The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-10-09


a comparison aud examination OF Their
correctness.
The dairy is branch Of farming Which
is worthy of our special attention, ms be-
ino well suited TO our soil and location.
The larger portion of Ottawa County is
better adapted to the grasses, or quite ms
we'll, as 10 the cereals. Butter and cheese
always command cash; and have sell
dom known farmer fail of becoming an
independent man in property who pur-
sued this business. Pork is the neccssa-
ry adjunct of the dairy, which also always
meets with ready sale, and with us a.
highly remunerating prices. Six cents
per pound for pork, and ten cents for lard,
| presume has been the average in this
county for the last fifteen years. This
may be too low, but it is better than the
average in most places, and can not fail
to bring snug income annually. The
pasturage of herd of cows will keep
your farms in good producing condition,
and supply them we'll with manures. The
most productive farms in my native coun-
ty were those devoted to the "milk bust
ness" The stock growing system is one
reason why the lands of England are
more productive than the lands in France.
Nofarm can stand continued cropping with
out being fed; and unless our mode Of
farming is somewhat changed the repu-
tation of Michigan wheat will pass away.
An Englishman being asked the secret of
his success in farming replied, 81 feed my
land before it is hungry, rest it before it
is weary, and weed il before il is foul"
He covered tho whole ground in three
sentences.
If were to recommend any system or
systems of farming, for Ottawa County,
it would be this: TO the eastern and
southern parts | should say breed good
cows, esteemed valuable for their milk, as
TO quality and quantity, make butter and
cheese, breed Suffolk pigs, Southdown and
Leicestershire lambs for early market,
fence your farms into small enclosures,
not TO exceed eight acres, plant large or
chards of we'll selected apples, principally
winter varieties, and raise only grain and
hay enough for your own consumption.
This will enable you to practice rotation
in crops and preserve your soil from i'm
poverishment. To the Lake Shore por-
ton should say make the fruit business,
III all its departments, your special occu-
patton. Nature has furnished you fertil-
izers perfectly adapted TO your locality, on
the margins of your beautiful lakes, and
bottoms of your streams. Let the sand
hills be covered with the vine, and the NV
er banks with fruit trees. Let the east
bring forth grass and herb, yielding seed
after his kind, and the west the fruit tree,
yielding fruit after his kind. Truly our
lot has been east in pleasant places; for
in addition TO natures beneficence art has
not withheld helping hand. Yonder is
tho rail of ircn which in thirty-six hours
will convey us TO the great metropolis of
the East, or in twelve hours to the great
metropolis of the West--to New York
and Chicago. The former is dependent,
in a measure, upon Michigan for her Ex-
ira Gencscc," the latter is equally depend:
eat for her best fruits. In ths peninsula
behold the future fruit garden of the
Northwest, destined to outstrip +" The
JerseysP for the past and present give
certainty to the future.
In conclusion l have word for these
wives and daughters: You arc interest
ed, or ought to be, in your husbands or
fathers occupation. What affects his
well-bcing affects you; for there is an in
separable alliance aud dependence. You
have listened TO the remarks upon raising
grain, stock, blowing, planting, and other
things connected with the outdoor work
of farming, but not with that feeling had
they referred TO bread-making, Swimming
milk, churning, working butter, making
soap, and bundle of cooking recipes. |
know you can do all this, and do it every
day. Is your bread always sweet! does
your cream rise uniformity thick? does a
thunderstorm sour your milk? can you
tell what should be the temperature of
cream at the time of churnng, in order
to make the most, and yellow butter?
Do you have good luck in making soap?
Whatever your answer TO these questions,
the causes belong to that law of aflinities
which controls the termination and growth
of your husbands grain. You practice
it in every batch cf bread you make, and
every kettle Of soap. You can learn the
why's and wherefores, if you will, and dis
cover new and reasonable beauties in the
practical labors Of the farmers kitchen.
But this is not all; you need not be con-
fined To making bread and washing dish
cs. Seize an hour each day, if possible,
to relieve this practical monotony. The
endless variety of form and hue of flower,
of plant and shrub, is beneath and around
10 cheer your labors. Nature, ever vary
ing, is spread out at evsfy'turn and angle
and invites your pleasant care. You have
garden. Can you not select some part
where the actualities of life shall not in.
trude--some place made almost sacred by
consecration--to crafty your pure and
natural love for flowers, anuuals and per
cnniaIsl If so, takoyour smallest annu-
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