The Red Cloud chief., 1882-09-15

The farm ought to be the farmers
bank. { % be trusted with his spare dol
lars not needed by himself and family.
safe from dc!aultiDg savings banks,
treasu ers and clerks. and the disasters
of stock speculation. Better invested
i'm the farm in these DAYS OF low inter-
est, when savings banks and towns paw
only about four per cent. interest. n
the u. :. four per ccnt- bonds not even
$ much. after paying in the n~cighbor-
hooi Of twenty per cent premium.
which they now command in the mar
ket; Vet farmers in q tody. will sell hay
for SiS or go pcrton. often for Sl2 or
SIS Ia be- sent in bales to the cities,
while it should be consumed on the
farm, thereby selling n little piece OF
his ancestral farm until It is all gone. so
far rs its valac and fertility is concerned.
and helping To fill the pockets Of tho
middlemal who thrivcs by the foolish
ness of Others. Thus such farmers. dur
ing their lifetime. ma rake n few thou
sand dollars from the farm. il they have
been lucky. place it in other investments
outside. which they may look upon with
satisfaction towards the sunset OF life.
and exclaim. see, all this l have made
from selling hay of the farm. and the
farm left; but alas! what a farm, com
pared with the ancestral farm of fifty
years ago. with four oxen and six or
eight cows. and the proportionsie num-
ter OF young cattle that one graced the
stalls of the average farmer OF that day.
BY \ strange metamorpbosis. the oxen
have become old team horses. so poor
that their hips almost prutrude through
the skin. laboring. both they and their
masters. At starvation prices. drawing
cord wood and saw logs for the lumber
spectators. who ride by in their top
buggics with splendid outfit
Now we are talking about these hay
selling farmers, let Us 90 up into thcP
corn chambers that their fathers built
over the great beams of the barn. which
were annually spread deep win corn
from one end TO the ~other-there Is moth
ing here now but old farm trumpery:
here q raj would starye; even the old
corn smell has long since passed away;
but one thing has not passed await
haunts him Ike a ghost he hiss TO meet
il once n year at lcast-I mean n great
store bill for Western corn and meal.
This comes OF hay-selling. The hay sold
brings no manure no manure, no corn;
the corn must be bought to feed the
teams and other farm stock out Of the
sales Of the hay. When that is done
what Is left? '.Of two evils choose the
least" II must do either let me buy
hay. rather than sell.
Another hsnc to the farmer Is % feed
the moving fields with cattle in the fall,
before coming to the barn: noshing will
run down the hay land so fass Is this
pcrnicioas pfacsicc-more rapidly than
selling hay. Tho aftermath. If suffered
20 remain on the grass roots and rot, Is
10th . mulch and 4 manure: il prevents
the sun Of summer. and the trust Of win
ter. from injurfng the grass roots We
have been told this b. the editor Of the
Farmer for many . year. vet We have
suffered IL Ito pass by US - the idse
wind that we respecs no;." /. for one,
have pat il Ia practice for about three
years past, and the hay crop has nearly
doubled Bot what Is 20 feed the cat
lbs frum the dried up pastures for ahous
six weeks before coming 10 the baxn 6
the Ordinary tiDes Thc renedy Il fpd-
der corn. tkk grows nainly fsu0 ~
air. II Ne judge frum apPeaFA1ees ~ &
grows where noehi1g sa viii viehpuE
ths trOohle of cnfsng Il ~ u1nxne
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