, 1870-04-20

Of othcTe, and yet it is the mIstnauageraeut
" single farm OF several hundred screa.
VIC can SEQ bJ this how Important 1t Ia to
hare
F1.AN OF THE YAnM.
f'e1orc We set fence-post, plant tree. or
erect building. In tbs flrst p,.ca va 1nnst
oee'oe on the proper ate for the house and
otnet buildings. These cannot LwAyB be on
INC most aightly point Of the farm, but must
CONFORM to the highway, tho school, the
CHURCH, tho Post Office, tho depot, and TO
hetghhoFlng farms. In short, wo must cor
SUIT tts economy moro than topography. This
point settled, Tho garden must bo near at
hard; md what it 1aekn in natural advantages
must to supplied by artificial means. Tho
same, to some extent, is the case With tho
osChara, Which must be near Re possible.
Then we plAn tie hog lot, and
the CALI pasture, and beyond these
tho farm ficlds, for pasture, meadow and grain.
: Dat in arranging them, we must not overlook
ahclter-belts, hedGce, and farm roads, in order
to reach any part Of the farm 1t al Heasons
without the team floundering through the mud.
10 THE TArsm Bors
7c.i will individually and collectively accept
my thanks for samples ot black, brown, and
grey oats And now, Wish you to ten mo
why tho old plan OF the summer fallow has
boon nearly abandoned, and If NO do right In
writing it down Is history. Let us have
from the army OF boys who viii soon
have 10 WELD tho dcstiaies Of tho
farm. II it Ia right to abandon that
old tiuc-honorcd and hmc-hated summer fal-
low, there must be some good reason for It
ii not, We had better prepare to resume it.
TIE WEATHER
il OF the most favorable kind for the putting
in Of crops, and everyone is pushing ahead
with the farm work. We may have dry
spring, and it will 10 good plan 10 do Ill the
trench or sub-sol plowing that is possible.
Ii csss Of dronth this extra labor will pay
WHAT TIE WET EEEDs.
-Four thinxa give to the West most Of its money
wheat, corn, leef and pork. Most of the farms
In each Of the States that tnd their nearest {or
aas gees as e:s1 ms s54
or ali wheat, or all cattle, or alt hogs-of course
the cattle involving the gro1th Of hay, and ths
II either Of these staples ia below the cos. OF
production when ready for the market, when the
money for 1t ia needed TO pay nire, help. for farm
bankrupt {n9uratsse'y spcAkinz>, asaHcs: II hls
Special crop is high. paJs double Its cost At IL
isst But having Int ono thing 70 ticicnd apon, s
farming is with him q game OF chance Lie caa
play hut one card, and be does not know whether
'nes m Il I s peae %oua e ass c
safer and better, on The whole, to make the occA-
1ional pronss ess but The general aGgrrsste lurcy
wsA known as In 1857, Hhen wheat was ii a bushci.
now when wheas Is hut dry cents;
ten bulocfs, turn on twenty hogs In year, be-
ades sending score OF twu Of lamb to the hear
sss 81 maztsh m and hAy1ng salplus Of corn and
fxside egga and poultsJ, would 1t no be Better, pe
cunafilY, than ant ons cror, taking ten years TO-
gesheF: and would not the Industrial and educa-
put brain into their business-be dearly and most
satisfactorily seen.
ons thing more; There l. sn enEmoua waste Of
perlence bare united in the demonstration that ali
Rts however rich in plant food, arc SURG Of utter
exhaustion 10 tho lapsc Ut time, the crops COL
any comPcnsattng rrturn-2u That may be said
about the succession Of crops TO tho contrary.
The sol u the West Is E.ch, sGEprtsingy %: but
orally and At once entered upos, ten Jcarz from
to-dtJ It Will he poorer than nor: and, In twenty
sens sens tso o. =: fsfe y aeds n" BE- deserts
fodder. A New England farmer would winter
thirty bead Of c1t1la on What ia required by
would do II By bulidin9 barn fcr tce projection Of
his haJ and other material for cattle food, and,
what Is better, for the protection Of the cattle
themselves; and in the spring, on farms where the
stock fust alive 1t through" he wuuld have COWS
aud bulIocks 1T for beef-
OF course there arc numberless localities where
ten thousand acres Of land, he cannot farm II IKE
one thxt ownf hundred: hut that diversified In
dust1-w.th saving and proper application Of
n rTla NrkfN kt@y1t t11AI
treatment Of stock teedlnK them With the best
the farm can produce. teeu1ed and protected In
Eloty Of that grand fcct30u Of the common Couu-
ty, of witch We all are proud, Is beyond question.
