Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1882 — Farmers Making Debts. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Making Debts.

Country Gentleman. t A good deal has been said against farmers going in debt. Yet tbereis not one in a thous%pd who has the capital tQ what he should to get the best results for the farm. The trouble is not in the debt itself, but in ihe objects for which it was accumulated. No farmer was ever ruined by debts incurred for judicious underdraiuiug or manuring. If a thing will pay at all, it will pay as well done with borrowed money as if done by a capitalist. The mau who in vests money does it with the purpose of securing a profitable return. The less capital a farmer, has the greater need of investing where are the largest profits. It is all right for farmers to be cautious about borrowing' money to build fine houses, or to ride in fine carriages. Money thus borrowed seriously cripples farmers, and prevents them from Laving money for improvmeuts that are really profitable. Many a larmer has been over-weighted by expensive houllfS, or other buildings, which absorb so much of his capital that he has too little for anything else. Russia proposes the annexation of Corea, on the ground of its being a menace to her possessions in the Pacify icj and also on account of the warlike disposition of the Chinese^