The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
FARMER AND PLANTER.

FARMER AND PLANTER. |
MAKING a cLtvifao..
hard rs..es vvosia bs t.ess reis 10 O..
ndeAce AnA Industry Prevailed.
We have all heard and read and been I
made tired about the purchasing power
Of . gold dollar.
= Well, to test this thing whether Q
piece of metal. just because it was
gold, would buy anything more than
ANYTHING else in which the community
or seller had confidence, took gold
dollar, silver dollar and q paper ono.
and-I went to three different stores
ami bought thirty pounds of hour for
each; and why? Because each one had
the promise Of the United States to
make 1t good, and the seller had con-
fidence in the ability of the United
States government to do SO.
To test the thing further, went to
another store and bought another
thirty pounds for q dollar on credit.
/ will admit there was some risk there.
but then the merchant knew had .
fine lot of razor-backs feeding on my
pinders, and whenever they were fat
enough to market they would bring
the gold, silver or paper. Now, where
in did one have any more purchasing
power than another? 1t was I'LL con-
fidcncc
will now relate an incident which.
it there were more, there would be less
cry about hard times.
don't raise all the pork L feed. but
depend upon buying q great deal
Well. you know. doubtless. that money
has been very scarce and hard to get,
and there has been such a want of con-
fdence between man and man that 1T
has also been difficult to buy anything
on credit.
learned of a man who had a nice lot
of hogs to sell, and 1 went to see them,
and agreed with him on a price, and
would take them on a certain day, pro-
vided I could get the money. Not
being able to turn anything I wished
to dispose of into cash or to collect it,
I went to institutions and persons
whom knew to have plenty of hoard
ed cash. The very best security that
could be offered failed to get dollar.
I very regretfully went to my neigh
Dor and told him swould have to de-
cline ta.<ing his hogs as I could not
get the money to pay him.
''Now look here, major" says he,
''you have got more pinders than you
have hogs to eat them. I have more
hogs than I have pinders to feed. If I
| turn these hogs out they will stray off
and will lose some if not all. and they
will do me no good. and if you get no
hogs you will lose your pinders Now
y y y
Christmas and take these hogs along
and turn them on your pinders, and
you will get your money out of them
in time to pay me-"
There was stroke of financiering.
and one that is creating wealth, for I
can take that lot of hogs which I have
| been feeding for the last six weeks and
| turn them into cash any day for
| enough to pay for them and have fine
profit left.
A refusal to let me have the hogs
would not only have been a loss to
| both of us, but to the community at
large, for when these hogs are sold the
money will be kept at home instead of
going off to Chicago to pay for that
which we can make at home.
| Now, Mr.. Editor, in times like the
| present, who fs the financier, the in
! dividua1 or the bank officers who hoard
| the money, or this piney woods farmer
that which he had so as to create
money, restore confidence and revive
trade? r
And it has been just this kind of
| fnanciering that has made a man OF
| easy circumstances ont of one who,
when lie came here from South Caro-
lima few years ago, had SO little of
| this worlds goods that he was COM
peeled to buy what many would call
about as poor pine land as there is in
Florida, and that on credit. But then
he says "the land is not poor" for as
he says ''as big pine trees lis grow
about here don't grow on poor land
and I reckon he is right, for he has
never bought one dollars worth of
commercial fertilizer yet.
But he has improved his land, built
him n comfortable one-a nd-a-half story
| house, has lots of children. fruit trees,
bees, poultry, razorbacks and cattle
and is out of debt.
His sweet potato beds are sight. I
| never before saw rows bursting with
great big tubers peeping out all along.
He says the secret of his success is
in thoroughly preparing his land and
working his crops and not laying any
| thing by with spear of grass in it,
that deep ploughing even in pine land
| and thorough cultivation and elbow
grease tell the tale.
And still there is great cry about
mot making living in Florida" farm
ing.-Cor. Florida Farm and Fruit
Grower.
COTTON SEED FOR COWS.