Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1875 — Experience. [ARTICLE]

Experience.

I am an old man, upward of three score years, during two scores of which I have been a tiller of the soil. I cannot say that I am rich now, but I have been rich and do not owe a dollar; have given my children a good education, and when I am called away will leave them enough to. keep the wolf away from the door. My experience has taught me that: 1. One acre of land, well prepared, manured and cultivated, will produce more than two acres which receive only the same amount of manure and labor expended on one. 2. One cow, horse, mule, sheep or hog, well fed, is more profitable than two kept on the amount of food necessary to keep one well. 3. One acre of clover or grass is worth more than two acres of cotton where no grass or clover is raised. 4 No farmer who buys oats, wheat, corn, fodder and hay, as a rule, for ten years, can keep the Sheriff from the door in the end. 5. The farmer who never reads an agricultural paper, and sneers at book-farm-ing and improvements, always has a leaky roof, poor stock, broken-down fences, and complains of “ bad seasons.” 6. The farmer whose habitual beverage is cold water is healthier, wealthier and wiser than he who does not refuse a drink. — California Farmer.