Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-02-12
agricultural.
One-Idea Farm ng.
nr o.E II THE oLD GUARD.

Rr osE II TIE CID GUARD.
Did yOu ever observe squirrel in Tin
cage, with q revolving wheel st'achrd - il;
the apparatus put up in country bar-room !;
the squirrel always. when in his wheel, on
keen jump, vet always at the boitoml Did
it ever occur to you. if squirrels would bod
On, he would be part of the time at the Top.
supposi1g the gyration tog onl
In the human. the social. The oer:c dfurGl
squirrel cage. the gyratiun always goes on
There are enough unea,y fe lows, wto mus;
always be on the jump. and always keep the
wheel spinning "srgal." (as our moraiizing
grave digger s-ys in Hamie',) if one wiser
than bis fe;l ws hoids on. the rest viii pro-
pei Tin 10 the upper siie, half the tinae! Q
E. ID. Co,.sidrr that point settled
Tariffs and rumors o. tariffs! sPeculaiions
and runners OF specu'utiDns ! Gureign mar
keis hundred causes, are constantly af-
fecting our markets. not only for agriculIu-
raj grimcrackery. but for our great Staples
Wheat, wool, cotton, tabacoO. dairy pro-
ducts, all staples that can be named, occa
sionsily reach the point of overproduction
Il is not easy TO change the employment oi
the stock in trade sad fixtures in a moment,
and consequently the overproduction con-
tinueG, and reaches a higher point. The
business Is clean overdone frees cease 10
be remuneratire the the accumulated 81
plus remains on hand TO keep down the ma
ket. Panic then inevitably scts ~. Every
wiseacre is convinced ,hst !his particular
branch is not only done up l..r Ihe tim be-
ing. but done up, as the boys say. Tor g"od." !"
Every rat is for leaving the stkins snip on
the smallest chip he can find - make rhf
of.
The waiter runs toward ;le 'owcst Dlscc.
agricultural luw place soon discover
ed. or at least grasped at. Every previous
sverproducer makes push .or that. The
old stock is sacrifced-the Old fixrurss are
thlowd awav. Ii the low-place is dairying
every COW in the kingdom is brought up at
an eIhorbitant price. If it is wool, the
price of sheep instantly. doubles. But
mark Every one of those who have help
ed make over-production in one branch,
land three times as many more.) rushing TO-
gether ints he low places, they immediately
make it the high-piace; the spot they havt
just leff, becomes the low-place. The SOUR
rel that held on is at the top the one that
jumped Is al the bettom, Finding himself at
the bottom, he jumps again, and Qike the
woman that spoke in meeting) teeps finding
himself at the bottom. @. E. ID. Please
TO consider that point settled.
The best farmer / know OF always aban-
dons particular line or article Of produc-
ton, the moment it becomes the rage. lie
sells out his stock and fixtures TO the eager
recruits who are ready 10 pay double their
value, and buy up .heirs at half or quarter
ter price. The Abandonment Immediately
produces under production, or scarcity, in
the deserted branch it regains rs equ;li-
drum, or rises above it /; and he is soon
ready to sell out again at double price TO a
new set of restless adventures. That's
the shrewdest kind of squirrel! by some
unexplalnable physical anomaly, hs keeps
TOP of the rhsel all he time,
took il for granted am not "phyming
20 dull els" who cannot catch the moral of
the foregoing without my making the "Prac-
tc application" like good old Puritan
dominic in Cotton Malhsr's days, after
reaching ls7thly.
There is another kind of agricultural one
ideaisn, equally deserving mention and
avoidance. It consists in setting but one
boiol out when the skies are expected to rain
lsras.. Your whole farm is devoted to
tobacco; the toLacco finds bad season, or
the market is poor. You have poor show
of larks! Div sion of labor is good theory
IN shop. But farm is little kingdom.
II must be to some degree self-suPPort;ng
TO be independent. or to be thrifty. 1t is by n"
means worth while 10 try to force Nature.
She won't be forced, if you try it. Canada
can't grew oranges. Cuba is hot famous
for Kennpbec salmon. Each will find ii
expedient, in the long run, to follow the
bent OF their "nat'ral gifts" as Natiy Bumpo
has it. If one has what the other has not,
then s,Oap and pay the ooot! That is the
logic of nature and common sense.
A farm is a kingdom. Every farm is
ply sically, at least, fiat contradiction of
the legal apothegm, that there can be n"
aimrerium in impsrio." Your farm kingdom
must not, if you would sa ich theiarhs, be lin
tied to one, two. or three products.
grant that you must not have two or
three main staples or production. There Is
such thing as tritisrins-sPreading out
like a river without a channel-and the
.hirsty earth drinksup what the hut sun
does not evaporatc In short, you set out
such lille bowls. that you wouldn't catct
larks if they should rain plump upon them.
They are not Zig enoushto hold lark.
But in the rough masonry of tanning Gas
in the Cyciopean walls Of the Grecian lth-
AGA } the stones are not hewn into courses.
There are interstices. chinkS, 10 be filled-
Your main agricultural "chinkers." Dp
you get nv idea! propose little bo" Is for
little larks-"small holes for kittens"
an sure you get my idea
Twill descend or ascend .s specifications
Nineteen of the dairy men OF
New York do business about in this wise.
Each has from fifteen TO twenty cows. He
has one span of horses to do the small
amount of blowing or "teaming" of dairy
farm. He has swine enough TO consume
wat may be termed the ofai of 'ha daiy
He has barn-yard iowls-a lonesome sheeP
to turn the churning machine. Besiee these
land a cur and ra's mice tlnre is hot
another brute animal en- three hundred
acres The saleable products, as well as
the human fodder (year in and year OUT Of
hat establishment are dairy and poultry
products, an accasieual beefor veal and pork
-pork-pork (and patctoes.) Bowl No. !
is the dairy product; owl No. . is the pork;
all the rest are pins and needles. Yet you
look round that farm, and your eyes at once
discovers chinks. YondeI steep, briary hill,
does not support cows. 1t would carry
sheen. Yonder bOggy 'swamP pasture,
where the wild grasses admit no intruder but
the half civilized red.top, docs not produce
the sweet golden butter, or the rich round
.Ieese Two or three great hulkinu colts