Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-07-17


Supply and demand regulate the
price of commodities and, we pre-
'ume, always will. Then, too,
here are a good many people in
The West as we'll as in the East who |
complain of hard times and always
will. They spend IS where they
make only 81. If farmers will
tarm right, not buy on credit and
live within their income, We are
sure there is no more independent
or pleasant lite. There are too
many people farming who ought to
be coachmen or sheep-herders or
dog-pounders they are too lazy to
make a living at work. Farmers
are much more careful here than
in the West. Farming on land
worth 500 per acre, where about
$25 worth of fertilizer has to be
put on each acre, must necessarily
be reduced to a science in order to
pay. The farmers here are all
we'll to do and many are rich, and
they made their money off of small
farms, lived within their income
and invested all surplus in some
solid bank or railroad stock. The
farmers of the West, with their
broad and fertile prairies, should
live in affluence and lay up fortunes
In a few years by following the
same plan of procedure. A farm
er here who has 100 acres will
plant about 20 acres of corn, 5
acres of potatoes, 25 acres of wheat,
5 acres of barley, 10 acres of oats,
5 acres of rye, 10 acres of
meadow, &c. All the crops will
be fertilized and we'll tended. The
small grain will be fed to the
chickens, the rest to the cows, and
a neat profit will be found on the
right side at the end of the year,
providing the farmer attends strict
ly to business. The market made
by the New York people insures
good prices, better for some things
than we have in Missouri, but the
markets OF st. Louis and Chicago
are close and are considered the
very best in the country. You
will notice by the looseness of this
letter that we are not near ready to
graduate in farmlng-the reason is
we are devoting 12 hours a day to
fishing, 8 hours per day to eating
and 8 hours per day to sleeping ;
the rest is given up to farming.
We know some other farmers who
do about the same, and then fuss
about hard times. BOB WHITE.
STILL CHARMING"
Editorial Correspondence to the Ledger.
SOUTHAMPTON, L. l., New YORK,
July 81 have been studying
farming again to-day from ex.
perience, and think in the course
of time l would make a very fai,
political granger-at least ! would
as much about the business as
some Of the statesmen (2) in Mis-
souri, who claim to be farmers.
slept 8 hours again to-day anc
spent 3 eating-the IL hours I de-
voted to fishing the other day
"farmed" Know sitting around The
stores whiting dry goods boxes
and talking about other peoples
business. Farming of this kind il
all right--only "times are hard
While whiting and thinking of th'
hard lot of my kind of farmers
thought and was thinking ant
the more I thought, tn
more certain ! become that ther'
were too many farmers, too man.
hogs and cattle, too much corn
oats, wheat and potatoes, etc., etc.
raised in this country. Suppos
there were only 1000 cattle, 1000
chickens, 5000 hogs and othe
stuff in proportion raised in thi
country. Just think what a pric
it would bring. I consider this
+ bright idea and will act upon it b,
not raising any OF the above men
, toned articles unless they can b
, grown somewhat in the proportion
! l suggest, and that, too, on m
farm. Farming might then pay
as it appears to now for politics
, purposes; although the supply i
this direction is about to exces
:. the demand; at least this lg To
case in parts of Missouri.
: Talk about your ''possum an
g su eet potatoes Try clam bak
Il. once if you want a meal which wi
: make you want to live always.
q fish fry is fine, but a clam bak
d we think, is the best all 'rour
@ meal which can be tackled by
a healthy man. ssDon't be a clam
/. but don't fail to eat a clam Wit
n ever you get a chance.
1t The next editor of the LEDal
l. has Just returned from a bath
d the ocean and is almost black fro
,e sun-burn. He says 81 wsuld Ii
r to be home this week to see I
soldiers, but We viii be home