Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-02-12

two, bearing only an equal amount.
The two acres, as they stand, may,
indeed, be of more value than the one
acre as each may be brought up to the
standard of the other at cost which
will leave profit sufficient to make them
so; but this does not interfere with the
application of the principle.
The one acre requires less cost for
fencing. The toughness of the sward,
may, indeed, make it harder to plough,
according to ats size !; but the whole ex-
pense is less. The securing of the two
tons from the one acre, is at less cost
than from the two acres. The amount
of seed required is less, for the same sur
face, even, of the most fertile soil, and
the cost of sowing porportionately small.
Then there is the saving Of removing
stones, and, in fact, saving IN about
every one of the details connected with
the business If we were, however, to
come to the false conclusion that the |
profits of the two parts of this field were
alike, we should then want to know
what were the costs of the two, including |
that of purchase, and of cultivation, up |
to the time of getting them into their
present state.
The cost of land, and of seed, and the
labor of going through all the details
except the application of manure, would
be less on the single acre. The amount
of manure and its cost would be greater.
We think the difference, on the whole,
would be small, in an average Of cases.
But it is not always practicable to
buy just such farm as we want, and
we sometimes inherit, or somehow get a
few barren acres, which may be so mixed
MP with the good as not to be easily
ser a-ated, while a mortgage and other
membranes may hinder our prosperity.
If, with all these, not very hardy
physical constitution is ours, we may be
led to study economy as it relates to the
saving of labor, and the getting of a
fair remuneration for the capital-time
is money-expended on the SOIL And
we may conclude that millions of acres
in New England are pastured, and other
wise cultivated, at loss Also that it
is better to let much of our poorest land
grow up to wood, and thus get a sure,
though slow profit, while time, labor
and manure, are concentrated in higher
, cultivation of the better part
$ The same general principle may be
applied to the keeping of stock. Much
of our poor stock should be rejected and
the rest kept better. A man may feed
COW just enough to keep the breath of
: : life in her, without getting anything
! from her, or in any way increasing her
value, Up to this point, we all feed
our COWS at a dead loss. Beyond it, if
= fed properly, we feed to profit, if there
{ is any profit anywhere What stock
: you keep, keep WELL and keep no more
% than you can so keep.
. You may cultivate piece of ground
Il just enough to get crops which will bare.
g ly pay you for all the capital you invest
!, on it. All below this point is dead
! loss. If anywhere, the net profit is III
- cultivating your soil to higher degree
y AS your means increase, increase your
~ stock as you can, and keep it we'll. The
.. same rule applies to cultivated land.
u There are thousands of farmers, who
had they bought small instead of large
,1 farms, and kept their encumbrances re
~ duced, and also kept small number O
do cattle, and made the best of what they
"a a had, would have made larger net profits
l. and been richer men, while they anC
III their families would have had mole TIM
Sc for recreation and mental Improvement
u u, and been blessed with more of the com
:, forts of life; and their sons would no
a' have abandoned the farm for easier an,
rs more profitable employment.
aO Another thing to be considered is
" the better quality of crops where grow
en- luxuriently. John Johnston, the grea
= western New York farmer, is reporte
7oV as having said, that the same weight G
%, hay from luxurient grass is more valua
~ BILE than that of.a light growth An
llS [ think reason teaches the truth of thi
9e' doctrine. Of course, luxurient, heav
NC crops must be cut when young, fine an
1'33 tender, so that the hay will be succule1
t and digestible, and before the sugar an
ne ne starch made up from the carbon of tn
ni' plant have become changed to wood
~ " fibre. The crops from grass field ma
~ be often taken off at two cuttings instea
oln of one, to much greater advantage
IN e Our grain crops are also of better quail
u ty from soil we'll enriched with organ
=. plant food, and not too much strong]
&c ammoniated manure, which sometime
luo as in the case of wheat, tends more
~ the production of straw than of seed.
~ ~ The same may be said of potatoe
WI W, Mineral manures like ashes, plaste
'u salt, bone, &C., do not cause them to 70
"li Prof. Vile's statement, that lack
~ phosphate of lime, and of potash, al
'no too much nitrogen, caused the rottir
=: ~ of potatoes, is about correct. An exte
III sive use of absorbents under our cattl
20 us' which no good farmer neglects, is a gre
w. w. economizer of fertilizing material, al
w a partial corrector of these evils.
III. -, So we see judicious. as we'll as his
49, n manuring is required. Another disa
0'n vantage of poor manuring is, we ha
small potatoes, and other refuse CROP
,th- which are worth far less by the quaint
her ty than the larger and better productio
and of highly fertilized soils.
Z? Meanwhile, in the cultivation of O
an soils to the greatest advantage, and
less the equalization of our crops for the v
and rious purposes of summer and of whit
gh- feed, the practice of the soiling of catt
lble comes in, to a greater or less degre
Jay, Many of us can winter more stock tn
Vlly we can pasture. 1t is not necessary
ood soil wholly to correct this evil, or to hi
ties pasturing in order to use up our wint
lely feed at home but our COWS can be f
liant in the stall, and their manure say
lred during part of each day, in SUNNI
OBJ The summer manure is of more val
the than that made during other seasons
and uear Thnro aro rnanu farnnors In II