The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-15

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fruit with the first quality; as it will
seriously affect the price. After the
fruit is all barreled it should be
stored in a cool place, where there is
do danger from frost.
Can Dairying Be Recommended.
A correspondent asks our candid
opinion on dairying, and whether
we would advise him to engage In If.
It is a difficult matter to advise any
course or employment to persons
with whom we are intimately &C
quainted- although we might know
Just what ace would do if similarly
situated but still more difficult to
make a recommendation when we
know nothing of the person to
whom it is given-nOthing about his
habits and disposition, experience,
his capacity to learn, capital, the
taste of himself and family, and the
circumstances by which he is sur
rounded. Under such a state of
affairs, it would be absurd to offer
any advice in the premises, no mat
ter how urgently solicited.
Our opinion of the dairy business
is a very high one. When farms
and farmers are adapted to it, we
regard it as one of the most indie
pendent and lucrative departments
of agriculture IN which any one can
engage. The domestic demand
for dairy products is yet in its
infancy, and Is increasing with great
rapidity, while American dairy pro-
ducts are steadily and surely win
ming their way IN foreign markets.
And for this reason, as we have often
said, we do not apprehend the exist
ence of any danger that the dairy
business in this country can be over
come, within the lifetime, at least,
of any one who reads this paragraph.
With grain-raising and the produc-
ton of pork and beef, there is dan
ger that the production will at times
be so great as to very materially
interfere with their profits. The
dairy interest, however, is on such
an enduring foundation, that where
all the circum stances are favorable,
it can be adopted with the utmost
confidence. All farms, however, are
not suited to 1t. There should be
good pastures, affording a succession
of grasses, and there should be
water good in quality as well as IL
supply. The Northern States We
are inc ined to think best suited tC
this industry, on account of the
heated term being shorter but il
may b } probably conducted in many
of the Southern States, especially in
those portions bordering upon the
mountain ranges.
We would not advise any one tc
engage in the dairy business witt
the expectation Of get ing rich sud
denly. And any one who does, vii
most assuredly find himself mis-
taken. It's profits are sure
but they are neither sudden MOI
great. They enrich the dairymaI
slowly and surely, IN proportion t.
his intelligence, industry and capital
but afford but a meagre reward 70.
those gentlemen who are continually
shifting from one thing to anothe
going into one thing this year
and out of it INTO something els
next year. People do not want t,
engage in dairying until they cal
make up their minds that the tim
has come to anchor somewhere, an,
that the business is to be made
comparatively, at least, a perman
ency.
Neither should any one engage i
it with the idea that they are goin
to have a good easy time for IL is
business which has very little non
sense or boys play about it. It j
not business which, in our OpiT
ion, involves an unusual amount c
excessive labor, but it certainly is
business which requires close atten
ton all the time. The cows mus
be MIXED and attended to at cel
tain times, and the milk must b
cared for at once, and each nigh
must see each day S work completed
because nothing can be put eff unit
tomorrow. It is a business t
which system is everything, and Tia
want of system perfect failure. I
the hands of careful and industriou
people, there is no branch Of agri
culture which can be made NOR
pleasant or productive; but in tn
. hands of lazy and shiftless persons
there is no other agricultural pu
suit likely to prove so unsatisfa,
tory.
| 1t is a business which broader
l the views and elevates the INTEL
gence of all who are engaged in !
3 Because success depends in a large
t degree upon intelligence than upo
t mere muscle, and there is preson
3 all the time, the strongest possibI
= stimulus for improvement, and th
t dairyman insensible, but surely, b.
l comes a student.-COlntTy Cent?
! man.
Celery as a NerYine.