The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-04-05
Farm and Garden.

tuen alttr luul. MAKE up your mlut
what your farm is adapted to, 60 into il
in earnest, and stick TO it through thick
and thin, and in the long run you will
surely win. But do not neglect toayai
yourself OF all improvements in meth
DDS, implements, and machinery. Get
all the knowledge you can ABOUT your
business. keep up constant search fol
more. in books. papers, observation, ex'
periments. and farmers clubs. You
can not afford 10 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,
pulyerize the soil, save and apply all the
manures possible, make your soil gener-
Gus to you because you are generous 10
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 .iudiciously
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 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. 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 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-tor you can, by using judy
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,
lick. 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 nave 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
results. II 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 thete.t
breeders.
1t is the duty of every dairyman to
raise his own stock, and it should behls
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
Ihings 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
iucing disease, as we'll as of getting
as you are liable to, when you
make additions to your herd by pun.
,hase. By all means, raise your own
larry stock, and get into it the best
blood that you can obtain. Among the
principal sources of profit on a dairy
arm are the superior milking and keep.
ng qualities of your herd. Do not
neglect these. You can not afford to
Keep poor herd. The expenses are
90 great to be met by the income from
UGH herd.
Farm Poultry.-Faimers frequently
neglect their fowls, not so much from a
that they don't pay as be.
'ause there are so many other things to
ttend to. Yet oftentimes the labor
pent on more pretentious affairs is not
IS profitable as that devoted to poultry.
)f course much depends on location
md the market. A flock of fowls such