Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-02-14
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theft osnestimssio on Nov. urge the firmerI
to write to you, if they will not write for tho
stpaper, sahaqroni the mass you may gstker
something that will help you in your labors
Purge npo6 the farmers tho benefits that would
result from each one keeping an account Of
his mode Of farming the ce,afag season, so
that next fall they could compare notes. Now
if fifty Or more farmers would do this, in my
opinion@it would be very beneficial. No
farmer need have any fears of arriving at per.
lection, for the science has only just common
ICED. The farmers, of, our county have be.
come SO hog-ish think some Of them will
/ soon, begin to look shccp-ish. Pork, one year
ago, just about paid what it icost, but not one
cent more. Hogs arc always bill Of cx-
pense-no profit until they are doad-and
they must be fed with something. that you
raise on the farm aud the trouble Of feeding
is no small item. This year hogs did not
half pay. Sheep will get their own living six
months in the year, and the other six they
will live on hay, with very little grain, and
then they pay every year think it is time
to look sheep-ish.. You will give your views
on this subject, as well as all kinds Of stock,
and all field crops. ouysurely have large
field to work. believe the system of
farming must be changed Fl ON grain raising
to stock raising, and the sooner that is done
the better. More sheep and less hogs more
Durhams and less blowing. Now is the time
for farmers to make calculations for the
Spring. l know it is a time when stock of
all kinds must be well provided for, and if
neglected will be almost worthless in the
Spring. The evenings are long, and well
calculated for the Improvement of the mind,
and TO lay plans for the coming Spring. Iii
poor policy to say there is no use in laying
plans for future action, for we may not live
to execute them. True, and we may live to
see the folly of not having had some policy
to work By. Every farmer should have his
work laid out fol. six months ahead at least,
and make no material change without good
reasons. At the close Of the year let him re-
view his course, and where he has failed be
careful to adopt some better plan for the time
to come. Every man must have plan of
his own,-not that he is to disregard the
practice and opinions of others by any means,
but let him read all the agricultural works
in his reach, mot emitting the Cedar Falls
GAzErTE) converse freely with the farmers in
his vicinity, gather all the information within
his reach, and then select from his own ex-
perience and the experience OF others what
he considers the best plan, and then execute
it; do not give it up because your neighbor
A, tells you that plan will never do that it is
very different from what he or his father ever
did. Do not order your reaper out Of the
field and run and look for your old sickle be-
cause neighbor c says you are trying to be-
book-farmer. Have independence, energy,
honesty, industry and temperance, and you
will be good farmer Wheat is the first
crop that is to be put in the ground. Seed,
preparation Of the ground, the time for SOW
Ing, quantity of seed, arc all questions of i'm
portance, and they not being satisfactorily
settled, shows the careless manner in which
the farming interest has been attended to-
All these questions should have been settled
long before this time. Clean seed should be
sown,-there is no dispute about ,that,-yet
not more than one farmer in ten, sows clean
seed, yet with little labor, seed may be
cleaned so that our wheat would be worth
two or three cents more bushel than it now
is, and not only that but would raise the
credit of the farmers of Black Hawk county
twice that, and who would not be proud to
know that our wheat was always No. / in
the New York market. Sow early, and never
less than bushels of seed to the acre, and put
on as much more as you expect the birds to
get. If you have stalk ground that is clean,
sow without blowing, The Rio Grande is
my first choice. We have no other kind that
makes better flour, if as good. Itnever SHUTS,
and yields well. Now you will give us your
opinion on the different kinds of wheat
Now hope your department of the paper,
will take the lead so that it will be read first.
am sure that you are the best looking man,
and you can make the best paper. S.