The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-05-21
FARMERS COLUMN.
Country Papers and the AEricuI-
duI.al Interest.

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tuFal Interest.
1.-The edi,orof theJackson o. } Stand
afsi, promises his reatlers a series OF
articles on Farming in Jackson Coun-
tys" and says:
RA ksAnd as three-fourths of my sub
scribers are practical farmers, they will
no doubt be interested to SOME extent
in whatever pertains to their profession.
As | was brought up upon IA farm,
have some knowledge of the mmneri In
which farming was conducted in this
county from the year 1925 mp 10 the
present time. -
Country papers as a rule are weekly
papers, and their chief circulation is
among farmers. We have often
thought that editors of those papers
could greatly increase their circulation,
II they would encourage their most in-
telligent aud successful farmers to write
for their papers upon such topics as
would be not only of general but of
local interest If this we're done there
would be no difficulty in organizing aud
conducting Farmers Club in every
county as successfully as the one here
in Franklin county. Agriculture is
"inade up" more than any other ayo-
cation, Of purely experimental opera
tions; a man learns how to make boot
or shoe, to tan a hide, to distil whisky,
or make a coat, and after he has once
learned how to do this he can at all
times thereafter make just as well fit
ting boot or shoe, tan anotlyr hide
precisely like the first, can make a mil
lion gallons of whisky III which no diff
ference Of strength or color can be de-
tected; or make coats Tor a regiment,
each one Of which will be "good it."
But when it comes to farning-there's
the rub--one year, all acre will yield
one hundred bushels of corn or thirty
0fwheat, another year the farmer will
realize forty bushels of corn, or per-
haps only ten Of wheat. Ask why the
product of the two years is not alike
and we will be told ''t4e seasons are dr.
tgmt." 4a
The farmer is certainly anxious to
obtain the greatest possible product
from the soil, and diminished or short
crop is as discouraging and fills him
with Is gloomy prospects as it does the
speculatori certain it is the farmer does
not aim to grow short crops. But can
not the farmer do a great deal toward
modifying the effects Of the seasons !
A tailor will tell us that no two men are
built alike-one is tall, raw-boned and
lean anotheris short, broad-shoulder-
ed and feshy, yet the tailor makes
clothes TO fit both; if he had ono in
flexible rule by which be cut garments
he perhaps would itneither one. The
farInerseems to have one rule only /;
he does his work by a given rule and
then expects the season to do the re-
mainder. Undcrdraining or sub-soil-
ingi plowing SO as to pulverize more
completely may do more or less TO
Counteract the uniayorableness Of the
seasons.
The improvements made in New
York or New England in the culture
Of crops may not be adapted to Ohio
the system of farming done in Law
renee county may not bo the best for
Lucas county. Therefore the farmers
should communicate for mutual benefit
their experiences to their brother farm
,ets in tho same county through the
medium OF their county papers There
is no danger of surieitlpg farmers with
Cucts in relation to anything appertain-
ing to farming. Farmers Chronicle.