The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-11-29
AGRICULTURAL.


FACTS ABOUT FARMING.-In England
there are many farmers who more than
support themselves and large families on
the products of six acres, besides paying
heavy rents. Agriculturists in Germany
who are proprietors of five acres, support
themselves on two, and lay up money on
the product of the remainder. But they
don't send their boys to college or elect
their own rulers.-The best way to bring
up cows at night is q good "mess" waiting
for them-fresh cut corn, ''slops," bran
the sort.-As the country becomes more
thickly settled drouths increase. The
science of farming will soon need n new
branch, the elbow to prepare for Drouths."
To teach COW to drink Stops, or eat
meal and water, put little salt on the
Wilson and Triomphe de Gand the best
strawberries to raise for market.-Animals
worry when they are not fed at the regular
hour; when they worry they lose flesh.
For that reason-though it may seem to be
figuring the thing rather fne--it pays to he
regular in feeding. Unbelievers can easily
try the experimentation themselves or their
stock.
VEGETABLES AND MANURE. - Western
farmers and gardeners are apt to despise
manure. They will think, differently by
and.by. Henderson ys,in his 'Garden-
ing:"
never yet saw soils of any sort that had
borne crop of vegetables that would pro-
duce as good a crop the next season with
out the use of manure, no matter how rich
the soil may be thought to be. An iilustra-
tion of this came under my observation
last season. One of my neighbors, a mar
ket gardener of twenty years experience,
and whose grounds have always been a
perfect model of productiveness, had it in
tn a SiS Foot of fhrnYr RI,
his grounds; thinking his land sufficiently
rich to carry through Il crop of cabbages
without manure, he thought it useless to
waste money by using guano on that por
ton on which the street was to be made,
but OH each side sowed guano at the rate of
whole with early cabbages. The effect
was the most marked ever saw that por-
ton on which guanO had been used sold off
readily at $i2 per hundred, or at about
$l4OO per acre-both price and crop being
more than an average; but the portion from
averaged 50 per hundred. The street Oc-
cupied fully an acre of ground, SO that my
friend actually lost over $1,000 in crop by
Withholding $50 for manure. Another
neighbor, with alease only one year to run,
also unwisely concluded that it would be
foolish to waste manure on his last crop,
and so planted and sowed all without. The
taught him, a crop of inferior quality in
every article grown, and lost on his eight.
acres probably $4,000 for that season.
The farmer, without an education for his
calling, remains Il sort of drudge wherever
he is, and he stands no higher in society
| than mere hand-wprker ought to. Pro-
perly educated for his business he elcvates
his profession and himself exactly in pro-
portion-to his intelligence and general cul-
turc. Facilities for Agricultural education
try, and it would be- well for farmer boys
to see if they cannot, III some way, take
advantage of them, even if they can do NO
more than attend single course of lee
lures. The advantages to be gained would
be some information which could hardly be
acquired in any other way, Il knowledge of
where to obtain information from books
and from other sources, and, finally how to
make knowledge available.-Amcrican -ig-
'iculturist.