The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-05-21
POINTERS FOR FARMERS.
~ ~ nen to Sell Crops-The Farmer Com
pared With the Business Man.

V fOlNTEkS FOR lFARMERS.#s 2$5 H45s
W ,i to Sell Crops The Farmer Com
pared With the Business Man.
some, yes many farmers, make a
mistake in keeping their crops for bet
ter prices. Take wheat for an exam
pie. The majority of farmers have
bills to pay that become due about
thrashing time, but if the wheat mar
ket is dull they hold their wheat for a
better price. If the market is lively
and prices good they think it will be
better and so hold their wheat. By
ana by pressure comes from creditors
and the family needs must be supplied
and ne is compelled to sell his wheat in
the meantime. Wheat has deprecated
In value and he sells at sacrifice. The
case is still worse with crops of a per-
lshable nature, such as potatoes, onions
and cabbage where the loss is often
heavy from decay, from being frost
bitten and various other causes: to say
nothing about the risk of lower prices
IN the spring than could be obtained in
the fall. In the long run the man that
sells his crops in the fall comes out
ahead. If a man is out of debt and
plenty of money to supply the neces-
sarles for his family he has a right to
hold his crops, but it is not right to
make the creditors and the family suf-
Ter just because we want better price
for our produce. This method of doing
business is too much like a man that
CANDLES, he wins one game and loses
nine.
1t is said that coat OF sand spread
over road of black gumbo improves
the road very much. Will the over
seer in the town of Greenbush having
in charge the road south of the Wet
sci place try the sand experiment for
there are hundred rods or more of
the meanest road that the writer has
been able to find in Mile Laos county.
1. 49,
One writer says that in looking back
forty years he finds that twenty farm
ers become financially independent
where one business man does. This
has caused the writer to investigate
little and am compelled to verify the
above statement. ] can look back a
decade or more, and comparing the
condition of farmers ten years ago and
now. I find a great improvement.
Then they were just emerging from a
financial crisis and they were burdened
with debt and prices of all farm
products were very low. Farming
lands were very cheap and sales we're
few. The low price of farm produce
was not caused so much by overpro-
duction as by under consumption.
Then the poor and the laboring class
could not find employment, conse-
quently they had not the wherewith to
buy the necessaries of life. Now farm
produce sells for fair price and some
times more. Farm lands have ad-
vanced from one hundred to two hun
dred per cent, according to location
and now every man can find employ
ment if he wishes. Then the country
was filed with hobos, now they are
seldom seen; now farmers are prosper
Gus and happy. They are improving
their farms. their buildings, their
stock and everything about the farm
bear the mark of prosperity.
!. i. i.
The rain on the 10th and 18th put a
damper on the courage of many farm
ers, causing them to look solemn.
Brother, why look so solemn? The
sun always shines after storm. 1t is
true the spring is late, wet and cold,
but be Of good cheer. We will have
summer and harvest by and by. Look
at the forest trees, they have not yet
put forth leaves, they are not yet
clothed in green. BY and by we will
see beautiful forests, beautiful fields of
grass and grain. Cheer up.
HOPEFUL HARRY.