Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-04
Farm and Garden.


then after that. Make up your mind
what your farm is adapted to, go into it
in earnest, and stick to it through thick
and thin, and in the long run you will
surely win. But do not neglect to avail
yourself of all improvements in meth
DDS, implements, and machinery. Get
all the knowledge you can about your
business, keep up 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 q reasonable amount of VINE spent
in the pursuit of knowledge will pay
you better than hard work, or any other
investment. .A
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 to you because you are generous to
it. If YOU can not so cultivate all of it,
put your energies on a part of it and
make it 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
it will make you ich faster and increase
your enjoyment faster thar 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 getsome
of the Short-Horn, or Ayrshire. or Hol-
stein blood into your herd. Perhaps no
one man in a neighborhood is able to
buy full-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 can again breed from the
most valuable mixers of these crosses,
and in time get up herd better even
for dairy purposes than pure bloods
would be-for you can, by using judg-
ment and care, engraft on to your native
stock all the better qualities Of the
pure bloods, and retain the advantage
OF hardness which the imported pure
bloods, and we think even the natives,
lack. 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 of 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 it should be his
ambition to have as good as any Of his
neighbors. 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 wa:
raised, to which she is wonted, and with
which she is thoroughly identified, thar
she would be anywhere else? Is she MOI
more contented and easier to keep, anC
does she not do better every way? We
think this will be found true, and is ar
advantage besides that of knowing
what you have got because you raised it
You also escape the danger of intro
ducing disease, as well as of getting
cheated, as you are liable to, when yol
make additions to your herd by pur
chase. By all means, raise your owl
dairy stock, and get into it the bes
blood that you can obtain. Among tn.
principal sources of profit on a dair,
farm are the superior milking and keep
ing qualities of your herd. Do no
neglect these. You can not afford t,
keep poor herd. The expenses ar
too great to be met by the income from
such herd.
Farm Poultry.-Farmers frequentl,
neglect their fowls, not so much from
conviction that they don't pay as be
cause there are SO many other things t,
attend to. Yet oftentimes the labo
spent on more pretentious affairs is no
as profitable as that devoted to poultry
Of course much depends on location
and the market. A flock of fowls sucl
as is usual on farms will in most situa
tons, if rightfully managed, yield NOR
in value annually (either gross or net
than a good COW. But no farmer ex
poets that COW can be tended yea
and her fodder raised, cut, and housed
without considerable work. Fowls i
allowed their freedom may be managed
with much less labor than when the,
are yarded, but in any case a great dea
of time must be spent in raising chick
ems in sufficient numbers to keep tn
ranks of the laying stock always mainl
filed with birds not old, which is indis
pensable to success. 1t should be re