Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1872-08-22
GOOD Farming.

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ished. but is increasing from year to I'd
70 gain large profits for only year or +,
| and in way which destroys the source
/ acting good deal like the woman i'm
| fable who killed the goose that laid the g0
Ell egg.
The object of farming should be to derI
| from the farm products all the profits II
can be made i'll q practicable manner, and
expert as little bulk and as little material
| possible; that is, to bring onr farm produ1
| into the market in the most concentrate
condition practicable. That means. in otl :
words, to sell them in the form of live sto&
! beef, pork, mutton. wool, cheese, butter, g.
APPLYING Corn CULTURE TO WHEAT
| is a benefit to cultivate corn between d
rows, why is it not al advantage to giN
wheat the same treatment, aud for that. nj
| ter, all or most of the grains? Winter wine
has tllA fall and spring as well as the sn
| mer in part, to favor the growth of wee
and grass, and we find these ablndantly
terpersed amorg the wheat. TO sow crv|
of corn broadcast for feed is found to be
advantage; to sow in drills and cultivate
found to be still better. 1t pays more IL, !
the extra labor. WHEAT used to be sow
broadcast and do well; it is now found tlla
it will do better in drills. Thus it tollo,
corn. Why will it Eot still further be bei
tilted like arn il worked between the drill
using the cultivator, and even the hoe if nes
essary? The truth Is, we have not yet Il
rived at that point of advantage. EnglaiA
has, so far as the decision in favor of it /
concerned. Meehi and others have .tcstd
this matter, and experiments in small wt]
practiced here have pointed the same wal
Now, since drilling is getting to be estaA
lished, let us introduce and prosecute, or 4
least t st, cultivating between the roWl
Grass and weeds by this means are kept ouI
ground is the moister and becomes the morj
fertile by it; the crop Is Strengthened arid KEEP
clean (the last quite a consideration, and ttl
land will have no occasion to be self-sowI
with tou seed, as is usual in grain and gras
crops and neglected corn-tialis.
Have We too much to do, too l.uch Land
to cultivate. and too little help to do with
to b" able to engage in this? But if II ia
benefit. why neglect this and attend to otle|
things no more beneficial and perhaps not sd
much as this? Why cultivate our corn and
neglect Our wheat, when the latter requirei
it equally. and t may be more? am sorr,
to have it to say that have tested this nd
more than in general way in the garden
and then not so carefully rs hight. But the
thing seems as if there were more profit il,
treating wheat III this way than corn, who
will give it a fair test? Who will lead or and
confirm What the English experimenfefs
have introduced so successfully getting the
benefit at the same time aud at once? II rfar-
rowing the field with smoothing harrow ere
The grain is too large, al 4 where there are
weeds and grass starting up, is benefit,
why not working the ground between the
.ows and leaving the grain umnjurel?
There is great advantage in cultivation,
We find it SO among trees. shrubs, wires.
ioed crops, and why should it not also apply
Q grain, especially that careful. kingly cer-
al. wheat? And it needs il, as the wheat
rop is generating among us. 1t is an inn
'ortant crop in rotation. and should be made
lie most Of. If it is worth following the
oil for it, and giving it the p ecedcnce OF
cod land. why not further improve by what
such All advantage to cultivation? Es-
cclaily such crops as are poor or much win
n killed need this aid. or weeds and grass
Ill overpoaer them. Let lis come to the
.licf OF this fine cereal, and make it some
ling like what it is made in England
oa,,try Gentleman.
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GRAIS.-Bad stacking is the cause
most OF the really damaged grain in the