The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-11-22
CULTIVATE A LITTLE WELL.

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DR.. George B. Loring, the popula,
President of the New England Agri-
cultural Society, made some pointed
remarks in recent agricultural nd
dress. On the subject of small farma
the Doctor said: Il y,t,.>ts,..t
81 have an idea that the business of
farming in the next generation will be
brought iinder as accurate laws as the
business of running an engine or wool
en- mill, or making steam engines, on
carrying on any of the mechanical arts
with which we were acquainted. Japt
satisfied that the loose SYSTEM of, ogri.
culture will be abolished before the
youngest man in this room dies. l am
satisfied that the business. Of faraing
will be sy systematized so thpt every man
will feel he has something behind him
besides accident to guidelr him IN t1e
business of carrying on his farm. Lat
us see ;--there are men. here in this
room who are owners, OF large farms
two hundred, three hundrea or hye
hundred acres of land, who. ara garry
ing them on for the purpose oS getting
d living and endeayoripg to reap trQr0c
the soil. from these large tracts of lana,
a competency for themselves and famii'-
les. they are proceeding IN tpe 't'sl-'
ness of farming just after their fathers
did They raise a little corn and fe"
potatoes, own COW or two and now
and then few cattle, raise considera-
BILE grass, make some butter, a HUE
cheese, now and then sell can ot mix,
and few app,es WIN Ht'ie eldeF
thrown in perhaps. Ihat isthe oldlSsn]-
ion business OF New England farming ii9g'
Take farm OF i've hundred acrYes'7ei-
that description and what Is tne pNTt
centagc upon the general average @o1'e
Of the land here in New EngiandF ics
give man'stamily aSooddiyinS, clothes
his cIildren;s there IS a. school within
his neighborhood and he sends them to
II; he carries himself well through the
community, is electeda representatiye,
or selecttnan, or town clerk, and helsa
good citizen any way, because ne owns
land and can't help being a goodSiti-
zen, pays his taxes, does well, has a
good farm house; everybody says
There is good farm and q respectable
farmer lives on it. .''
"The other side Illustrates that nice
careful business of New England farm
a. n which i hoUn q lludnn |a l kptAtN
man in Massachusetts who in 1896
bought twenty acres of land. He has
applied to it all tile accurate knowbdge
of farming he could possibly get. There
| is no month in the year that something
| does not bloom on his farm, but
through the SHOWS of January and the
suns OF August there is something
green there, and he always, from ibc
first day of January to the last day
of December, has some crop to send to
market. Twenty acres ofland is AL he
has, and you walk, through it, and you
find his alternate crops growing in rows
just as accurately as the web and warp
of cotton mill goes through the loom
carefully, accurately and properiy-
what is the rcsult?, From 1885 until
this time, that man has made $3.50 ,0o4
off his, farm of 20 acres. He has saved
his money and invested it carefully he
has educated his boys well, kept him
self in good condition, has made his
e25O,OOO, and has done it by that care
ful, accurate, systematic farming Of
"n'o,i ,"'e 'poNe 1Au ~
pened 10 DC III good locailVy neas F.