The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-11-01
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Mr.. Smith--Elow is it neighbor Jones. that
your potatoes are so large aud fine, Willie just
over the fence, on similar soil, mine are MS
small as pullets eggs, and precious lew a'
that?
Mr.. Jones-Imaaured this field with brans.
Smith h-'Pshaw.--All the Cincinnati hog
killers couldn't suplybrains enough for this
ten acre field.
Jones--I used human brains, ,oi which there
are plenty.
Smith-Nonsense-- don't make fun
of me because / am unlucky, and Providence
has sent you good crop.
Joaes -ProvIdence helps those who help
themselves. l used my own brains on this
field,
Smi,h-So did mine, and they are rs
good as auybody's.
Jones--Ah there IS the trouble. You
know it all yourself | don't, and so | get
nll the outside help eau I've been collect
ing other mems brains for my land for thcI
last twenty years, and you sec one result inI
this crop.
Smilh--Ycs, see the result, but l don't
understand it. S..
Jones--Well, when we began here twenty
years aco, thought myself good farmer,
but believed others had good idcGs, too, and
Imade il my business to sct at their thoug ts;
some found IN agricultural books and pa
pers, others picked up Mt the county Fairs,
by asking bog the biz things were raised, and
often I've got GOOD hint from neighb,r.
smith, have always been down on tha
book farming" but our crops staggor nae,
they're real knock down orguments J am
sick of tho poor show / get for NIL ny work,
and am desperate enough TO Try anything
for Improvement.
JonGs--lil give you my cxporcnce IL
may aid you kbopt ninttcn years ago !
hoard that some men who lad been brought
up an firms had clubbcd together aud ono
Of them was going topubIish paper which
should consist lnainly OF accounts OF byp DIFF
ferent farmers cultivate various crops, and
such like matters | sent for the paper and
have done 30 every year since and now J
have nintecu large volumns, every page OF
which have read, little NJ a time, and Oh
whole has not cost the produce OF u singl
acre. why nm asloni7hed when think
over the ten thousand thoughts and hints,
and suggestions have thus gathered. What
n blank would be left 10 my head if these
thoughts were taken away.
Smdh-But does the practice of farmers on
other kinds of soil aud with different climate,
suit your wants
WHY no, not exactly, perhaps. But then
every thought get from another, starts q
new thought in my own mind, and thus nm
constantly improving my own okill and prac
tice You see get all the brain1 ! can from
other mems heads, and compost them well ia
my own head with mixture of common scns,
nnd then make the application TO my fields
In that way have manurod this crop of po
tatoos with plenty Of brains. The editor call
ed here last week ON his western tour amon}
farmers, md seeing my good cgop9he asket
me to write out Just how | have treated thi
field for years past and pomiecd to do
RS soon rs my crops are gathered He Wi
probably print it, rs ne constantly prints al
such practical matters and perhaps a hmdre
thousand persons will read il and thoug'
nobody else may do just as | do, many wi
get n new hint and improve upon IT. Yo
may read it il you viii,
smith, would like to borrow your paper
Jones-Better take it yourself, FOR then yo
will be more likely to read it. You will fin
hundreds of plain talks about various kind
of crops, during single year. One hint gay
me five bushels of corn ON each acre of a larg
field in single year.
Smith, can't afford to take il this yea
Jones-You would think nothing of speut
ing two cents week for extra tobacco, or
cigar or candy, and that is all the paper wi
cost. How little week it costs to suppl
yourself and family with large amount
information through any good paper,
Smith---What are the politics of that paper
Jones-lt doesn't touch politics II is d
voted to such subjects as field end gard,
crops, animals, etc, and hns besides goC
deal about wemen's wo,k, which wife say
is worth more than ten times tho few pounI
Of butter II coats to pay for the paper, The
there is also department for The young foil
containing many things which please lhe ch
dren-not mere trashy stuff such as is t,
often printed for them, but information th
will have y good influence on them. ] wou
sell a dozen bushels Of wheat to have II
young people get the good reading in tn
paper, but the average price Of one buSt
will pay for it a year My lohn says lie C
pay for it easy with the eggs from t'Fo or thr
hens. If was mechanic OF merchant a
had only little garden, | should take
paper to tell me how to make the best use
the little plot; and if had not a Zoo. Of Ia
/ should still want it for my wife and ca
dreu.
Smith--Does tho editor know suyili
about farming?
Jones-The editor who owns aud puhhsl
the paper was brought mp on farm vh
no learned TO work. lIo has s.uij,i Sl
books on farming, aud cxqorimtntcd forge
in the labra.ory, and has besides travelled
over the country to see what w's doing
Then he has several associates farm.
gardeners, and house keepers who know W
they write about. and among them sll d
do gather up wonderful lot OF inform ,t
every year The language too is so pt
so like talking with You that | enjoy read
1t. Then, too, every paper has engrayn
which show one exactly bow animals