The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-08

Success in the fullest degree cannot
be attained in any business without
thorough system In conducting It
This Is especially true In the manage
of farm, whether in simple or mixed
but in the latter it il in
that each branch may re-
ceive timely and due attention. EITE
Failure and loss in many of the |
most important branches of husbandry
may generally lie traced to the alb
scence of system, and for want of o
proper classification and q proper as
Segment of each branch Of work to |
its respective season.
Numerous examples might be given,
had we space to devote u q detailed |
description Of them, but o fe " will |
suffice to illustrate how disastrous and |
improbable will be the result, IL con. !
Quoted IN the usual hap hazard mode.
On . farm, in the management of
which the work of winter Is deferred
until spring, that offspring until sum-
mer, that Of summer until autumn
and that Of autumn until winter, or, il
impracticabie to perform out of season,
IL neglected altogether, haste, con-
fusion, neglect disappointment and
failure are inevitable, and il such q
course il continued, encouragement
and bankruptcy must be the result. II
storage for crops and stables for ami
mails have not been provided until
they are needed. the former must be
stacked, in which system there is often
. v aste exceeding by far the interest
OH the cost. Of building for proper
storage.
Hay or grain thus stacked is gen.
orally injured by wet both ut the
harvest and the threshing and feed
ing season, greatly impairing the
quality of both the gram and the
staw, and equally reducing the quanti-
ty and quality Of hay AID fodder; the
latter, however, we regret to say, is
rarely stacked, or stored, even by those
claiming to be economists, and the re-
suit Is that little or no profit, is derived
from it, while the more provident and
systematic, by storing from the
weather, and properly preparing, often
make the stalks OF corn equal in value
to the average hay crop grown on an
equal area.
We know of few instances where
the most is made Oh the stalks of corr,
by housing at the proper time, anu
cutting and scalding, or steaming and
adding trifiing cost Of brand and
meal, and both horses and cattle are
kept in an excellent condition
throughout the foddering season, and
all the hay grown, which Is more
merchsntAble, is marketed, making
an important item in the gross cash
receipts of the farm. r--.-t
Little or NO manure Is made by the
stacking system, hence crops fLH
which it is needed and that might
have been supplied, had the animals
been fed in stables, are starved and
fail for want of it. The failure is not
confined to the grain crop, but the
setting Of grass is last. This loss il
much greater than that of grain, As
the land at the time it is usually laid
by to grass, has been exhausted by q
rotation that totally units it for
further cropping; nevertheless, the
plan usually adopted in case of loss
Of grass set, Is to put another grain
crop and seed again to grass. No pro-
vision has been made for fertilizers for
the attempt to make the extra grain
crop, and in nine cases out of ten the
failure in both grain and grass is more
certain than in the first instance. This
class Of farming, il it may be called
farming, is the discraceful indiscreet
| means by which hundreds of Thousands
| of acres Of the worn out and forsaken
lands of our country have 30 become.
Under . better system of manage
ment, where crops are stored and ami
mails are stabbed, it is common to see
negligence aud profigacy in the care
and application of the manure, or ma
terials that should have been con.
verted into manure. Animals are
| compelled to 60 for water to q neigh
boring brook, thus wasting their drop
| pings, and necessarily exposing them
to degree that the benefit that might
| be derived from the stable is mainly
lost.
10 A little manure made in the year Is
often suffered to be washed by water
from falling rain, and generally
there superadded all that falls upon
the roofs of barn and sheds.
Then, II hauled In winter, fully
eighty per cent. of the weight hauled,
Is rsinwater, no better than that which
fails on the fields; but the hauling is
deferred until the teams should be
blowing for the spring crops, when
that important work must be deferred
and the little water and the little
manure left, after being washed for
months. is to be dragged on vehicles
flnning hub deep, and by teams wal
lowing through mud, which having
recently lhswed, Is utterly unit for .
road. When this unreasonable work
Is performed by the teams they are in
. condition lily adapted to the work of
tillAge, which by the time it Is to be
performed, under such management,
has become hard and will require
double the power to till 1t, and when
broken up Is in clOds, unfit to plant or
seed, and as unfit to produce. Thus
by deferring the work of one season
and crOwding it upon another, the en-
tire system Of the year is deranged
and the consequences above described
Must be borne as it is too late to re-
cover what is thus lost.
At the commencement of the year, all
work which it is proposed to attempt
to execute during that period, should
be fully classified, and written out In
the order deemed most discreet, APP
portiOning to each month its respec-
tive and daily reference should be made
to this schedule.
Incase of q failure 10 carry out all the
work allotted to month, owing to
any cause, that portion not executed
in due course, should be transcribed
into q SPACE in the schedule, left for
the purpose, preceding the record
originally allotted to the work Of the
succeeding month, that it may II prac-
ticable, come in with II, and not be
omitted, or neglected. With this sys-
tenn there Is less danger Of emitting
altogether that which failed to be
executed in accordance with the
original allotment. .t.sf..
Prior to draughting the programme
which Is to be the guide in precedence
and execution of the work for the
year, the farmer or planter should
walk, or ride over his entire domain,
and on the spot, note all that he con.
siders necessary to be doue during the
year, and what portion Of it he feels
that he has the time, force and means
to perform, appOrtioning each job to-
its respective month ut the time,
whilst all local circumstances are un-
der his eye. fr CERTIFIED. g. s .a"
This field note book he should
always have in his pocket, that it may
be at hand whenever needed, and