The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-04-29
FOR the News.
Samson and the PhIlstines.

There is probably no trade, occupation,
or profession, more completely on the
credit system than farming. Not from
custom, but from necessity. The farmer
cultivates the soil aud deposits the seed,
and for months his watchful care and CON
slant labor are required, before he can hope
for his reward Credit on the stock, from
which much the largest per cent Of his
profit is realized, is much longer. Hogs,
sheep, cattle, and horses, in the order
named, run from one to five years before
coming to maturity sufficiently to be
realized on So that the whole operation,
from beginning to end is on credit.
The thrifty merchant adopts the motto
''smnll profits and quick returns" Any
thing that will shorten the farmers credits.
will increase his returns. But "Clodhop-
per's' theory seems to reverse this princi-
pie While admitting the manure pile to
be the farmers bank, yet he not only adj
vises him to let tho capital lie there idle a
year without any interest, but to be more
than one-holf squandered by cashier and
clerks, in the form Of drenching rains and
scorching suns the wild winds of spring
and the gentle breezes Of summer.
Who of the thrifty farmers Of our county
that raised hay, wheat and corn, and has
utilized the same by feeding to his stock.
in the stables and feed lots, who has not
piles of manure the great bulk of which is
sufficiently well rotted to be thrown on top
of the corn ground when plowed. All that
is not sufficiently fne to go on top pillow
under, however rough. Clean the barn
yard. Let its contents grow corn this
summer and wheat next fall Don't have
any aonpaying surplus lying in that
manure bank But "Clodhopper" says it
will be easier to haul next fall. Admitted;
for the good reason there won't be half as
much of it. By next fall the best part of
its liquid will probably be purifying in the
saline waters of the Gulf Of Mexico, its
insoluble parts helping to form the delta of
the Mississippi, or scattered from. here
there. Then haul out the remnant in the
fall aud winter on the clover sod the rains
will carry some of its little remaining
| strength into the soil, aud the balance will
| do like Sherman when he cut loose from
Atlanta, start for the sea-" So, according
to Josh Billings, advice and medicine
being the only two things easier to give
than to take, just take whichever suits YOU
best as they are all Of price, no charge
for either.
One word to our young farmers about
not only dragging Samson into this manure
pile, but trying to put into his mouth the
very words that make the tramps, idlers
vagabonds, and scalnwags Of our countr,
If he only had better weapon Yes, il
we only had a fair chance, like some other
men, capital oppressss us.
The Almighty is impartial when he gives
You two strong arms and a level head, he
gives none more. Like Samson use the
means you haze, with the spirit and the
will, and the same success always crowns
such efforts. Had he concluded to wait
until the hot weather Of harvest was over
or until the Lord provided him better
weapon, those Philistines might have
trampled him under foot, or perhaps made
phosphate of him.
If any of the readers of this scribblinl
have nothing more important to cogitute
on, than the motive which prompted it.
they have the Yankee prtotIege of "guess
ing" If there were between thirty anC
forty personal 'pronouns of the first person
in little over a half column article, they
might all guess the same motive.
BRUTUs.
FOREST HOME, April 23d, 1885.