DOES FARMING PAY ?

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 930, 29 July 1891, Page 2

DOES FARMING PAY ?

— 0 — Almost everyone has hoard the story Mark Twain tells about Henry Ward Beochor when the latter fir.-., indulged m tho luxury of amateur farming. The great preacher boiif.h': a pig for one pound, ted it with two pound-.' worth of corn, and sold it for twenty-live shillings. He said lie made on the pig, but lost on the corn A similar experienca bef'el two young friends, who cuma to th . conclusion that thoy would improve tho back pirt of their lots. They were younj* men with plenty of business on hand, and so could not work the garden growler themselves. Tha othor day one of them made a statement of expenses and gains, to find out how he •stood with hia farming experiments. He discovered that he had paid thirty shillings for fertilizers, three pounds for labour, an I had sworn five hundred times at his neighbour's chickens, had quarrelled twice on this account, was sued once for killing two cats, nearly mobbed for kicking a dog out of his tomatoes ; and had for his train one dish of garden peas, (ive tomatoes one dozen ears of corn, and a prospective peck of potatoes. Aftnr this my young friond will plant his farm m lawn grass, aad attend the market for his bes'; vegotables.