Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-05-11
business Tact and system in Farming.

Business Tact and System In Farming.
Tho busy season Is opening and In q
little while all will bo life and activity
on the well regulated farm. Already
plowing has begun in more favored
sections of tho Northwest and in few
weeks at most seeding will have been
generally accomplished. The begin
ming OF the season is q good time for
tho farmer, If he has not before done
so, to establish system of accounts by
which he can tell at glance the rela-
ton between his expenses and income.
There is too little of this done among
men who till tho soil. Very few far
mers can state, with any degree of GER
tainty, which of their crops pay d profit
and which do not. They grow certain
crops from motives of habit and tradi-
tion, because their fathers did so before
them, or because their neighbors set tho
example. Particular crops are raised
from their certainty of yielding money
receipts, yet the actual cost is seldom
| regarded. III such cash crops demand
| in their production tho hand and team
labor OF the whole farm, together with
most OF the manure on tho place, then
oftentimes the profit therefrom is seri-
ously reduced, or perhaps wiped out al
together. 1t Is this absence of close
calculation that has been the ruin of
thousands OF farmers. Not knowing
where 70 look for the leaks in their
business management, they are often
unable to check the errors until the
most serious consequences have been
incurred. The more accurate accounts
of the merchant and the manufacturer
enable them to determine which branch
of business yields the profit and which
needs to be abandoned.
AS we said, the present season, Just
before entering upon tho summer cam
paign, is an excellent time for the farm
er to make an inventory of his real and
| personal property. An annual practice
| OF this nature would soon determine the
| actual profit or loss of the business and
lead the farmer to select such stock or
such crops as showed the best returns in
their management. 1t is worth some
trouble to know just what property is
scattered over the farm. Some of the
shrewdest farmers in the country have
q clearance sale every few years Mt auc-
ton, of old tools, implements, wagons
and the like, buy anew and take fresh
start. Others, less shrewd, are always
on hand at such auctions to pick of that
which they are pleased to denominate
as bargains. Possibly there are sufli-
cient number of exceptions to confirm
the rule, but it rarely pays to buy or use
anything at secondhand. An old
wagon may and probably will give out
just at the time when labor is scarcest
and when crops are most in need of
being gathered into stacks or barns.
The failure of an old reaper at the criti-
cal time of harvest may cause loss sulli-
cient to buy q new one, that with proper
care will be just as good after the first
harvest as before it began. We have
seen farmers market an entire crop of
grain in bags which would waste enough
in going to market to purchase new
ones three times over The farmers
business is made up of q succession of
small items, and it is only by attention
to these innumerablc details that it can
be made success. Many man goes
to work with eXtravagant expectations
of profits which for a time he may be-
lieve he is realizing, but if he does not
attend to the minor details, if he does
not keep an accurate account with his
animals and his crops, his failure is only
aquestion OF time Chicago Herald.
There is q man employed in the
Philadelphia Gas-works whose fidelity
for almost half century deserves rec
ognition. He is hale old man of
eighty years, and his name is Timothy
keating. Forty-seven years ago this
month he was brought from England to
teach the manufacture OF gas in Phila-
delphia, and he has never once been
absent from his post in working hours
during that long period of service. For
twenty years his duty has been to regu-
late the pressure of gas according to
the varying demand during the hours
of darkness, and he goes to work ev-
cry evening at six o'c clock.-Fhiladelphia
Press.
An obstinate juryman in Spring
field, Mass, who had held out all day
against eleven companions, weakened
at nine O'clock in the evening, as he
saw the chance of using two Langtry
tickets in his pocket oozing away.
Agreeing to verdict, he started on Z
run for the opera house, where she was
playing single night engagement
Boston Post.
"A gold vein has been struck in
Gainesville, Fla, by men digging an
say from five hundred to one thousand
dollars per ton of ore.
AN Elder was cramped with an ache,
st. Jacobs Oil did the pain slal1e;
He was so highly pleased,
That again he was creased,
And tool, lot home to Salt Lake.
A soldier ON guard at Fort Wayne,
Was suddenly stricken with pain,
He thought he was gone,
But when he rubbed on
st. Jacobs Oil, was all right again.
A New York man has invented a ma
chine for playing the piano. 1t is not ar
organette or an orchostrion, but q case
placed over the keyboard with strikes thai
hit the keys, which are turned by cranl
that is moved by pedals. The correspondent
of the Philadelphia Record, who has heard
it, says that all the time he was listening
he felt as though he was at boarding
school "commencement," and the crach
pianist of the school was playing her cracl
pieco. There was a labored attempt at ex
preston and girlish disregard for time
Mr.. Gally,. the inventor, says he can imi
tate the playing of any pianist in the
world; and he warrants to give his patent
all the fire and passion of Liszt, if any one
orders 1t. When this is perfected, with az
electric motor TO turn the crank, q man who
is able to own a piano will not have tc
spend the rest of his fortune educating his
daughters to play it.-lIHsicdl Herald.
"Dn. BENsoN's Celery and Chamomn
Pills cured my t0ife Immediately of seoer,
neuralgia" H. NJ. Coclilin, Shepherdtown
Pc 60c. at druggists.
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