The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-19
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uregiliHnafeA Agricultural "iO %
sans people talk CT mixed farm
ii ,.,ooose the growth OF pro
H. NTH which the farm, proper!
sDeakiug, has naught to do' iof ~
- correspondeut ask an op1n
ion of having twenty acres as a VINE
v.-d and an orchard Of ten acres.
with twenty COWS, This would moi
come under the head Of agriculture,
although the proprietor would be q
dairyman if he intends the Cows to be
miIch cattle. Fruit growing, by those
who understand it and select the right
kind of soil and situation, is doubles
a very profitable occupation but,
according to my humble opinion, the
farming that could be mixed upiwIth
it would suffer a good deal, a. all the
manure made on the rest Of the land
would be required for the trees, Con-
sequently a site should he chosen
which would give facility for procur-
ing manure, &c, by water, or any
cheap conveyance from cities or towns
where IL is abundant. The growth OF
any crops not genuinely agricultural
will usually end in disaster to the soli'
because there is nothing TO return as
an equivalent for the fertility taken
away. Cotton will exhaust Z; but when
the price Is high it pays to buy guano
fax is bad unless the seed is made INTO /
Jelly and fed TO the live stock. l know
tenant farmers who used many tons
of the best fax seed which could be /
bought, and cooked it in preference TO
feeding oil cake and the crops OF
roots and other produce which result
ed from the use of the manure made
by the cattle fsttened by eating tins
fax seed jelly vas surprising. But of
all evil crops, tobacco is the most hate
full, for that seems to me to be the
most disgraceful to mankind. The
very idea of cultivating a rank poison
TO crafty the acquired taste for the
filthy stuff, is suggestive of insanity I;
but men will do anything for greed,
and even parsons in New England,
who preach and incite otherwise
against the stimulation by Intoxicating
liquids, will grow this stupeiying and
disgusting rubbish, and "chaw" it too
My second son has jnst bought a
new Waltham watch with the money
saved, while a companion of bis has
paid a similar amount for tobacco;
and my other boys are intending to
buy either watches or other articles
of use and comfort with the money so
often thrown away, and, worse than
this, squandered for tobacco, and what
usually follows, "drlnk." Excuse this
digression. /,
Mixed farming, when it means the
growth of different crops in regular
rotation, and the keeping of mixed
or suitable variety Of live stock to con-
sumo them, is good, and the most re-
liable system for term of years
The shifting manner in which some
farmers crop their land leads to great !;
evil for when they cease to plant a
crop because it sells low, and sell out
animals because they have not paid
as well as others for growing and rais- !:
ing, higher and remunerative price
is almost certain to folloR when they
have nothing of the sort 10 sell. At
the same time no farmer need tie him
self down TO any rule; for should
either OF his crops, which he generally
consumes with his live stock, run up
to very high figure, it would be easy
TO purchase something as good for
food, and pocke: the difference in
price by disposing Of the dear article
and this would more than compensate
for sticking to system, and continu c
ing q regular course of husbandry re-
gardless of prices.
nlegitimate agricultural produce l
would never grow unless, as stated
above, the location was such that
everything requisite was obtainable
without injury to the land.-A Work
ina Fdrnaer ia Rural NelO Yorker.