Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-25
The DiscOntented Farmer
and the good advice which
am Agricultural Sympa-
thizcr Gave Him.

tMhAGE WHvG IAlAM.
Sympathizer-Good mornin
Mr.. G. How does the world &C
with you ?
Farmer C.-Well suppoAe the
world uses me about the same as
it does my neighbors. Veal have
hard struggle to take care of our
families aud pay our taxes.
S--Don't you think the farmers
chances about as good as any mans
just at this time?
F-Well, / don't know / have
to work too hard. ] am going to
an age when / can't work AS |
could once. l would like to sell
out and live easy. have been
trying to sell for the last three
years, and had nearly sold once,
but the trade fell through.
Slow many acres have you
and what do you ask /?
Zone hundred and fifty acres,
and my price has been $500. Mr..
Nash Of Pittsfield, real estate agent
had it bargained for that once.
l don't suppose could sell at any
price just now, not even ~ 900.
S-Your place looks neat and
tidy, everything ia good repair.
Eyes; as long So keep 1t / am
bound to take good care of 1t, and
it makes to much for me to see to.
S--What would you do If you
sold out
FL would move into some viii
lage where l could live easy.
Would you want to keep a
COW and a horse ?
F-Yes. Perhaps two cows.
S--Please tell me just what you
would like?
F-Well / would like to sell out
and then / would see what next.
1 have got too much land here
S--If you were sold, you would
soon be thinking about what next.
Think little now and tell me
what you would like to do next.
FL would want a good snug
home, with about thirty-five acres
Of good land. / would want it near
a village, or would like in a vii
lage and have the land q little out.
S-What do you think as much
house and building conveniences
as you have here would cost you
in a village, adding in the land ?
FL fear more than l could sell
this place for.
S--How much stock have you ?
F-Seventeen head of cattle, a
few sheep and horse.
S-Help plenty around you :?
F-Yes. have two acres of po-
tatoes let out on shares, and have
a son % years old. who helps me
and he is a good boy.
SIS he coDtented =?
Eyes. He is not discontinued.
Thinks sometimes he would do
better somewhere else.
Slow many acres have you
in that field.
F-About seventeen, and / can
cut it all over with a moving ma
chine. 1t is fine field.
Sit costs money and time to
move. There is always damage
to furniture. In a village you
could not keep your own poultry.
The boys might steal your fruit.
There would be trouble to drive
your COVE, or you would have to
hire boy to drive and he might
run them. You have always lived
in this town?
Eyes. But it is lonesome now.
NV brothers have left the town
and seems as though the best in-
habitants had left as fast as they
got able. These hills are bleak in
winter.
S--You have good sugar place
warm house, snug barns, plenty OF
fruit, fields well fenced, fuel cheap.
How much better off are those
who have left than you are. as
you think them over?
Eyes. my place Is all you rep
resent, and as whole / am as well
off as those who have left. only
7 am lonesome.
Snow, Mr.. G. allow me to say
the Eldora of this world is just a.
head of to-day is just somewhere
else but here now; that youare
surrounded by all the comforts of
life and many of the luxuriess that
you are respected by those with
whom you have always associated;
thar If you have too much land,
sell on give away what yoH do not
want. Make up your mind to be
happy where you are, and that If
you will be unhappy, and at your
age, never find home again, and
before you sell, sleep two nights
over the intended sale, and think
ofwhat has been said to.day, which
you will do IL once you sell.
FL have dreamt two or three
times within the year that / had