Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-05-01
AGRICULTURAL PUBLICATIONS.

tural periodicals and newspapers. AT
time like this, every man who cultivate
the soil should increase and improve hi
knowledge by soliciting the advice AM
experience of others. We are now, ..
force of circumstances, a nation Of farm
era and as such must make everything
pay so as to ensure a livelihood, if not
competence. The days of large plantat
ions are nearly over-they can exist oo'
a short time longer, and are no" bu'
shadows of what they once were. 1h''
is patent, and there is no necessity to d'
late upon what every sensible man knows
to be an established fact. 10 small farm
ing lies the future Of Southern prosperity
and it behooves every tiIler of the sol
who has been accustomed to the old rou'
tine of cropping, to improve every foot
of land be is enabled to work, by seeking
the experience of those who have made
farming a speciality under circumstances
entirely different from their own. 10
order to do this, if they have not the
means al home of obtaining the requ site
Information, they should consult agricul-
tural publications Of the South which will
afford them much that is necessary to
know. From the soil must we draw the
greater part Of u resources and upon
which we must mainly depend for sup.
port. 1t is not out Of place here to cay,
that we are nearly all lacking in the es-
sentisl elements of what constitutes the
real farmer. W. are not too old TO learn,
however. nor too old to begin life afresb,
no matter how much it may differ from
to which we have been accustomed
youth. To make farming profitable
must now be the main object of every
man who follows it from necessity or
If ignorant Of the ways and
means employed by Northern and West.
ern farmers to make it q paying business,
to say nothing of home comforts, let
agricultural publications be consulted.--
We do not mean book farming 10 it's COM
monty applied sense. but in seeking
those channels the knowledge
hat is 80 essential to successful farming.
do not propose To praise this or that
publication, for there are many good 10
he South, but to complain of the iudiffer.
,nce of our would be-farmers who plow
md hoe in the most woful ignorance when
he means Of enlightenment are at band
and at an almost nominal price. But it
not from the field alone that the true
'armer expects to derive his support
The dairy, the poultry yard the orchard,
he garden, etc, must all contribute their
'bsre to swell the farmers income. Every
point must tell and nothing be wasted if
,e desires it to be remunerative. This.
We regret. has hitherto been too much
neglected, aud by which losses have been
'ustained, the extent of which they we're
gnorant until pointed out by others who
NEW that small savings make large end
ngs. 1t is not absolutely necessary that
We should con6ne ourselves to South ro
or newspapers. There are
rany published iD the North and West
which afford a vast amount of valuable in.
ormation at a very low price, and often q
Jingle article may more than pay ten fold
be cost of subscription. These publ
'ations treat upoa. everything that con-.
ard interests the farmer. The
anne can be said of those published IN
be South, and to those We desire mainly
o apply these remarks. because there is
"me difference in c%ultivating certain pro-
|ucts at home, owing to the difference of
which it would be better to fol.
ow than the method used in higher lati-
udes. Again the raising Of cattle and
be treatment Of their diseases varies
With the temperature of climate, while
he farm,yard. also, requires different
management in many particulars from