Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-02-04
agrirultural.
LUCK In FARMING.

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LUCK In FARMING. i.si
There are few words oftener upon the
lips ofa certain class of farmers than luck.
Smith is .'lucky dog" because his corn
never rots, his wheat never winter-kills, his
sheep never get into his rye. and his cows
never invade his meadows and orehards.-e
His crops are better than his neighbor's, his
butter brings more IN the market, and even
his wife and children have more contented
look than other people. Every thing he
touches thrives. What lucky man Smith
is! Now. the fact. is, luck has nothing TO
do with Smiths success in life. IF you
watch the man, you will find that every re-
suit he reaches is anticipated and planned
for, and comes of his own wit and work. II
is the legitimate reward of his labors, and
it would have been bad luck. if it had turn-
ed out otherwise. His corn always comes
up, because he always selects the seed him.
self, and hangs it up by the husks IN the
garret where it is thoroughly dried. He
does not plant until the sun has warmed the
soil enough to give the germ an immediate
start He drains his wheat fields with tile,
and the water that used to freeze and thaw
upon the surface, and throw the roots Of the
wheat out, and kill them, now passes down
into the drains and runs off. His fields are
green and beautiful in the Spring, when his
neighbours are russell, brown and desolate~
His fences are in good repair, and his ani-,
mails are not made breachy by the continual
temptation of dilapidated walls. His wife
and children are comfortably clothed and
fed, and not kept in continual fret and
worry by husband and father, who has no
system or energy in his business. - time
and place for everything" is his motto care--
fully carried out. The Shoemaker is all,
ways called in when his services are needed.
and none of his household get wet feet,
catch cold, have the lung fever, and run up
a doctors bill of twenty dollars, for want Of
cents worth of leather at the right time in
the right place.
Smith does not believe in luck. He knows
that health in the family, and thrift upon.
the farm, depend upon a thousand little
things, that many of his neighbors are toos
lazy or careless to look after. So while
they are at the tavern Or loafng At Tie VII
lage. or running among politics, be is look
ing after these little things, and laying his
plans for next year. He has good corn,
even in the poorest year, because the soil
has the extra manure it needs to bring out
good, long, plump, well capped ears. he
meant to have 80 bushels to the acre, and
he has it, good measure, and running over.
Talk to him about luck, and he will say to
you: t'It's all nonsense. Bad luck is simp-
" man with his hands in his breeches
pockets, and pipe in his mouth, looking
on to see how it will come out Good luck,
IS man Of pluck to meet difficulties. his
sleeves rolled up, and working to make It
come out right. He rarely fails. Atleast
I never did"
Smith is right. attend to your business,
and you will have good luck. +'F@
FooD FOR Fowls. are, Of all birds,
the most easy to feed. Every alimentary:
substance agrees with them, even when bu-
ried in manure nothing is lost to them
they are seen the whole day long, incessant~
ly busted in scratching picking up living.
In well-fed fowls, the difference will be
seen not only in the size and flesh Of the
fowls, but in the weight and goodness Of
the eggs; two of which 60 further in do
mestic uses than three from hens poorly fed,
or balf-starved. IL ~ -. .
It is customary to throw to the fowls in q
poultry yard, once OF twice a day, aquanti-
ty of grain, generally corn, and somewhat
less than that which they would consume if
they had an abundance. Fowls, however,
are more easily satisfied than might be sup,
posed, from the greedy voracity which they
exhibit when they are fed from the band.
| It is. we'll known that, as a general rule.
large animals consume more than small ones.
There is as much difference in the quantity
of food consumed by individual fowls AZ
there is in animals. ~ =.
It has been found by careful experiments
that the sorts of foods most easily digested
by fowls are those of which they eat the
greatest quantity. They evidently become
soonest tired Of, and are the least partial To-
rye. ~ -, q, ~
:. It has also been found that there is con-
siderable economy in feeding wheat, corn
and barley we'll boiled. as the grain is thus
increased in bulk at least one-fourth. and
the same bulk seems to satisfy them ), but
there is no saving by boiling oats, buck
wheat or rye.-Pou1terer's Comp. .4f'.ssao
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Thinking to quiz some Irish drsyman,3ia
gentleman shouted to one: .s3 .s.ss 91acf
*'Has the railroad got in 2" .e =. =.
"One ind has, sir," was the prompt re-
sponse. - ---..-5.. = : - II, s,,2
"How is the coal this morning?" said \
purchaser to an Irishman who was at work
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