The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-01-31

would pay four whole years subscription.
Mr. B,'o,oa Don't say anything more
about that, Mr.. Knox, but put me down
as subscriber for life.
Mr.. Knor.-I have heard Of several
other sush losses by those who stopped
my paper Not tn be TOO personal, as
some of them are here, will call them
A. Il, c, etc. Mr.. A paid 4 per cent
more fees on 81 taxes, because he did
not see the collectors notice in my paper
and thus lost 50 81 to save 81. Mr.. b
paid SO 60 tie same way. Mr.. G failed
to bring in his claim against an estate,
because he did not see in my paper the
legal notice limiting the time. That cost
him S34 to save 81 subscription Mr..
D sold 200 pounds OF wool at 81 cents,
because he did not see an advertisement
of Mr.. Smith, right here at home, offer
ing 70 cents. That cost him SIG to save
81. Mr. Fs boys went down to the viii
lage every night or two to get the news
and local gossip, because they had no pa
per, and cne Of them fell into bad com
pany and is ruined. know twenty cases
where people lost money by not knowing
what is going on in business and society.
condense all newsinto my columns. 1t is
important for every man TO know all
about homie matters, and doubt if there
is man in this whole town who would
not in the course Of a year, get some in
formation that would pay him back 81 a
year. And then think of household
sitting down together S65 days in a year
with nothing to talk about except their
own affairs, and few items of gossip
gathered up by occasional contact with
other people.
Mr.. TIyior Let me help Editor
Knox's argument. Wife read to me an
item he published about humbug. which
he copied from the American Agricultur-
:st, OF New York City. Next dag one
o. those same hunhues came round with
his article, and was SO plausible thst he
almost persuaded her into paying him Ss
for his swinding recipe, but the editor
caution kept her back.
mr. Rnot Yes, and do you know
that the fellow sold more than fifty cf the
humbug recipes hereabout, at S3 piecel
but not one to any Of my subscribers.
Mr.. Potts. Put me down as a sub
scriber, Mr. Knox, here is your two dol
lars
Mr.. Shaw.-And me too.
M hnor. Thank you, gentlemen
I'll try to make better paper than ever.
Every dollar helps; a new subscriber on
ly adds to my expense the cost of paper
If everybody took the paper, and thur
divided the cost Of getting news settini
type, office rent, etc, could double the
value of the paper to each. Please tasi
the matter over with other neighbors anc
see ii it could uot be done.
.Sere1d To,ceS I'VE will.
Mr.. .Smth.-At,d now while you arr
about it, / want TO make up club for ,
good New York paper.
.Nr. ByOpn-We can't afford to taxi
so many papers.
Mr.. Smah.-You have just seen tha
you could not afford 10 stop your HON,
paper; let ms see if it will not pay to joir
our club. Mr.. Ri,h, you have taken tn,
Amenean AgricuHwst for several years
Does it pay!
Mr.. Ricl.-Pay7 Yes, fifty time
over. Why, | got two ten-acre field
ready TO SOW wheat, and put one in -
That night my Ag1culu7St came, and
read simple recommendation about pre-
,Dn,;,,Tx .aol ,,,Inn, 4 onIlol I,In
we put ID bushels in soak for the mex
day. 1t cost soc. for the materials
Well, that second field yielded hushel
an acre more than the othcr-or so bush
, els extra, and better wheat too. Prett,
, good pay for 81 80 expended for paper
, And have got lots pt other hints almos
as profitable. You know | get better
profits on my beef and pork than any 9th
er man in the place Now does this no
come from any direct hin., but from
good many suggestions that I have pickec
up in in reading the dQraltW7a, an,
from the course of reasoning that | hav
, been led into, by reading in it wha
, others do, and think, and say.
H. .Smith-You are another subscri
ber to the Ag7caiturSt, MIR. West; doe
it pay?
.M. Wea.-Pay? Yes. You know
what good cabbages and potatoes | ha'
last season. Why, the cabbages wer
, worth double any others in town, for {
market or for home use. | had 40t
heads worth D cents piece extra ant
they only cost 20 cents extra for seed
My $50 bushels of potatoes ace all engag
, ed Tor seed at 81 so buslreI, when othe
kinds bring only fifty cents That's S25C
,, clear gain, iOr the Sl4 extra paid TO
, the seed, and the $3.50 | paid for tn
Apqcaiturid 1t was through the pape
that learned about both tie cabbage
> and potatoes. Its editors srs careful
intelligent men, on the constant lookou
for anything new that is really good
while the paper abounds in caution
against the poor and Improbable
Mr.. .SnRM What say yoG Mr.. Tay
lor! Does it pay to invest Sl.50 in Nh
Agricuhmai1 7
Mr. Tdy'r,-Most certainly. A hin
in the paper led me TO look after certain
insects at the proper time, and the resul
was, had 100 barrels of splendid apple
which brought me clean S5 per barrel
and this you know was better by 81, THAI
the average prices here, or Sl60 TheI
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