The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1858-06-25
AGR RICULTUR RAJ.


This is question among farmers Of
no little importance. There il a time
to sell as well as a time to raise, and
wise is lie who learns when that time
is. Some farmers always hold on for
higher prices, let the price be what il
may at the time an article is ready for
the market. Others sell rs much as
possible before their produce is ready
for sale, for fear there may be a fall in
the market. We have known wool
growers to bargain their wool several
months in advance Of the time Of de-
livery, and others to keep it as many
months after it ought to have been
converted into money. AS rule,
both Of these classes arc in the wrong.
1t is altogether probable that the best
rule is to sell when an article is ready.
Pork and jccf should be sold when
they arc ready, wool when it is ready,
grain when it is ready, root crops,
hemp, hay, and nearly every principal
article Of agriculture BY the same rule.
BY keeping after the proper time Of
sale there is always some loss, some
money laid out Of, and many little in
cidental losses and expenses that
amount to considerable. AS a general
rule, one year with another, the mar
ket price is best at the regular time Of
sale. SO that hc who makes it q rule
to sell everything at proper season,
in the long run gets the best prices,
meets with the icwcst losses, and re-
allies the largest profits.
\ The past season farmers generally
violated this rule, which did not lit
tic to intensity the panic and heighten
the general pccuniary embarrassment
Of the country, and 50 la tl,s end 20
reduce the prices Of their own pro-
ducts. Had the farmers all over tho
country observed this rule, and pushed
everything into market as fast as il
was ready, it would have kept up .
brisk trade, and prevented in a great
measure the present pccuniary disas-
tcrs. Farmers are scarcely aware Of
the position they occupy in relation to
the commercial world. There are
times when their sales, or refusal t.
cell may make Or break whole coun-
try. Country merchants everywhere
depend on the farmers sales to make
the money to meet their maturing city
bills; and city merchants depend on
the country merchants for the means
to meet their bills with the manufac-
tucr and foreign dealer. SO when the
farmers refuse to sell they cramp the
trade Of the country merchant andhis
note goes to protest in the city. Ills
failure breaks the city merchant; the
failure Of the city merchant alarms the
whole country, creates q panic, and
down comes the prices, and the farmer
suffers with all tho rcet. Ii the farm
|cr's sales were as regular as his har-
vests, the commercial could calculate
with certainty upon its trade, and &C.
neral failure or embarrassment need
never occur. Farmers could never
suffer from such cause, for the com
petition among traders would ensure
them all that could be afforded for their
produce. So we conclude that It would
not only be best for farmers, but best
for the whole country and world, for
them to observe the rule TO scllalways
when an article is ready for market
to sell cotton, wool, sugar, hemp,
wheat. stock. and all tho leading arti-
clcs Of prodrcc, at the time they arc
prepared for sale. Valley Farmer.