The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-11-07

over the enCe, on StHtuuf ooti ihhe 1'O 40 Sih"h
as pullet eggs, and precious few at that? -
H., Jones--I manured this field with brains.
Mr.. SsAth--Pshaw.--Allt the Cincinnati hog
killers couldn't supply brains enough for this
ten acre field. 80.
Mr.. Joaes--I used human brains Of which
there are plenty. s.~ .-a
Mr.. -Nonsense--Now don't make fun
OF me because I'm unucky, and Providence
has sent y0H good crop 81 -..
Mr.. Jones Providence helps those who help
themselves | used my oWn brains on this
field. Erl
Mr.. Snaih-So did l 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 brains for my land for twenty
years, and you see one result in his crop.
| Mr. Smih-Yes, see the result but don't
understand it. .#.
Mr. Jones--Well, when we began here ~
years ago, thought myself good farmer, but
believed others 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 County Fairs, by ask
| ing h0U the big things were raised, and often
I've got good hint from neighbor
Mr. SDih--I've always been down on this
'book farming" but your crops stagger me,
they're real knock down arguments I'm sick
Of the poor show | get for all my work, and
am desperate enough to try any thing for i'm
provemenG.
Mr. Jones--Pll give you my experience; IT
may aid you. About nineteen years ago l
heard that some men who had been brought up
on farms had clubbed together, and one OF
them was going to publish paper, which sho'd
consist mainly of accounts oil hoW different far
mers cultivated various crops, and such ike
matters. l sent for the paper and have
done so every year since, and now l
have nineteen large volumes, every page oil
which have read, little al time, and the
whole has cost the produce OF single acre.
Why l am astonished when think over the
ten thousand thoughts, and hints, and sugges.
tons | have thus gathered What blank
would be left in my head, if these thoughts
were taken away.
Mr.. Smiht--But does the practice of farmers
on other kinds of soil and witha different eli
mate, suit your wants?
Mr., JoneS--Why no, not exactly, perhaps
But then, every thought getanother, starts q
neio thought in my oeon mind, and thus am con-
stantly improving my own skill and practice
You see, get all the brains can from othei
mems heads and compost them we'll in my owr
= head with a mixture Of common sense' anc
then make the application to my fields. Ii
that way, have manured this crop OF potatoes
with plenty oil brains. The editor called her
last week on his Western tour among farmers
and seeing my good crops, he ask me t.
write out just how have treated this field 10
;; years past, and promised to do it as soon
d my crops are gathered. He will probabl
: print it, as he constantly prints all such pract'
cal matters, and perhaps hundred tbousan
, persons will read it; and though nobody els
. may do just as do, many will get a new hin
and improve it,. You may read 1t if you will
Mr.. Smith, would like to borrow yonr pa
per.
Mr. Jones--Better take it yourself, for the
r you will be more likely to read it. You wi
o find hundreds Of plain talks about variot
. . kinds of crops during single year. One hiI
. gave five bushels Of corn on each acre of
10 large field in single year.
M. Smith, can't afford to take it tn
. year.
Mr.. Jones--You would think nothing
spending two cents week Tor extra tobacc
u or cigar, or candy, and that's all the pap'
!, will cost. How little week it costs to supp
yourself and family with large amount off
formation through any good paper.
Mr.. Smith-What are the politics ofthat pi
/. per.
4 Mr Jones--Tt doesn't touch politics. 1t
devoted to such subjects as field and garde
= crops, Animals, &C., and has, besides, goe
n deal about Womans Work, which wife says
worth ten times the few pounds OF butter
&c costs to pay for the paper. Then there is all
a department for the young folks contain in
o. many things which please the children-n
D. mere trashy stuff, such as is too often printt
for them but information that will have goo
:, influence on them. l would sell dozen busl
= els of wheat to have my young people get Il
OIL good reading in that paper, but the averal
OF price of one bushel will pay for it one year.
d John says he can pay for Il with the eggs fro
\. two or three hens. If | was mechanic
: merchant and had only little garden, l sho
l. take the paper to tell me how to make the be
a use of the little plot; and if had not foot
of land | should still want it for my wife ar
~ children.
= Nj, smih--Does the editor know anythi
y about farming? ~
VI Mr.. Jo,es--The editor who owns and pu
fishes the paper was btought up on a farr
s. where he learned to work. He has studied :
B. the books on farming, and experimental
years in the laboratory, and has besides, ira
ed all over the country to see what was doin
as Then he has several ssociates- Farmers, GA
" deners, and Housekeepers, who know VIII
l. they write about, and among they gather up
| wonderful lot OF information every year. II
: language, too, is so plain so like talking wi
you, that enjoy readingt. Then, too, evei
~ naner has enrravnos which show one exact
( how animals and plants, and implement
r and household furniture look, much better thu
~ words could describe them Among these q
!, plans OF buildings that help one to plan other
" and also many very fine large pictures, whi
= are worth more than the cost Of the whole ve
a. ume.
n. Mr.. Smith, suppose those engravings al
s. descriptions are partly to help the editor 81
implements or fertilizers. ..... r
tie Mr.. Jones-Not atall. The editor kee
rs nothing OF the sort to sell, so that he may
r. perfectly free to praise or condemn anythu
b. according as it may be valuble or worthless
his readers. You would laugh to see how
to comes down on poor inventions, patent m
ia nures, and all kinds of humbugs.
Mr.. S,aih--Is the paper adapted to our pa
Of the country? s4o
Mr.. Jones--Exactly. Soils and crops al
climates differ, but the general principles
cultivation are the same everywhere, and he
Is the benefit ofa paper published ior the wht
country. Every reader gets new ideas by lss
10 ning what is done somewhere else; and ft
C. ther, I find that the paper has letters fro
every part Of the country, and one or more I
sociate editors in different sections, so that !,
- rat ;nfornation from many regions a