Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — Exaggerated Profits Reported in Farming. [ARTICLE]

Exaggerated Profits Reported in Farming.

time has 1 ab&nP arrived story of a man having made one hundred and fifty dollars from an eighth of an acre of strawberries, to be started on ite annual travel around the , press. Apr pended to this statement comes the usual computation of the .small fortune -to be made on five acres st that rate, comments upon the scarcity of the excellent berry, and some heavy advice given to everybody, urging them to plant strawberries *tonce. i AV-A‘o' Next comes the story of the man who commebced with six hives of bees, which doubled the first year-nnd quadrupled the second, with hundreds of pounds of beautiful Jiouey, told at thirty or Jorty cents per pound. Advice is given to secure bees at once, and the millions Of pounds of honey evaporating throughout the icountryqrepointed to. as an evidence of the stupidity of mAn, arid as one of the causes for the prevailing businty ifgjprea#Nm%omes story" ctf the man with a five or ten ilcte trAbk-pafcli, who reals»23ESS Profit.” A Thepdjtor w qf. tija,AgriGultural icolumn loses patience in reaaifl| this account while before his, mwarefanMrs selling ten acres of com fw one hundred arid fifty dollar», and ’& points with just indignation at what seems clear to him that truck patches are the true solution of theproblem, “How to makefarmingpay.’’

MM The climax is reserved, however, farw>Nbr> fifty*dhickam, maintains A 'fiWgel ■ N&htag'haA imrer-M^w-tooreptftailyi thefart,lktoi a ton of chicken meat can be produced with Mlittle ooslas t ton nfiteefi N<mH. ing we kpw rs M wwks jp ’ Wfl- rilU-. anthropic editor of the agricultural coluirin autre than the ignorance people Show jupqqiUte. subject of jaiaing poultry and eggs for profit The day has gone ! by for the stbry 'of |hq man making hty fortune from ,ten acres of hops to be read with very absorbing frttehM;! although It annually flridif a A Pl*W< /HMldFe flMfr W. f W e r beguiled fromYhe conservative paths of our fore•fathers toWperlm'ent qipbn brtsiot beans, hpipp, cqtton or ilatyfiy tet unusual profit inade by Tom, Dick oi* Harry, to some place Unknown to’the geography mkn. a No l*,no! Nothing of that fynd allures us, in . Kapsas, from studying our long llhe 1 of figures w l hMh demonstrate' the .mathem&wkfaeM if oifr fifty cbw»! increase to IQO, head in one year, it is only fdtfr of five years oiitil are tftening ofl tte&or three car load* of, fat steers army year. Or if our 500 hepq, of sheep ppy ajl expenses and interest oir the ' investment by their Increase, 19 It not plain that the i wool is clear profit? ’’Of if bhd tree of , Ben Davis apples ylejd five (dolines net this year, what a qice income 1,000 trees, XiU certainlybring ua. Or If'we Can put, Acres .more pf whept, and it,yields ■ twenty-five Bushels per acre, and we g«t ninety Cents or one*dollar per bushel, don’t you see unreasonable, .skpptic. f the! Ptofit we make ? My sanguine friend, declares thrtse profits (on paper) beats the tvterfty,four per cent, shaving shops. , ...yip, We have all of us read these pleasant btories abdttt the bt£ profits' In this'bHhat crop, or ip some ■ breed, of stock, ana probably we might be induced to ackriowledge that mdit of us, iihd tfrrtfe' and apother,.had toget.these snipe big profits out of crops and stock that can be figured dtft : So eiiflly. ,: We Aei' ydrt

