The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-12-01
Y,faaYgeA Good DIALOcUE

Dialogns is that ofExo farmers ON ouuosite
sides of fence. Mr. Smith. who has besid.
y bin basket Of very small potatoes, is lean
ing on the fence looking AistfnlIy oger at
Mr.. Jones, who is digging splendid cron
OF big Potatoes. A picture of the scene
>. was prepared with the original dialogue,
g. and should be here, but NE have not the
engraving at hand. The dialogue is pleas
ing and instructive. and should be read by
"The Potatoes they are small.
f..ss Over there. over there.'-OId Song,
= I, MF. Smith How is il, neigbor Jones,
= that your potatoes ars SO large and fine,
while Just over the fence, on similar soil,
mine are as small as pullets' eggs, and prec-
ious few at that?
Mr.. Jones.-I manfred this field with
brains 20 81 ig80zo . saEf
Mr.. Smith.-'All the Cincinnati hog kill
~ era couldn't supply brains enough for this
l. ten-aere field. - ~.
fun of me because I'm unlucky, and
Providenee has sent yow good crop.
Mr.. Smith--So did mine, and they are
as good as any body's
Mr. Jones-Ah,is There's the trouble.
You know it all yourself: I don't and so
get all the outside hefp1 can. I've been
H. collecting other mems brains for my land
for twenty years. and you see one result in
0this crop.
Mr.. Smith-Yes see the result, but
don't understand it.
Mr. Jones-WeIi. when We began here
20 years ago, thought myself a good farm
or. but believed others had good ideas,
too, and made it my business to get at
theirthoaghts; some l found in agricultural
books and papers, others Ipicked up at the
Coupty Fairs. by asking hovthe big things
weretraised. and often I've got good hint
from a neigbor.
Mr.. Smith-I've always been down on
this "book farming but your crops stag
ger me. they're real knock down arguments
I'm sick of the poor show get for all my
work and am an, desperate enough to try any
thing for Improvement. z = -
Mr.. Jones--I'll give you my experience !;
,zszit may aid you. About nineteen years ago
heard that some men who had been brought
up on farms had clubed together, and one
of them was going to publish paper, which
should consist mainly of accounts of kosO
different farmers cultivated various crops,
and such like matters. / sent for the paper
and have done SO every year since, and now
have nineteen large volumes, every page
of which ! haye read, little at time, and
1.-The whole has cost the produce of q single
acre. Why l am astonished when think
over the ten thousand thoughts, and hints,
and suggestions / have thus gathered
Wba: aSblank would be left in my head, if
these thoughts were taken away.
Mr.. Smith-But does the practice of farm
srs on other kinds of soil5ahd with differ
ent climate, suit your wants --~.~
Mr.. Jones--Why no, not exactly, perhaps.
But then. every thought I get from
another, starts a neac thought IN my otcn mind,
and thus lam constantly improving my
own. skill and practice. You see, get all
therbTains can from other mems heads, and
post them well in my own head with
mixture OF common sense and then make
; the application to my fields. In that way,
have MANFRED this crop of potatoes with
plenty of brains. The editor called here
last week Cd his Western tour among farm
ers, and seeing my good crops, he asked me
to write out just hoao have treated this field
for years past, and promised to do it as
soon as my crops are gathered. He will
probably print it, as he constantly prints
all such practical matters, and perhaps a
hundred thousand persons will read it !; and
though nobody else may do just do,
many will get a new hint. and improve up
on it. tYou may read it If you Will
Mr.. Smith would like to borrow your
Mr.. Jones-Better take it yourself, for
y thshi you viii be more likely to read it.
You will find hundreds Of plain talks about
various kinds of crops, during single year.
One hint gave 6Ye bushels of corn on each
acre OF large field in single year.
sex Mr.. Smith, can't afford to take it this
year. s-s
-, Mr., Jones y You would think nothing of
spending two cents week for extra tobac-
co. or,a cigar or candy land that's all the
paper COST How lille week it costs TO
amount of information through any good
paper.
Mr.. Smith--What are the politics of that
paper? IL, Ess-saa !. 5-.s3
Mr.. Jones It dosen't touch politics. It
is devoted to such subjects as Fields
and Garden crops AnimalsS ste,s and has,
besides, a good deal about Woman's Work,
which wifeSsays is worth more than ten
times the few pounds Of butter it costs to
pay for the paper. Then there is also de-
Y7partnsnt, for the young folks containing
many things ~ hich please the children-not
mere trashy stuff as is too often printed for
them. l would sell a dozen bushels of
wheat to have the young people get the
good reading in that paper, but the average
price &c one buehol viii pay for it year.
4 Cl5fycJohn, says he can pay foriteasy with
the eggs from two or three hens. Ii was
a nschdaic or merchant and had only a little
garden, j should take the paper to tell me
how to make the best use of the little plot
but if had > not foot Of land should
I, still want it for my wife and children
- I Mr. Smith-Does the editor know any
thing about farming?
Mr.. Jones-The editor who owns and
publishes the paper was brought up on
farm where he learned to work. lie has
A'st1died AL the books an farming. and exper
.sznaeHted for years in the laboratory, and has
besides, Travelled all over the country to see
what was doing Then he has several as
Y fsociatesI Farmers Gardeners, and house
keepers ;Whoy know what they write about,
q. and amOngshem all they doagather up won
= derful lot of information every year. The