'^lj*«iJ»<^81^"t.WUl"A "lil'^!" 



realized for the producti=), yet there is a net loss 

 OQ the 300 hogs of $536 55, 



COST AND EXPENSES. 



300 hogs, 61,rt49 lbs.. 6><o $3,987 68 



34 lard, bbls, 100 .'. ' 34 00 



KendTing 7,477 fijs lard. 39 24 fi7 



Commission on sales, 23-^ 90 00 



$.4,136 35 



PRODUCT. 



.34 bbls lard, 7,477 Tds. 10i<.' $7S5 08 



598 hams from block, 8.394 'fts, 7>4 (508 53 



2 hams damaged, 26 fts. 2 52 



600 sides from block. 24.252 lbs. G% 1515 75 



600 shouldors do, 11,074 lbs. 4% 525 SG 



oma 05 C3 



300 heads 69 00 -3,599 SO 



Loss on above hogs Qo3C> 55 



It is seen tliafc the '' summer contracts " are 

 proving decidedly unprofitable ; and a glance 

 at the result of the above transaction also 

 shows that purchases made uqw at .$5 50, do 

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

 sirable. 



There seems to bo an improved feeling in the 

 Cincinnati hog market. The Gazette of the 

 18th, says : 



The market for hogs nia]'' be considered as 

 having opened at §5 50@5 75 "fi 1(30 lbs. net, 

 and at present these figures are firmly sustained, 

 with more faint indications of a lower curren- 

 cy than -were observable a week ago. Mosc 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 pro- 

 ducts opens more lavorably than was antici- 

 pated, and the probabiiity is, the meat of the 

 first seventy five or one lumdred thousai,d 

 head cut, v^^iil be takc-n out of the market about 

 as fast as it can be made i-eady for shipment. 

 Slaughterers are paying 25c. 'j^ liead premium 

 fur hogs. Thi.-^ wiiole nunibe;.' wh:.ch have ar 

 rived irom Sept, 1st to date is 28,25S against 

 73,028 the corresponding time last year. 



The St Louis Price Current Ol the 19th, gives 

 the followin^r quot.aions : 



Butchers are paying i'vom -IJtoolo ciib, and 

 TDackers are ciFcring 4^0 for present delivery; 

 but we hear of lio purch:;,ses or contracts, as 

 feeders lu-e holdirii; for higiiov iigurcs. 



iTl ~ O 

 ,.^i. 



The Joyce 0!)i:x a:-d Cob Mill— These 

 mills, beside grindhigfor proveuder, can ba used 

 to grind corn ibr tablo use. W. G. Morgan, in 

 the Ohio Farmer says that ••the mill produces a 

 quality and uniformity ofwork, equal to the best 

 b'Jrr stone. Iridecd, ii may be set to tuie It 

 makes one liufhel of merJ in five miuutes." We 

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

 Farmer office. 



£@^The Comralssioner of the patent ofSce 

 has requested Mr. Fortune of China, to make 

 selections ol the ten plant and other .^ecds for 

 cultivation in the United States. 



When corn costs 12|c ^ bushel, pork costs 

 l}c per pound. 



For the Farmer. 



Things in General. 



The panic which has just 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 small notes, driv- 

 ing gold into foreign countries that should be 

 retained at home and couverted into coin. Our 

 iederal system of State.'«, with their jealousy of 

 the general government, may make it impossible 

 to get a national bank currency that will equal- 

 ize tlie 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, *by the eternal,' that 

 ke coidd 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 oar financial troubles — woinens dresses, 

 costly houses, expensive equipages, horses, wine, 

 dissipation — but it is the effect 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. 



or extravagance, it has reached our farmers, 

 less in tlieir households than in their mania for 

 buying lands, extendiog 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 enconrage 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 ar^i more directed into money ma- 

 king than any other on earth, the Jewish family 

 excepted, but no people speed more freely — we 

 are foolishly lavish in our enjoyments — and as 

 there are no entailments or laws of primogen- 

 ture te confine property in families, there is lit- 

 tle fear of an aristocricy of wealth that can hurt 

 any buf, 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 gsods, requiring a 

 drain of gold to fill up the payment which our 

 produce is insuflicient 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 cheek the influx of 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 paym.ent 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 



