The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1869-01-29
Will You Ever Get Your Non Back

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OF all the sneers which acset tn,
path of an improving farmer the cam.
monest and the meanest is: Nv i'll
you ever get your money back"
Let him build Il large and comlno.
Gious barn. large enough To accommo-
date not only all rhe stock and store
that he has now. but all that he hope :
IA have in years 10 come. and With
shelter Tor all the manure that he will
make dn,ng The season. replete. too,
win every convenience for economic
ing labor. and with such general ar
langenen:s as he feels sure cannot
lal 10 make his work lighter and
nnie profitable; -some ciirping neigh.
Dor will throw cold water on his hopes
~ suggesting that he probably
"dosen I expect ever to get his money
back
Let him deeply plow and snbsoi
one Of his Iields at an bvious cost OF
SO and acre.-this same comment
will greet his Improvement.
let him thoroughly underdrain ten
acres ot his heavy. cold. at an outside
cost Of $1,000. aud fancy that he secs
his account. in doing the work the
same question will jar rpon his ears.
For The momeut. this view Of the
case may shake his hopes, but it il
hot at all "A fair view TO take of any
permanent agricultural Improvement.
We do not build barns for the purpose
Of getting back the money that they
they cost, nor can we always couns on
ali extra So All acre from the crop
that We raise alter expensive cnltiva-
ton. 1t would be too much to ex-
pect that 81. 900 invested in drainin 2
would come back with the first har-
vest alter the work was done.
Who cares that it should come back
at alI We can't have our cake and
eat it too. A man does not buy a
farm TO get his money back; he buys
it 10 get the far. and having it he tries
make it worth more to him than the
money was.
Il a barn cost $4,000, it ought TO
add $500 a year to the income oil the
farm in lighter work, better kept fod-
der. and more thriving stock.
The money spent in deep and thor
ough cultivation onght to let the roots
OF our crops 60 far into the ground.
and give them so much wider feed
ing surface, that their yield will be
worth permanently two or three more
dollars per acre. Generally the result
will be much better.
The thousand dollars expended in
raining brings easier cultivation; the
ability to do work when work ought
. be done; a more complete mastery
over weeds; greater independence
II wet and dry seasoD; and, partly :
because Of these things, and partly
rom the increased productiveness OF
he land, the crops ought to be very
much better than before tho work was
lone. 1t they are $40 an acre better.
mr. investment has been a good one:
gricultu,ally considered, remarkably
,ood.
Any man whose investments on his
arm will, one year with another.
ring him a return Of ten per cent
nay rest satisfied. This allows elk
yer cent for the use Of the money. and
vur per cent for his SIX II in placing it
udiciously.
Let no one. then, be TERED from i'm
'roving his farm to the highest point
4 which it is capable, and which his
means can compass. To be success.
I'd farmer, he must give his time and
lis chief attention to his business.
The more capital he can prudently
invest in real Improvements, the bet
er scope he will have for the exercise
# his taients, and the better chance
or being amply repaid.
HARDENING THE MouL BOARDS OF
new method OF harden
rg plougbs has been disco vered lately.
which gives them the hardness and
emper OF steel in combination with
he toghness of iron. The iron moul-
BOARD is heated and dipped into mol
en iron it remains there ten seconds.
when two surfaces become heated to a
white heat, while the centre is not