The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-09-30
CLODHOPPER
Again Discusses the Advlsabllliy Of the
Establishment Of a Creamery,
For Tho Nrwa.


For tho NEWS.
How valiant "Brutus" gets when be
makes "a man Of straw" to demolish and
seems to imagine that he "is lighting great
Cesar" My dear Brutus, the ghost which
you have been lighting all Of this time, is
simply the creation Of disordered imagi-
nation.
In advocating the starting Of creameries,
cheese factories, ETC., it was on the ground
that by 80 doing the patrons could keep
and milk from FIVE to twenty COWS more
than they now do, and at the same time
keep Os much, II not more other stock than
now, and give remunerotive employment
to more laborors. In advocating perma-
nent pastures, the point to be gained is
that by so doing fewer acres will keep more
stock, and you can have pasture much
earlier in the spring, aud also much later
in the fall.
BY Plowing your clover sod after only
standing one year, you can improve your
cultivated lands much faster than by any
other plan.
So now my farmer friends let us under
stand ourselves. I have never yet advo-
Gated the neglect Of or the abandoning Of
any fixed or established industry; no
indeed, but have advocated the keeping Of
all the high grade stock possible; the saving
most carefully, all the fertilizers the farm
can be made TO produce. Then use the
same to the best possible advantage.
Then in addition, try to add some new
industries, such as will give employment to
more people and more capital. II there
could be q few cheese factories and cream
cries started in this section Of the State, it
would only be a little while before all those
hillsides that are now so bare and sterile
and by their unsightliuess mar the land
soOpe in so much Of the hilly sections Of
the county, would be covered with rich
carpet Of that king Of grasses, Poa prateuse,
or Kentucky blue grass New life would
be infused into all kinds of business.
Necessity is said to be "the mother Of
invention" and the necessity begotten Of
financial stringency is the only thing that
will teach economy to the masses Of people.
We are passing through one Of those periods
at the present times many people find il
hard to get remunerative employment. II
fact thousands Of willing hands are nov
idle, and many thousands 60 to bed hungry
every night in this land of plenty, for thu
simple reason that there is not employment
enough for all. Therefore, whoever car
add any new industries to give employ
ment to more people, is benefactor of hi
race, ana for "Brutus" to assume that
have recommended the changing from on
class of business to another, is simply non
sense, when it was distinctly stated tina
the new industries recommended wer
simply to be added to those now in vogue
for the purpose Of turning TO profit what /
now going to waste. But "Brutus is a,
old and valiant soldier, the noblest Roma
Of them all, and he must have somebod
to demolish, so he makes q creature, tn
child Of his own imagination, and calls
"ClodhOpper, alias Cesar" for food fc
his valiant sword (pen). No, friends
ClodhoPper is the last person in the worl
to recommend any such thing as changin
abruptly the line of business Of any person
or any community.
Every observant person knows that ev,
since business was, the prices of difFerel
commodities are all of the time huctuatinl
and the man that abandous hogs for catt
when the former are low and the latt
high, and wise versa, will aI,5ays be wronl
Mixed farming is the safer for most peopl
and I have always recommended "to not p
all of your eggs in one basket"
For this section, the average farmer is
the safest basis that keeps about one-thi
Of his land in grass; one-third Of the 7
mainder in wheat, one-third in corn, al
tire balance in clover. Then keep sto
enough to consume the corn, hay, fodd
and straw all on the farm.
But because it has been recommended
AWhV % $4,000 poAAuaAoAb PASTURE on ca
farm, it has grown like "Great Cmsa
ghost" before 'Brutus " imaginatic
until our beautiful and fertile fields
waving grain have all been converted n
Zone vast sheep walk" And worse, t
sheep all slaughtered to give way to a ter
BILE creamery or cheese factory or two.
Every farmer should make IL a point
save his own grass and clover seed whC
ever practical to do 80. In the first pll
when he saves his seeds, he knows Il
they are free from noEious weeds, such
oXeye daisy, bull nettle, buck plantain, o
Many Of these things have gotten a 70
hold in our neighborhood by being broue
here In grass and clover seed puroha,
from abroad.
The man that saves his own seeds 4
generally SOW with a more liberal ha
than when he has them all to buy, esp
tally when the price is high.
CL0DHoPPER
GLENwooD, Sept 25th, 1885.