New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-05
Farm TOPICS FOR JANUARY.

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| Farm TOPICS FOR JANUARY.
Ciplcyisg to Rssstis-It is not to be expected thai
farm accounts will be kept sharp up theyear around
But II Is easy while the history Of the year Is still
fresh In the memory. to take the side pocket-book
which tho farmers should never be without and
work the entries down to positive conclusions Fol
instances One knows that he was ct work 25 days on
his hay crop of the time he had five men In the
| field and some OF the time eight. II the average
was six he knows that bis crop was handled BY 15s
some more than So If the average was 81 30 the
| labor bill was $22j. To this should be added the
cost of tho horse labor and interest the cost Of the
machines Surprising this ODE SIS, the whole cost
Is ss5o II the crop was 100 tuns this would give
900 tuns the cost per mn L 81 Is per acre Add to
which it grew and the expense of delivery and .
farmer can know just how much he makes by selling
load Of hay. II, instead of selling, he
| feeds il 10 cows and turns the milk they give
while eating it into butter he can know to figure
| whether he should sell or feed. Suppose cow is
two months eating a tun OF the best hay, and that
she yields four pounds of butter week OF thirtytwo
pounds while eating the hay II the butter sells at
80 cents she has converted that hay into $40 worth
of butter, and her manure during those two months
Is worth perhaps 81. Thus the farmer gets so by
feeding tun to the average cow IL bo can sell for
500 IN the barn. he will gain by doing especially
II he returns - worth OF ashes To the half acre on
which that tun grew. The same ciphering DOWN to
point should be applied to potatoes, corn, cabbage,
hogs, cattle, mules and horses In most good farIn-
ing communities there vii generally DC found md some
wedding, that he doesn't intend TO raise wheat next
year. not more than enough for bread and his opin-
ion governs half the farms within ten miles. lie has
kept strict account and knows the why and where
foro. There's not farmer in the country that can
give exact account of the net results OF each years
work as this veteran, now creeping toward 60 This
il the reason why New York has looked upon John
Johnston for 40 years her wiset and abest farmer
Settling ROtations.-Good farmers are always
working toward worlling-in fixed routine for
crops Take, for instance, 10O-acre farm; give 90
to pasture and wet meadow; divide the other so as
lot AND 4 into three ots Of Is each and roll this TO-
tation over them in the following orders Com on
sod white grains clover. Others would reserve 10
for yards. &c. and divide the 30 into three equal
lots and pitch the crops follows Corn on sod S0
wheat 10, barley TO- oats 1870; clover and timothy
80 The best farmer in Iowa says he should rest on
this three-legged rotation, no matter whether no
working 1900 acres, or 800 or 100. Every place
is law to itself; the land may be very unequal but
no man succeeds without general system by when
he works through the years; and January, WIN ats
settlements and reviews and conclusions, and long
evenings for figuring and mapping out is the month
for doing this head work.
our farmers is Indifference to improvements until
their importance is urged upon them by some i'm.
pertinent aud oily sker who starts arts them out aSs OF
arc deader than ever against all new-fangled things
Places differ in nothing so much as in cOnvenenccs
for supplying water TO stock. In country that IL
fiat and cold in Winter well or cstern at the barn
becomes necessity. In England the tendency Is
toward providing animals with every requisite for
their comfort. and the places that yield the most
money those where the c0nveniences leave
nothing to be desired. There is" says Carlyle,
species OF conservatism that gets praised IN our time
that is only sothfu cowardice, base indifference TO
truth, and o hatred to trouble in comparison with
old lies that SIT quiet Thousands will contend that
cattle do just as we'll dry hay as anything that
those and DulDprs and kpftlas Mt n barn
oil humbugs, and that they won't pay. This Is an
old lie" that who write for farmers mean shall
never more sit quiet.
Here aro facts in n nutshell about cooking IL you
have stuff enough to take so head through " inter
you can buy 10 and take ~ through as WELL If
yOu will buy caldron and steamer md rig a steam
box. 1t is worth say $50 to take animal through
thus Winter it cost $40. Ten times $50 is $500
Now, will IL cost You $500 Winter to cookf Ii So
dismiss the idea If not. act on It,
Fael-Thousapds of farmers nse wood on all hres
because they have 1t when coal is cheaper. especially
i'll the kitchen. Wood should be used. but not as the
standby of q family. Let the wood lot be chilled OF
all shapeless aud Improbable timber and let 1t be
cut into logs and used on an open fireplace III the
hall stove the temperature of can be raised to
about 5O' in cold weather, there Is no better or
pleasanter way of gaining tho 300 that are still re-
CURED for comfort than by burning large sticks in
Franklin open CRATE.
Getting Ready for IiilGge.--IIalf day now, Is not
OF SO much Importance IA one hour when the heat
of the Summer sOlsice is driving vegetation. good
and bad, AT the rate of three miles minute Then
loose spoke, broken tOOlD, rotten Wnllnetree, "
cracked pow-handle. gives the weeds tile advantage
of arInstice, and on that start the fate of the
Summer campaign may turn. The progressive
farmers arc alf impressed with the Importance of
variety Of pulverizers. Two large plows may
equip lOOacro place; but there should be Mt least
half dozen cultivatOTs aud harrows OF various
sizes.
Enduring Cod--If man Is exposed to an air that
freezes wGter he bear UP against t very we'll for
about half day; especially II his diet Is generous;
but IL he is out all day and cannot keep warm by
lively work, rs chopplng or saving there il a ten
dency to congestion and he falls into O heavy
sleep as soon 0s he gets warm and is likely to
feel duh and half sick the next day 1t never
pays 10 tax the constitution. Tho best worker
Is lie who can put in sixty hours week
and il he gives ten hours day and no more,
never doing half Tuesdays work ON Monday, he
will in the end accomplish the most. There Is no
such thing tOughening oneself TO cold. To endure
pain is to exhaust the powers Of life and rednce the
vigor Of body mipd, or both II one pair OF stock
ings does not prott the feet, draw another pair
and so of blankets and overcoats aud logs Of wood
and tuns Of coal The greater part OF the lives Of us
all must be spent in fighting an army that comes
upon us in three brigades: J. the brigade OF hunger
e. the brigade Of cold 3, the brigade Of ignorance;
and they who fight the two former most efectually
are the races and the men who have done most
TO diiluse light and vanquish ignorance.
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