Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-11-07
A Good Dialogue.

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Mr., Smith-How is it, uei ghbos Jones
that your potatoes are so large and fine
while just over the fence, on ..sis,ilar SOIL
mine ere as small as pullets' eggs, and
, precious few at that : ~ -.- =.
Mr. Joncs-l nanured this field with
brains. M -.. ....,J i.,-,,.,,'t
Mr., Smith-u' Pshaw all the Cincinnati
hog killers couldn't tsupply brains enough
for this ten acre field. ,a.'7
Mr.. Jones-I usedHttaas brains, of which
there are plenty. .-.r
Mr., -Nonsense--now don t make
fun OF me because rm unlucky, and Prov
ldence has sent. you good crop. 2r esg oii
Mr.. JONES' Providence helps those who
help Themselves, used my own brains
on this field. I ' ..|
Mr.. .Smith-So did | mine, and they
are as good as anybody's. .......,
Mr.. Jones-Ah! There's the trouble.
You know it all yourself. don't, and so
get all the outside help can. I've been
collecting other mems b'ans for my land
for twenty, years, and you see one result
in this crop. II t
Mr.. Shith4Yes, see the result, but |
don't understand it.
Mi. Jones--W ell, when we began here
twenty years ago, | thought myself q good
farmer but | believed OF hers had good
IDEAS, too, and made it my business to
get at their thoughts some | found in
agricultural books and papers, Others |
picked up at the Comfy Fairs, by asking
how the big things were raised and often
I've got a good hint from q neighbor.
Mr.. Smith--I've always been down on
. this "book farming but your crops stag
ger me, they're real knock down argus
ments. I'm sick of the poor show get
for all my work, and am desperate enough
to try anything for improvement. 5g 7HIf
! Mr. Jones es-Pll give you my experience,
ii may aid you. About nineteen years ago
| heard that some men who had. been
brought up OH farms had dubbed togeth
E, and one OF them was going to publish
a paper, which should consist mainly Of
how dtiereht itarneis cliitivateu various
crops, and such like matters. | sent for
theppper and have done so every year
since, and now have nineteen lar, vols
umes, every page of which | have read n
little at a time, and the whole has not
cost The produce Of a single acre Why,
| am astonished when think over the
ten Thousand thoughts and hints and sug-
gestions have thus gathered What Il
blank would be left in my head it these
thoughts we're to be taken away.
Mr.. Smith--But does the practice OF
farmers on other kinds of soil, suit your
\ wants. ..... .-.',. ~
Mr.. Jones--Why, no, moi exactly per-
hops. But then, every thought | get
from another, starts q acU h0u7M In mJ owl
mint, ana thus am constantly inproving
my own skill and practice,lT You see,
get all the brains i can from other mems
heads, and compost them wcll in my own
head with mixture of common sense,
and then make tie application TO my
fields In that way have manured this
crop Of potatoes with plenty of brains
The editor called here last week on his
( western tour among farmers, and seeing
my good crops, h asked me Just TO write
out ko,o hay treated this field for years
past, and | promised to doit as soon a.
my crops are gathered, lie willprobably
prints IL, as he constantly prints all such
practical matters, and perhaps n hundred
! Thousand persons will read it and though
nobody else may do Just MS do, mary
will get a new hint, aud improve upon it.
You may leap it ifyou WILL
Mr.. Smith--I would like to borrow your
paper.
! Mr.. Jones--Better take it yourself for
then you will be more likely to read it.
You will find hundreds OF plain talks
about various kinds Of crops during sins
gle year. One hint gave five bushels of
corn on eaclt acre of q ten acre field in a
| Gin ola vpap 20. ....
Mr., smith, can't afford to take it this
year. I'ui.E ,.'lau ...3 F'ra1r B. I".1a
! Nr. Jones---You would think rotbng
o. spending two cents week for extra
tobacco, or cigar or candy and that's all
the paper will cost. How Mle a week i!
costs TO supply you and your family with
n large amount of information through
ony good paper. .a ,Ia..I..a '"
i Mr.. Smth--What are the politics Of the
paper? ...'..,. ....,.. /. .,-.t,.i q.
4 Mr.. Jopes--it doesn't touch politics.
1t is devoted to such subjects as Field and
Garden crops, Animals, &C., and has, be-
sides good deal about Woman's Work,
which wife says is worth more than ten
times the few pounds of butter it costs to
pay for the paper. Then there is also a
department for the young folks contain
ing many things that will please the chill
idren-- not mere trashy stuff, such as is too
often printed for them, but information
that will have good influence on theni.--
4 / would sell dozen bushels Of wheat tc
4 have the good reading in that paper. but
the average price Of one bushel will pay
for tia year My John says be can pay
for it easy with the eggs from two or three
hens. If j was mechanic or merchant
and had only little garden, IshouldtalSo
the paper to tell me how to make the
best use of'the little plot and if had rot
a foot ofland should still want il for my
wife and children. .'l ~. ~. '7 r "a
Mr. Smith Does the editor know any,
thing about farming? .sraH a5.a -r,a
Mr.. Jones-Tho editor who owns and
publishes the paper, was brought up on a
farm where he learned to work. lie has
stadied oil the books on farming and ex,
perinen,ed for years in the Laboratory,