Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31

that one has golden eagles iingling In his
pocket and the other only silver dollars?
The answer Is apparent enough to any
one who spends any thought upon the sub
ject. 1t is expressed in the single word
management. When a man owning a
farm begins to groan about hard times,
and complain that he has no money, it
would be the best thing for him to do to
stop and ask himself:
Why do I get no money? Why are the
times hard? Nearly all sorts of farm pro-
duce bring good prices. Bear IN mind
that you can not get something for nothing.
If you have nothing to sell how do you ex-
pect, how can you hope, to receive any
money? You have 100 acres Of land; you
raise two or three acres of wheat half a
dozen acres Of oats; some corn, say three or
four acres, you can cut the grass from
twenty acres of meadow, you keep a work
team and a carriage horse, dozen cows,
three or four hogs and few poultry, you
eat the wheat, feed the grain and hay to
the horses and COWS, hogs and poultry; you
eat the hogs and eggs and all you have left
from the dividends of the cheese and butter
factories after having paid one man for
hauling the milk another for making the
cheese or butter and other incidental ex-
penses, such as carriage to the railroads,
freights, drayage, commissions, etc. All
you have sold from your farm has been the
milk, and the income from that has been
whitfield down and down until the price
that reaches you only little more than
pays taxes and few other expenses which
are absolutely necessary, and If you or
your family wish to take little recreation
by attending the State Fair or spending a
few days In the city there is no balance in
the bank to foot the bill.
Well, who is to be blamed? Haven t
you obtained all you have earned? Can
not you make review of your old run
in-the-rut' way Of farming, and do some
thing that will pay better? Can't you
raise some crops that will give you bet
ter margin of profit than corn and oats !?
Suppose that you leave out part of the
oats and corn and raise more products of
the garden-say onions, cabbage, squash,
or some other crop that can be sold for
500 or 5000 in CASH And then, after you
have got the cash, make it worth more to
you than it has been in the past. Not hav-
ing had the ready cash, | know how you
have managed. You have been accustomed
to go to your country store, buy whatever
was necessary, have it charged, pay
enormous profits, and your money
has been of but little use.
The better way is to send away to some
wholesale dealer and buy enough at time
to last six months or a year, and you will
be surprised at the saving of money ac-
complished. l have practiced this sort of
economy for several years and know how
it works. OF course there are some ar
ticles that l do not send away for, because
| can buy them at home almost as cheap;
but upon the groceries, dress goods, cloth
ing and articles for use in the house, l
think l save at least Is per cent. and
one-fourth of the store bill very often makes
quite difference in the spending money
for family's pleasure, Try it, good read
er. Raise more produce of the farm that
will sell for cash, and then make your
money by buying more of what you want.