Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
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To Young Beginners.


Young beginners on the farm are too
apt to ego it with rush, How often
we see the young farmer bidding reck-
lessly at auction sales for everything
that he thinks may be of use to him !;
the money with which to stock his farm
burns in his pocket, or he longs to use
his check book. Too often he collects
around him miscellaneous articles, all
good in their way, but perhaps not &C
tual necessities. Anything that can
be done without in the start should be
left out of his first inventory of stock.
It is thought that such and such
should be bought now, because he may
not have money to buy it when requir-
ed. Such principle is fatal. A GER
tain amount of general stock is of
course necessary. Do not buy one ex-
ira pillow nor harrow, and wait until
you are sure you can work them to ad-
vantage ere you invest in the more ex-
pensive machinery of the farm. "a
Cash is more valuable for the first
year upon a farm than it is at any sub
sequent period; and the beginner
should, ere he open his check book, or
thrust his hands into his pockets,
pause and consider whether what he
is about to buy is an absolute necessi-
ty.
Try and get on year or SO without
expensive drills, separators, and espe-
cially without fancy buggies and fast
trotting horses. ~,
Take time, and know exactly what
variety, shape, or patent of any partic-
ular implement of husbandry will suit
your special farm and circumstances
ere you invest, and, above all endeavol
to buy everything as far as possible
during the first year or so from the
proceeds of the farm, letting your fur.
nishing inventory keep down to the
lowest figure, the farm pay for as many
implements and as much stock as pos
sible.
You pay large original sum for the
property (if rented, that rent repre-.
sents the principally; try and have suck
large investment as much as possible
reinvested in collateral or chattel Sc
curities upon itself.
You may apply the same principles
to the purchase of live stock. 1t il
wonderful how rapidly they will in
crease upon the farm. Buy "a few al
first, and pay more than they are con
sidered worth rather than buy poo
beasts. Depend upon it, good beas
at more than it's value is cheaper thai
a runt at half price, because if you d
pay too much for superior animal
the money will be returned in its off
spring.
Again, be very careful in beginning
to improve. Much money is sunk il
a sudden rush into permanentimprove
ments. We know man who bought
a badly lfenced farm, with poor build
ings, and several wet spots upon it fo1
thirty dollars an acre. He went heav
lily into improvements, bought eeda
rails, and fenced out side and in, bull
commodious barns, and under-draine(
his wet spots at once. His capita
would not stand it; his fields insid
his new fences were only half worked
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pressing demands, until his commodi
GUS barns were only quarter filled
his root cellar for 5000 bushels receiy
ed as many hundred, and at last h
had to SELF for less han half the ad
vance per acre that he had expended OF
permanent improvements. IS z 'ss@
Remember, if you don't make you
farm pay you can't get purchasers t.
pay for improvements that they hav
not made under their own supervision
and on their own plans. -e
Beware of getting lot of hand
fencing, ditching, draining and build
ing at first. ~
Do no more than is absolutely ne
cessary to keep yoar fences stock-proo
and your barns fit to hold produce AM
cattle, seesssss.s
It is but poor farm that will no
gradually pay for its own improvement
Devote all your energies they will as
suredly be fully occupied-to gettin!
yourland into thorough and systematic
order, and then, when your farm be
gins to put a balance of profit in you
hands, it will be time enough to turn
your attention and your surplus none,
to permanent Improvements Ca1'ad'
Farmer.