Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-02-15
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A FARMER RIGHT.

A FARMER RIGHT.
Some Sensible Hints as to How to Get
Along In the World.
Greenville News.
II want to tell you something" said
a young farmer to the editor of the
Greenville News yesterday. ~ am
Just learning the value of advertising
to US in the country. I wanted some
flannel not long ago and looking over
the advertisements in the Semi Week
/ ly News found what I wanted, and /
made out that in that single transac-
ton I saved enough by studying the
advertisements to pay my subscription
year. I find the advertisements ss
interesting and valuable to me as any.
thing else in the paper. I think farm
ers will find that it will pay them al
ways to keep track of all advertising
changes. They can pick out what
they want before they come to town,
will know just where to go for it and
will save time and money. There are
always bargains to be found in the ad.
vertising columns"
Then the farmer and the editor fell
into talk. The farmer is young man
about 80 years old. He has wife
and four children and he owns 60 acres
of land six miles from town.
"Money in farming?" he said "of
course there's money in farming. al
ways make it rule to come out ahead
at the end of the year, and I've never
missed it yet. I cleared $3.50 on five
cent cotton and I expect to clear
money on it even if it drops to four
cents.
"How do do it? It's like every
other business. Close management
and hard work. and watching things.
I can find something to do on my 60
acres every hour in the year. It's the
little leaks that take farmers profits
just as they take merchants, and l
keep 'em stopped"
He looked like that kind of a man
we'll fed and we'll kept. His clothes
were strong and warm and fitted him
we'll. He was in a well made wagon.
which ran smoothly and easily and had
been taken good care of. He drove q
horse which be said is 80 years old and
can do as much work as any animal in
the country-a fat, sleek, dark bay
with evidences of good feeding, curry
comb, brush and rubbing on every inch
of his shining skin. The harness was
good originally. 1t fitted like tailor
made gown and every buckle was in
place. There was not piece of string
or grass rope or hickory wythe any
where about the outfit. 1t is safe to
bet that the man did not have pin
anywhere doing a buttons duty either.
He looked as if he had left wife at
home who is the same kind of wo-
man as he is a man, and who watches
her husband and children and house
Just as he watches his barn and stables,
live stock, tools and running gear. He
has horse 80 years old and apparent
ly good for five years. work yet, and
many a man loses bis horse at IL or
Is years and must buy another at
cost of 500, or more, simply from
failure to take good care of him.
zone thing more you ought to tell
farmers" he said, as he was leaving.
II like whisky, but I'm land hungry.
I want more land. figured out years
ago that with very moderate drinking
I'd drink an acre of good land every
year. So quit. At the end of the
year I tell myself I'm just an acre
ahead at $25 an acre by not drinking.
I find when put it to my neighbors
that it makes 'em think. You tell
farmers to think about land every
time they start to buy whisky and cal
culate how much real estate they are
drinking or giving away"
Then the careful and prosperous
looking farmer spoke to his prosper
GUS looking horse and the horse moved
off strongly and easily despite his 30
years, holding his head we'll up as if
he felt that be was part of successful
mbination and was proud of it.
And the editor of the Greenville
News fell to wondering what kind of a
country we would have here, with our
natural advantages, if all our men in
city and country studied the newspa-
pers, watched their own business, kept
the little leaks stopped up, stuck to
their work every working day and 6g-
ured out their whisky bills in arabic
land or town lots.
AS the farmer left he was chuckling
over the story of Bob Means's Alliance
corn patch. Mr.. Means says when the
Alliance was first organized he mark
ed off 10-acre field of corn and de-
termined that he would work it only
while his neighbors were attending AL
lance meetings and looking after poll.
tics. His scheme fell through because
he found he was working his corn to