Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-17

my engagements. When keeping n dairy.
we can raise our calves with very little ex-
pense by keeping them on skim milk, so
that in the fall they will he worth from 80 to
$40; in this way keeping our farm we'll
stocked with beef cattle every year. On the
other hand, by trying to produce only beef,
we should be obliged to buy our cattle, and
frequently have to take up with poor quail |
ity. II Is frequently desirable to make one
kind more prominent than others, the great |
object being TO keep that 10 which we are best |
adapted for person will succeed in most
anything in which the qualification OF taste
produces enthusiasm so that though great
mistakes are at first made, they are soon
corrected by experience.
Mr.. S. Huse; It depends great deal on
the situation. Some men that know what to
buy. and when TO buy, can perhaps keep one
kind of stock and succeed. Those persons
that keep graded stock do not, as a general
thing, make so much money rs those who
keep a cheaper kind, but still il may be
pleasanter If one has money enough. be-
licve | should like it myself, but il requires
great deal of capital. There is no branch
of farming that pays better than u dairy if
one is adapted TO IL; but then il requires
great deal of woman's help which is frequent
ly very difficult TO get. You might almost MS
well hunt for gold dust MS to try to find girl
that you can depend upon lin making butter.
But If u man has a wife and daughter adapt
cd TO taking charge of dairy,-as Mr..
llovcy, for instances that he is not obliged
to depend on hired help, think the most
money can be made out of cows. There is
the least fluctuation in butter of anything u
farmer can raise. know man who makes
great specially of beef cattle, hut he has
large pastures, and y great hay producing
farm at home. He buys meal and winters
through great many cattle, and on the
whole makes il pay very we'll But it re-
quires great deal of talent to know how to
buy just the right kind of cattle, and after they
are fattcd, to market them to advantage.
Mr. II. Griswold: Is it not better to per-
feet ono branch of business than TO get lit
tie knowledge OF many?
Mr.. 5. HusC: That is true rs y general
principle, but it cannot be strictly applied to
farming where many branches of industry
necessarily unite.
Mr.. j. &. Hovey; As this questions refers
to this country and not to the western prai-
RIGS it is governed by circumstances, What
in one case would be successful might in an
other prove a failure. Dairy business 10 n
certain extent pays the best of anything, and
cannot think of man in this vicinity that
can well make speciality We can winter
a. hat
to 60 ut distance from home to find suili
cient pastures,-too far to drive cows. We
also raise a variety of produce which requires
different kinds of stock to consume. Still
we must consider dairy the principal thing
in this section. and where everything is nj
right, 1t is the most paying branch of farm
industry. We are also sure of getting q liv
ing ont of it, which is no small item.
Mr.. |. Saith: do not think it makes
great difference what man keeps on hi
farm, if he is only adapted to grow it TO tn
right purpose. lie will succeed in most an
kind of stock il prudent and industrious.
man wants to know when to buy, and whel
to sell. If in sheep business, he can keep hi
wool for any leagth of time. but he will max
sheep more than cows. My first wool | sol
at ~. the next at IS cents. and that did nc
consider very bad business. Ny next WOO
brought IS cents after keeping it two years
. | then began to pack down my wool 70
: higher prices, but kept less sheep. thin
y if had kept right along in the sheep bus
@ ness. il would have been rs profitable rs an
changes have made. It also pays well
raise beef when il sells at from 50 to 81
per hundred, and our back pastures make
: announcement TO keep cows entirely, though
d think this generally pays tho best OF anythin:
c There is one disadvantage in butter; yo
O are obliged to sell it every year whether
=, is high or low while other produce you ca
, sometimes keep to advantage for high'
prices. Il is sometimes we'll to keep horst
1t ifa person has Judgment enough hut peep
nrc rare who can make anything out of
b, and many lose grcatdeal
If Mr.. $. Husc; | notice that farmers
If different parts of the state prefer the fiji
n wool sheep, and they make well in keepir
!. them while they are so unpopular here.
Al do not understand the reason.
J. MIR. |. Smith: Those men who keep the
$ sheep that sell at so high u price are We
n popular farmers, and their influence and re
utation enables them to sell ut most any prc
., and then these fine wool sheep are preierr'
in many cases for three reasons: They q
III much less hay, are pastured with less fen
a ing and they will do much better in lar
ut flocks than the coarser kinds.
p. Mr.. &. NJ. Chase: 1t would be folly for u
=, to try to instruct farmers, hut Mr.. lluse's II
crence to the hesitation Of some in MAXI
speeches reminds no of many persons co
d, stantly meet who are very dilfidont abo
making their thoughts known publicly. o
A thing | can say tor the encouragement
N farmers is, that though their calling is not o
= adapted to cultivate the powers of spec
" and public expression yet they are really I
class of persons who have the greatest col
mon sense, and soundCst Judgment. |
1t. not say this for flattery but always obsel
,lo cd this TO DO true, and whether it resu
;. from the kind of employment or natural {
'0 dowment never could determine. Fro
re- want of experience | am unable TO say nj
he thing instructive upon the question, but !
ed, observation is that mixed stock is best,
I'd farmers were endowed with foro-knowled
ga ii would do to keep one kind Of stock bett
''' but ms 1t is prices are very fluctuating. +
We is produced in "A great degree by over dol
re- that which pays the best this year, thus ca
ich ing u corresponding depression for the NJ
ne year or two. If was farmer would
vo produce large quantity of that which b,
L. the highest price last year. Some dealers
~ fancy breeds Of sheep seem to be an exc
o ton, hut these arc rare cases, and they
adj quently lose large sums of money and
to dependent for success upon the almost ?
the feet knowledge of their business, and the
od iluence of popularity.
Question for next meeting; What is