Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-07-21
Unlucky Cultlvation--Why Farming
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3 The Willamette Farmer (Salem,
Oregon) contains the following:
n HARD TIMHs.--Not long since we
heard Q conversation something like
the following: 49, ,'.u8
a Mr.. B., Of the City.--"Ah! how do
you do, Mr.. johnson? It Is some
time since you have been in town.
What is the news in-~
"Not much-bad weatherand hard
times" 4.ssaa a.
ssHard times among farmers? /
"a thought you were all doing well.-
Produce Is high, and there is an &C.
tive demand for It," ,.assssr-a
az tell yeu We are seeing hard
times in the country. No money to
be had. | haven't received a dollar
in a month" fFa5 htuul
z What have you done with your
wheat?p -.
Oh, that was sold before harvest.
our store account took it all, and
you know II we didn't pay that, we
could get no more credit at tho
well. didn't you raise some oats !?
We have seven horses; all of
them are wanted by the boys, and we
had no oats to spare" p.
well, had you no stock for sale
no sheep or hogs? 81. ~"
'..Our stock has done mighty poor
ly. The grass is all eat out, and we
haven't sowed any tame grass seed
for pasture. We sold a hog or two,
but they were small, and didn't bring
much besides, we wanted about all
the hogs We raise for the family
We keep several dogs for hunting,
and they have made way with most
of our sheep. Our wool is hardly
worth taking to market"
~ notice that high prices are now
paid for potatoes. Have you them
"We didn't plant many last Spring
and the boys neglected to take care
of them, and the hogs broke into the
patch and rooted them up and eat
them, and we havn't any for the
family. We can get hold Siof no
money. It is hard times with us.
"And think 1t ought to be. If
you do not see and feel hard times,
effects do not follow causes. Accord
ing to your own account. you spend
your crop of wheat before you har-
vest it it; you raise no more oats
than you want to feed out to your
worthless scrub horses you have no
cattle to sell, because you are too
thriftless to provide tame pastures;
your pork crop amounts to nothing.
as you have nothing to fatten hogs
your sheep are killed by your half
starved dogs, and your potato crop
was destroyed as you were too needless
tn do e.
against your starved hogs. I think,
according to your own account. YOU
and your boys are seeing hard times,
and I think you deserve to do So
Now my friend, go home and turn
over q new leaf in your life. You
have neighbors with no more advant-
ages than you have, who are making
money, and enjoying all the good
things of life. These neighbors are
industrious. They are even now
putting In wheat every fair day.
Their fences are all in order. When
the season for sowing wheat Is past,
they will have prospect for fine
crops. They don't pledge their
wheat to the merchant before 1t lie
sown. They are now about planting
peas, for supply Of them for fatten.
ing large" number Of hogs for mar.
j ket next Fall. They have a good
flock of sheep, have excellent past
ure for them, and will have lots of
wool for sale, If your dogs do not
play havoc among them. Their
fields of potatoes are never destroyed
by hogs, and they have now fair sup
plies to feed their stock occasionally.
10 say that you cannot follow in
their path--do as well as they do In
raising stock grain and vegetables
is only to say that you have no ener-
gy, no taste, no ambition-in a word,
you are thriftless farmer.u