The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-01-09
OH 0azette.
Profits Of Farming.

ttlsement Of Mr.. Durcn, of Woburn
stating that having acquired com
potency BY farming, ,,he desired tc
dispose OF his farm. In that arti
Gle We requested Mr. D to give US
some account ofhis mode Of opcr.
ations that we might lay before our
readers. We are now happy to be
able to present some common sense
and well considered remarks OF his
not only in regard to his own farrn
ing, but als) in relation to farming
in general. which We think will be
read with interest" We copy the
most important parts of the com
munication:
sfThs snrost, most reliable and
most important crop Of the farm is
the grass. oOnt Of grass and ma.
tare's own crucible4 come meat II nd
milk, and cheese, the more endur-
ing form of milk; boots, shoos, cloth
ingy the very foundation of exist.
encc; and he who makes two spears
grow whore but one grew before is
certaialy q bencfacior 10 tho race,
in his way.G3J JCCF-
Within tho last fifteen wears !
presumed have raised and sold from
twelve 70 fifteen hundred dollars
worth Of Swedes turnips, bat ques.
tion whether | am any richer tor
1t. l think | could have ralsed as
many dollars worth Of corn and
fodder, which would have returned
manure. TO repeat the process; and
tnrnips make heavy drafts upon
land. / have also dabbled some in
other sauce, lu: found dabbing
did not pay; first IL interieres with
milk raising, taking Invaluable
bay time; and secondly, you are
not apt to raise enough 10 get q
good run OF trade, and therefore the
best price. Fruit and cider I hayc
sold considerable OF, never | think
moro than ono hundred and Atty
barrels of apples in one year. !
But when lhUy arc pionty |
plenty they net but little above
expenses half a crop generally |
pays as we'll rs full ono, by |
bringing better piice. At best you .
get a crop only every second year;
and if one fails, you havc lost three
years usc Of your land, besides
expenses, il.you cultivate, SO /
put my orcbarding to glaAs some
four Years since, and am su,o OF
two crops yearly as the rain is to
fall OF course ono would raise
fruit and sauce enough for his
family, or try, md would o(ton
have little TO sell. These IDEAS
apply perhaps only TO my personai
taste, OF peculiar soil on Which | am
situated, or more surely, i! may be,
to the proper milk raising distance
from market. Nearer, tho cities
whore land is very precious, sauce
and small fruits must be the only
paying thing; far her into the coua.
try, where land is cheap, stock,
butter and cheese, fruit and grain,
are things, rs being not so perish
able, easily transported and plenty
Of land 10 draw from.
Another consideration IT, rrass
and milk arO produced with much
less labor than other kinds OF farm
ing, quite an item in these times
One man can vcry comfortably
take care Of ffte.n or twonty head
OF cattle, spread tho manure and
plant Ihroo or four acres Of corr
with only n few days holp, except
daring tho hay season. Some OF
the time during the war / had
man only three months in the year
ont wouldn't advise being loo much
alone. II you can get good con.p.- :
ny l'fe is 'ftn on a higher plane.
Jostling oach otItr ia fruitful of
ideas, and ideas arc vastIy more
pleasnrable than whisky; souls are
made Of them.
l have had light run Of grape
fever, but boon pretty cautions not
10 devote too much time and terri
tory to them; planting them about
walls, buildings, etc, TO determine
the hind that succeed bost and
their profit
ofswino, | usod to keep quito a
number ten or twelve years ago, but
roalIzod no profit except in manure,
and OF all that | know Of, having |
kepta strict account Of them, only
ono man mado above expenses I
soventy-tive cents, throwing in the I
refuse OF his table ut that. / do not !
care for them as food, not that | =,
have any prejudice, or think we q
would DO sharper than jew With. {
out them. ] '"could cat raw rat q
II manners were in question:" as /
wei as Thorcau, I'm cenHdont. | 4
used 10 let cattle run over the nov. q
ing in the lall, but have dono with
that as far as may be-, especially
arc they Injurious 70 moist and I
meadow land. Think of the pres I
surO OF four hundred pounds or l
more ir tho small space of an ami
malls hoot all over tho ground. n
Tho soil can't asrato under TINT. | a
wouldn't have a hoot on moadow !
land l could help il. Imow with a
scytho altogether. l.l a
Now for the profit, I estimate '
tho income from good cows at one '
hundred apiece This distance from G
market (ten miles,) wholesale !
prices and sold al tho door; nearly !
double that marketed and rstailcd :
yourself Extra COWS considerable 9
more, from one hundred and twon. :
ty.hye to one hundred and fifty l
dollars apiece. Ihavc, and ] could
pick out many another such, TWEEN.
ty.nine acres lying near the house,
slx in pasture, three perhaps in 4