Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-04-11

IL he mas no knowledge OF the use OF
money, no skill in his business, it will
prove his ruin. Such man has nothing
but his labor to sell, and should therefore
attempt no other transaction. But if he
know how to direct his own labor wisely,
and to make the labor Of others profitable
to himself, there is no good reason Why
he should not hire money TO procure that
labor, and employ so much Of it as he can
make profitable. If he want farm Oh
which to employ bis own labor and that
Of others, there is no good reason why be
should not rent farm upon one years
credit. To such an intelligent cultivator
of the soil, who knows just what to d.
with every dollar of his capital, debt is
great blessing 1t is an indispensable
means of his achieving competence, and
it is to-day one Of the great wants of our
Connecticut farmers. We want more cap
ital invested in good tools, manures, barn
sheds and cellars, stock, and labor. We
believe it would be great blessing to our
State if they would invest Q million Of
dollars in these things this coming spring.
The trouble with cultivators of the soil
has been not that they incurred debt, but
that they made their investments in the
wrong place. They sunk their capital in
stead of using it. They have purchased
large farus and not used a quarter Of the
land. If they have cultivated part Of
their farms, it has not been done in a
thorough manner. Fifty bushels of corn
to the acre will make a man thrive, where
seventy Eve to the acre will make him =
bankrupt. Seventy-6ve to the acre will
pay better thar fifty, and hundred is far
within the limits Of possibility, as We shall
have occasion to show from the records Of
our husbandry during the last year.
If a man purchases farm for ten thou
sand dollars aud uses but half Of it, he has
taxes ana Interest," pay upon five thou
sand dollars for which be gets no equiva-
lent. If be is this amount in debt, and
pursues slOveuly method of farming,
interest will eat him up. He has under
taken an enterprise too large for bis skin
and capacity. We must have more capi-
tai to work land With and skill to direct il.
We hope then that none of the occu-
pants of the homestead will be frightened
by that bug bear Of Mr. Beecher, touching
debt. Debt incurred to make your acres
double their crops, will not prove bed Of
Canada thistles, but of elder down. 1t
will give you refreshing dreams when the
thermometer is below zero. 1t will fill
up your cribs with solid corn, palpable to
the vision, store your cellars with roots
aud fill your barns with hay and grain,
Goa. the ribs of your cattle with flesh and
fat, and lend gloss to their skins that
skin flint parsimony never dreamed Of. It
will stifen your back bone, erect your
head, and turn up slightly the rim Of your
hat with the air of gentleman who has
corn to sell A muck mine upon your
farm unwrought is far worse than the debt
it would incur to bring out its treasures.
Poor tools are worse than debt. An un-
disturbed sub soil is worse than debt. An
undrained swamp cropped with alders in
stead of pOtatoes ia worse than debt A
yard bare of muck and manure is worse
than debt. And finally mind full Of ig-
norant prejudices against improved hus-
bapdry is a great deal worse than debt.
This ignorance eats worse than interest
money, for it blinds its victim to bis peril.
When the farm is freed from its incubus
it can afford to be in debt, and every or
binary crop will pay the interest upon its
cost with more certainty aud uniformity
than any other investment.