The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-09-16

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How Shall We Pay Those Taxos2
"Clodhopper" says "they uro piled
mountain high" Yes, and feed oloiho,
and send the children TO school, and 10y by
something for q rainy day. This Is the
problem that oonfronts the farmer as well
as every other class Of society.
Shall we sell all the sheep of the farm2
wool don't pay at 10 to 25 cents per pound
and mutton as low in proportion. Hogs at
3 to 81 cents per pound don't pay. Shall
we sacrifice them too when we can't got
any thing like cost Of production for them.
Don't sacrifice either, but keep on in the
oven tenor Of your way. No farmer over
succeeds well by changing from one thing
to another, because Of temporary depres-
sion. We say temporary, because they are
only temporary. We had better keep stock
for a short time at loss, than to sacrifice
it at half or two-thirds it's ordinary value.
The whoel soon turns already tho whole
sale slaughter Of sheep, combined with
other causes, is beginning to tell on tho
wool market, and will only require two or
three years until sheep will be the cry.
Every farm ought to have some on it. As
| scavengers they have no equal thriving on
weeds, sprouts, and briars, and living in
woods pastures where other stock would
starve. II the profits now are doubtful,
give the sheep the benefit Of the doubt, and
keep up the little flock. If sacrificed now.
they will be replaced at additional cost
hereafter. The porker, unlike the sheep,
does not now, any more than auciently,
live on husks. He requires something sub
stantial to bring ponderous frame to mar
ket yet much Of that may be made on
grass. II it costs more TO bring him to
market, the fluctuations in price ure
greater, the changes more frequent, and
when on the right side Of the ledger, the
profits much more. Let us not get dis
couragod for it's hardly possible for even
Democratic tariff tiakeriRg to degrade his
hogship to 80 centsper pound much longer.
Remote from cities or manufacturing
towns, we must pursue O mixed farming, if
we succeed. With industry and good iudg-
ment we,will be sure to succeed even down
here around Phillippi, poor as it is repre-
sentod to be.
! Great Cmsar's ghost has wandered disem-
bodied so long, that it has become paradox
ical. First VIC are instructed to plow under
the cloyeriafter the first year, if we wish to
be benefited by it. Second, the longer
grass stands the better it becomes and tho
richer the soil; even the sand-hillers and
clay-eaters of Old Virginia recognize this
fact. When they can't sprout peas on the
old hills they are compelled to give them
up to the pine bushes for a few years. and
then they are able to go into the peanut
business again. This is the reason two to
four crops Of clover plowed under enriches
our soil A luxuriant crop of blue grass
year after year left on the earth would be
much better than pine bushes to enrich it.
The question is how to get the full benefit
Of the crop each year and keep up the soil
at the same time. Come on with such
process without rest or fertilizers and We
will get it patented and soon lay Vanderbilt
in the shade. Under the old Mosaic law,
false prophets were to be stoned to death,
what they would do with one who would
90 back on his prophesy it does not state.
Only few months ago, the fiat lands Of
our section we're destined to become the
finest lands Of the county, because they
contained all the elements necessary to
make them so, Clodhopper Now "tho
soil gets weak and pasture runs out" Not
pleading to the special indictment Of the
poor soil, it might be said in mitigation Of
damages, that some Of its occupants pay at
the treRsurer's desk, annually from five to
seven hundred dollars taxes, and about all
pay up the dollar tax on their coon dogs.
As to tearing our unmentionables to
start Creameries, or shedding tears over tho
present or prospective poor, We ought first
TO be careful about advocating the seeding
Of our rich tillRble land to permanent pas
lures Large pastures have converted Ire
land into a sheep walk and scattered her
sons to the four quarters of the globe.
They are not good to afford employment to
a dense population.
As for us Gas we are not hunting ofice)
we would just say we can't see any good
reason why any Of Adams race should be
exempt from the decree, "In the sweat Of
thy face thou shalt eat bread" We also
have al faith that man is subject to the
same conditions as Of old, when David said
81 have been young and now am old, yet
have not seen the righteous forsalzen nor
his seed begging bread" BRUTUs.
FOREsT HOME, Sept 1lth, 1885.
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