The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-02-01


all about home matters, and l doubt if
there is man In this whole town who
would not, in the course of year, get
some information, that would pay back
to him more than two dollars a year,
And think of a household sitting down
together three hundred and sixty-five !
days In a year, and having nothing to-
talk about, except their own affairs, /
aud few items of gossip gathered up
by occasional contact with other peo- /
pie.
| Mr.. TdylOr.-Let me help Editor
Knox's argument. Wife read to me
an item he published about humbug, -
which he copied from the AmericanI
Agriculturist, Of New York City
Next day one of those same humbugs
came around with his article, and was
so plausible that he almost persuaded
her into paying three dollars, for his
swindling recipe; but the editors eau
ton kept her back.
! Dfr. KnOT.-Yes, do you know that
the fellow sold more than fifty of the
! humbug recipes hereabout at three dol
lars apiece? but not to any ofmy sub
scribers. %. i'.fl f
Mr.. Potts. Put me down as sub
scriber, Mr.. Knox here is your two
dollars. j '' ,''.
Mr.. SEdc.-And me too. ''''.
Mr.. Knor.-Thank you, gentlemen.
I'll try to make a better paper than
ever. Every d Dllar helps; new sub
scriber only adds to my expense the
cost Of paper. IF everybody took the
paper, and thus divided the cost Of
, getting news, setting type, Office rent,
etc, l could double the value of the
: paper to each. Please talk the matter
r over with other neighbors, and see if
t it cannot be done.
) jSererul VOices-We will.
e Mr.. Smth.-And now while you
!, are about it, want to make up II club
: for a good New York paper. .,.. 3.
l{r. BrOWU.-We can't afford to take
SO many papers.
Mr.. jSmiSh. You have just scent hat
you could not afford to stop your home
: paper; let us see if it will not pay to
!, join our club. Mr.. Rich, you. have
taken the American Agriculturist for
] several years. Does it pay9
+ Mr.. Rich.-Pay? Yes, fifty times
r over. Why, got two ten-acre fields
ready to SOW to wheat, and put in one
= of them. That night my Agriculturist
! came, and I read a simple recomnien-
= dation about preparing seed wheat. !
1 called John and we put ID bushels in
t soak for the next day. 1t cost so cents
for the materials. Well, that second
t field yielded 5 bushels an acre more
than the other-or so bushels extra,
\ and better wheat too. Pretty good
r pay for $3.50 expended for paper
And 1 have got lots of other hints al
most as profitable. You know 1 get
Y better profits on my beef, pork and
Y mutton, than any other man in the
p place. Now this does not come from
s any direct hint, like the wheat, but
e from a good many suggestions that
e have picked up in reading the Agri
culturist, and from the course of rea
c soning that 1 have been led into, by
reading in it what Others do, and think
/. and say.
r Mr.. SmHh.-You are another sub
), scriber to the Agriculturist, Mr.. West
e does it pay? .'.. ..
q Mr.. WeSt.-Pay? Yes. You know
y what good cabbages and potatoes haC
q last season. Why, the cabbages wer
n worth double any: others in town, fo
n market or for home use. l had 40(
beads, worth 5 cents piece, extra
n and they only cost 20 cents extra 70
II seed. My 250 bushels of potatoes arr
all engaged for seed at 81 80 a bushcl
y when other kinds bring only so cents
y That's $3.50 clear gain, for the $l4 eX
ira / paid for seed, and the $l.50
2. paid for the Agriculturist. 1t wa
y through this paper that l learned abou
+ both the cabbages and potatoes. 1t
+. editors are careful, intelligent men, OF
II the constant lookout for anything new
l. that is really good, while the pape
II tRbounds in cautions against the poo
g and Improbable.
Il Mr.. Smith.-What say you, MI
e. Taylor? Does it pay. to invest 81 %
Is in the Agriculturist?
< Af'. Idylor.-Most certainly. A hin
s. in the paper led me to look after Gel
tain insects at the proper time, and tn
Ig result was, had 100 barrels of splcn
ut did apples, which brought me clea
s. per barrel, and this you know wa
nj better by 81, than the average price
ID here, or $3.50. Then l have read S
as much about good and bad Grapes, tn
N method, of treating them, etc, that
er can beat the town in raising grape
rs profitably. My son, William, got
j. kink in his head about Tomatoes, froT
rs something the Editors said, and sen
= for some seed. He made more money
ee on the crop raised in his spare hours
y. than was oIeared by half the farmer
st in this town. a
w Mr.. Smith.-Let's. hear from Nj
q Crane. J Nr .tH 'r- t'
to Mr.. Crane.-I only read In the papt
D. what was said about hogs-what kin
at paid best, how to feed them, and tn
ee like; but If you will call around an
ht see my porkers, and my expense a.
~ count, I'll bet a pippin ! can show fift
ye dollars more Of pork for tile sam
IN money, than any other man here
to And this comes from reading whi
Sc other men think and do. But Wi
ne ought to be here to speak. She an
IS the girls read the 'Agriculturist next
re the Bible. They think the househol