Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-01-31

cosl MIN sot, TO save 81 SuDScrl ptIon- Mr..
u. sold 700 pounds OF wool at 62 cents, be-
cause he did not see an advertisement of
Mr.. Smith, right here at home, offering 70
cents. That cost him SIC to save So. Mr..
f boys went down to the village every
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. L know twenty cases where peo-
pie lost money for not learning what is GO
ing on. L gather up all that is going on in
business and society, and condense it into
my columns. Lit Is important for every
man to know all about home matters, and [
doubt If there is a man in this whole town
who would not, in the course of year, get
some information, that would pay him more
than 81 year. And then think of house
hold sitting down together 365 days liz q
year, and having nothing to talk about, ex-
cept their own affairs, and few items of
gossip, gathered up by occasional contact
with other people.
Mr.. Idyior.-Let me help Editor Knox's
argument. Wife read TO me an item he
published about a humbug, which he cop
led from the 4aeytcoa Agricultarist, of
New York City. Next day one of those
same humbugs came round with his ar
ticle, and was SO plausible that he almost
persuaded her into paying him So, for his
swindling recipe; but the editors caution
kept her back
Jfr. KaoD 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.
lM.. Rotts.-Put me down as a subscriber,
Mr.. Knox, here is your two dollars.
lEr. .Sha,o.-And me too.
-Mr. Kaor.-Ihank you gentlemen. I'll
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.
iSeceral roices. We will.
Nr. .SBlih.-And now while you are a.
bout it, | want to make up club for good
New York paper:
lHr Brogn.-We can't afford to take so
lKr. SaiM.-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 inner
icda 4grjc"Iturtst for several years. Does
ii pay?
If. Rjch.-Pay? Yes, fifty times over.
Why, | got two ten-acre fields ready TO SOW
10 wheat, and put in one Of them. That
night my .4q5Tcpitlgist came, and | read
seed wheat | called John and we put Is
bushels to soak for the next day. It cost
80 cents for the materials. Well, that sec
ond field yielded 5 bushels an acre more
than the o,her-or so bushels extra, and
better wheat too. Pretty good pay for Sl.50
expended tor a paper And I 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 this'does not comefromsany direct hint,
like the wheat, but,from good many sug-
gestions that have picked up In reading
the igrtculturist, find from the course OF
reasoning that | have been led into, by read
ing in it what others do, and think, and say.
ar. Smith Y GU are another subscriber
to the Ag3icattUrtst, Mr.. W est; does j, pay
Ib West-Pay? Yes. You know what
| good cabbages and potatoes L had last sea
son. Why, the cabbages were worth dou-
! bic any Others in town, for market or for
home use. | had 400 heads, worth 5 cents
a piece, extra and they only cost 20 cents
extra for seed. biy $50 bushels of pc tatoes
| are all engaged for seed at 81 so bushel,
when other kinds bring only 90 cents. That 5
$3.50 clear gain, for I'll e Sl4 extra | paid for
seed, and SI50 | paid for the Aqr1cultartst.
| 1t was through this paper that | learned a
| bout both the cabbages and potatoes. It's
| editors are careful, intelligent men, on the
| constant looking out for anything new that
| is really good, while the paper abounds IN
cautions against the poor and Improbable.
| lNr. sSnlith. What say you, Mr. Taylor
| Does it pay to invest 81. 80 in the 4grJcHttu-
rist 2
/ INr. Taulor.-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 a clean IS per barrel. and this
you know was better by 81, than 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 car
beat the town In raising grapes prohtably
My son, William, sgot a kink IN his head
bout Tomatoes, from something the Editor;
| said, and sent for some seed. He made
more money on the crop raised in his spare
hours, than was cleared by half the farmer;
in this town.
! Hr. Sn,ith.-Let's hear from Mr.. Crane
Mr. Crane-I only read in the paper
| what was said about hogs-what kind palo
best. how to feed them. and the like; bu
/ if vou would cali around aud see my porkers
and my expense account, I'll bet pipplr
[ can show $50 more of pork for the same
money, than any other man here. Ant
this comes from reading what other mel
think and do. But Wife ought to be her.
to speak. She and the girls read the Agr.
cultursst next to the Bible. They think th'
! household department. is worth more tina,
all the fashion magazines IN the worid
They say, it is so full OF good hints about al
kinds of house work. All l can say y