Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-04-19

| from ten meetings amounted! to $29759.
Money in tho treasury, 42l.25. #E
Mr.. H. p. HESsHAw. Treasurer.
[fhc following communication was
written for the Farmers Columns, ON the
fourtl. page, but came to hand after the
outside Of the paper had gone to press
It contains suggestions and advice SO
eninently sound and sensible, and SO in
accord with what we have repeatedly
urged upon our farmer friends in those
columns, that we give it the more promi
ncnt place in the local columns .EE&.
| For the Bulletin.
LIME CREEK. April II, 1872.
BROTHER FARMERs:-In my travels as
book agent through this county. have
met some queer men among the intclli-
gent farmers. BY queer men l mean
men Of good, sound Judgment, capable Of
jmparting useful information, and Others,
who need that information; but the one
withoIls while the other suffers for it,
because neither of them will write for
the Farine Is columns in the BULLETIN
To illustrate, l met Mr.. A., who said
be WAS sick of raising wheat 1T the
present prices; wished he knew how to
manage tia., then lie would get paid for
his labor l told him of man seven
miles away who has raised flax every
year since he came to Iowa. The result
was that he started of through the mud
seven miles to get the benefit Of the ex-
pcricnce Of another When he got there
he found his farmer friend willing, glad
to impart all he knew Mr.. A. put in
last year less wheat, more corn, more
oats and some flax, and made well by the
change from one crop to variety.
hear one man say: II wish knew Of
some one who had tried this (or that
new thing; would see him and then
would know how to act" l ask: "Why
don't you write to your county paper
and ask for the information you want?"
"Oh, can't write well enough to write
for the papers"
| Another says: Il wish could let every
man, woman and child in our county
know my way of raising calves and
colts" ISIS sf.-3G ~
Another one says: II am sure if all the
farmers knew how have been gulled by
agents and how much money have paid
for Norway oats, worthless fruit trees,
fancy stock and patent rights, the sane
timonious agents would not get rich in
this county" being an agent myself I
have had to hear some pretty plain talk
about the profession)
Of one and all I ask: "Why not write
for the papers" !, The reply is always
(nearly) the same: "Oh, can't write any
thing fit to be printed"
Now gentlemen, this is all wrong. II
you have any ideas to impart, write for
the Farmers columns. II you want in.
formation, write for it. If anything hap
, pens in your neighborhOod that interests
you, so it would others; write it. Do
not think you cannot do something for
} the good of others. fyou write a good
thing, all right dramatically, and perfect,
, it will be noticed. Ifyou write . good
thing, ungrammatical. imperfect and al
most illegible, if there Is good In 1t Mr.,
{ Editor will dress it up, make the gram.
, mar and spelling all right, and you will
a sec when your paper comes that you can
write. II you write an article not worth
his notice, 1t goes to the kindlings, aud
: nobody but yourself and the editor ever
knew that such an article ever was
written.
In conclusion las Parson Wells used to
say l say, write for your county paper
Encourage your sons and daughters t.
}. write for it. We farmers, and oil, hacl
e IN interest in our county paper.
UNcLE JOE