The Nevada County picayune., 1922-02-02
WE WILL ALL BE BLIND, DEAD OR
 CRAZY IN A FEW MORE YEARS
By John Tweezer

ton failed to help the farmers present day financial ills in any substantial way About all the farmer got out of it, was the trip and a nd-shake with some of the official dignitaries, and a little refreshments on the side with the mule left out. Of course that helped some but what is worrying the farmer most at present is how to mar. ket his crop to the best advantage.
 There is no legislation that man can draft that is going to help the present day financial situation of the farmer. A little more money loaned to him now won't do another thing but put him a little deeper in debt.
 Some day he will have to come across with interest and principal.
 In the olden times the agriculturist was ignorant, he knew nothing of ma chinery, he was slave to superstition. He planted his crop in the moon and cultivated it with crude implements, still he always made enough to live on, and to keep out of debt. He was not bothered with the boil weevil or revenue officers, and when he knocked the clods out of his shoes and turned in for the night, if he would listen he could hear his corn grow. Now in this enlightened age of farming, with all the improved machinery, he has hard time to get by. Something is after his goat all the time. The boil weevil goes down into his pockets with both hands; the crop is blown down or caught by the frost or dried up by the sun. Then comes along old ''ten per center,' which has the boil weeyil skinned when it comes to gnawing. It eats night and day, and the more 1t eats the hungrier it grows. If you are
 in debt, lying awake at night, if you listen you can hear it gnaw, and the
 only way to stop this gnawing is to
 get out of debt as soon as you possibly
 can. You have supported idle avarice
 and lazy economy long enough. There
 is no business under the sun that can
 pay ten per cent interest. Do you know what one dollar loaned for one 1 hundred years at ten per cent interest
 amounts to? If you don't know, I will
 tell you. It amounts to thirteen
 thousand eight hundred and nine dol
 lars. If you don't believe it you can l figure it out If you have no pencil
 you can get one that is sharpened al
 both ends from most any bank.
 The trouble with most farmers. they
 go hog wild, and want to buy all the land that joins them You cannot at present when taxes are so high afford
 to own land that you do not cultivate.
 Sell it and let others make farms and homes. In this way what you keep will enhance in value. You can never reduce the cotton acreage by buying more land. You should own just what | land you can cultivate and cultivate | it we'll Renters can hardly be called | farmers man without a home feels more like a passenger. Every farmer should own home: homes make patriots. A man won't shoulder q
 musket in defense of a boarding house. but the word home touches tender and sacred spot in his heart. Every
 farmer can own home if he Will cure
 more meat, raise larger gardens, pro- duce more poultry and eggs, and milk few more cows. Every farmer should raise as much of these products as he needs for home consumption and in addition a small surplus to sell. If you will do this you will not he both cred with that gnawing sound at night. It will soon he open season for hunt ing voters, and when that times comes the candidates will load up with all kinds of promises, grips signs, and the latest crop reports, and start out after votes. They all have a system of their own one will tell you that he belongs to the church and is going to make the country as dry as hades, if elected. You had better watch that guy; in all probability he is dryer than hades him self. Then the next one will tell you that he has rebelled against Mir. Vol stead. and is going to take little for the stomach's sake. That candidate