The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-11-07
WHY IS rARMING uNpRorIrApLGl

Why is ii that nine -tenths 0l our farmers
find farming to be unproftables Byunprof-
table, | mean paying day wages to the far
mer, and but very small percentage on the
capilal he has invested in land. stock, tools,
sc. Now this is serious question lues.
ton often asked, and one to which every
practical farmer ought to be able and willing
70 reply. Hundreds Of farmers who own
from one hundred and fifty to three hundred
acres Of guod land, passaby sucked, find
themselves. barely able 10 prove that they
were as we'll off to-day as they were year
ago; and many declare that the aborer, who
has nothing but his hands wit! which 10 ret
living. lays up more money in year, than
they with all their broad acres and focks Of
cattle and sheep II this be true, and have
no doubl but in many instances it is, a farm
managed as large share Of our farms are
managed, is a clog to young man with a
small family, who is endcavoring to lay up
something for those "ralny days" which are
sure to fail to the lot of many, il not all of US.
ere we reach the end Of the journey Of life.
! Farming is not Improbable because labor
4 is high, because the seasons are unprOpiti0ns,
or because farm produce brings a low price.
I The labnrer is worthy Of his hire; the har-
vests are bountitul, and the rapidly inereas-
/ ing number OF consumers, renders the prices
4 of provisions, to the producer especially,
quite satisfactory. Such is the case, aud
Still the question is asked, why is farming
improbable !!
\ We frequently read about, and sometimes
even see, men who have suPported families,
on the produce Of two, ten, fifteen or twen-
4 ~ acres Of land, that was, when they com
mcnced, no better than the average, in good
style--gi,cn their children good education,
aud laid BIZ few dollars IN the bargain.--
Then why cannot men who own two hun
drrd or one thousand acres make farming
profitable: Thereason Is they plant 100 mRct,
spreading their limited quantity Of manure
over too large snriace, thereby impOyerish.
ing their land aud wasting their labor. Eighty
bushels nf corn, and other grams in proper
tinn, may be raised on one acre 81 land much
easier than upon two, and where land is 30
cultivated as to produce such crops, IT Is
constantly imprnying. aud rice refM
The farms Of A. aud B. join each other.
As CONSISTS Of one hundred and fifty, B.'s
uf forty acres. A. has forty acres Of mead
um. on which he annually cuts, on an aver
aye, thirty-fivc tons Of hav; i. has fifteen
acres II meadow, Welding two and hall
tons If hay to tie acre, or thirty seven and
one half tons in ALL 4. plants SIX or eight
acres of rorn every wear, which yield him
about thirty busbel, to the acre, and has 9th
er field crops il proportion, with propnr'
iiunale results. y. plants twoor three acre:
ui corn, haryests irom seyenty-fye TO eighty
bushels 10 tie acre. and j. able to do al hl'
wark himself. A. pays out from one hun
drcd 10 one hundred and fits dollars yeai
far help A. talk. of hard times. and think,
seriously Of "muying wesI, but money coult
nnttempt y. 70 part with his snug little home
stead, satisfied as lie Is, that he could ncsei
find better.
Tie value &c 49, farm Is constantly dc
!. crcasing. while lie value Of B.'s Is constant
" Increasing: and why: Simply because
4 "skins' his land. aud u. does not. 4
plows and plants Observation-Disclosures .
manure lie around his barn lrnm year Il
wear: hc takes no agricultural papers and ha
no agricultural books. and he sells his bcs
stock, and keeps tl,at which Is unsaleable
II IS not 80 with Is. Not particle Of Ter
lilizing matter is suffered TO remain in tn
vicinity Of his buildings from one year 4
: another. lie plnws only 20 much land .
lie can properly manure he snbscribes Ia
the Country Gentleman" aud rtdds lt h
never parts with his choicest stock; an,
A.'s talk about the Superiority Of western
lands auakcns III him no dissatisfaction wit
. his own. Conaicy GtaiieEiqn.
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