Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-01-13
CAN'T GET ALONG IN FARMING.

1t, with the present price of farm and
garden produce, one engaged in the pursuit
OF cultivating the land "can't get along" hi:
farm must be very poor one, or it wants
new owner, or the owner wants a good
adviser
It is of no use to Go things by halves in
farming any more than any other business
Three dollars will not go for five anywhere
and three days labor in laying down and
preparing apieceof land for crop, are not
so good as five if five are needful.
Here is where farmers are apt to fall.
They cannot be made to realize that one
well titled and tended farm can be made to
produce five times the crop that a badly
cultivated one will produce.
So with the orchard spend what you
please in getting the best trees, and in set
ting them ont, and if they get" swamped
up" with useless groth, and suckers. and
checked and injured by insects, and the
owner will find he can't get along raising
fruit.
On farm where there is no plan, no
headwork, no careful attention to details, ,as
well as generals, where putting off until to-
morrow is the order of the day, instead of
promptly and energetically striving to have
the setting sun of each day see its labors
well performed, its owner will often feel
that he cant get long" He could not
make money in any business in slipshod
way, oil left it to be done by the average
half that the times afford.
If our words are read by any one that
cannot" get al0ng"in this pleasantest OF all
pursuits. this is the season for him to
look about him aud sec what is the reason
of his i'll success, and at once apply the
remedy before another years work is laid
out or that may be thrown away.
Some farmers miss keeping too much
stock, and more by not keeping the best
and those adopted to their farm; it is no
more truble to keep Jersey cows than the
natives and when calf is born of the pop
ular and profitable breed, Jersey, Ayrshire
Devon or Shorthorn it is worth twenty times
as much as the progeny of the scrub. You
know pretty we'll what you have IN one
case, while on the other hand all is doubt
and uncertainty. The cheap cow has pro-
duced another equally valueless, and so its
owner is discouraged, and finds he" cant
get along" raising cattle. Many farmers
miss it by half feeding the stock they have
. forgetting that by keeping their cattle just
alive through the winter they got no profit
whatever on the food they consume, be-
cause there is no gain 10 flesh or fat, the
condition in spring is no better than it was
in the fall, while the animal, the cow for
instance, comes out in weak and enfeeb-
ed state, and cannot 60 ont to grass, ftto
produce milk in abundance. The drain
on the system of the COW in milk is very
great, and consequently the feeding of the
stock through the winter should be liberal
and such as will keep the cow, even when
dry, in a thriving and blooming state of
health. Some roots or other succulent food
are almost as much needed occasionally for
dry COW in winter, as for COW in milk
No poor feeder can expect to- get along
we'll, because stock lies at the very found
alton of all successful farming; it is the
pivot on which it all turns, and stock half
fed and poorley kept, impoverishes instead
of enriching the farm.
Many farmer misses it BY attempting to
do too much, His time and attention are too
much divided, his energies frittered away
on great variety of miscellaneous crops,
and not concentrated upon any one upon
which he can rely for money income
"This ought ye to have done and not to
have left the other undone might apply to
such, and on this system of farming, most
farmers who are single handed that is hav-
ing only their own labor on which to rely,
will find it very difficult to ''get along.''
But after all, the reason why SO few,
comparatively, "get along well, or mat
with what might be called good success, or
'good luck" is that so many fall into the
ruts of custom and routine from which
they have not energy enough to get out.
Men, it must be admitted, are naturally
inclined to be lazy. Few people work
with a will for the mere fun of the thing.
They must be spurred on by the force Of
circumstance. They must get hold Of
something they like, and stake kindly to. y
Fondness for any pursuit makes even the
drudgery attending it light and cheerfulIy
endured for the sake of achieving some
desirable end
Probably in a very large proportion Of
cases, where men on farm find it hard to
get along, it would be found that they had