The Hearth and Home has proved what
hundred other papers have proved, that
spending two OF three days week, or, may-
haps, d week, In the West, give them but a
faint idea Of what tho Prairio States are
doing, and what they have done. This class
Of writer's too often keep on the trans, or sit
in the pttlots, and talk about tho country.
II they win leave the lines OF railroad, and
takn i trip through the rural districts, they
viii find spirit Of enterprise and Of thrift
that will astonish them. It is true that wo
havo plenty Of poor farming; but it nust be
remembered that VIC have had onr farms to
pay for, and To improve; and it is but natural
that We should grasp that crop that holds out
the best prospect OF pay. But aa We aecarnu-
late meana, NC enlarge our field Of operations,
and even to-day We might challenge tie East
to show more Diversified industry than at
preeent.
wo have grown the great staples tho world
demand, for these t1ing ua back what wo noel
for the farm and tho family. But now wa be-
sin to supply many Of these things at home,
and this bring with it demand for the peo-
ducts Of the garden and the orchard, mutton,
poultry, eggs, ptc-, for which there was At first
no market demand. The truth Is, 20 eoon ~
the market demands any new product We
sunp1y it. And il We have not produced &C
great vaticty as we might hare done, it has
been moro from the want Of = market demand
than want Of disposition. When the tail,
roads give us choap transportation to New
York, AZ they will when they reduce The rate o.
freight trains to Fix OF eight miles an hour, re
shall then have new inducemcnt to chow on,
Now York friends what We can do in the limo oi
| variety.
We now ship them honey, dried fruits, and
IN May we shall tn our hand 1t few car loads
| Of sta Nbcs1ies.
No1H OF rnAvEL,
| A look through halt dozen Of the great West
ern States -u!llng up week tn the latter part oi
1ss.s sea en- % oes mn x
usual some Of the carly sown IL injured By The
frce1nR and fhaFtng Of this variable winter
scarcely has any hold In the so now, md Is ncsei
\ likely to ha%e I very Htronx one. II we we're to
predict for 1s.o. 1t this uncertain distance, VIC
.no9h say that she surplus grain Of 1862 would bc
II least one-quarter Of all the corn nosthwa.d
ofa Inc running through the centre Of Ohio i
damssssd ,lG .s ana 81 eo9ss, The fodder vosaless
the West, aod the failure to gather the crop /.
70 be removed fafl WORK done this spring, xnd be
fore the groun1 ran tc put Into hest cats, the
seasen must be late for either. and. 81 couTse a.
cereal In these IAiitudes tho lock is not remark
ably promising.
Tha early ccnmencenent Of winter, and lts IN
usual =" lingering IN the lap OF spring" Will use u
more of the fou for c21i1s than Is common In hi
l great West We therefore conclude that 1850 uu1
more 1snS must IL u Fren s to hay tnaa asus sn
thus the area Of cGIn and wheat will he lcssened
and. OF course, the product will hare proportion
More than th!s-very much more Will he DON
this ee4son in the way Of making butter, ralsln3
vegetables and such things "a make up the pro
snbsEncted from the corn and wheat nelds VII
tend To lessen the aggregate Yield Of the crtat sta
pies that are now 30 Abundant tn the cities Of tn
great West
Tho Hearh and Home appeArs 10 labor un
der Few slisht ezrusu "a regards this State
Tho corn that is standing in the delds in shock
md which tho w1tsor saw through the car win
dowB. as the train Euthed over the prairie, i
our fodder; Just that which We ats daily feed
ing 10 our stock, for wintering, md for bee
and pork, and which we shan have rnostl
moved from The fields before We put /,
tho pillow for the next crop. It il probah