Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-03-27
AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.
The Opinions OF some Hartford
County OILERS of ttfp soil

County Etiiers Of tire Soil.
Below Is gigen g part If the Bel Air |
<EJs' report of ,he meeting.oi the Deeg |
Lrsek Fsrmera' Club On the So iust |
which discussed the question: AZ ih
present prices OF farm produce, noes farm
lug pay
There YVES little Of . negative character
said. George Il. Silver thought farming
does pay, but it takes a loug while tor
farmer TO accumulate much money
While farmer DON'T have as muob
ready money, he is not harrassed With
notes, bills and debts 40 business mer
are. MIR Silver read an article from the
American Farmer, showing thet on a iarra
which will produces 20 bushels Of vkeai
to the acre, IL barrels OF corn, oue ton VI
timothy or two tons OF clover, fa7miuR
will pay. Fsrmers as a class do no.
credit the farm enough for their ~ peu.--
of living. They eujoy lis sld i've
as comfortably as Other people.
Thomas Lochary thought II man
wanted to make money rapidly farming
ia not the way to do il, II d man has
good land, which can be eaeiiy improved,
and will give his farm close attention b.
oan clear little money and make com
Portable living. II farmer brings up
eight or ten boys and girls and makes a
little money he ought to give lis wife
credit tor three-fouiths OF IL. There Is
more in saving than in making money.
James Lee said farmers did not give
their farms all the credit they should A
grumbler wants the farm to pay somethilg
besides per cent. interest on the value
Of the land. None OF us eau sstl our
farms and live as well on the money IN.
vested at per cent. as We do nos. II is
not fair to take the prices OF one year as
basis. Grain is low now, but u has
been double and triple present prices,
and stock keeps at good pros
John Moores believed farming pays in
proportion to the attention given. AS n
class farmers are negligent IN attending
to business. Ii they gave one haii the
attention the merehaDts, the protes-
sional men or the mechanics give 10 their
business, success would be certain. a
farmer is an independent sort OF grntle
man. He is his own boss, even though
he may be poor man. II a farmer nas
large family 1t is no. necessarily q
great expense to him, as all can assist ii
managed properly. Prices OF oropa are
rsgul ,ted by the amount produced For
the last IL years We have hsd heavy
wheat crops. He accounted for this by
the fact that during that time farmers
have besn drilling iu fertilizers with
their wheat.
Bennett ii. Barnes was of the opinion
that there is money in farming al present
prices, and would rather have so acres OF
laud, clear OF debt, than any business he
knows Of. Most OF the farmers in Hartford
have made money. A man can pay q
mortgage OF three foutths or even tie
whole OF his farm, if LIE has not too large
or too expensive family, A farmer
with no apparent effort Acouniulates stock
around him, which it worth money d..
Altogether farmers life Is the happiest
on earth.
Johns Il. Janney was convinced man
can get rich at farming. He considered
any man owning 200 acres of land, we'll
stocked, worth as much as man in the
city who has $l50,0O0. OF course inst lis
not rich IS compared with Wander llt,
but riches are only comparative, aud $
mans wealth Is measured by the solid
comfort he gets out of 1t. Let q farmer
keep an account of his fanny expeusea,
as If he were in the city, oieditlng his
farm $50 per month for esch horss he
keeps, and market prices, iOT -Vsry
chicken, pound OF butter, Nc, and lie
would bs sstonished at tue amount his
farm produced. Then look at the security
of the business. OF every 100 merchants
80 fail, nine make living only and one
makes a fortune. Not 25 per esnt the
farmers fail. You eau not expect rapid
wealth from any business so secure. AS
for the work, the head man OF farm
does not work one fourth as hard as the
head man in mercantile business. A
man with 200 or $50 acres can maze more
money by seeing everything properly at
tended to than by working with his
hands. There is no more independent
life than that of the farmer. de CAL
enjoy life II he can't make great deal Of
money. He thought it was the decided
opinion OF the members present that
farming does pay.
Some discussion took place about the
cost Of raising wheat and corn. James
Lee thought it cost 30 cents psr t1suel
to grow wheat and 20 oena per bn,Apl
for oats, when so bushels OF TIE la,t-r are
raised. George E. Silver read -ta.iss..f
showing the cost Of growing w-vAl &, o-
373 cents per busnel on q pfJdatt of I'd
bushels TO the acre. Corn, he sad, c35ts,
ii per barrel to grow