The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
A GREAT PROBLEM.
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Suggestions by Farmer.

4His 10 'luesVioh ohot many OnouSuT
full farmers are asking themselves, with
out any definite answer. With all farm
products unusually low, and labor as
high as ever known Except during the
wary, it would look as If failure to make
the farm pay expenses, to say nothing
about profit, must be the inevitable
result. 1t is better to look at whatever
difficulties we have to encounter, and
to realize their full magnitude, than to
make light of them, and finally meet
them. chat produce is low and labor
high, are facts we can not change as
individual farmers. But by being wide
awake to every thing connected with
our calling, we can do much to change
the circumstances, 80 that we can see
profit in the near future, if not at
present. Let us bear in mind that the
same problem confronts every business
man at times-how shall l pay ex-
penses, and, if possible, make profitp
The first remedy l would suggest, is
to farm more on plan-to anticipate
a coming demand for certain articles
of produce, and have them ready for
sale at the right time. When every
farmer is engaged in producing some
particular product, it is then too late.
The only way by which we can intelli.
gently anticipate demand, is by read.
ing carefully the facts in regard to it,
and these at present are far in advance
of what our fathers had to guide them.
To Illustrate, as far as we are enabled
to Judge from all the information at
hand, it would be safe for any farmer
who has had experience, and has suita.
BILE feed for which he has no particular
use, to invest moderately in sheep
and this applies as well to many other
things. One argument is, they are
cheap; another, that farm upon
which sheep are made specially can
be carried on with less help than any
other. The only way to lower the
price of labor, is to lesser, The demand.
We are too much inclined to plan as
our fathers planned, This will not do;
the world has moved, things have
changed, living expenses are much
more. Taxes are on the increase every
year, and we must have more to sell TO
meet them, or failure will be the re-.
suit. If we must employ high-priced
labor, let us study to have it well-di.
rected, not running to waste here and
there. 1t is well known that some men
will accomplish much more work with
the same help than others, and the
reason is, they make every move tell.
But we must not be ''penny wise and
pound foolish" all the well directed
labor necessary to perform the work on
the farm, in workmanlike manner,
must be employed; anything short Of
this is a waste of what is employed.
Let the bills for labor be light from
the LIST of December to the 1st of March.
The days are short, many of them
stormy, and we need very little help TO
sit by the fire and read our papers. Zoo
much help is hindrance at such a
time: but to ourselves the stormy day
may be turned to good account
My experience of more than thirty
years on one farm. has taught me that
WIN oil ChtCptioii, tuCtS
comes time every season when all the
operations on the farm-the plowine
and sowing, the planting and hoeing
reaping and threshing- can be carriec
on under favorable circumstances ant
conditions. Itmay come early, it may
come late; but it is almost sure TO come
and the grand thing, is to be read,
yhn, - Inno Nd oh IS
day were the last. In this way WI
economic labor, lessen the demand
and lower the price. 1t is folly to com
plain about high wages as long as thf
demand is what it is at present. A
laboring man has right to make al
he can out of his labor. In one sense
labor is a commodity; if the demand il
good, the price must be high and tin
poor man who has only the work o
his hands to dispose of, should not b.
blamed if he tries to get the full pric
that his labor can be made to command
So much for lowering expenses
Now. how shall we raise the price o
productsp To combine to hold Ger
tain product for stipulated price is
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ton too great variety of opinion
But it needs no concert of action for
farmer to determine that he will rails
a better article than his neighbor, an,
in this way obtain better price, ant
consequently more profit We fail t.
realize that in the little extra price tn
profit comes in. Many farmers ar
never satisfied; no matter what tn
price, they are always holding for
better one. l have always found
: safe to sell any crop when it was read
: for market and the buyers were want
ing it. The time to sell anything i
: when you have buyer; "the prope
. time to set hen is when she wants t
sit" The great trouble with the aver
age farmer is waiting in all things TO
more favorable opportunity. Th
skrinkage on crop of grain tina
= might be sold in the fail, by holding
d until spring or later, by loss in weigh
t and destruction by rats and mice an
/. other causes, is far more than mos
D farmers realize. The keeping of
Y horse OF horses for which you have n
!. use every year they live getting les
!. valuable holding on simply becaus
! not offered all you think they ar
!. worth. is folly. Better make you
+; buyer present of few dollars, tina
s waste the amount of feed and care o
! the horse. Cor. Country Gentleman.