The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-21
AGRICULTURAL.


AOAlCULTURAL.
Prsatahle Farming.
There are too many men who put their
al in single venture, and il that fails
are utterly used up. There is perhaps
no business wherein "two strings to
ones bow" ia 80 important. In almost
all other pursuits there are certain ruler
which have bean founded on experience.
and which the shrewd man Of business
can take advantage Of, with an almost
assured certainty Of success. But We
cannot do this. We cannot tell what
will happen to our crops Sometimes it
will be over dry, sometimes over wet
sometimes we are plagued with swarms
Of insects, at other times we are afflicted
with blights and mold. Agains. none
Of these things do we ever get the
slightest hint.
But we have dwelt on this recently, in
speaking of the value Of diversifying
our products, Trouble never strikes
everything alike. Some viii succeed.
But. Independently of all this, the
young farmer should never be cast down
by misfortune. It is here where 70
many fail. We knew one, once, who had
made by city work some $1,000. He
had originally been brought mp on a
farm, and had always made up his mind
to return to it as soon as lie had accu-
INFLATED enough to warrant him III
making start. But he put away 8. 900,
and invested only 5000 in the farm and
stock. It SO happened that the next two
years found him in terrible losses but
they brought experience, and he fell
back ON his small reserve, and this, with
his experience, gave him a new and fresh
start. It is not SO long ago; but he
now considers himself worth about $685.
600, and is one of the most ardent advo-
Gates Of the proposition that farming
will pay.-Germanto,c Telegraph.
Rasping Horses Feet.
A correspondent of the Canada
Farmer writes: Rasping down the feet
nicely, as they call it, is quite passion
with some people. ! have often rasped
the hoof, and the owner Of the horse
standing by to tell when it would suit
him. This rasping Of hoof that hap
pens to be little ill-shaped, until it
will spring under your finger, is far too
dangerous plan for making things look
we'll have often commenced on hoofs
that had beautiful gloss all over, and
given them thorough rasping; not
that could make them any better, for
that was beyond the power of human
hands, but they had to be rasped merely
because the owners mind was slave to
fashion or fancy. This rasping takes
the strong surface off the hoof, and
nature, trying all she can to make up for
the evil done by injudicious hands, forms
hard, glossy surface to protect the foot.
The glossy surface takes the place of
the previous tough horn, and at the
next shoeing the foot will probably split
little at the nails, and not unfrequently
the nail punches q piece out before it.
| Scrap Book.
Every farmer should keep book in
which to paste agricultural scraps.
Every one, in reading paper, will see q
number of things which he will wish to
remember. He will perhaps see sug.
gestions the value of which he viii de-
sire to test, or hints which he viii want
to be governed by in future operations.
And yet, after reading the paper, he vii
throw it down and will probably never
see it again. In such q case all the
valuable articles will be lost. To pre-
vent such loss, every reader should
clip such articles as he desires to pre-
serve and remember, and paste them in
q scrap book. Such book, at the end
Of year or two, viii be very interesting
and valuable.
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