The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-08-24
FARMER ANDPLANTER.
"plveRs,FucATloN."
Az Opposed to sPutting All the Eggs Into
One Basket"

Al Opposed to sPutting All the Eggs Into
One Basket"
Save the middleman's profit on
chat which you have to sell and on
that which you have to buy. Produce
everything possible needed for nome
use. Someone makes the pront on
you both ways If you grow something
to sell TO pay for that which you must
buy. There is nothing you can BUY
as cheaply as you can grow 1T II you
can grow it at all. Editorial in April
number of Farmers Magazine.
The gospel of diversifcation as
quoted above and as preached by our
worthy editor is as true as Holy VIII
For years we have been an ultra,
diversificationist. going as far in that
line as my rope would let me. We have
lived In 'specialistic" time and In
specialistic country: have both seen
and felt the evil and pernicious effects
Of 'specialties" when carried to the ex-
tent of putting all the eggs into one
basket" Had we lived in d time ana
country where ultra" diversification
was the universal practice we would
proba bly, have been found advocating
specialties. We are no believer IN
aextremes." either way, and the rea-
son of our ultra" tendencies is
BECAUSE the exegencics OF the
times and the obstinacy and
blindness Of those who adhere to
the 'isingie-crop" policy (ruinous and
suicidal though it be) has hitherto
forced us III this direction. What are
commonly known as leash" crops, SC
called for the reason that one can real
lie actual cash lat some price or other
on them at any desired period OF time
are good servants" but bad mas
ters;" they have, in almost every in
stance, proved to be both a blessing
and u "curse;" an unmixed blessing
whenever the soil tiller exercises
due and judicious control over them
but an unmitigated curse wheneve
and wherever he allows himself to b
controlled by them. In orr humid
opinion, the land was given us by
all-wise and beneficentC Creator to MAX
living on. "He that tilleth the SO
shall have plenty of money? No. bu
bread" This is the Divine decree; an
from it there is no swerving. II on
plants cotton. hemp. fax, ramie, t.
bacco. sugar beet, sugar cane. hops,
even fruits of any or all kinds to I'll
utter exclusion of the strictly prov
sion crops" is subverting the divir
order; there is no promise to him. M
comfort for him in the above quot
ton. Bread" Is the staff of life
and should receive paramount consi
GRAFTON. BY all means let us try
make our farms self-sustaining, and
SO doing we will become self-depen
emit, self-reliaut, independent
the middleman and the ra
roads to great extent. al
prosperity is bound to folio
The greatest drawback the Americ'
farmer has to contend with may
summed up in a word of four letters
that word is debt. All debts arc Sc
imposed, entered into voluntarily a
of their own free will and volition
everyone who contracts them. I
best way ont for those who are in de
is to pay out" and the first step
ward paying out Is to practice econon
self-denial. industry, perseverance, a
to SO diversity as to make the farm
nearly self-sustaining rs possible, n
avoid all specialties unless you fu
understand the speciality. &C.
Turner, in Farmers Magazine.