Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-12-17
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Avoca, Dec. -, 1869. County Supt

WORTH FAR MORE THAN IT CosTs.-
n recent case occurred where farmer, to
save expense, omitted to take his local pa
per for year. He went to market on
Monday with load of thirty three bushels
Of wheat, and sold it to the first one who
offered him one cent more per bushel than
he got the week before With part of the
money he bought piece of forty-two
yards of muslin at seventeen cents per
yard. AT night he met neighbour who
had sold his wheat Of the same quality at
ten cents bushel higher, and bought the
same kind of muslin for fifteen cents. His
local paper Of Saturday had told him of
an advance of ten cents On wheat, and
who paid It, and he stuck for that price
and got it. The same paper contained an
advertisement of dealer who sold the
cotton goods at fifteen cents, and he
bought them there. He made, or saved
1881 on that days trip, from the inlorma-
ton gained from one number of his paper,
while for whole year it cost him only 81.
The single number, costing four cents,
was worth to him $l.8l above the years.
subscription. And so it will often be all
through the year-not to mention the fact
that his children are growing up intelli-
gent-they learn to read in reading the
paper, and thus save time and expense at
school; and they know what is going on
in the world, have something to think of
while at work, and their heads are not so
much the devils workshop, for he finds
some mischief still for idle hands" and
brains. There is another story about the
no ,,,lo .
largest price for his wheat had also more
bushels per acre to sell, with the same
cost Of culture. couple of hints he got
from the american AgricuZturist, which
described the mode Of culture and kind of
seed used by another farmer, were adopted
by him, and the result was four bushels
per acre more on thirty-fve acres, or 140
bushels Of wheat clear gain. Such re-
suits are very common, and it could hardly
be otherwise. A large force of practical
men are all through the year gathering in
formation for the paper, and the result Of
all this is furnished to subscribers for
$3.50, or less to clubs. Many cases arc
known where the occupants of Village
plots have increased the yield of the little
garden many dollars worth during year,
by following the hints and suggestions of
the Agraculturist And, aside from this,
may be named its. Sl2,0 900 worth of beauti-
full engravings, and its Household and
Children's Departmental valuable
and its constant showing up of umbugs,
which have saved to the country millions
of dollars that would otherwise have gone
into the hands of swindlers. Reader, such
papers are each worth more than the cost
to every one. and we can say unhesitat-
ingly, first secure good local paper (our
own, if you can find no better). and next
supply yourselves with the American
Agriculturist, published by Orange Judd
& Co., 245 Broadway, New York, at $3.50
year, or four copies for S. a new
volume, the Doth annual one. is just begin
ming, and now is just the time to send for
it. 1t will pay far more than its cost.
You want it; your wife wants it your
children want it.