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The Hopeful Side. 
BY ROBERT JOHNSON. 
It IS always well to look at things just as 
they are. True courage does not ignore 
the fact of danger, or fail to provide against 
He who, at the present time, takes a 
hopeful view oi the future needs to build 
some solid facts into the foundation of his 
hopes. . 
It is a bible truth that “a cheerful heart 
doeth good, like a medicine,” but good as it 
is, it cannot change our surroundings, or 
banish difficulties. 
But, in the present time of discourage¬ 
ment and doubt; when factories and busi¬ 
ness communities are closing for an in¬ 
definite time, and low prices and a dull 
market meets us on every hand, are there 
not some facts that afford solid ground for 
the tillers of the soil to stand upon and to 
build good hopes for the immediate or near 
future ? 
It is an old saying that from the kina- to 
the beggar “the farmer feeds them all ” 
hence a market for his products. The eyes 
of the people are upon him; he has the con¬ 
tract of filling the granaries of the world. 
And nature gives the power to the hand 
that holds the plo w.” 
It is also a law, more or less prompt in 
action, that the price of farm products reg¬ 
ulates the price of most other commodities, 
so that matters of outlay will be reduced 
m proportion to his income.^ 
It is true that his farm is not worth as 
much as when he assumed the debt upon 
it, and it will take him longer with his 
limited profits, to pay it, and here is the 
only cause for complaint. 
And this is modified by the fact that the 
market value of his farm is not its whole 
value to him. As a home for his family, 
and source of support it has an ever in¬ 
creasing value to him, independent of times 
and market. 
Another fact worthy of consideration is 
this, that the high price of farms within the 
last three years was not in any considerable 
degree a speculative one. 
Although the farm is always called a 
safe investment yet speculative capital 
looked rather toward those securities that 
were more readily convertable, and the 
pric^ of farms was determined by working 
farmers themselves, and was really their 
estimate of what they were worth to farm 
it on. So far as this is true it points direct¬ 
ly to another fact: That the present de¬ 
pression is only temporary . 
The real danger to the country at the 
present time lies in the direction of under¬ 
production resulting from an unwise and 
discouraged view of the present crisis, by 
the American farmer. 
It would not take much of a prophet to 
predict that grain will bring a higher price 
during the year 86 than at any time during 
the preceding five years. 
It is a time for care in expenses; for a 
wise adjustment of the farm business 
between grain and stock, but it is not the 
time to yield to discouragements. 
The farmer has the best business in the 
world, and the American farmers are not 
the men to give up or lightly esteem their 
business because of a single year’s iow 
prices. 
Spring will soon come again; seed time 
and harvest shall not fail, and the products 
of a wise and vigorous husbandry will find 
a ready demand. • 
brazil sugar squash. 
Brazil Sugar Squash. 
BY E. L. COY. 
Hfiving thoroughly tested this useful 
little autumn squash the past season, and 
finding it so muchsuperior to my previous- 
y ormed anticipations regarding its mer¬ 
its, I have concluded to give my brother 
gardeners the result, SI well as the benefit 
of my experience. 
