so good prospect
at this season. Fruit, too, in this region,
and almost everywhere else, is most abun-
dant.
/ We ought therefore, to have better
.! times-better, not merely for our farmers,
who will often find their increased product
balanced by reduced prices; but better
for the entire community Our merchants
should be enabled to pay better than last
year; ourr mechanics should have steady
work as we'll as cheaper food our labo:ers
should find employ ymentin the season open
ing to them on every side, in contrast
with the enforced idleness and destitution
of last Winter. And, as a benefcent
consequence Of this improvement in our
general con liton, we entreat our farmers,
so far as possible, to turn over a new leaf
/ in the matter of debt and credit; and
resolve firmly not to mortgage their crop
before they have grown it, but limit pur-
chases to their means and pay as they go.
Is this advice hard to follow? By no
means 1t is only hard to begin to follow
it, We know that many if not most o2
our farmers are in debt, and cannot in
stantly extricate themselves; but they can
get out and keep out of mercantile debts
if they will. Pay off the mortgage gradu-
ally, but have no running accounts at the
stores-they are issues through which
many a noble patrimony has run out
The merchant does and must charge
more if he cr, Hts :hsn te would il he sold
only Tor ready pay; there is no help for
it. On the cash system, he might turn his
capital over several times in each year;
now he does very we'll if he turns it
once. The easy, slouching farmer means
to square all off when be sells his grain
or his cheese; but the account is a good
deal larger than he supposed it would or
conld be; then his daughter is to he married.
or his son is setting Of to the West and
must have an outfit; Sc he pays part, gives
a note for the balance, and begins to run
up new score. The merchant considers
him good in the long run, and continues,
to trust him; but next year frost, OF 'ood
or hail, or drouth. cuts his crops short;
and now the whole years bill must be put
into new note, and interest added to the
old one. Finally, the debtor becomes
discouraged and takes to drinking; or he
falls sick and is eaten up by doctors bills
his farm and all he has go to his creditors
so he paddles off for some new location
and the merchant loses his customers and
a part il not the whole of his debt. Such
is the vicious system which keeps our far
mera always in debt 10 the merchants, the