The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-04-18
THOROUGHNESS IN FARMING.

mon on 0rdPf ana WOToRg0icSS III IaIlH
operations. Order should be made
the first and chiercst law Of the farm.
Order everywhere and in all things
in the house and in the field; in the
stable and in the barn; in the times OF
labor and in the time Of relaxation; in
the incomings and in the outgoings.
So will the husband save himself much
fruitless roil, and more veXation OF
spirit.
And to be orderly, it is necessary
that he should be thorough in all ne
undertakes. What is done once thor
oughly will last longer and do more
service than what is done dozen
times bungling.
The farmer should be provided with
rhe best Of everything, His house,
no matter how small, should be con-
structed in the very best manner; so
will he save himself in fuels, colds,
poradventure rheumatics, and be the
gamer in health, comfort, and elastic
ity of spirits. His stable should be
built on the best model suggested to
him by his own, or his neighbors, or
his agricultural papers experience
It's interior arrangements should be
made with view to comfort for the
beast and the man, to the saving OF
labor and time in feeding, and to ease
of access to all parts. His barn, too
should be carefully and thoroughly
constructed, water-tight, and rat-prool
so far as may be practicable. His
fields should be in the best attaina-
bic order: soil loose and rich, fences
good, and weeds non est His cattle
should be of the most suitable breeds
for his purposes; his instruments the
best made of their kind; his wife gen.
tie, affectionate and saving and him.
self prudent, entcrprising, { the two
terms are not Incompatible d persist
ent reader of good agricultural news
papers, and an intelligent experiment
ter in that branch Of agriculture which
he is making his speciality.
ITO have the best of everything
costs too much" urges slow man.
1t costs no more than to have the
worst, only you must have less. Farm
ers are apt to look too much to quantity
and not enough to quality. One good
COW will cost as much as three poor
ones, say, but she will give as much
milk as three, will cat no more than
one of the three, and requires just one
third the attendance. We knew a
farmer owning fifteen poor COWS to be
dependent for milk for u whole winter
upon his neighbor, an amateur, who
owned but two, which were, however,
of the best quality, and well kept
So with a man who has poor, half
made, or superanuated farm implc-
ments. His horses tug harder at the
plow or harrow. and make less pro.
gress than his neighbours. His own
back aches more severely rs he spades
up his garden plot, than the back Of
the other who,s with a better spade
goes through twice the ground in tn,
same time.
So of seeds. Let him procure the
best of all kinds used: the most pro
life corn, the potatoes least likely t.
rot, and the grain in the greatest de
inand.
And one more important fact W
would again mention, is, that too ma
ny farmers attempt to cultivate to-
much land, without cultivating it well
in fact, there is many Il farm Of 2
acres in Franklin county which coul
be made to produce more, with thor
ough labor bestowed upon it, thai
many 900 acre farm produces wher
the owner is ever engaged in scratch
ing, instead Of ploughing.
Cultivate less ground, farmers, an
cultivate better.
ASHES FOR PoTAToEs.--FOr ever
.Sce hundred and fifty bushels Of p
reuoyed from our fields, the SO