The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-03-18
FUT TIC CVVII W IT
DAIRY FARMING IN CECIL.

g. He that maketh two blades of grass
grow where but one grew before, is doing
a greater work for mankind, than the
whole race of politicians together was
remark of one of our conntry's best States
men, and is a motto that we might all do
we'll to heed. Not that we shonld consider
all who may chance to be called to govern
the affairs of State as useless drones, but
that agriculture should be encouraged as
being the first and only employment upon
which the world is dependent for a living.
All other trades are but subsidiary, and
when the crops of the farmer suffer, all
feel the loss.
The question that most concerns the
people of Cecil county, and of our whole
State now, is &c What can we do to increase
the product and revenue Of our farms? %
Our towns cannot grow, our villages cannot
thrive, and our natural water powers will
continue to run idly to the sea, if our lands
do not produce so as to make all kinds of
food plenty and cheap.
There is no branch Of industry that prom
ises and gives fairer return for capital
invested than dairying, when it is properly
managed; and that at the same time returns
to the soil SO large per centage of its ele-
ments of fertility. Fatting cattle does, it
is true, produce the same result for the
land, but with our present systems of rail-
roads, like vast arteries permeating every
part of our great country, beef can be grown
on the perennial grasses of Texas, where
it requires very little labor at the hand of
man, and delivered in the markets of New
York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore, at price
that leaves very small margin for our
farmers to obtain living price for their
corn and labor. But we must have manure
and we know of no better way of making
it than to feed our corn and hay at home.
By selling our corn and hay and buying
bone to replace the drain on the SOIL and
applying also liberal coat of lime once in
10 years, we restore the greater part, but
not all or quite an equivalent. And furth-
Ell, so many of our farmers have not yet
learned that land will not continue to paw
unless it receive value in return, that they
put the money all in their pocket, and
either let it out to some one else at interest,
or pursue the more common practice of
blowing it away in smoke, or pouring it
down their Threats. These are the men
who are always complaining of hard times,
a. oil Al,
their supmer earnings, and then talk of
scarcity Of money and taxes. But pardon
this depression, if it be such, for there
really seems to be a connection between
tie man who skins his land and the one
who skins himself, and the latter is often
parent to the farmer.
''But, says our modern farmers, and more
often his wife and daughters, to their shame
be it spoken, "dairying makes so much
work?' What of that ? Can you no
longer condescend to be a helpmeet to
your father, brothers, or husband? If it
pays are you unwilling to do your share ?
| We happen to know many good wives and
daughters who can and do make good but
ter, and we know also that ne other hand
can add the same sweetness or produce
butter of the same delicate texture as that
of mistress. This is often the only reason
why some butter sells for 60 cts. per pound
and other made from the same cows with
the same feed, is a drug in the market at
% cts.
Here then is the margin for profit, and il
a woman knows how the business ought to
be done and is then prevented from doing
any part of the manual labor, she will still
find that the eye of a mistress, as the eye
Of a mother, will do more than both hel
hands.
This is the great secret of butter making
and the one that people are last to learn
AT some future time we may give the fig
ures from the cash account of man who
has made butter by the above receipt fol-
twenty years and more. G.
There is, in Elkton, a Store, called til,
Exchange Store, and if you want to fine
that store, just walk along the North sid,
of Main street, until You come to the Store
along side of the old hotel, us that is tn,
Store to get the worth of your money, a
the goods are sold cheap for the cash.
On Monday or Tuesday of next week, tn
BEE HIVE will remove to the Rossell House
in the Hollow. Be careful 10 note tn
change.