The Placer herald., 1872-10-12
HOUSE AND FARM.

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Therefore, small farms are best
.. If YOU want to make your farm pay,
you must give it your daily personal at'en-
ton But if your farm is too large you can.
not do this; hence, as | said above, small
farms are the best.
3. If You don't want your farm to run
away, you must stop the little leaks. we
NAV expect fewer leaks on small place than
on a big one, hence again, small farms are
best
4. Feed your land well, and it will feed
YOU. II takes less TO feed a few acres than
a great many. So you see small farms are
best.
5. If YOU would live long and enjoy life,
work little, then rest little. But if you
have large farm YOU must labor all the
time. Here again small farms are best.
6. To raise big corn, you must keep small
grass TO make small grass you must cut
often. So in this we find small farms are
best.
7. If you have a good fence you need fear
no loss by stock. But fences are costly.
Thus once more we find small farms are
best.
s. If you want good roads, and plenty of
schools, churches and mills, you must have
dense population. If farms are large tins
is impossible. Therefore, ! declare small
farms to be best.
8. Farms should increase in value year by
year. 1t costs less to improve a few acres
than a great many. Here, as before, small
farms are bcst.-B. W. j., az Rarat Cdro-
linian.
WoRN-oUT So1L-Our American farmers
talk great deal about WORKOUT soils, just
as though land would not remain fertile for
ever if as much plant food WAS returned to
it as taken out. In the agricultural districts
of Europe farmer is expected to constantly
Increase the fertility of his land instead OF
wearing it out.
Mr. Lewis, of England, made experiments
with soil owned in one family thousand
years. He sowed piece continuously t"
wheat for twenty-seven years, with an av-
erage crop of fifteen and fve-eghlhs bushels
per acre. a piece in barley, nineteen year,,
gave twenty bushels per acre; and piece III
grass, fourteen years, gave 1900 pounds a
year. This soil, consequently, represented
the condition of the soil with the ordinary
cultivation and rotation as practised; but
similar land of the same farm, to which four
teen tons of manure had been applied, pro-
duced thirty-six bushels of wheat and thirty
six bushels of barley; and with two hundred
pounds of suphate of ammaoia and three
hundred of phosphate, it produced forty-eigh
bushels of barley. This, again, shows ih,
value of manure in England and the in
creased fertility of its soil through the appli-
cation of manure; and any farmer, knowing
the cost of manure in his locality, may easily
estimate whether it will pay him to use it or
not, bearing in mind always that it is much
cheaper and easier to keep up the fertility oi
the soil than it is TO bring it back when once
it is impoverished.
FERTILITY OF WATER-The following Is
an extract from the speech of the Hon
Robert b. Roosevelt in the House of Rep
resentativcs, May 18Th, 1872, comparing
fish culture with agriculture:
The relative fertility of the water and land
is altogether in favor # the water. An acre
of land will produce corn enough to support a
human being but an acre of water will sup
port several persons, and could readily b'
made, with prol er aid, to sustain the lives
of many more. The former requires manur
ing, working, planting and harvesting; th'
latter merely requires harvesting; and that
where the fish are sufficiently abundant, il
hardly any labor at all.
W bile the yield from the land is reasona
bly, large the profit is exceedingly small
The field must be plowed and narrowed arc
fertilized; the corn must he planted; it mus
be plowed again; and still again must be
hoed; and at last the ears must be stripped
husked and ground. What is the net resu
Of this compared with the natural increase o
fish growth in abundance, almost wilhou
effort, finding their own food, and finally
taken in some net which does its fishing whil'
its owner is sleeping?
CoM. On LAMPS INJURIOUS TO MILK -
It will interest some of our very precise
housekeepers to learn that one of our dairy
men, whose butter has a high reputation ii
this market, informs us there had lately leel
some complaint about it, the cause of whcl
he for a long time was unable to discover
but finally traced it to the fumes Of the Goa
oil lamp, used in Lighting the mlk-room
1t shows Gf such ii word is proper) th
eotreme sensiliveness of milk to the leas
s impurity in the atmosphere, and Its rape
power of absorption. The difficulty was en-
titely remedied by putting in "A tin venlilaiin,
a.. tube, leading from the top of the chimney t.
the outside of The roof. The butter was no
afterwards complained of. lie writes us
3 yo"It may as well be stereotyped that it VII
not do to use ii lamp in dary-house, with
ont providing way to carry Oft the fumes =
Exchange.
VINEYARDS OF THE FooT HILLS. That on
Eastern readers may form something of al
Z idea of the importance that vineyard Interests
of California are likely to assume at no YER,
distant day, we give the remarks of a CORE
spondent of the Stockton Independent, writ
ing from Gold Spring Tuolumne county, ii
which he speaks of the vineyards to be fonn'
.lo a;ralo of tu1, lnilns nf foot. Iii