Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-10
RECEIPTS,
EXPENSES.

Receipts per acre.. ~ ~
The farm kept fifteen horses in addition
to the dairy of thirty COWS. But what IS
little singular, there are no hog products In
these figures. -.
Reckoning the farm and implements as
worth $500 per acre, the profit over and
above the interest on So, 200, and $3,27l IL
for expenses Gas sbove) was 81, S5S O6, GER
talnly very encouraging result. ..
We are frequently asked to tell some
friend or reader how he can manage farm
and stock so as to make farming pay him
fair profit on his labor and capital. The
above figures will be useful to Southern az
riculture if they serve to teach the owners
and cultivators of the soil in the South how
to make farm of S21 acres pay all exPen-
ses, pay the interest on sixty-four thousand
two hundred dollars, and then leave clear
profit Of one thousand eight hundred and
ffty-three dollars to the farmer. Attention
Is called to the facts that after keeping If
teen horses, and dairy Of thirty COWS,
which returned an average income OF
eighty dollars and fifty cents head, this
grass growing farmer sold four thousand
three hundred and eighty. five dollars and
fifty-seven cents worth of hay. Dairy pro-
ducts and hay sold from S2l acres brought
siy thousand eight hundred and thirteen
dollars and seven cents. The figures are
instructive to the average Tennessee far
mer by the absence of all corn culture and
all hogs as money crops. Their omission
indicates the belief that their production is
generally overdone; and that wise man
should turn his land and labor into other
branches of husbandry. No one doubts the
value of corn and bacon; but many other
things are needed by mankind, for which
the world pays much bette: profit to the
producer. The farmer who desires an in
come from his estate equal to valuation
of $500 per acre, must raise such crops as
are comper atively scarce and high in price.
Over one thousand dollars were received
from the sale of Irish potatoes which doubt
less grew Oh ten acres or less. In place OF
raising corn for his COWS, this dairyman
bought ten tons of cornmeal at S49.20 ton;
which is nearly two and half cents a
pound, and brings corn at over dollar
bushel. Not many Tennessee farmers can
afford TO purchase meal or corn at two cents
spound TO feed stock, no more than they
can buy land at two hundred dol
lars an acre, pay interest on that sum, and
finally the principal By cultivaing the land.
Yet the average price of hay is higher in
Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville, than
1t is in Philadelphia and Harrisburg. d.
verSify agriculture in the South as it is in
the North, and the profits on our farms per
acre will be as large as theirs. Igrass would
not grow in our climate; and if no milk for
making butter and cheese could be formed
In the sunny South, of course dairy hus-
bandry would be out of the question in our
diversified farming operations. But we can
as easily produce cheese by the ten million
pounds for European consumption as cotton
and tobacco. If corn is worth two or two
and half cents pound to be transformed
into butter and cheese fer expectation, why
should we raise and sell corn at from 30 10
so cents a bushel, and wear out our best
fields in the endless operation? This kills
our uplands, Injuries our bottoms, and in the
end must depopulate the State. A good
farmer pays more for manure than for labor.
In the corn meal wheat, bran, and brewers
grains, there was much manure bought for
the farm above named.