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realized for the products, yet there is a net loss 

 on the 300 hogs of $536 55. 



COST AND EXPENSES. 



300 hoga, 61,349 lbs., ej^c $3,987 C8 



34 lard, bbls, 100 34 00 



Kendpring 7,477 fts lard, 39 , 24 67 



Commisaion on sales, 2^^ 90 00 



$4,136 3b 



PRODUCT. 



34 bbls lard, 7,477 lbs, 10>< $7S5 08 



598 hams from block, 8.394 fi)s, 1^4 608 56 



2 hams damaged, 26 fts. 2 52 



600 sides from block, 24,252 fts, 61^ 1515 75 



600 shoulders do, 11,074 fts, 4^^ 525 86 



Offal 95 03 



SOO heads 69 00 3,599 80 



Loss on above hogs $536 55 



It is seen that the "summer contracts" are 

 proving decidedly unprofitable ; and a glance 

 at the result of the above transaction also 

 shovfs that purchases made now at $5 50, do 

 not afford as wide a margin for profit as is de- 

 sirable. 



There seems to be an improved feeling in the 

 Cincinnati hog market. The Gazette of the 

 18th, says : 



The market for hogs may be considered as 

 having opened at $5 50@5 75 'p 100 Bbs. net, 

 and at present these figures are firmly sustained, 

 with more faint indications of a lower curren- 

 cy than were observable a week ago. Most of 

 the hogs that have arrived, so far, or will come 

 forward up to the 1st of December, will be re- 

 quired to fill contracts. The market for fro- 

 ducts opens more favorably than was antici- 

 pated, and the probability is, the meat of the 

 first seventy five or one hundred thousatd 

 head cut, will be taken out of the market about 

 as fast as it can be made ready for shipment. 

 Slaughterers are paying 25c. 'p head premium 

 for hogs. The whole number which have ar- 

 rived from Sept, 1st to date is 28,256 against 

 73,628 the corresponding time last year. 



The St. Louis Price Current of the 19th, gives 



the following quotations : 



Sutchers are paying from 4|to 5|c 'p lb, and 

 packers are offering 4}c for present delivery ; 

 but we hear of no purchases or contracts, as 

 feeders are holding for higher figures. 



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The Joyce Coex and Cob Mill.— ^These 



mills, beside grindiagfor provender, can bs used 



to grind corn for table use. W. 0. Morgan, in 



the Ohio Farmer says that "the mill produces a 



quality and uniformity of work, equal to the best 



burr stone. Indeed, it may be set to fine. It 



makes one bushel of meal in five minutes." We 



have one of these mills set up in the rear of the 



Farmer oS.ce. 



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j|@»The Commissioner of the patent office 

 has requested Mr. Fortune of China, to make 

 selections of the tea plant and other seeds for 



cultivation in the United States. 



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When corn costs 12Jc ^ bushel, pork costs 

 IJc per pound. 



Tor the Farmer. 



in General. 



The panic which has jost' passed is the great 

 ■event in men's minds at the present time. Too 

 much bank paper is assigned as the chief cause 

 by some; by others the issue of email hotes, driv- 

 ing gold into foreign countries that should be 

 retained at home and converted into coin. Our 

 federal system of States, with their jealousy of 

 the general government, may make it impossible 

 to get a national bank currency that will equal- 

 ize the exchanges all over the country, and be so 

 guarded as not to become an engine of power to 

 those who control it. Old Hickory, whose fame 

 will ever be national, said, 'tjy the eternal,' that 

 he could make a bank that would be guarded in 

 every sense, and be beneficial to the country. 

 The extravagance in living is thought to be a 

 cause of our financial troubles — womens dresses, 

 costly houses, expensive equipages, horses, wine, 

 dissipation — but it is the efiect rather than the 

 cause of inflation, arises from supposed sudden 

 wealth, from lands and lots that have doubled 

 their value within a very short time. 



Of extravagance, it has reached our farmers, 

 less in their households than in their mania for 

 buying lands, extending their farms, already too 

 large in this State for profitable cultivation. 

 Buy lands with spare money and not without. 

 Let there be expense involved to live well; to 

 live respectably; to encourage taste, so sadly 

 abused on these prairies; to improve in mind and 

 deportment, the possession of which gifts would 

 never upiet the financial world. As a nation 

 our energies are more directed into money ma- 

 king than any other on earth, the Jewish family 

 excepted, but no people spend more freely — we 

 are foolishly lavish in our enjoyments — and as 

 there are no entailments or laws of primogen- 

 ture tg confine property in families, there is lit- 

 tle fear of an aristocricy of wealth that can hurt 

 any but its immediate possessor. 



Again the tariff, the free trade features of it, 

 is supposed by many to betray the country into 

 an overpurchase of foreign geods, requiring a 

 drain of gold to fill up the payment which our 

 produce is insufficient to supply and thereby 

 producing a crisis. That the world is advanc- 

 ing in the doctrine of free trade, is obvious 

 enough, and if it endures through the ages a fi- 

 nancial simplicity may be obtained, but while 

 the European and other commercial portions of 

 it at this day embrace protection, excluding ma- 

 ny of our products, we must as an offset, corres- 

 pondingly check the influx ot theirs. Again, in 

 new countries, protection is supposed to aid the 

 hidden and more difficult interests, of which iron 

 may be the representative. 



We are reminded of another branch of our 

 subject, and that is the credit system as being 

 the cause of much financial disturbance. We 

 think short credits the better plan; they place 

 the payment day too near to tempt us into ex- 

 cess; they are a rod of warning held over the 

 rich, and poor, the high and low; but better even 

 than this is the responsibility, the deep concern, 

 of paying at some time, of certainly paying; of 

 feeling remorse and stain if debts are not paid 



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