Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11
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Plant Corn
The question of cheap bread for the
working-man, and whether there will be a
good supply of beet, depends upon how peo-
pie plant corn.
Hpork next fall is scarce and high those
who have it to sell may think it is a pros
porous time for them, but it viii be more
50 if the people generally have planted corn.
It is no true argument that if all did so the
price would be 'ruinously low" Nocountry
ever was ruined by cheap bread.
We adiure you, therefore, every man Of
YOU that owns an acre of soil, to plant corn
jim the English acceptation of the word,
ANYTHING that will make bread--but more
particularly we entreat yog to plant maize,
or Indian corn. We ask it now because
now is the time to prepare for it. We ask
it for the good of the eountry-for the ben
eft ofthe farmers. Is there man living
who took our advice and increased his crop
last spring, and who has since had moment
Of regret that that he did sol If he has,
his deeply benefited country has not The
people return thanks to God for bounte-
Gus crop. Without it, what would those
who buy bread have done in all this terrible
winterl
Last spring q general effort was made to
increase the product Of the land. Heaven
smiled upon it and the people were made
glad. There was cause then-there is cause
.now-that the people should plant corn
more than was planted last year, nowhere
are the graneries full; nowhere is there a
surplus laid up against an unfruitful year
and without such a surplus no country can be
independent, no people prosperous and hap
py. Let them plant corn.
We have had winter of severity such as
those who are most able to work have never
known before, and may never know again.
But that it is not certain; the next may be
one of still greater severity, and if 50, what
q demand there will be for grain--the poor
will cry for bread. Let the farmers plant
corn.
Owingto the fact that the ground has
been covered with snow for many weeks,
and that snow is an absorbant and fertiliz-
ing element for the earth, we have reason
to believe that this will be a great grain
producing season. Let the people plant
corn.
Not a day is to be lost. We know that
the ground is still frozen-that the SHOWS of
January still 1inger on the surface; bat, We
repeat, not a day IS to be lost from your
preparation, if you iutend, more than last
year to plantcorn. IlssA9
Lett not be argued that the price of corn
is falling-it is still largely remunerative,
while all its products are equally so. Look
at the prices that farmers have realized for
beef and pork, and though the latter has
fallen, it is still above tho point of profit
to the maker. There is no prospect that
beef will fall below ten cents pound on
the hoof for all that is corn fed during the
year. At that rate it will pay to plant
corn.
There is pressing need now for a great
crop, as great or greater than that of last
year; and We may have it, if those who
read this article will bear in mind the bur-
den of its song, and urge upon all with
whom they have any influence, to plant corn
plant more than you uintended-more than
you did last year, if only by one grain, one
hill, one rod, one rood, one acre, one field
still let your motto be that which begins
and ends with this appeal-PLANT CoRN
IN Y Tribune.