Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — A Young Man Trie? Farming. [ARTICLE]

A Young Man Trie? Farming.

Almost every one has heard the story Mark Twain tells about Henry Ward Beecher when the latter first indulged in the luxury of amateur farming. The great preacher bought a pig for $5, fed it $lO worth of corn, and then sold it for SO. He said he made on the pig, but lost on the corn. A similar experience befell two of my friends in this city who came to the conclusion they would improve the back part of their lots. They are young men with plenty of business on hand, and so could not work the garden growler themselves. The other day one of them made a statement of expenses and gains to find out how he stood with his farming experiment. He discovered that he had paid $S for fertilizers, sls for labor, and had sworn 500 times at his neighbors’ chickens, had quarreled twice on this account, was sued once for killing two cat*, nearly mobbed for kicking a dog but of his tomatoes, and had for his gains one mess of green peas, five tomatoes, one dozen ears of corn, and a prospective peck of potatoes. After this my young friend will plant his farm in lawn grass and attend the market for his best vegetables. —Lancaster Examiner.