The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-01-18
Paving Farming

Two things are true OF farmers as a
class. But few of them ever come to &C.
tual want, and but few ever attain to
great wealth. Probably no business af-
lords SO sure an avenue of support and
this is no small consideration in these days
of fluctuations. The majority of farmers
feel that farming is perpetual slavery, be-
cause that after hard steady work from
one years end to the other, they find
themselves at the end of the year just
where they started from The price of
farm products are high, the farmer is
economical, sells the best of everything,
denies himself and family, is up early
and late, and just keeps his head above
water. We think this is a truthful pic
ture Of the majority of farmers. A few
like John Johnston, of Geneva, New
York, rise gradually from this condition
to one of abundant wealth What makes
the difference between these casses2 We
answer that in every case the difference
is in heal wot. The majority of farmers
tread right on in the old paths regardless
OF the immense Improvements that have
been made in modern agriculture, improve
ments as important SIS the application of
steam in mechanics or The loom in manu-
featuring. Suppose a manufacturer dis
regarding the fact of the loom should at
tempt to make cloth as our grandmothers
made it? why he could not come into
competition at all with other manufacture
ers and would lose ground He would
stand in just the position that thousands
OF farmers occupy. who ignore the modern
Improvements in the cultivation of the
soil We are aware that the information
necessary to the farmer has been locked
up in many costly volumes written in a
scientific language that the farmer did
not understand, but this difficulty has now
been overcome and the whole subject has
been reduced into one ordinary sized vol.
ume, written in the plainest and most
practical manner lit is entitled "Ho,o Il
make lie Farm R1y." This volume treats
of every subject in which the farmer i,
interested
The first chapter treats Of drainage as
the foundation Of all improved culture
and gives plain practical rules for all the
operations of drainage.
The second chapter treats Of blowing
showing when, where, how and what t.
plow
The third chapter is upon manures, ant
Is one OF the most interesting and valu
able we have ever seen it shows Just how
and where the manure goes to waste, ant
how at very trining expense the manure
can be doubled in quantity, quality anC
value. There are also full directions
for the purchase and use Of commercial
fertilizers after the most has been mad,
Of what every farmer has at his hand
This chapter if read, and its direction
followed, roeU 9ocy do0Jie the weaW O.
ere'Y farmer m Ten years. Chapter fou
treats Of the purchase, use and care of al
Farm Implements. Chapter five of tn,
cultivation Of grain. Chapter six of gras
ses and hay making Chapter seven ofroo
crops and chapter eight on special crop
and the rotation Of crops. This chapte
gives the latest information on the cult
walton Of cotton, rice tobacco, fax, hem
hops, bcets for sugar, &C., &c. Chapter
nine TO twelve inclusive, treat of domestic
animals, breeding, raising, care, manage
ment, and feeding, and particularly of al
diseases of domestic animals with plain
simple remedies. No man who owns
single animal can afford to be without tn
/ information contained in those four chap
ters. Chapters thirteen to eighteen trea
of the cultivation of large and small fruit
, showing how millions of acres of now al
most profitlcss lands may be made to yiel
r large and paying crops how every farme
may make 5000 to 5000 per acre fror
apple. or grapes. The young men VIII
read these chapters and commence farm
ing on these principles will not be tn
poor ploddcrs their predecessors hay
,, been Untold wealth is in store for thos
who catch the idea and spirit of this book
Chapter nineteen treats of the plannin
and building Of farm buildings Chapte
twenty Of Market Gardening and Farm
ers' Gardens Chapter twenty-onc {
various miscellaneous items, as fence,
farm laborcrs, forest trees, &C., &,
Chapter twenty-five containg nearl
three hundred choice receipts for cookin,
preserving, &c, aud the last chapte
gives the symptoms and remedies for til
/ ordinary diseases Of children and adult
with directions for preserving the healtl
and other matters Of interest. We thin
we are justified in saying that 50 much il
foi m ton of use to the farmer is not I
be had for ten times the price anywhei
+ else. The book, as the reader will motto
from the description in our paper, hi
. one hundred and forty illustrations whic
we have neither time or space to de-
cribc.
We say buy this book if you wish
learn the secrets of Paying Farming.
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