Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-06

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While we here have had a prosper
| Gus seasonal season remarkable fol
/ good crops, an abundance of rain, and
frOsts keeping of 10 allow all the corn
| Ia rlpen, an immense CrOp-yet all Sec
tiOns have not been 50 highly favored.
We notice an article in an Eastern peri
Odical headed "A Summer Without
RAIN which refers tC the fact that the
summer of 1882 had passed over East
ern Massachusetts without rain, and
ground was dry parehed and bare OF
/ vegetation. This seems impossible to
! one who has passed the summer in the
Ohio river valley. Farther West, in
the great COTn-grOwing regions, they
I had 100 much rain in the early part of
I the season, literally drowning out the
corn, but allowing the weeds to grow,
| and we are told that on thousands of
acres where should be as many hun
/ drPds Of thousands of bushels of corn,
! bnt little is to be seen except weeds. No
wonder the capitalists and spectators
! are trying to make
A CORNER IN CORN,
This brings us to another feature in
farm life. AS soon as the grain is
threshed, there iSa class of farmers who
must realize on their grain, which Is
thrown on tue market regardless of
cost or price" Some, Of course, need
the money to pay rents and debts, and
Others simply seem TO have an itching
desire TO get hold Of the mOney-a
/ kind of misery feeling. Such people
! are now selling corn, or have lately been,
ut about One-half the price it will likely
| be later on.
HOW AVOID THIS?
! You ask. Take the paper and join the
/ club. Educate yourself in every point
OfyOur business. Learn to sell, as well
as raise your crop. but" replies the
above mentioned misery farmer, "they
charge too much for the paper, and be-
sides have not time To read it, neither
have l time to attend the club or grange
meeting.r While this is bad for the
! farmer, it is also bad for the grange,
which is left for q few to attend and
take care of; and who, by their small
numbers, can accomplish but little, and
maybe are forced to quit on account of
/ the smalIneSs of their number, thereby
hurting the very cause they are trying
! to build up.
In the older settled portions of the
country il IS hard to get out of old ways.
Even young men are often locked down
upon, and ~ a consequence go West
and leave the old men, and the young
men With old ways TO run things. No
wonder the West runs ahead with its
Young blood. We get regularly two
weekly wool growers papers from Tex
as. They have been filed up recently
with accounts of wool growing meet
ings, where the planters and ranchmen
get together and, Irrespective of party,
they pass resolutions tnat they will not
vote for or support any candidate for
Congress who will not vote and work
to keep the tariff on wool and get more
on, if possible.
WATCH THE CORNERS.
We dOnOt mention this to bring in
the tariff question, bait to show the ac-
tivity and energy which pervades the
Western people. Nearly every county
in Texas where wool is grown has its
wool growers association. How many
active wool growers associations in the
Pan Handle, and counties in Ohio and
PENNSYLVANIA. The farmers will not
meet to discuss their own interests.
They do not watch the corners. They
seem more inclined to watch one an
other, to see that no advantage is taken
of each other. No trusting Ofhis neigh
Dor. Each one knows it all ,Hand refuses
to learn from what his neighbor tells
him. We say this seems to be the case.
We used to like to talk to Gus. Camp
bell, a former newspaper man OF TINS
section. He seemed to have great
FAITH IN FARMING,
and we believe he is Row out in Kansas,
irving to practice some of his ideas
about farming. He protested also, to
have great faith i'm the grange1as he I'M
derseOod it, and he did understand 1t
much better than many members that
belong to it. This must be the case
YOU know, for there are some people
who do not belong TO church, and Will
not, who carry out Christian doctrines
much better than some who are inside,
and may be make long prayers Gus.
had some ideas about farm life, which
sounded very much like millennium
times. too much so to be carried out by
the class of farmers We have just been
writing about. He talked to Us once
about the isolation of the farmers life
and how to avoid il. He thought that
if the farmers would build together in
villages as they do some places in Ger
many, Law out a town on some desirable
spot, where the prOprietors of ten or a
dozen or twenty farms could have their
dwelling houses. These families could
live there and enjoy many of the adj
yantages of city life; have their gas and
water if desired; have their evening and
SUNDAY meetings. When the men
were away on their farms the women
would have the company of one anoth-
or. and would feel protected" from
tramps and robbers. This, indeed,
wOuId be an ideal life-and who would
not be a farmer and farmers wife?
This would be
COOPERATION IN FARMING.
The difficulty in this way would be
the selfishness and jealousy OF our farm
ers ms a class. We have read recently
i'm the Contemporary RcrieU an article
on Cooperative Agriculture in Ger
MANY, which gives an account OF the
experiments in Germany. The author,
John Roe, begins by saying: Although
cooperation is better adapted to aSrl.
culture than to most other branches OF
industry, as it has hitherto been less
applied to it.n He then speaks OF two
EXPERIMENTS in England, which have
been Remarkably and increasingly sue
eessfli, vet they have as yet found no
imitators." He then goes on to de-
scribe the German experiments, some
of which were as our trlend
GINS described them, and those
given seem to have all been successful,
but were mostly tried to benetit the
farm laborer rather than the land own
ers, although inaugurated and CARED
out at the expense of the latter.
Our neighbors of the Latettigeneer
have met Uncle John Sisson, who has
given a reason why
BUTTER Is DEAR.