The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-01-30

ton, that would pay him back more thar
Sl.50 ayear. And then think of house
hold sitting down together 365 days IN
year, and having nothing to talk about
excepting their own affairs, and few
items of gossip, gathered up by occasional
contact with other people.
Mr.. Tayler-Let me help the Editors
argument. Wife read to me an item pub
lished about humbug, which he copied
from the american Agrieulturist,of New
York City. Next day one of those same
humbugs came round with his article, and
was so plausible that he almost.persuaded
her into paying him So, for his swindling
recipe !; but the editors caution kept her
back.
g Editor.-Yes, and do you know that
the fellow sold more than fifty of the hum
bug recipes hereabout, at s3 apiece? but
not to any one of my subscribers.
.llh. Potts.--Put me down as a sub
scriber, Mr.. Editor, here is your one dol
lar and fifty cents. @'%
Mr. Sbduc-Aud me too.
Editor-Thank you, gentlemen. TIL
try to make a better paper than ever.
Every dollar helps new subscriber only
adds to my expense the cost of paper. Ii
everybody took the paper, and thus di-
vided the cost of getting news, setting
type, Office rent, etc., | could double the
value to each. Please talk the matter
over with other neighbors, and see if it
cannot be done.
Several Voices We will.
-Mr. ,Smih-And now while you are
about it, l want to make up club for a
good New York paper.
M'. Broocm-We can't afford to take
SO many papers.
Mr.. Smih-You have just seen that
you cannot afford to stop your home pa
per; let US see if it will not pay to join
orr club. Mr.. Rich, you have taken the
american Ayrtculutrist for several years.
Does it pay?
Mr. Rich.-Pay? Yes, fifty times
over. Why, | got two ten-acre fields
ready to SOW to wheat, aud put in one of
them. That light my AgricuIturist came,
and | read a simple recommendation about
preparing seed wheat. [ called John and
we put 10 bushels in soak for the next
day. = 1t cost 80 cents fol the materials.
Well, that second field yielded 5 bushels
an acre more than the other-or so bush
els extra, and better wheat too. Pretty
good pay for the Sl,5U expeuueu rut a
paper. And | have got lots of other
hints almost as profitable. You know [
got better profits on my beef, pork and
mutton, than any other man in the place.
Now this does not come from any direct
hint, like the wheat, but from good
many suggestions that have picked up
in reading the 4griculturist, and from
the course of reasoning that l have been
led into, by reading in it what others do,
and think, and say.
Mr.. SmiM,-You arc another SUBJ
scriber to the Agriculturist, Mr.. West ];
does it pay?
Mr.. West.-Pay? Yes. You know
what good cabbages and potatoes l had
last season. Why, the cabbages were
worth double any others in town, for mar
ket or for home use. | had 400 heads,
worth 5 cents apiece, extra and they
only cost 20 cents extra for seed. My
$50 bushels of potatoes arc all engaged
for seed at Sl50 a bushel, when other
kinds bring only so cents. That's $3.50
clear gain, for S14 extra paid for seed,
and the 81 so | paid for the Agricnltmr-
ist. It was through this paper that l
learned about the cabbages and potatoes.
Its editors are careful, intelligent men,
on the constant lookout for anything new
that is really good, while the paper abounds
in cautions against the poor and unpro6t-
able.
Mr.. Smaith.-What say you, Mr.. Tay-
lor2 Does it pay to invest s1.50 in the
Agriculturist? :?
Mr.. Taylor.-Most certainly. A hint
in the paper led me to look after certain
insects at the proper time, and the result
was, l had 100 barrels of splendid apples,
which brought me clean S. per barrel,
and this you know was better by 81, than
the average prices here, or Sl6O. Then |
have read so much about good and bad
Grapes, the method of treating them, etc,
that [ can beat the town 10 raising grapes
profitably. My son, William, got kink
in his head about Tomatoes, from some
thing 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.
Mr.. Sn,ith.-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 you will call around and see my
porkers, and my expense account, I'll bet
a pippin can show fifty dollars more