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Show FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. ! DEEP PLOWING AND COOD CUL-j CUL-j TIVATION PAYS. A Mn Mionlri .o at Farming a Mer- rhant tioe at Bulnrss stay Where You Are IllnU for Farm asd Household. Good Cultivation Pays. ' That men who go at farming as a I merchant that goes at his business, who arc not content to roost for hours every dtty on a dry goods box at the country store, but who throw their energy into their business as a successful lawyer or physician does into his profession, succeed, suc-ceed, is tested by such a letter as the following, written from Colorado: Three years since I planted a Held of eighty acres of common ground broken the previous year. fl plowed ten inches deep, planted in cheek rows. When plowing this field my neighbor came by. and as he stopped looked at my plowing and exclaimed: "Friend, you are ruining your land and will get no corn." "What is the matter?" I replied. re-plied. "Why," he says "you must not back-set more than ono inch deeper than the first breaking. If you do it will t rn up tho rough undersoil and the crop will dry out." I told him I was going to plow deep and run the risk of tho failure he predicted. When my corn was up so that tho rows could be seen I put in tho cultivator. culti-vator. At this stage my neighbor came by again, and again warned mo that I would ruin my corn by cultivating cultivat-ing it said I should let it be until It was ten inches high, and then if tho rain came I should cultivate it at once. 1 replied, "I shall work my corn ! thoroughly three times, rain or no rain." "Well," he says as he rode on, "you will se when I harvest my corn that you have done wr.mr. and that I (shall get a good crop whi'o yours will fail." I did not get a large yield, for t'.e ground was too new. Hut hero is the result of my cultivation: My lirst field hnrvctted '.'..lOO bushels of corn. My neighbor had 1 X acres and harvested har-vested 1.10 bushu'.s. Don't you think this difcrenco of yield (over 2,000 bushels) paid me veil for my labor? I think it did. This past year has been very dry ;.:.d the whole country around me has failed, and yut, I ha ve raised 1,000 bushel ! of corn, eighty-eight eighty-eight of wheat, U00 of barley and 200 of oats. Tho corn on our homo mar-1 mar-1 sold for sixty cents per bushel, barley bar-ley for fifty cents and oati for fifty cents. I am a farmer and belong to tho Alliance, but I must say that while I do believe the farmer has a hard time and many grievances, yet I do not think they are, either in tho Alliance or out of it, seeking for the remedy in tho right direction. When they begin to plow deeper and think and net more like business men of overy other occupation, occu-pation, then nnd iut before will they begin to prosper. Cincinnati Times. Anchor Yourself. Tho old saw, "tho shoemaker to his last," Is as Important to the farmer as to any other business in life. If there is any business that ought to anchor a man to one locality, it is that of a farmer, and yet of all men farmers are apt to be tho most nomadic. The tramp always thinks some other place Is a little better than the ono he is in, ind so moves on. In that respect there are thousands of farmers just lilce htm. They are forever moving on. A writer on tho Now York Witness Wit-ness recently wrote: "I had a talk with a farmer who had shifted his abode four times in nino years. I asked him what was the best timo of his farm life, and m reply he said: The first farm I occupied.' 'What was the second best success of your farm life?' -The second farm I owned.' 'And what was the worst speculation you ever got into?' 'My present furm.' Ho had been rolling all about, and the result was he gathered no moss." The Ohio or Indiana farmer can not do hotter than stick to his farm. He may occasionally hear of some man who has gone west and made a fortune. Let him reflect that there are thousands thous-ands he never hears of who went wost and made dismal failures. Tho successful suc-cessful men only we hear of. |