The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-11-22
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DR.. GEoRoE q IoRMc, the popular Pres.
ident of the New England Agricultural
Society. made some pointed remarks IN
recent agricultural address. On the sub.
ieot of small farms the Doctor said;
have an idea that the business Of farm
ing in tho next generation will be brought
into as accurate laws as the business oi
running an engine or woolen mill, or max.
ing steam engines, or carrying on any Of
the mechanical arts with which we are &C.
quainiod. | am satisfied that the loose
system Of agriculture will be abolished be
fore the youngest man in this room dies.
] am satisfied that the business Of farming
will be systematized SO that every man will
feel he has something behind him besides
accident to guide him in the business OF
carrying on his farm. Let us sce--there
are men here in this room who are owners
of largo farms, two hundred, three hun
dred or FIVE hundred acres OF land who are
carrying them on for the purpose of get.
ting living and endeavoring to reap from
the soil from these large tracts of land, n
competency for themselves and their fam
lilies. They are proceeding in the business
of farming just AZ heir fathers did. They
raise little corn and few potatoes, own
a COW or two and now and then few
cattle, raise considerable grasp, make some
hutter, little cheese, now and then sell a
can of milk and few applos with little
cider thrown in perhaps. That is tho old
fashioned business Of New England farm
ing. Take farm Of FIVE hundred acres
Of that description and what is the per.
centage upon the general average cost Of
the land here in New England II gives
a mans family a good living, clothes his
children there is school within his
neighborhood and he sends them to it he
carries himself well through the community,
is elected a representative or seleotman or
town clerk, aud no is good citizeE any
way, because he owns land and can't help
being good citizen, pays bis taxes, does
well, has a good farm house every body
says, There is good farm and respect
able farmer that lives on IT,
The other side illustrates that nice care
ful business of New England farming to
which have alluded. know man in
Massachusetts, who in 1885 bought twenty
acres Of land. lie has applied to il nll the
accurate knowledge of farming ho could
possibly got. There is no month in ths
year that something does not bloom OIL his
farm, but through the SHOWS Of January and
the suns of August there ia something
green there, and he always, from the first
day of January to the last day Of December,
has some crop TO send TO market. Twenty
acres of land is all he has got, and you
walk through it aud you find his alternate
crops growing in rows just as accurately
as tho web and warp of cotton mill goes
through the loom--careiully accurately
and properly what is tho result2 From
$50 until this time, that man has made
$3.50, 900 off of his farm Of 20 acres. lie
has saved his money and invested IL care.
fully he has educated his boys well, kept
h msclf in good condition, has made his
S2s0 900, aud has done il by that careful,
accurate systematic farming of which
have spoken. His land happened to be in
good locality, near a market, but he
might have devoted himself to Just the
same farming that man does on 500 acres
could no not? Don't you know many
little farmhouse in New England surround
ed by twenty acres of land and a few apple
trees, or two or three hard looking peach
trees, with few starved cabbages in one
corner of the ground, with COW coming
up t. be MIXED with small bag2 That
man could have done so with his twenty
acres just as easy as with 500 acres. He
didn't choose to do it, but he applied him,
self with care and system and accuracy
and has made just as large fortune of
from his land as the man who has made
$4,000, 900 out of a cotton mill in the last
five years. That is the business of New
England farming. There is no Illegal farm
ing, no illegitimate farming. no careless
farming that will, apply to New England
You cannot conceive of such thing.