Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-27

vice 10 farmers would be 10 &c 'nomize
SIS much As possible, sell what viii
bring the best price, but keep what YOU
can consistently for it Is not III ely that
wheat or corn will be much lower. On
the whole we can see no serious cue
for apprehension, AID bel eve that with
in the coming year the count y will re-
sumo is usual activity.
When people in the east are hunger
ing for tie very material that farmers
of the west are burning in their stoves,
there is something radically wrong
somewhere. The 4 Gibson Champion.
Of the DIST inst, in an artic e headed
The Fuel Question. r. ers t. an trIic e
on The same subject in the Beloil
Courier, and uses this language:
tn st such an article should be con-
~idered necessary. inten lies a feeling
that has occasion ally d-pres ed us: a
sad confession that the western farmer
of American birth does not know as
much .l~ he ought to. He may know
enough To come in when it rains. but
he does not ST EN- know how To wall
himself after be comes in"
And further on it refers to the old
brick o,ens of the MeGonites, and hints
that the farmer should follow their ex-
ample aud bum stalks or straw and DO
away with his comfortable modern
stoves While seated in a brussels
carpefed p rlor, by glowing anthra-
cite fire, it may be all very well to write
theoretical economy for the wesle rn
farmer; but we believe if the Cham
pion were to change places with the
average western farmer it would do
very much as he Is doing. If it found "A
cold winter staring it in the face, in a
prAi.ie country, where it is impossible
To get wood, II would naturally take d
pencil and paper, and make mathe
NAUTICAL calculation as 10 the cost of
uel. If it lived in Phillips county, il
would find that soft coal would cost 81
per ton laid down at the depot. and
nard coal abont SIG per ton. 1t would
then Is im8te the length of tine that
Ton Of coal would keep its family com
Portable After this calculation had
been made to Il decimal, it would gaze
out OF the window 10 the well flied cribs
OF heavy ripened corn, and its Ameri-
can brain would begin another mathe-
mat cal estimation based on Is cents
yer busbel; when the results were OBJ
Iained we will wager that it would mol
only ''kuOw how to come in when it
rained, - but it would know how TO
warm itself by a good corn fire after it
had ''cOme in" Il may be urged that
it Is not economy to burn corn because
1t IS cheap aO1c, as 1t will eUrHtualLy be
worth much more. If the fan mer were
able t. hold his corn Il sufficient length
of time, this might be true But The
tact is, that often he is ether obliged 10
burn his corn or sell it and take its
equivalent in coal and burn that Now
then, if the amount of coal that he gets
for the corn wlu not warm his family so
long as the corn itself, wherein Is he IA
'' fOoI'' for burning his corn? The fact
is. he does just what a philosopher
would do, he reasons from cause to ef-
feet and makes the best Of the circum-
stance He must provide or his i'm
mediate necessities and 1t is a matter of
dollars and cents.
The H. RAID is as much opposed TO
the principle os burning bread as any
one, but 1t believes tie fault is in The
knaVish transportation rates that are
allowed To mlnOpolies. Self protection
IS first law in nature and the farmer
should not be blamed,