Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1887 — Watch the Expenses. [ARTICLE]

Watch the Expenses.

Rani New Yorker. The first requisite for profitabb management of a farm, and for any business in fact, is to reduce the outlay foi expenses, and when a farmer buys hii flour, butter and meat, instead of proi ducing them, and having a surplus o: them to sell, he neglects the primary principle of good farming. Farmers o: forty years ago, and some of the presen: day, supplied their households yith wool and flax for domestic use as wel as with their flour, vegetables, honey, fruit, vinegar, butter, cheese, pork, bee! and mutton. The well stocked cellar ant larder, with the well-furnished cloaeffl showed that the cardinal principle o prosperity “to grow his own feedinj stuff” was not neglected. The traffic in boots and shoes flu heavy shoes holds out an unusuallj long time. The heaviest distributioi ever known is now in progress through out the West. The trade has changet from buying large lots to last a Ion) Time, to buying small lots that can b< worked off in a few weeks. This givei the trade a steadiness that manufactur ers much like. The manufacturing es tabliehments throughout the New Eng land States are very busy, and the com ing winter will be a remarkably goot one. The morocco factories are all run ning steadily. Manufacturers are mak ing very few styles. The jobbing basi ness in all large cities of the Union i extremely brisk. .. “Two knots an hour isn’t such ba< rime for .a clergyman,’’smilingly said thi minister to himself just after be hi( united the second conple. Ball's Catarrh Cure i« the mirrel of the age an has bo equal for the core of Catarrh. Do not dels U iron are troubled with this disease.