Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-01-22
agricultural,
COLD WEATHER AND NOTHING
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IV DO.
Sometimes we hear persons who follow
fsrmiugiF cr hvine--I cannot call ihem far
mets---ssy that they have nothing to DO in
winter but fodder their cattle and feed their
hotses, but much more Frequently ~ see
them practice it : and this is one reason why
farming don't pay. though not the only -
Nothing TO do ~ have seen farmers
where this ia the rule, and hope there are
not many like them. No preparation for
another year, As if this was to bo the last one
we had to live. No caring for she stock, a,
as ii they we're to be Of no value when win.
ter was over
This viii not pay do not wonder that
some farmers have a hard time in making all
things meet, to say nothing of saving any
thing. Winter is just the time when the
farmer should be busy. In summer he has
to b, and in winter he ought to be always at
work. If he has tool -house he will find
work for much OF his time in repairing or
renewing rakes, forks, hoes and sundry farm
ing tools, or fixing his plows or hsrrows, re-
pairing harnesses, and setting Rll TO rights
generally, so that he will be ready to start
work % soon as the weather is ready for
him. Again, winter lie the time to make and
save manure Keep the cattle we'll Uttered
and well fed and take good care Of them,
and do not turn them out to shift for them
selves by the fodder stack, or even throw fod-
der about the field for them to stand in the
cold wind or storm to eat Cattle fed in this
style do not show much on the profit side Of
the account. Give the barn yard plentiful
coat of straw whenever IL is needed, and
feed in good racks under cover and know
it will pay. DO not think all the fed on the
farm ia lost because you do not realize money
for it by selling it. Next years crop will
pay for IL II the animals that eat il do not
Let farmer attend TO all these things and
he will have no time to waste at the village
store or tavern, nor will his hours at home
hang heavily on his hands. Keep ali things
neat about the barn and stable, and above all
things let them be clean. | have known
some farmers not to clean out their stable en-
tries during the whole winter, but throw
down hay, use what they need AID let the
rest lay for the chickens to scratch over and
soil, end at next feed time throw more down
and scrtpe up all together and feed to their
horses or cows This is sluvenly and waste
full. Cattle unless half starved, will not eat
hay that poultry has been much among, with
out wasting great deal and much less
quantity of good, clean hay, fresh from the
NOV, will be more acceptable to them.
A farmers character shows in his barn and
yard, A sloven 10 practice there is generally
sloven every where else Carlessness
there shadows forth the same in the house
and on the land. and that man will not get
ricb, or even live in comfort. He will be a
grumbler, con inually telling you farming
don't pay
But farming will pay, and does pay, but |
the only way to make 1t pay is to mind the
little things, that, taken all together, keep adj
ding to the farm as well as the purse. Let !
there be no idle time, therefore, winter or
summer, in shine or storm, for the old pro-
verb that