The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-01-01
Good Farming-How Not to Do It,
BY w. A. CRoFFUT.

- w arc q } ouuS man, oSho al y Jul
energies to acquiring the fastest horse in
the neighborhood, and show your activity
by cutting swell behind him around
the country. Wait patiently until s'the
old man" dies and bequeaths to you his
farm, then hire Dan Tucker to take care
of it, instructing him to use his own
judgment and not bother you. Encour-
age the raising of livestock by attending
horse-races, and patronize breeders by
stalking your money on the result. Con-
meet yourself with the agricultural press
by subscribing for some journal that
gives rural advice from the standpoint of
'the Turf and Ring"
Show your interest in the growth of
rye, barley, and hops by partakins of the
beverages therefrem coneocted. Give
your interest in the same way to tobacco
culture. Don't get married; you can
hardly afford that sort of husbandry. In
about four years, if you are as frugal as
you will be likely to be, Dan Tucker, or
more enterprising neighbor, will fore
close sundry mortgages, take your worth
less property off your hands, and leave
you to go to sea and complain of your
"bad luck" denounce farming as an oc-
cupation, and wonder what has become of
your money.
1t you are an old hand at it, without
expensive vices, and still manage to keep
a farm going on slip-shod principles, the
/ following rules, closely followed, will en-
able you to do your work uniformly in
the worst possible manner:
Conceratng Laad.-Buy all you can
on credit, and mortgage everything to
insure its payment. TO farm it by the
thousand acres is Nepoleonic-lt shows
genius, you know, and sounds well.
/ Purchase poor land at q low price,
rather than the best at high price you
will thus get, at least, half as much har-
vest for your subsequent labor, and you
will have all the Improvement for moth
ing-if there should happen to be any.
Never drain if you do, the farm-work
will be fastened, crops increased, ard
manure saved-besides which, you will
lose the stagnant water and the ''buried
erockery"
Plough shallow; keep doing as your
grandfather did, and stick to it that
'.yaller earth is pizen.'
C6ncerniag lNanare.-Build your hog
pen, and, if possible, your barn-yard,
across running stream this will carry
the filth off your farm, and you will not
be troubled with it. Some of our best
farms are always stuck up with manure
If there is, unfortunately, no stream
handy, move your barn, when the ma
nure has become packed five or six feet
in your yard, to another s1de-hill, and
start again the original deposit will
wash away in time. By this philosophi-
cal method of faEking do thousands of
farmers through the West get rid of
nuisance, and promote that cleanliness
which is said 20 be next to godliness.
Don't be persuaded to sow clover and
then waste it by plowing it under; be
assured that these ''book-farmers" who
advocate such doings have clover-seed to
sell
/ If, after the above treatment, your
soil yields any crops, never feed or plow
under the straw or corn-stalks, but al
waysburn them you will thus ''get them
out of the way" and will gradually di-
minish the growth of straw and stalks,
till ultimately there will hardly be any
to burn.
Concerning Crops.-Plant and sow
very late; by SO doing you will diminish
the crop equal to the whole net profit
that is, you will get nothing for your Ia
! bor
Allow your corn-felds to be filed with
dense underground of weeds, and your
potatoes, turnips and unions with dense
overgrowth of ditto it will not cost
half so much to harvest your crop, and
money paid out in the fall is an import
ant item.
Don't be fooled with the cry of esrota-
ton" Dirt is dirt, isn't it ?-and if a
field will grow potatoes, of course it will
grow wheat Keep your corn in the
''corn-lot" all you life, as your father and
mine did if you were to jump around
from field to field, as the book-farmers
advise, your corn crop would very likely
outgrow the granery, and then what a
fix you'd be in :
Concerning iStock.-See how little food
will keep COW alive. All you save is
clear gain, and it is astonishing how this
sort of economy counts up.
Feed as irregularly as possible. Wait
ing an hour OF two for breakfast will
whet the cows appetites; and it will
save them anxiety if they don't know
exactly when to expect it.
[ wouldn't waste many oats on horses ;
how do horses get along in those coun-
tries where oats won't grow !? Besides,
oats make horses frisky; get them used
to going without, and they will be soberer
and more manageable, and just as well
satisfied to gnaw the wood-pile or the
fence. A friend of ours, carpenter,
who fed his horse frugally, took it into
his head that the animal ate the shavings
wherewith he was bedded, which were
supposed to serve as dlvisor and dis
tender. So he saved all other food and
taught the sagacious animal to rely
wholly on pine-shavings. The horse
lived some weeks and finally died, as the
owner believed, Of over-eating.
Never throw corn to pigs; men can
eat corn, and there has been enough
wasted on hog-troughs to keep thousands
of human beings from starvation. Above
all, never feed pigs until they stop squeal-
ing. To squeal is bad manners, and
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