Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-19
PARTNERS, COLUMN.


It win be q long time before the advantages of
the system Of feeding in yards and lots with green
clover and other such food raised for the purpose,
win override the old system of fencing and grazing
By bearing in mind, however, the advantages to be |
derived from such change in great many cases,
wo may work gradual amendment IN this respect |
There are very many to whom such change is not
from peculiar circumstances to be desired, while
very many others may find themselves in position
to adopt it in part in full to very great advafi-
tage We are indebted for the following hints to
correspondent of the Maine Farner.
THE SIX BENEFITS OF sOuNG.
The advocates of soiing claim to have estab-
lished the truth of these six propositions:
l. The saving Of land.
2. The saving of fencing.
8. The economizing of food.
4. The better condition and greater comfort of
the cattle.
5. The greater product Of milk.
s. The attainment of manure.
To Offset these advantages, we have the labor of
raising and cutting the food, and the feeding and
care of the stock.
TIE GREAT SAVING OF LAND
Is fact established by concurrent testimony every
where. To what extent this Saving has been car
ried we will show by introducing few witnesses.
QUINCY says
"European writer's assert that the saving which
results is as one to three; others say, as one to
seven others STILL that the saving is yet greater
that is one acre kept for soing, will go far as
three or seven, or more kept for pasture, In the
support of stock On farms where the whole soil
is capable of being poughed, the economy of soil
ing is great
| lit may be- however, useful to observe that the
reason for the diversity of statement in relation to
the degree of saving results from the different
ways in which the land used for sollng is culti-
waited for the purpose of raising food Some satisfy
themselves with enrichIng the former pasture and
cutting the grass it produces, for the soiling use
Others plow up the pasture raise cabbages. or
other succHlent food, on which they support their
stock. Now it is pain, the result Of comparison
of saving of land made between an acre approprl-
ated to the latter of these modes of husbandry must
| be very different In either case the economy IS
sufficiently great"
| The maximum product of an acre of land has no
where yet been determined. The amount obtained
| often surprises u.s.
From a report of a committee of the British Par
Lament, showing the condition of small farmers, we
fluid much of interest in the result from exact and
high cultivation, and much that bears directly on
| the above proposition.
In one case, of man who held an allotment Of
four acres in one year he obtained fortytwo bush
els of wheat two hundred and fifty bushels of pota-
toes, and ten bushels of barley and kept two COWS
| and four pigs The cows were kept entirely on the
! products of the four acres. portion of this was
not arabic, s. some trees were growing upon it.
allotment, ehow it was possible TO keep two cows,
and maintain family of five persons on only three
acres of land ?" He answered:
"The statement you was very true half an
ofpasture, half and eight rods in wheat
and one-quaPter of an acre in oats the other part
was green food for the cows, such tares, clover,
mangods, turnIps, and Italian rye grass"
This is pretty strong case where il is shown
that two cows kept the whole year On the pro-
duce of eight rods less than and three-fourths
| IS and lv Tho odd Of aPrQ
of pasture and the straw from fourfths of an acre
| of grain, abatng the vegetables consumed from the
same land, by family of five persons.
In communication to the British Board Of Agri-
culture, it is said that thirty cows, one bull four
calves, and five horses. were fed through the sum-
mer, from fifteen of clover sown the proceed
ing year. The labor of four persons was sufficient
to tend them and the net produce of the same sea-
son in butter, from June to October, was el9 los
over sos per cow Forty animals to fifteen acres,
gives sixty square rods (hreeeghths of acre) TO
each. Sixty square rods in clover producing net
income Of over $95
After twelve years experience with the system,
Mr. Quincy writes;
From my own experience, do not hesitate to
state that three cows may be kept during the sum-
mer season. in full milk and high condition, on sin
| gle acre"
Adam Anthony, of North Providence, R. l., enter
| ed upon farm in 1926 Of the extent of seventy
two acres suitable for tillage the land very
hay, two tons of oats two hundred bushels of
potatoes, two hundred of turnips some fruit, and
garden vegetables worth, including pasture feeds,
| 1885. He adopted the soiling system. In lS4S, he
reports the produce of the farm two hundred
TONS by estimate, of green food for song, hun
dred tons Of hay twenty-five tons of mile:, seven
teen tons Of corn fodder, six hundl ed and forty
bushels of potatoes hundred and nifty bushels
of Indian corn fruit and garden vegetables, the
value of which is 1915 nearly ten fold increase
in the product of the farm. The stock consists of
about forty head, of which thirty-six are usually
| cows.
Similar testimony might be very much extended,
| but it is unnecessary.
THE SAVING IN FENCING.
/ The present American system of farming involves
. prOdgiOus expenditure of human energy for fenc-
ing have seen it estimated that the cost of fenc-
| ing in the United States is more than six hundred
millions of dollars (s6O0,OOO0O0.) Whether more
| or less than this enormous sum, it Is so much in
vested in human toll, large portion of which might
have been saved and applied to better and more en-
nObling purposes, had our early system Of custom
! and laws been what it ultimately must be-
0ne-half of ali farm fences are Interior and aside
| from occasional fence, necessary to make per-
maGent distinction between arabic land and piece
that nature designed for pasture, they are worse
| than useless.
Adopt single principle that no beast shall be
permitted to range on lands adapted to the plough
and scythe and you prepared to wipe off rom
the face of our fair country much that disgures It,
and abolish, at and forever vast item in your
| annual taxation.
The most false Of anything that assumes the name
| of economy, is the practice of pasturing moving
| lands. Interior fences, that erected and
maintained for the sole purpose of enabling the pro-
prIetor TO pasture his moving lands, have cost the
| farmers of Maine a very large sum- To call in the
aid of arithmetic, it will be read in this wise The
| improved lands in the State may be set down at
| two and half millions of acres (2,500,000) TAX
ing the estimate TO be very good authority Of ten
/ l.. Il,
improved land gives for fencing in the State, the
sum of twenty-five millions of dollars (S25 900 000)
Half Of this sum, Sl2 000 will set down for
interior fences on farms. Ii may Re fair to assume
for annual erections, while the present system con-
tnues for changes and repairs ten per cent of this
| sum- or one million two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars (Sl250,O00,) which the farmers of the State
| are annually paying as direct tax on their re-
| sources and on which very few have heretofore
had the courage to raise their voices in complaint
Impressed with the truthfuness of such estimates,
who can for another year remain quiet and see
system Of husbandry continued, so bighting to the
| general prosperity?
By the last census, we find that the whole num-
Der of our domestic animals of all ages, reducing
the number of Sheep by a fair standard of COMPARE
son. to neat stock and horses is to the improved
land in this State, animal to four and three
! fourths acres. ....
Besides the direct expense Of erecting and sup
porting interior fences they offend by harbOring all
sorts of vermin. They protect rare assemblage of
brush and noxious weeds or cost the farmer much
labor to have it otherwise They occupy, with the
necessary head,lands left in pOwirg much space
which is all lost.
Then the loss in time in the extra turnings of the
team in small Enclosures, in using the plow the har
row, cutivstOF roller. mOwing-machine and horse
rake, is ineOnsderable item in the seasons oper
characterization Farmer.
ChOlie in Horses.
will give you recipe which have known to
cure in a few minutes. knew a horse taken with
it on tread wheel to a carding machine so that
the owner thought he could not live. He go:
the veterinary surgeons, and they did what they
could, and all decided that the horse must die The
mans wife, who believed and praeticed hygiene,