Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-02-16
Paying Farming,

! Two things are true OF farmers as class
But few of them ever come to actual want
/ and but few ever attain to great wealth
Probably no business affords SO sure al
avenue of support, and this is no small
consideration IN these DAYS of fluctuations.
The majority of farmers feel that farming
is perpetual slavery, because that after hard
steady work from one years end to the
other, they find themselves ut 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 truthful picture
of the majority of farmers. A few like
John Johnson, of Geneva, New York, rise
gradually from this condition to one of
abundant wealth. What makes the differ
ence between these two classes? We
answer that in every case the difference is
in had loOrEc. The majority of the farmers
tread right on in the old paths regardless
of the immense improvements that have
been made in modern agriculture, improve
ments as important as steam in mechanics
or the loom in manufacturing Suppose a
manufacturer, disregarding the fact of the
loom should make cloth as our grandfathers
made it? why he could not come into COM
petition at all with other manufacturers,
and would lose ground. He would stand
in just the position that thousands Of farm
ers occupy, who ignore the modern improve
ments in the cultivation of the soil. We
are aware that the information neces-
sary to the farmer has been locked up in
many costly volumes written in scientific
language that the farmer did not under
stand, but this difficulty has now been
nxa nd hn "a cI1b1
reduced into one ordinary sized volume,
written in the plainest and most practical
manner; it is entitled Glow to Make the
Farm Pay" The volume treats of every
subject in which the farmer is Interested
TIE first chapter treats of drainage as
the foundation of all improved culture, and
gives plain, practical rules for all the opera
tions of drainage.
The second chapter treats of plowing
showing when, where, how, and what to
pillow.
The third chapter is upon manures, and
is one of the most interesting and valuable
we have ever seen; it shows just how and
where the manure goes to waste, and how
at very triting expense the manure can
be doubled in quantity, quality and value.
There is also full directions for the pur-
chase and use of commercial fertilizers
after the most has been made of what
every farmer has aJ his hand. This chap
ter, if read and its directions followed,
would surely double the wealth of every
farmer in ten years. Chapter tour treats
of the purchase, use and care OF all Farm
Implements. Chapter five, of the cultiva-
ton of grain. Chapter six, of grasses and
hay making. Chapter seven, Of root crops;
and chapter eight, on special crops and
the rotation OF crops. This chapter gives
the latest information on the cultivation of
cotton, rice, tobacco, flax, hemp, hops,
beets for sugar, &C., &c. Chapter
nine to twelve inclusive, treat of
domestic animals, breeding, raising,
care, management and feeding, and par
ticularly of all diseases of domestic animals
with plain simple remedies. No man who
owns single animal can afford to be with
out the information contained in those
four chapters Chapters thirteen to eight
cen treats of the cultivation of large and
small fruits, showing how millions of acres
of profitless lands may be made to yield
large and paying crops, now every
farmer may make 5000 to 5000 per acre
from apples and grapes. The young men
who read these chapters and commence
farming on these principles will not be the
poor plodders their predecessors have been.
Untold wealth is in store for those who
catch the ideas and spirit of this
book. Chapter nineteen treats of the
planning and building of farm buildings.
Chapter twenty of Market Gardening and
Farmers Gardens. Chapter twenty one of
various miscellaneous items, as fences,
farm laborers. forest trees, &C., &c. Chapter
TWENTY-FIVE contains nearly three hundred
choice receipts for cooking, preserving, &c.,
and the last chapter gives the symptoms
and remedies tor the ordinary diseases Of
children and adults, with directions for
preserving the health, and other matters of
interest. We think we are justified in say
ing that so much information of use to the
farmer is not to be had for ten times tie
price anywhere else. The book, as the
reader will notice from the description in
our paper, has one hundred and forty IL
Illustrations, which we have neither time or
space to describe.
We say buy this book if you wish to learn
the secrets of Paying Farming Published
by zeigIer, McCurdy & Co., Chicago. See
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