The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-08-29

spirited and gave employment to a
large number of men. Many persons
in this county will regret to learn OF
his untimely end.
WHAT MAKES HARD TIMEs-A
WORD WITH Our FARMERS ABOUT
GRAIN RAIsING.-At this time in the
year farmers are preparing the ground
for sowing fall wheat There are few
sections of the country better adopted
to the raising of wheat than ours and
no crop perhaps yields better re-
turn for the labor and money ex-
pended than the wheat crop unless it
be the corn crop. A profitable en-
ployment should always be encour-
aged. We are therefore moved to
make some suggestions in reference
to the raising of wheat and corn, urg.
ing our farmers to increase their
efforts in that direction.
There is no better market any
where to be found for flour and feed
than in Monongalia county. Now
that seems like an extraordinary as
sertion since we have in Monongalia
county, soil that produces these
commodities in great abundance.
We frequently hear reports of wheat
fields harvesting twenty bushels OF
wheat to the acre and as much as
fifty bushels of corn and yet it is
astonishing that our farmers do not
raise their own wheat and corn, but
that annually large sums of money
are sent out of the county to purchase
the bread stuff. grain aud feed, con
sumed by our own people. 1t is the
amount of money kept in circulation
within the limits of a neighborhood
that makes times financially good Oh
bad. This year an unusual amount
of flour, grain and feed have beer
brought into the county from abroad
and consequently money matters are
unusually stringent. Creditors are
solicitous about their money; debtors
are being pressed; money is hard tt
borrow
1t is true that this is an unusually
hard year owing to the severity o
last winter. but we have frequently
noticed heretofore among our county
correspondents illusions to the fac
that this. that and the other person!
in their neighborhood had purchased
from the railroad one or more ca
loads of grain.
An intelligent miller and dealer il
flour and feed, at Morgantown, il
conversation with the Editor of thu
New DOMINION made the astonishing
statement that he had persona
knowledge of $4,000 going, in tn,
last few months, from this place tt
foreign markets for grain and brea(
stuff. And yet Morgantown is onl,
one of the points to which shipment
are made and the gentleman referred
to is but one of the persons engaged
in the Importation of these articles
Suppose our good farmers SHOULD
all increase their energies little ant
by clearing out some of the nook
and corners of their fertile posses
sions or by leasing to some energeti
and careful Tenant they should, il
addition to the usual amount, rails
enough grain to supply themselve
, and the various other consumers il
Monongalia county how much none.
would then remain in the count
that now goes to Pittsburgh, Chicag
! and other places to buy bread an
meat for our own people? ~
! penny saved is penny earned"
1t is the individual who lays ava
each year part of his earnings tina
becomes in due time wealthy-no
he who spends all he makes and
little more. 1t is so with commu
mites as well as individuals. Th
community that each year buys NOR
than it produces becomes bankrup
while the community that produce
more than it consumes and has
surplus to sell, will certainly becom
rich and prosperous. And as a CON
l munity becomes prosperous, they b
I come happy and contented. We ca
not help thinking that if our peopl
with all the resources which the
possess, shall produce less than the
consume and become poor, it is b.
cause they have not cultivated tn
i talents that God has given them.
We ask our farmers to give thi
y matter their intelligent and though
full consideration and see if in futul
}. years the importation of grain, for
= and feed shall not cease. On the col
trary, ought we not to raise in MOI
ongalia county large quantity I
grain annually for sale, thus increa
ing instead of diminishing OF
Z wealth.