The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-11-08
AGRICULTURAL.

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49, gan AGRICULTURAL. M y
/ "A SETTLED POL1cY ON THE FARM.--
4 The whole secret of the successful farmer
often lies in having a fixed plan of opera
| tons. Multitudes have no plan but to meet
| their lpMediate necessities and,make mon
! methods: II wool brings high prices, they
viii gradually give up 'dairying and work
into Sheep with the expectation of making
| their fortunes II wool and mutton raising
lor time does not pay, they sell their
locks attn great sacrafce. IF hops are sixty
cents pound, they invest in hop-poles and
gins for darying and expect sudden wealth.
II, when their yards come into full bearing,
the prices fall off one half or more, they are
disguised, and ready to pillow up their Yards,
concluding the business will not pay. There
are men who are always taking up a good
thing little too late to make money by it,
The farmer cannot afford this continual
change. His business is less speculative than
any other, land, after prayiding for the
wants OF his family and stock he should give
his attention steadily to the production of
few animals, crops, or other products, on
which he can rely to make money. Any
branch OF farm industry, steadily followed,
VIII be found profitable. Dairying, in IL year
OF short grass, might not pay very we'll.
BUT the years of drought { are exceptions,
and the man who makes first-rate butter or
cheese will find them a reliable source of
income. Where speciality is made of some
one crop, it is particularly important that
ne should follow it steadily. The raising of
hops or OF tobacco requires fixtures that
are useless i'll any other branch Of farming,
ana the change of crops involves consid-
cradle loss of capital. Besides, we are al
ways learning in Ia business to which we give
habltual attention, and this knowledge is
as much q part of our capital as the money
invested in tools and buildings. If u man
should make potatoes his leading crop, he
would study to lessen the cost of produc-
ton, and would resort to devices in the pre-
paratlOn of the seed and the SOIL in the use
OF manures, and in cultivation, quite I'M
known to the farmer who pursues u careless
style ofhusbandry. He could raise potatoes
cheaper than his neiShbors, by means of
his improved methods, aud if he sold at the
same price, make more money. Whatever
branch OF farming you follow, stick to it. if
it is moderately profitable. Lay your plans
far ahead, and be prepared for the cxccp-
tionai years, when large profits come from
h1gh prices, or losses from unfavorable sea-
SONS. mixed husbandry is always the
safest, and is not at all inconsistent with
the cultivation of commercial crops, as
tobacco, hops, flax, onion seed, or vegeta-
bic seed OF any kind, garden vegetabies'for
market, fruits, etc. The introduction of
III,
plans, and thorough business management,
if success be attained
MAKE MORE BUTTER.-Butter is now high
and it is desirable to increase the supply
of an article in such general use. There is
but one way of doing this. We cannot in
crease the number of COWS 80 as to meet the
demand this winter, but we can by liberal
feeding enable the cows that we have to
give more milk, or at least we can get milk
contasning from one-third to one half more
butIB That liberal feeding will do this
there can he no question. What extra food
to give depends on circumstances. The
quality of grass at this season is apt to de-
teriorate, and even when there is an album |
dance OF it, q little richer food can be given |
to the cows with great advantage. When
grass is short, there is still greater necessity
or, and advantage in,providing extra food |
IN many sections there is much corn imper-
ectly cared, and there can be no better
way OF dlsposinS of it than to feed it out,
stalks and all, to mich cows. This will |
ave hnskiRg. If well cured and put in
mail stacks, or in q barn, with layers of
straw betWnaaasthe corn, very few of the
oft ears will mould. A liberal supply of
uch food will keep up the flow OF milk
until Christmas, and if the cows are provi-
led with warm stables, butter may be
made nearly all winter. When there is no
odder of this kind on the farm, feed ordi-
AIRY corn stalks, or hay and straw, with q
LIBERAL allowance of some kind of grain or
f oil-cake. Probably corn meal is the
heape st food that can be used, and 80 far
s the writer's experience extends, he never
ound any trouble in using it. Four quarts {
day to each COW has been used with great 6
dvantage, and at the present price of but
sr such feeding As quite profitable. Some =,
airymen prefer to feed half corn meal and 1
alf bran. When peas may be obtained at |;
bout the same price as corn, a mixture of .
quail parts of corn and pea-meal is perhaps /
lie very best food that can be given tdSa .
DIV. If wheat bran was cheap, say but f
tile higher than hay, we would feed that
so. But our object is not SO much to say :,
hich is the best grain to feed milch cows, Il
to urge farmers to feed grain of some q
ind. 1t does not so much matter WHAT c
ally give the cows liberal supply of food, a
nd they will return Il liberal supply of but y
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