The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-04-05
Farm and Garden.

then after that. Make up your mind
what your farm is adapted to, 20 into il
in earnest, and stick to il through thick
and thin, and in the long run you will
surely win. But do not neglect toayail
yourself OF all Improvements in meth
DDS, implements, and machinery. Get
all the knowledge you can about your
business, keep up a constant search for
more, in books, papers, observation, ex.
periments, and farmers clubs. You
can not afford TO neglect any of these
sources of information, and you will find
that reasonable amount of time spent
in the pursuit of knowledge will pay
you better than hard work, or any other
investment.
Endeavor by all means to put every
foot OF your farm under the highest pos
sible state of cultivation. Under.drain,
pulverize the soil, save and apply all the
manures possible, make your soil gener.
Gus 10 you because you are generous to
il. If you can not so cultivate all of il,
put your energies on part of it and
make il supply the means to cultivate
the rest Do something every year by
the way of improvement. If you dig
but one drain, or smooth and subdue
but one acre, or save and .judiciously
apply but one extra load of manure,
depend upon it, it will pay you better
than money in the savings bank. The
only bank OF deposit you want is your
farm. In this put all your surplus and
il will make you ich faster and increase
your enjoyment faster than any outside
enterprise you can possibly engage in.
Above all, if you are engaged in dairy
ing, seek to improve your dairy stock.
1t Will not pay you to buy blooded stock
to put in your herd of COWS for milking
purposes, but it will pay you to get some
of the Short. Horn, or Ayrshire, on Hol-
stein blood into your herd. Perhaps no
one man in neighbOrhood is able to
buy tull blooded male; but three or
four, or half dozen can unite and buy
such an animal-or one practically just
as good, having a thirty-second, or sixty
fourth part of other blood in his veins,
and therefore of less value TO the breeder
OF pure bloods-and you can breed from
this animal and your best COWS, for your
own use. You canagain breed from the
most valuable mixers of these crosses,
and i'm time get up herd better even
for dairy purpose than pure bloods
would bc-tOr YOU can, 10y using Judg-
ment and care. cngra.t on to your native
stock ali the better qualities OF the
pure hoods and retain the advantage
of hardness which the imported pure
bloOJs, and we think even the natives,
OK. IN this way you can avail your
self OF all the good qualities of both
the common stock and of the pure
bloods-and among our common stock
are found many valuable animals.
There is no doubt that, with care and
time, we might. by bringing together
only the better specimens of our native
stock, develop very superior breeds of
animals. 1t is in this way that the
families o! pure bloods have been
brought into existence. But we can
not afford the time and expense for de
velopment, so long as we have within
our reach families with which we can
cross with the certainty OF immediate
valuable results. 1t is wisdom to use
all the advantages presented; and
among the most important TO the dairy.
man we consider the opportunity to i'm.
prove his herd by introducing the pure
blood which can be obtained Of the best
breeders.
1t is the duty of every dairyman to
raise his own stock, and il should be his
ambition TO have as good as any of his
neighboIS. This is the only sure way of
getting what you want. and we believe
every dairyman will find both pleasure
and profit IN rearing and improving his
own herd Is not the COW, all other
things being the same, worth more
on the farm on which she was
raised, TO which she is wonted, and with
which she is thoroughly identified than
she would be anywhere else? is she not
more contented and easier to keep and
does she not do better every way? We
think this will be found true, and is an
advantage besides that OF knowing
what you have got because you raised it,
You also escape the danger of intro
ducing disease, as we'll as of getting
cheated, Us you are liable to, when you
make additions TO your herd by pur.
chase. By all means, raise your own
dairy stock, and get into it the best
blood that you can obtain. Among the
principal sources of profit on dairy
farm are the superior milking and keep.
ing qualities of your herd Do not
neglect these. You can not afford to
keep poor herd. The expenses are
too great TO be met by the income from
such a herd.
Farm PouLhy.-Farmers frequently
neglect their fowls, not so much from a
conviction that they don't pay as be.
tcause there are SO many other things to
attend to. Yet oftentimes the labor
spent on more pretentious affairs is not
as profitable as that devoted to poultry
OF course much depends on location
and the market flock of fowls such
as is usual on farms will in most situa
tons, if rightfully managed, yield more
in value annually either gross or nett
than GOOD COW. But no farmer ex-
poets that a COW en- be tended year
and her fodder raised cut, and housed
without considerable work. Fowls if
allowed their freedom may be managed
with much less labor than when they
pre- yarded, but in any case great deal
Of time must be spent in raising chick
ems in sufficient numbers TO keep the
ranks of the laying stock always mainly
filed with birds not old, which is indis.