Connecticut western news., 1874-02-06
Farm, Garden and Household
Will Farming Pay


 paper under the above heading, dis and yet, to my mind, (and no doubt to other minds without arriving at any thing definite. MT. A. will cite an in- stance, showing the profit of an opera tion, and declaring from that result that it will pay while MT. B. will de- tall, perhaps, a single disaster, and stoutly affirm that it will not pay. This is no way to judge of matter of this kind, and has no direct connection with B true verdict. Ask a manufacturing company or an individual if their busi- ness will pay, and they could point to you cases of great success, and also to those of dire disaster, in each and all branches of manufactures. The same of commercial business-in fact of all business transactions whatever. In the first place 8 man must have brains to know 8 few indispensable things before he can make any business pay. He must know that one swallow does not make summer; that there are many extraordinary incidents to which we are subject that will occasionally defeat the best laid plans and operations, and also that like produces like. In support of the foregoing proposition, let me illus trate: l have two neighbors. Neighbor O., as I will call him, is the most un- fortunate of mortals-bad luck is chasing him up continually before or just at the time he is ready to plant a great storm thwarts his purpose, having waited 8 full week to see if the weather was going to hold good. Then, as his crop last year was miserable, his seed is poor, and, being in that plight him. self, he can't get any better, and so uses that. Then when his poor crop gets in the right state, as luck will have it, in comes 8 drove of hogs, or other stock, and half devours what there is i; and so it goes. His life is, to all in- tents, 8 great fret, and nothing else. He does not possess the proper requi- sites, industry, system, economy, and care. Of course, his business won't pay. But here is neighbor B. he runs a small farm, and has grown the same kind of corn for 8 long time, and by carefully selecting and cultivating the same has increared the product, eradu- ally, from twenty bushels an acre to over one hundred, which was produced last year, and the crop is two weeks earlier than formerly. His granary is well filled, stock fat and sleek; is now furnishing his corn for seed to all parts of the State at $5 per bushel. These two farms are identically the same, as regards soil and fertility, and the proper way to answer this question when it is asked by any one who thinks of pursuing the business, is to weigh the man and analyze him. If he has solidity in the upper tier, and the requisite traits in addition, he will suc- xS,ha 14 oH foot upon farm or not. Having 8 good foundation, all the other reaui- sites needed are at hand; wanting that, failure is inevitable" .-.s ...
 The Coming Cow.
 This COW, according to an editorial in recent number of the Vermont Fur zaer, is to be known as the Vermont COW. How this is to be brought about, and the present annual average product of 200 pounds of butter per COW to be increased to 250 or 300 pounds, is set forth in the following extract:
 "Not entirely, not mainly in our opinion by the introduction of any for eign breeds, no matter how good dairy animals they may be in their own Coun- tries. We may make use of any or all of these breeds to begin with, and quite often with profit, but unless we follow, in our practice of breeding and rearing, the same system of principles that pro- duce those breeds from common stock no better than our own, all amendment by reason of such crosses will be but temporary and of little value. When the dairy COW of Vermont is brought to perfection, she will not be Devon nor Durham, Dutch nor Jersey-she will be the Vermont COW; combined product of Vermont pastures, Vermont climate, and Vermont breeding. Set that down for fact to begin with, and make it the starting point of all your work, if you would succeed in augmenting the yield of your dairy. As our friend Douglas has so often urged in reference to mak- ing butter, "ike cause produces like efects;" and it is only by learning and putting in operation tthe causes that have produced milking breeds in other countries that the capabilities Of our COWS in that direction can be developed and maintained.
 "Now, what are those causes? They are-frst, constant abundance of rich, sweet, and succulent food; second warm yet well ventilated stables, with pro- lection at all seasons of the year from
 
 selection of both sire and dam in breed ing, with view to the production of a definite desired result; fourth, the best possible care of the calves and heifers; fifth, constant wedding of the herd, and the exclusion of all marked devia- tions from the desired type; sixth, re- fusal to sell the best animals of the herd at any price.
 "All this must be preceded by full understanding of the true type of a dairy cow-an ideal toward which we must work. We must give up the mo- tion that Ayrshire, Jersey, Yorkshire, or Holland is to giy us our dairy COW. That COW has got to be produced here Tn Vermont, as the Vermont merino sheep was produced-by Vermont in. telllgence, skill, and perseverance. .
 How to Burn Oyster. Shells. F.
 Oyster-shells may be burned in 8 pit similar to that in which charcoal is burned. The shells should be piled in heap with layers of wood chips, brushwood, and small cordwood inter mingled. A layer of dry wood split fine should be placed at the bottom of the heap, arranged so that draft is made to the centre of the heap, in which are a few sticks of wood placed on end to form a chimney. The heap should be covered with sods or coarse litter and then with earth, leaving g few holes for air until it is we'll kindled Then the holes should be closed up al most entirely. l@'-.
 His Will.
 An old farmer once said {: "When die, I am going to leave behind me, as a heritage for my children, the home where they were born, made as beauti full as my means and uneducated taste would allow; pleasant memories o. home freside and of the sunny sum may dave onI 4r,7a ro.o~J i.