The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-07-08
Making Money by Farming.

Prosperity attends one farmer, ruination
another many get good living, and some
turn their hand to some other calling to
save them from losing capital, in short, ag-
riculture results just about in the same pro-
portion with regard to profit or loss as mer-
camille pursuits. Although there are many
mistakes, although there are many mis-
fortunes which foresight and good judg-
ment cannot forestall, and the same run of
common accidents which attend every bust
ness, yet none need be timid in entering on
good, fair average farm /; for if all partic-
ulars have been weighed and allowance
made in the purchase money, few disad-
vantages can be readily overcome. Even
stock farm badly watered should not be
discouraging, as this having been calculated
on, there are plenty of ways to secure
supply from rain to last through the longest
drouths; and where the water is kept
clean, the writer has seen it in standing
ponds preferred to spring or other fresh
water by horses, cattle and sheep. This is
mentioned as one of the greatest draw
backs, because most people dread the
trouble of keeping in order temporary
drinking places and the losses sustained by
neglect
Making money is as readily attained by
attention in farming as in trade and it is
common error to suppose this to be ac-
complished only by the sweat of the brow.
Industry is absolutely necessary, but tact in
directing labor Alright is better than merely
leading lot of men by working every bit
of flesh and atom Of fat off the body. Then
it is essential to be posted in the market
value of every commodity, which can only
be done by attending auction sales and
rendezvous for buying OF selling. Amoney
making farmer will ascertain the prices of
all varieties of living stock and calculate
the comparative cost of raising SO as to be
certain which pays best he will also find
out how butter or cheese making and how
wool growing will pay. Doubtless in these
times of high priced and unreliable manual
labor, a system of farming which will per-
NIT of a great deal of the land lying down
in perpetual grass, would pay more for two
reasons First, less expenditure in wages
would be required, and I'd, the fertility
would not be extracted by selling off grain
and corn.
When farm has to be bought to COM
mence an agricultural career, the climate
as we'll as the soil can be chosen and then
a system of breeding and raising stock can
be contrived to be adapted for the end of
having good deal to sell with very little
to buy. However, when a farmer has
become well versed in the price of all kinds
of live stock, it is often that opportunities
can be taken to buy in low market,
and when there is temporary depression,
and by feeding with any grain or other
food, which issselling cheap money can be
made and the manure from the consump-
tion will increase the value of the farm,
being in imitation of John johnson and
few other high farmers, but which is very
common among a class of tenant farmers
in several districts in England and which
the frequent great cattle markets. taking
place annually at certain dates, enables
them to make a regular practice of for if
one market should be too high to answer
their purpose to buy they can try others
Rural New Yorker