Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-01
From the Ohio Farmer.
WHAT'S MY FARM WORTH!

From the Ohio Farmer.
WHAT'S MY FARM WORTH!
I have invested so much money in
farm, tools. teams, &c.-what are they
worth to me? They are my capital in
trade-what income do they yield?-
They are my principle in bank-does
tie interest support me? I know of no
set of queries to which greater variety
of answers might be obtained. Some
men will grow poor in the most lucrative
kinds of business, while grinding half
penny sucker will grow rich in the dull
lest and hardest. Some men would put
my farm at $50 per acre, and would re-
allize an income of 20 per cent; another
would put it down to s25, and would
not obtain from it per cent. There is
no kind of capital, the returns of which
are so various, in different hands, as ara
BILE lands; and all this difference arises,
as will be readily seen, from difference
in management.
But have got my farm, with its
needful buildings-my teams, my cows,
sheep and pigs, and chickens, and my
tools-and these altogether are my york
ing capital 1t is little different from
so much value cash-there is a little
more wear and tear, and it is not quite
so easy to change its location and direc-
ton, but [ confes it cannot slip away
quite so readily, and is therefore safer.
Now every acre of this land represents
$50; whether it is in a state of high cul-
ture, or in wood, or wet, unproductive
marsh, or swale, it lies there, $50 each
acre.
Now, unproductive capital is dead
loss to man. Land that don't produce
anything is like money locked up in
chest. Every acre of my farm which
lies unproductive from any cause-from
barrenness, from want of drainage, from
brush and briars along fences. from lack
of manuring, or good plowing, or any
thing else, is a dead loss to me, year
after year, as long as I endure it, to the
amount of its cost, at least. Now the
question is, can I afford to endure the
loss? Is it economy for me to invest my
money in such way that it yields no
returns? l think not. I had better
unite my labor with this capital, until I
bring each aero to its highest capability
of productiveness. I see difference
between losing the interest on each $50
and making nett profit of $40 per acre.
But thereis another consideration; my
farm is my capital in bank, and as good
fnancier I should be careful of my drafts
upon it. In plain English, my farm,
from its surface down as deep as work
it, is all wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley,
fruit, animals, grass, butter, cheese, etc.
whatever I desire of these things, 10! l
have it in my farm-ias its raac state-and
I have paid $50 an acre for the privilege
Of getting these materials out into or
ganized and valuable products. Now, if
l ship 200 bushels Of wheat, 500 ofcorn,
so barrels of fruit, 10 irkins of butter,
and so on, l am actually sending away
the most valuable portions of my farm
I am drawing out the principal from its
place Of deposit-from every acre l am
taking away certain, tangible proper
tion of my $50 worth of farm. How
long 1t would take me to get all my grain,
and grass, and fruit, and animal materi-
ais, from the soil into an organized, mer-
chantable shape, l cannot tell; but l
know some farmers have done it in a
short life time, and who are now mourn
ing because they have not another farm
to conquer, or rob, rather. They have
drawn all their capital from bank, and
of course the annual income is cut off.
But don't want to do this; I want to
keep my principal good in bank; want
to reap the largest returns possible from
it, and want every cent of it to produce
something. Here are three important
and foundation principles to guide me to
be successful farmer, and to guide ev-
cry farmer: First every acre must be
brought under culture. Second, it must
he made to give maximum yield
Third the condition of the soil must be
kept up to the highest point of product
iveness. What then is my farm worth!
No True Southern Gentleman Will drink
| with a Niger.
From the Louisville Journal the fol.
lowing card is taken:
To THE PUBLIC.-1 arrived in this
city last night by the cars from Memphis
with my negro man, and put up at the
Louisville Hotel. My servant wishing
to see the city,.I gratifed him, took 6
walk, and stepped into Walkers Ex.
change for drink, ordering at the same
time a drink for my servant which, wa!
handed him. This attracted the atten
ton of two policemen, Dick Moore and
r. Seay, who questioned nae as to who
was, followed me to the Louisville
Hotel, and after having made myself
fully known to them, insulted me in the
grossest manner, saying that was NJ
gentleman or [ would not drink with +;
negro; tnat they doubted l was South
ern man; and that they considered them
selves gentlemen and would give me sat
isfaction tomorrow in any manner de
sired.
am a citizen of Memphis, and com
mand the steamer Gen. Pike, Memphi:
and White River packet l am a South
ern man by education and feeling.
told these two officers this, and aftel
they were evidently satisfied that repre-
sentations were correct, they insultec
me as above stated: / do not think tina
this statement needs any comment.
leave the public to judge of their con
duct. j. RILEY JONES.
Louisville Hotel, Friday morning.
Winter Wheat I'm Illinois.