The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-05-02

bHld byau have not heard from me for
Ito while, but during my silence
mss not idle but doing great deal
Thinking and hard work. Now,
A. Editor. in these trying times
W. n,' should all stick together,
W. closer than brothers, and sup
VT each other in all legitimate work,
nav pertain either to the farmer
~ business man and try to make
.;mes better lin fact we make the
,;mes) The fact is this. when a
.oor ..,il man goes to the wall, every
tce seems TO have particular
,rndee at him, and every one is
,eody TO pull him down to The low
~ dep,h. Not SO with the rich
nap who may have inherited his tens
II thousands and through sheer
,n;smanagement may go to the. wall
bnt note the difference, and the
efIects on business. The effect is
70 make it still harder for the poor,
bonest man, while the rich man il
annears is not affected nearly so
mnch as the honest poor man, be
ronse he may have friends who will
set him afoat again; while the poor
man must take the consequences.
Now this is all wrong. II seems we
are irving to pull each other down,
and when one falls many fall.
The question now arises, what is the
cause of this depression in farming
saw farming because all the stabil-
nv Of the business of Snyder coun-
wi dependent on the farmer, for
his success anchors our veal and
woe. At present the question mos;
under discussion is should we
have free silver coinage? it is Il
Question with me if this would in
crease or raise the price of wheat, |
will let it for wiser heads TO answer.
30 be honest. IL is my candid opin-
on il would not raise the price of
wheat. My reasons are it would in
crease the acreage and so far it
seems the price is governed by the
demand aud supply the same as po-
tatoes, butter and eggs. What
cotton is to the South, wheat is TO
The North. Some years ago the cot
ton planters framed an agreement to
decrease the acreage of cotton.
When the time came to harvest the
rop they found they had doubled
he former amount of acres. This
Just the case in wheat growing.
it seed time we SOW only few
acres but at harvest we double them
and thus we keep on. A recent
correspondent calls it habit and
lays of it, 1t is Il practice SO firmly
liked that it makes impoverishment
pf soil, rust, weevils, chinch bugs,
lnd the sheriff, oftentimes, to shake
hem out of it. Then they seek Il
lew field OF operations near by.
A confirmed victim of the wheat
habit is as difficult to cure as an
opium lend. This may be putting
rather strong, but there is more
ruth in it than farmers care to adj
nit. Now there is no farmer in
Snyder county who can raise wheat
|or the price it is now selling. Think
it; you can get almost as much
or a fat veal as for an acre of wheat
md need not do one half the hard
york. But we can't all grow fat
zeal, but we can learn to make good
butter, and get paying prices and
eed the skim milk to our pigs and
bet better prices for rs to 100 lb.
hoats than we can for 200 or 3OC
POund hog. These are no theories
but facts. Yes says the croaker,
butter is worth only ten cents in
hummer. Very true, but that is
our wagon grease. You try and
buy good butter at open market and
Ou will wonder why it does not pay
make good butter.
Now the same holds true in the
ruit business. There is always a
emand for fine fruit; it sells at
pod prices. In fact there is no sur
(lus of good fruit. The market asks
pr it. But see how our orchards
re neglected, starved and ruined in
very shape and form Insects play
ayoc and the trees are never prun-
year in and year out. All is going
ruin.
Now some body must be making
4 Oney in this wheat business.
v es, one man made a little
in money last week in Chicago,
% pmething over 100000. Any body
" Sc in our section Yes, the men
w tuIebu IL uuu tue mllleTS WHO
ind it. The dealers who buy to
l make only small margin of
Foft on it and they really do more
lrd work in handling the crop
ban the miller. These things are
wrong. Who is the fault of it
am sorry to say, the farmer. When
|ere is farmer who dares to get
lt Of the beaten path, he is called
crank, and no manual or tinan.
. hl aid is given him when he needs
n the most. He can put out his
. fOad acres of wheat and no body
word to say. L do not agree
th Mr.. Morton (Sec. of agriculture,
many respects. In one
= INT do. He said that wheat was
lazy mans crop and in fact il
We live near big cities ard ou
fd IS valued too high to raise 81
90 cent wheat, and if we do not
PIKE use of some other means to
Ike better times we must Lter
\ wn and out. These are facts
a Il ?.