The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-02-27
Farmers 5lspartmtat.
Preparing for the Crop Of 1868,
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son. All classes are complaining
Of dull times-the scarcity Of mon
sy. This must continue and ever
grow worse, unless our agricultur
ists bestir themselves and raise
full old fashioned crop. 1t is NOR,
the shame for us; but our State ha'
absolutely bought rather than solo
bread for the last Eve years. Al
this rate where are we drifting?--
There is no other source Of wealth
or oven relief for ua, but the pro-
duce Of our farms and workshops.
We may speculate Oft Of cacl
other, and a few grow richer, buj
times must remain hard until We
quit importing, and get to export
ing agricultural products. Who
would have believed fifteen years
ago, that Ohio. ever would have
bought her bread. Then one OF
the greatest arguments in favor of
distilleries, was that they used up
some of our surplus grain. Even
wheat, was then distilled or made
into starch. Anything to get rid
Of our superabundance. Acknowl-
eyed evils were endured to assist
us in accomplishing this, then de-
sirable end. But where are we
now drifting? Monifcstly to bank.
ruptcy, unless our agricultural and
mechanical products arc greatly en-
larged.
Some farmers are perchance ready
to say, my lands will no longer pro.
duce good crops Of wheat or other
grain. Any intelligent fOrmershould
feel ashamed to make any such as
sertion.
The fault lays around your sta
bles and in your barn yards, in the
piles of rotten manure you have
suffered to run to waste. The
richest land viii not always continue
to produce heavy crops and receive
nothing in return. But because
your fields did not become barren
at once, you have suffered your
means of improvement to run sadly
TO waste. This state Of Things can
not much longer continue; we must
enrich our over-worked farms, or
sell them to some one who will deal
more fairly by them. There is
another great evil During our
flush times, many persons concluded
they could get along without work
or at least, not work very hard.
Starting with this notion, they have
become slack and yet Stacker, till
now they do not do as much work
in a whole day as might be done in
five or six hours. The result of
these two Spuses is we are buying
much Of our bread, our potatoes,
our sugar and our horse feed as
well as our manufactured articles.
This must ultimately drain our
State ofmoney; we cannot expect
to get money, unless we produce
something with which to buy it,
Now what is the remedy for all
these evils from which we are now
suffering in the tightness of the
money mOrketI One or two good
full crops would do more to relieve
our State and cure these dull times,
than the issuing of millions on mil
lions of greenbacks. Farmers Of
Ohio, bestir yourselves, look about
your farms; and take in n field here,
n corner there let no available spot
lie idle. Plant everything else you
want, and then fill up with oats and
corn. Perhaps you have an old
pasture or other field you can pillow
up as fallow land, on which TO sow
your wheat early next September.
If every one will but do his best,
we shall have plenty and can bid
hard times to go to the dogs.
But to effect this every one must
do his part; let us have no slug
CARDS. The country needs our ex.
ertions now in this direction, full
asmuch as it did in the field during
the war. The men of Ohio were
equal to the emergency then, Can,
not our State rely on the same
strong arms now.
What we want is more energy
more industry and moro persever
ence. With these all would b,
well, and we should soon regain oui
accustomed prosperity.
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