The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-08-12
How Shall the Many Be Employ.
ed in RGmulHTatiYG En-
plOymGlt?
CIOdhOpper Proposes a FGa-
SibIe Plan.
Possibilities Of n Creamery or Cheese
Factory.
For tho News.

The great problem for the farmer to
solvs and the one that now staros him in
the face, IS ho'O to reduoc the cost Of pro-
duoti0H. Unless this can be done SUCCESS
fully, the outlook for agriculture in South
ern Ohio is very gloomy indeed. With a
series Of bad crops, and low prices for all
farm products the farmers are having bad
time of it., and unless means can be found
as stated above, to reduce the cost of pro-
duction Of the leading staples such as corn,
wheat, hogs, sheep and cattle, the average
farmer will be forced to try some new
source Of Income. 1t does seem that this
section with its numerous turnpike roads
is most eligible place for the establish
ment of creamery" or cheese factory.
In my judgment, there is no better place
to be found for either of the above indus.
tries, and all that is lacking is some one
with the necessary capital and experience
and the energy to take hold of the matter.
The milk or the cream, as it may be, can
be got in any desired quantity, whenever
the demand is established.
With n demand, at remunerativo prices.
for all the milk or cream or both, in q
given area, n new life, as it wcro, would be
infused into business. There are but very
few farmers but could keep and milk from
ten to twenty COWS the year round, and M
the same time raise just as much grain n.
they now do, and a great deal more grass
and pork. If a creamery then the skin
milk and butter milk would 60 to the calvo
and pigs; if q cheese factory then Their
would be the whey which contains a larg
amount Of nutrimont nfter the curd is re
moved. This could all be taken back I,
the farm to feed to young animals.
We have too much waste in our prcsen
system of ''corn and hog" Our manner
lacks variety, and unless thcro is chang,
for the better, and that soon, there is goine
to be trouble. The way farming is nov
conducted, with self binders, double cult
vntors, horse forks, and straw stackerg
and hundred other labor saving devices
the agricultural laborer is cleft out in tn
cold, ," yet they and their families must live
the question is, how? Echo answers, how
The best aud only way to lessen crime is t
have remunerative employment for al
classes Of our people
shudder whenever 1 try to read tn
future of our beloved country. With tn
power of the great corporations, the COZ
rupting influence of capital which is makin
"the rich richer and the poor poorer
every year.
We must recognize the fact that this
an agricultural country; the amount Of car
ital and persons employed in manufacture
is almost infniesimal, compared with tn
amount vested in agriculture and the arm
of tillers of the soil It is the mission q
the United States for many years to come
to furnish food and raw material for tn
older and richer nations with which W
trade.
The fact is we want, right now, in thi
county, and in every county in souther
Ohio, more employment; some plan b
which more people can find remunerativ
labor.
The farmers can not employ any NOR
laborers unless they can find some ne
source of revenue; some new industries.
The great trouble about the whole matte
seems to be in finding out what new ente
prises there are that can be made to po,
If VIC could only find out some way to en-
ploy too persons where one is emplove
now if we understood the subject of Ii
cultivation Of the soil as we should, thel
is no doubt that but by doubling, or eve
trebling the labor expended on it, II
profits might DO increased But then IL
cry of over production rings in our ear
Under consumption would probably bo
better expression. So many people out {
employment, and their means of purcha
ing gone, they consume but tithe of VIII
they would if they had the means to br
with. Then lot every lover Of his race Il
to find some new enterprise; some new Il
dustry by which two persons can be On
ployed where only one is employed nov
The person or persons that do this wi
have the whole world TO rise up and ca
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