The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-01-26
SUCCESSFUL FARMING.

SUCCESSFUL FARMING.
The farmers Cabinet relates instance Of the
most successful farming we have heard Of for somo
time 1t is Of an old, practical, hard working farm
er in the neighborhood of Amherst, N. H.. who
commenced the world as n day laborer, and who
outstanding he has at various times susained
heavy pecuniary losses in the Investments Of his
funds, is now worth at least hundred thousand
dollars. The great secret oFhis success, from the
statement given, should Judge to be system,
which Is a point, we think, in which many farm
ers fail There is, however, nothing which
supply the place of steady and systematic modeof
doing business; without il, industry and talents
are ofteniimes of no avail and it is as valuable in
agriculture as in mechanics, commerce or manu-
features. Wo make the following extrac, from
the article in the Cabnet
"This man, when thirty years Of age, by tho a
voiis 81 his industry added TO smaiI ,r,Sy,
abed to purchase and pay, in part, for farm Of
one hundred and thirty of land one hundred
Of which was under cultivation, but in very low
state. The farm is altogether upland, with a soil
composed of loam clay and sand, in the chief Of
which the latter prep"nderates, the former being
least considerable. When he commenced farming,
he adopted peculiar system of rotation, to which
he has implicitly adhered from that time to the
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best comment on tho worth of the experiment. His
mode was as follows: having divided his farm into
eight fields OF equal size possible, three
of those fields ed with wheat each year, one
with rye,one planted with corn two in clover .Sone
an open faow, which corn ha boen raised
the year previous. One of the two clover fields is
kept for moving, the other for pasture, both of
which are ploughed soon after the harvest as pos
sibIe and prenarrd for what in rho fail tho
manure which IS made on the farm for one year, is
hauled in the spring the field intended for open
faow, which is then poughed, and after one or
| two GROSS pioughings through the summer, is also
sowed with wheat in the fall. The field on which
the rye is sowr, is that from which a crop of heat
| had been taken the same year, and which has yield
ed three crops Corn is planted on the field from
which rye had been taken the previous year, the
stubbIes of which are ploughed down in the fall.
Clover seed is sown early, in the spring on two of
the wheat fields, those which have been most
Gently manured by this method, each field yields
three crops ofwheat, tvs Of clover, one ofrye and
one of corn, every eight years. Each field. in the
meantime, has lain an open failow, and received
heavy dressing ofmanure, perhaps at the average
OF fifteen four horse loads per acre. His crop of
wheat is seldom less than fifteen hundred bushels,
but often much more. His average rye crop is u
bout four hundred and fifty bushels, and his corn
crop annually, about FIVE hundred bushels-all
which grain, at the present low prices, would
mount more than two thousand dollars annually,
and at former prices double that amount, and his
farm is w''ha very highly improved.
DISASTERS SEA REPORTED IN THE YEAR 1871.
A record of disasters at sea has been kept at the
office of the American Seamens Friend Society,
during the past, MS in former years. Such only
have been noted have resulted in the total loss
Of the vessel The greater part Of them were
wrecked on the coast of the United States and tho
most Of them were American vessels The follow
ing Is the result:
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