The Republican journal., 1871-02-16
Farm, Garden, and Household,
HIGHER EARNING.

What we would be understood by the term used
Is the healing of this article is, less breadth and
better manurinS, and better cultivation. More at
'ntion TO special crops. increase Of hay produced
upon given area, more and better stock, and. less
selling oil the bulky products Of the farm, like
nay potatoes, and grain, to any considerable eX
tent. More attention to fruit culture and stock
raising. In word step onward and upward.
We 90 oyer too much laud better turn part of our
lieds out to pasture, and to grow up to wood then
rn these nj the low standard we are now doing.
The practical difficulty to higher farming is the
want Of fertilizers. 1t rarely pays to use CONNER
eIdl manures, at distance from market and trans
portalion. The great mass OF farmers must depend
upon their own resources for what fertilizers they
t>e. Muck, peat. leaves, roadside washing,, turf,
!'a'n, and dirt can be used as ab>orbent> to pre-
Vent vast of aniiit ni3ijii.c~. htlt these alone
have hut little value
N j., primarily necessary then 10 keep stock
stock produce, manure and this should he carefully
AIRED for and not suffered to waste. If we increase
ultr stock we increase our manure heap. this in
turn will enable us to increase the products of the
frm tor their support This is the only way at
present practicable for the mass of the farmers.
some may sell the produce of the farm and buy ma
nurc IN return, where they are fAYorahiv situated
to cities and large villages. But the grcnt bulk of
the farming community can not do thus. Green
crops lAoWrd under ser9eS good purposes in reno
waiting kinds Of soil and oft times can be used
ltvantageousy Deep powing on some soils will
have good results. on others will work injury.
nderdraining will be sure means of rendering
productive wet, retentiVe soils. The farmer has
upon the farm. Oft Zines variety of soil each
of which needs a different treatment and special
fertilizer This is part of the farmers business TO
iiud out and treat accordingly as they require. mol
general directions will those various cares or
apply to the same Kind of soil differently situated.
Every farmer that has good garden should
'earn from it lesson of higher farming. Upon
lhat little spot of highly worked and manured land
he harYests large returns. Should he apply the
same principles to lis field culture he would also
reap much larger returns, both of money and satis
faction, than he now does.
Dur aim should ha to make oar farm, enlarged
Gardens, and should be 50 divided into pa~tnrage,
woodland and tillagc, that this could he rendered
reality instead of IN ideal picture Higher farm
ing is the aim Of the Agricultural press, of writers
On farming topics, and the urgent need of our
nation
China, whom we denominatc in the arts and
ties of higher cultiyation she support, an ndi-
Nidual on hui few square rods of surface. where
With US it takes acres. England is bright exam
pie in the farming line, TO pattern after in scientific
4 tsricuture, and practical results The truck"
farms of Mt,snrhu sets, New York, New Jersey,
aud Delaware are in our own country, an index to
hat which may De accomplished. The times are
lroptous, the lesson Al hand when strong attempts
should he made To raise The standard uf our agri
allure. y.