Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-02-02
DURBORROw q LUTE Editors and PrOprletors.

l OSaAuSt AaA NCNdtCs DcGduSE uG uiu not see III
my paper the legal notice limiting the time.
| That, cost him $S4, to save 80 subscription.
Mr. ID. sold 200 pounds Of wool at 81 cents,
because he did not see an advertisement Of
| Mr.. Smith, right here at home, offering 70
cents. That cost him $40, to save 80. Mr..
| rs boys went down to the village eyery
| night or two, to get the news and local Cos
| sip, because they had no paper at home,
/ and one of them fell into bad company, and
| is ruined, / know twenty cases where peo-
| pie lost money for not learning what Is g0-
ing on. ! gather up all that is going on in
business and society, and condense it into
my columns. 1t IS important for every man
| to know al about home matters, and doubt
it there Is man In this whole town who
| would not, IN the course of year, get some
information, that would pay him back more
than 81 year And then think of house
hold sitting down together 365 days in q
year, and having nothing to talk about ex-
| cept their own affairs, and a few items OF
! gossip, gathered up by occasional contact
with other people,
Mr.. Taylor Let me help Editor Knox {
argument. Wife read to me an item he
published about humbug, which he copied
from the American AgliculturiSt, of New
| York City. Next day one of those same hum
bugs came round with his article, and was
| SO plausible that he almost persuaded her
into paying him So, for his swindling re-
ceipe; but the edifors caution kept her
back,
Kr. Kaor Yes, and do you know that
the fellow sold more than fifty Of the hum
bug recipes hereabout, at So piece but
not to any one of my subscribers.
NJ. P6tts.-Put me down as a subscriber,
Mr.. Knox, here is your two dollars.
Mr. .ShGtC And me too.
1hr, Knor Thank you, gentlemen III
try to make better paper than ever. Eve
ry dollar helps; new subscriber only adds
to my expense the cost of paper. If every
body took the paper, and thus divided the
cost Of getting news, setting type, Office
rent, etc., could double the value of the
paper to each. Please talk the matter over
with other neighbors and see, if it cannot be
done
iSereyal Fo,ces.-We win.
Nh SRaith.-And now while you are
about it, | want to make up club for a
good New York paper.
llr Bro1on n-We can t afford to take so
many papers.
III. Smith. You have just seen that
you could not afford TO stop your home pa
per; let us see if it will not pay to join our
club. Mr.. Rich, you have taken the Amer
lean A9ricllLt'9Tst for several years. Does it
pay?
luy Rich-Pay? Yes, fifty times over.
Why | got two ten acre fields ready to SOW
to wheat, and put in one of them. That
night my AgrjcuLturjst came, and | read a
simple recommendation about preparing
seed wheat. | called John and we put Is
bf1c haIu IN 04ai- for tla i l.
30 cents for the materials Well, thet sec
ond field yielded bushels an acre mora than
the other-or so bushels extra, and better
wheat too. Pretty good pay for 81 80 ex-
pended for paper And | have got lots of
other hiuts almost as profitable. You know
| get better potts on my beef, pork and
mutton, than any other man in the place
Now does this not come from any direct
hint, like the wheat, but from a good many
suggestions that | have picked up in read
ing the Agricuttvist, and from .the course
of reasoning that | have been led into, BY
reading in it what others do, and think, and
say.
Mr.. Smith-You are another subscriber
to the Ag9iculturist, Mr.. West does it
pay
Nr West-Pay? Yes. You know what
good cabbages and potatoes | had last sea
son. Why, the cabbage es were worth double
any other IN town, for 'at or Cor home
use | had 400 heads, worth cents a
piece, extra; and they only cost 20 cents ex-
ira for seed My $50 bushels of potatoes
are all engaged for seed at ST. 50 a bushel,
when other kinds bring only 50 cents. That $
$3.50 clear gain, for the $l4 extra paid FOR
seed, and the 81 so | paid for the AgYieaa-
to3jst. 1t was through this paper that |
learned about both the cabbages and pota-
toes Its editors are careful, intelligent
men, on the constant lookout for anything
new that is really good, while the paper
abounds III cautions against the poor and
improbable.
Mr. Smith. What say you, Mr.. Taylor?
Does it pay to invest $3.50 in the Agricuk
turist
Hr. Taylor. Most certainly A hint in
the paper led me to look after certain in
seets at the proper time, and the result was,
| had 100 barrels of splendid apples, which
brought me a clean 50 per barrel, and this
you know was better by 81, thar the aver
age prices here, or Sl60. Then have read
so much about good and bad Grapes, the
method Of treating them, etc., that l can
beat the town IN raising grapes proftably.
My sou, William, got a kink in his head
about Tomatoes from something the Edit
ors said, aud sent for some seed. He made
more money on the crop raised in his spare
hours, than was cleared by half the farmers
In this town.
1fr. ,SEaith.-Let' hear from Mr.. Crane.
Mr. Crone.I only read in the paper
what was said about hogs-what kind paid
best, how to feed them, and the like; but if
you will call around and see my porkers, and
my expense account, I'll bet pippin [ can
show fifty dollars more of pork for the same
money, than any other man here And this
comes from reading what other men think
and do. But wife ought to be here to speak
She and the girls read the Agrfculturtst
next to the Bible. They think the house
hold department is worth more than all the
fashion magazines in the world. They say
it is so full of good hints about all kinds of
house work. All can say is, that we do
have better bread and cake; and wife says,
the cake don t cost so much as it used to.
She has learned from the paper how a hun
dred other house-keepers do their work
ReU COREY. Let me say, also, that Mrs.
Crane and her daughters have added good
many beautiful but cheap home made fix
lures to their parlor and sitting rooms,
which certainly makes their home attract
i've. They told me the other day, they got
these up from pictures and descriptions in
the Agrlculturist.
Mr.. TfarH- My shlary has not allowed
me to take the paper though must squeeze
out enough to do so this year My school
boys have brought ME some copies to look
at, the past year or two, and | find the Boys
and Girls department Of the Ag9iculturist