The Hickman courier., 1872-11-02


head is then put in position, and
pressed down by means of lever.
Apples packed in this way can be
carried long distance wit1out dan
ger of bruising Do not put any poor
fruit with the first quality; as 1t Will
seriously affect the price. After the
fruit is all barreled it should be
stored in a cool place, where there is
do danger from frost.
Can Dairying BE Recommended.
a correspondent asks our canold
opinion on dairying, and whether
we would advise him to engage IN 1t.
It is a difficult matter to advise any
course or employment to persons
with whom we are intimately ac-
quainted-although we might know
Just what 1Ce would do if siis ilarly
situated but still more difficult to
make a recommendation when we
know nothing of the person to
whom it is given-nothing about his
habits and disposition, experience,
his capacity to learn, capital, the
taste of himself and family, and the
circumstances by which he is sur
rounded. Under sucl n state OF
affairs, it would be absurd to offer
any advice in the premises, no mat
ter how urgently solicited.
Our opinion of the dairy business
is very high one. When farms
and farmers are adapted to it, we
regaA it as one of the most indie
pendent and lucrative departments
of agriculture IN which any one can
engage. The domestic demand
for dairy products is yet in its
infancy, and is increasing with great
rapidity, while American dairy pro
ducts are steadily and surely win
ming their way III foreign markets.
And for this reason, as we have often
said, we do not apprehend the exist
ence of any danger that the dairy
business IN this country can be over
come, within the lifetime, at least,
OF any one who reads this paragraph
Withvgrain raising and the produc-
ton of pork and beef, there Is dan
ger that the production will at times
be so great as to very materially
interfere with their profits. The
dairy interest, however, is o. such
an enduring foundation, that where
all the circumstances are favorable,
it can be adopted with the utmost
confidence All farms, no Hever, are
not suited to l. There shoull be
good pastures, affoi ding n succession
of grasses, and there should be
water good in quality as well as IN
supply. The Northern States We
are inc ined to think best suite to
this industry, on account OF the
hea ed term Being shorter but it
may be- protitably Conducted IN many
of the Southern States, especially in
those portions bordering upon the
mountain ranges.
We would not advise any one to
engage in the dairy business with
the expectation of getting rich sud
denly. And any one who does, VIII
moss assuredly find himself mis-
taken. Its profits are sure,
but they are neither sudden nor
great They enrich the dairyman
slowly and surely, in proportion to
his intelligence, industry and capital,
but afford but meagre reward for
those gentlemen who are Jntinually
shifting from one thing to another
going into one thing this year,
and out of it into something else
next year. People do not want to
engage in dairying until they can
make up their minds that the time
has come to anchor somewhere, and
that the business is 10 be made,
comparatively, at least, a perman-
ency. O
Neither should any one engage IN
it with the idea thai they are going
to have n good easy time; fogst is Il
business which has very little non
sense or boys play about it 1t is
not a business which, in our Opin
ion, involves an unusual amount Of
excessive labor, but it certainly is a
business which requires close atten-
ton all the time The cows must
be MIXED and attended to at Ger
tain times, and the milk must be
cared for at once, and each night
must see each day work completed.
bee use nothing can be put eff until
tomorrow. 1t Is business to
which system IS everything, and the
want of system perfect failure. In
the hands of careful and industrious
people, there is no branch Of agri-
culture which can be made more
pleasant or productive; but in the
hands of lazy and shiftless persons,
there is no other agricultural pur-
suit likely to prove so unsatisfac-
tory.
1t is n business which broadens
the views and elevates the intelli-
gence of all who are engaged in it.
Because success depends in a larger
degree upon intelligence than Upon
mere muscle, and there is present,
all the time, the strongest possible
stimulus for improvement, and the
dairyman insensible, but surely, be-
comes a student Country Gentle
man.