The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-11-15

farmers on other kinds of soil and with |
different climate, suit your wants?
Mr.. Jones-Why no, not exactly, per
haps. But then, every thought get
from another, starts new thought in my
own uind, and thus | am constantly im
proving my own skill and practice. You
see, | get all the brains can from other
mems heads, aud compost them well III
my own head with mixture of common
sense and then make the application to
nv 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, he asked me TO write out
Just how | have treated this field for
vars 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 &
hundred thousand persons will read 1t;
and though nobody else may do just as |
do, many will get a new hint, and i'm
prove upon it. You may read it if you
will
Mr.. Smith, would like to borrow
your paper.
MIR. 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 a
single year One hint gave five bushels
of corn on each acre of large field in a
single year.
MIR. Smith-T can't afford to take it
this year.
Mr. Jones-You would think nothing
of spending two cents week for extra
tobacco, or a cigar, or candy, and that's
all the paper will cost. How little week
it costs to supply yourself and family with
a large amount of information through
any good paper
4 Mr. Smith-What are the politics OF
that paper?
Mr., Jones-It doesn't touch politics.
1t is devoted 10 such subjects as Field
and Garden crops, Animals, etc., and has,
besides, a good deal about Woman 5
Wcrk, which wife says is worth more
than ten times the few pounds of butter
it costs to pay Cor the paper. Then there
is also department tEer the young folks
containing many things which please the
children not mere trashy stuff, such as
is too often printed for them, bat infor-
nation that will have good influence on
them | would sell a dozen bushels Of
wheat to have my young people get the
good reading IN that paper, but the aver
age price of one bushel will pay for it a
year. My john says he can pay for it
easy with the eggs from two or three
hens. If was a mechanic or merchant
aud had only little garden, should take
the paper to tell me how TO make the
best use of the little pot; and if I had
not foot of land | should still want it
for my wife and children.
Mr.. Smith-Does the editor know any
thing abont farming?
Mr.. Jones-The editor who owns and
publishes the paper was brought up on a
farm, where he learned to work. He has
studied all the books on farming, aud ex-
perimented for years in the laboratory,
and has besides, travelled all over the
country to see what was doing Then he
has several associates Farmers, Garden
ers, and Housekecpers, who know what
they write about, and among them all
they do gather up wonderful lot of in
formation every year. The language,
too, is so plain, SO like talking with you,
that enjoy readingit. Then, too, every
paper has engravings, which show one
exactly how animals and plants, and i'm
plements, and household furniture look,
much better than words could describe
them. Among these are plans of build
ings, that help one to plan other; and
also many very fine large pictures, which
are worth more than tie cost Of a whole
volume.
MIR. Smith suppose those engrav-
ings and descriptions are partly to help
the editor sell implements or fertilizers
Mr. Jones-Not at ALL The editor
keeps nothing of the sort to sell, SO that
he may be perfectly free to praise or con-
demn anything, according as it may be
valuable or worthless to his readers. You
would laugh to see how he comes down
Oh poor inventions, patent maGures, and
all kinds of humbugs.
Mr.. Smith-Is the paper adapted to
our part of the country?
Mr.. Jones-Exactly. Soil and crops
and climates differ, but the general priu
ciples of cultivation are the same every
where, and here is the benefit of paper
published for the whole country. Every
reader gets new ideas by learning what is
done somewhere else and further, | find
that the paper has letters from every part
of the country. and one or more associate
editors in different sections, SO that we
get information from many regions and