The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-02-03
Mr.. And me too.

dollar helps new subscriber 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.,
could double the value the paper to each
Please talk the matter over with other neigh.
bors and see, if it cannot be done.
| Sererai. Voices. We will
Mr.. .Smih-And now while you are about
it, want to make up a club for good New
York paper.
Mr.. Brown.-We can't afford to take SO
many papers.
Mr.. .SmiM.-You have Just seen that you
could not afford to stop your home paper;
LEI US see if it will not pay to join our club
Mr.. Rich, you have taken the American
, Agriculturist for several years. Does it pay?
Mr.. 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 Agriculturist came, and read
simple recommendation about preparing seed
wheat. l called John and we pat Is bushels
in soak for the next day. 1t cost so cents
for the materials. Well, that second field
yielded 5 bushels an acre more than the other
or so bushels extra, and better wheat too.
Pretty good pay for $50 expended for a
paper. And have got lots of other hints
almost as profitable. You know get better
profits 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 good many suggestions
that have picked up in reading the \ gricul.
turist, and from the course of reasoning that
| have been led into, by reading in it what
others do, and think, and say.
Mr.. SmHh-You are another subscriber to
the Agricdlturst, Mr.. West; does it pay?
Mr.. West.-Pay? Yes. You know what
good cabbages and potatoes | had last season.
Why the cabbages were worth double any
Others in town, for market or for home USE
| had 400 heads, worth scents apiece, extra;
and they only cost 20 cents extra for Seed
My 80 buuhels of potatoes are all engaged
for seed at 81. 80 bushel when other kinds
bring only 30 cents. That's $3.50 clear gain,
for the $14 extra paid for seed, and the
81. 80 paid for the Agriculturist. 1t was
through this paper that learned about both
the cabbages and potatoes, Its ediors are
careful, intelligent men, ON the constant
lookout for anything hew that is really good,
while the paper abounds in cautions against
the poor and Improbable.
Mr.. Smith-What say you, Mr.. Taylor
Does it pay to invest 81 50 in the Agrcul-
turist?
M. TaylOr-Most certainly. A hint in
the paper led me to look after certain in
sects at the proper time, and the result was,
had 100 barrels Of splendid apples, which
brought me clean 50 per barrel, and this
you know was better by 81 than the average
prices here, or $lG0. Then | have read
so much about good and bad Grapes, the
method of treating them, ETC., that | can
beat the town in raising grapes proftably.-
My son. William, got kink in his head
about Tomatoes from something the Editors
said, and 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.
M. Smih.-Let's hear from Mr.. Crane.
Mr.. Crane.-I only read in the paper what
was said about hogs-what kind paid best,
how to feed them, and the like; but if yon
will call around and see my porkers, and my
expense account, lll bet pippin can show
fifty dollars more 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 girl read the Agrculturist next to
the Bible. They think the household depart
ment 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 bet
ter bread and cakes and Wife says the cake
don't cost so much as it used to. She has
learned from the paper how hundred house
keepers do their work.
Rer. Corey.-Let me say, also, that Mrs.
Crane and her daughters have added good
many beautiful but cheap home made fixtures
70 their parlor and sitting rooms, which GER
tainly make their home more Attractive
They told me, the other day, they got these
up from pictures and descriptions in the Ag-
| riculturist.
Mr.. Traris-My salary has not allowed
me to take the paper, though must squeeze
ont 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 Agriculturist
the best thing | ever saw. Its full of items,
ETC., that amnse and at the same time in.
struct the children. Why could pick out
the boys and girls in my school whose pa.
rents take the Agriculturist, Just by hearing
them talk-they are so full of good things
they have learned from the paper. The pa.
per has mary beautiful engravings.
Req. Corey-As small as is my salary,
would have the paper if it cost So year,
instead Of $3.50. My little garden plot at
the parsonage has yielded us almost all our
table vegetables, besides many beautiful
flowers The Agriculturst has been my con
start guide. knew but little of gardening !;
but this paper is so full of attenuation about
the best things to plant and so, when to
plant, and how to cultivate. them-all told