tonile, old friend, while* tfie recollection of that strawberry crop comes up, and how you failed to get good plants the'fWst year, and the next.was too diy, and a very poor setting was the result, and hqifr, after much manuring, Cultivation And mrttehing there was, afteratt, but a partial crop; i Oh, yes, ®f course there were othebAittle hindrances of and poor prices, and sdndry inconveniences, -as-neglecting otfier tVort and erdpt that seqmcd.quite an annoyance at the pme, so mticli sb, in fact, that before a profitable crop was secured, the patch either went to weeds qr was turned qnder. Probably nothing connected with the farm has been more; uselessly exaggerated Jfian the .profits of. hee-keeping— afi interest that Requires. adaptability and special study to hale even the oMlnary prbflts of f average farming, n , Uro ro- d It is the most natural thing in the ‘world for men to become discouraged at times, with the ordinary routine of the farm, and to spike but ip to some special crop or speculative venture in stock; to secure unusual profit. ; Nine.tuqes Odt. efi ten, these attempts failures because! the individual does* not realize that, for instance, handling large tots tof ctotlfi or .£ h< i e P ; &mm W broom-corn, hemp, Or castor beans, requires a thorough knowledge of handling and marketing them, (tod, that the great profits (Which have been somewhere re- ; alizedi nave been oftner the result or accidentor gieat skill and good” judgment, together with a.‘thorough knowledge of the stock ; We knpw np to which profit la mbre absolutely dependent upon skin, gnofl jfidgmbnt arid thorough work,’than in farming, and the stories'of fancy profits) in spinal props or stock arq worse than; dvtipn.to thyse wpo undertake secure' the same withqut the requisite knowledge; hfid bxptenencetd insure the irighestresults.| i uChange' in plaite is not fiecessarijy progress for-*the fenher. The farmer may have chosen the crops best adapted to his land, his market and his capital, he' ifiAy ; M purstiifig 'intelligently, a plan of work which '■ teontemplates ■ a gradual chapgo; fiom'- grain rgqtnVfag” to stock pr, tye may be developing his new, paw land . with com anfi grain, ultimately looking to a cheese ,or butter dairy; whatCvCrthb 1 plan, aorist switch Off on side tracks,* and use youPMrength and capital trying experiments unless thert is a fact to demonstrate. Profit comes mqpe certafrily to the man who persistently pursued well laid plans than to those wno afb seeking this year bvith stock, next yertr; wilh'somd nCw crop,! unusual' profits.-4-JTjaWfSrTa'Wr. (

has ten Jiving children, two sons' arid eight daughters; some thirty odd grandchildren, ami half a dozen great grandchildren,—ope, a sori of William H., being a, man grown. The probable Shape of the will is being discussed. It is understood that WillMam H. Vanderbilt, the elder son, will -be well provided for, and endowed with a large mate skill. . - R . i au.t «.,»»»«• n»iix —Rilph’EiTloyt, of the Chicago Press, is in the febtire field, 'as usual; this riH son. He Announces tlrt-ee lectures, entitled respectively, “’Civfiizat’bn arid Sealps, or how to Settle the Indian Question”; “ Centennial Punkin Pize”;and “Reformers and Reforms." Mr. Hoyt has recently returnedfrom the Centennial Exposition, where he spent ’ most of the season and, cbneiderablo money. > i.?‘ —— r“‘H ri —JDf. George B. Wiaship, whafcVM known a few years ago as the traveling Hercules, who could lift one side of a locomotive engine and-out,-pull-a home, died in Bqpton recently at the age of fortyt two, probably the victim of -cxeassiye athletism. . . n jm ; IN a stogie chine turns out ah average of fIPQwJM W I, busljql3 Ol in a <W, whilo instances are M po, means fare efl 3,000 bushels beirig tiuplied ip one W« i If a small bearl is cut in jwo it presents a'serig rfYayerq like to bmon, in die ceptfcu wHaflce. Qveew ; tJiretOTUA life to Isej? hoe.lf fed and clmhed on the pitififl Sum pi $2,-' 200,000 a yw, or f 6,270 a day. Wnjwnrr’s-T'oxio Is not s panaces-ds ndt ■ a cure for everything, but i» a cathOlteon 1 tor wriaricwa tfauaaes, awl day byiday tods frc»li,taurcif j to4ta w.sfP Ol gto«iqu»ryuurestored to their healthy and 4'ormal ' erctioni. Health tod vltor fo’lOWfte dse, •nd GUills bavn taken their -depridture fMM every hou»eiiokl where Fo* Sana bt all Dkuooists. f I £ Friussato’s White Wine Vinegar excels all others in purity, strength and flavor. I'ry It.