Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1879 — The Best Paying Farm Crops. [ARTICLE]

The Best Paying Farm Crops.

One of the most common of questions put to those supposed to know, is what is beet to raise on one's farm. Here is perhaps a tolerably successful farmer, or there may be an editor of a highly popular and successful newspaper, and to them comes the question perhaps a score of times a year, What shall I grow to make money fast? It does not seem to occur to these unhappy people that if those they ask knew how to coin money they would make it themselves instead of telling others howfto doit; yet this question, or the substance of it, is of continual occurrence. Young men going to farming, or old ones for that matter, starting on the same road, might as well understand at once that a successful paper, a successful merchant, or a successful farmer, is never made to order. Rarely, indeed, has anyone made money in the exact way he expected to make Ft. There may be the general plan, and this may be carried out pretty nearly as mapped; but the. filling in, the detail, comes after. The one who succeeds, as a general thing, is the one who has the knack of seizing on circumstances quickly as they arise, and turning them togood advantage. The most of these successful farmers, too, are those who fixed themselves tolerably closely to one place. They maymot have acted with the best judgment in locating themselves; but instead of trying to mend this error, undertook to make the best of it. It is almost impossible for any man, lethim be ever so experienced a farmer, to tell at once what nis ground is best fitted for under an experience of two or three years, but when once that knowledge is gained, he can push this more and metre every year; and it is these special superior productions which tell. Beside all this, what-a farmer is going to get for his crops is of as much importance to him as the ability of the soil to bring them to t perfection; and this market-knowledge Is also a thing of growth, which one can rarely ten to another. In brief, the successful farmer is the one who knows how to feel his way. To such an one it is almost impossible to tell what he should grow. He must begin carefully and find out for himself. The best advice to all new beginners at farming is, not to spend all their money too soon. Let no tempting speculator induce them to gq heavily Tn debt. Always, if some cash .in reserve, and never run close on to the last dollar until considerable experience on that particular farm has been had. • Some will say you can never get rich on a farm, if you have no capital of any account, unless you do gd in debt. This to a certain extent is true; but it makes all the difference) whether you go in debt on a mere suspicion of suet cess, as thousands of borrowers do, or whether you wait first until by a little hard experience you see clearly what you can do. — Germcmtovmi Tde.graph. Did a donkey ever die of screening of the braying?

An amusing little episode In conqeotion with the observance of All-Fools’ Day occurred in Boston. On one of the principal thoroughfares two teamsters had left their teapos standing, with the tailboards touching. Two sun-losing clerks in a hardware store in the immediate vicinity conceived 'the idea pt chaining these ■ teams together, Whtoh idea was promptly carried out. Boon the drivers returned, and not noticing what had been done to their teams, mounted the seats and with a simultaneous •• gft”’proceeded to start off. The start; of course, did not take place. One of the looking around and discovering the difficulty, jfet down and undoing the chain, which was worth eight or ten* dollars, threw it into his wagon, and both teams immediately drove off, amid the frantic calls of the clerks to return the chain. As both the teamsters are unknown to the' clerks, it is more than probable that their salaries will be diminished just-the value of that chain.— Worcester {Mass.) Spy.