Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-07-16
Do ing Farm Work Well.

lHere Is no department OF IN
dustry where doing work well
pays better than in farming. We
all admit the necessity with re
gard to other branches OF bust
ness, but many and perhaps most
times practically deny it in this.
There is not one farmer in fifty
that is as careful with his crops
as the manufacturer is with his
wares. The cloth we buy has ne
broken threads in warp or woof,
and the tailor's stitches me an
business every time, or he does
not get second job. The car
riage in which we ride is not
thrown together, but fitted part
to part, so that the whole vehicle
is almost as much one piece as
though it grew together-iron
and wood. So of all industries
upon which the world writes sue
cess.
Take = few facts about farming.
One year ago the writer employ
ed man to plow an acre ofland,
and fer special reasons wanted it
done well. While the owner was
in the field, and part of the
time holding the plow, each fur
row was cut exactly the same
width and depth, the whole mass
properly disintegrated, and left
in the best condition that the
plow could leave it. Afterwards
the furrows were cut some four
inches wide and some ten, meas
uring in depth all the way from
one inch to eight, always deep
est in the lightest soil. There
was no brain put ints the busi-
ness, and as little strength as the
nature of the work would allow.
Of course the harrow followed
the plow, but it could not RENE
dy the wrong, and the conse-
quence was that nearly twice as
much time was required to make
the field plantable as under 9th
er circumstances would have
been necessary; and when the
grain was harvested, the 1our
rows on the outside, where the
breaking up was as nearly per-
fectly done as it could be, bore
at least quarter more corn than |
the sighted. outraged interior.
Now, take the farms frem Maine
to California. On what proper
ton is the primary work ofplow
ing done in the best possible
manner2 And yet no part of the
preparation or after culture is so
important as this, or bears such
direct relation to good yield.
Take another department of
farm work. Several years ago
the owner of a considerable dairy
was perplexed beyond measure
at the meagerness of the yield of
butter frsm a certain number of
cows. The milk vas as abundant
as usual, the house manipulation
was good, and yet whom he should
have marketed from fifty to sixty
pounds week. he rarely ever
went over forty. His perplexity
grew apace, until happening to
go into his yard after his two hir-
ed men had completed the nights
he found from pint to
a quart of milk in the udder of
each cow-the practice of the
as he afterwards learned
being to stop the moment the
flow abated, leaving the very
best portion behind.
A radical change in the mode
Of milking added several pounds
Of butter week to his product
at once, and solved forever per-
picking problem.
Now, take all the cows in this
ceuntry-millions on millions
what proportion of them are milk
ed as they should. be ? Some are,
but a vast number are not. And
yet it requires not more than
minute of additional time to each
animal-perhaps four hours in
Summer, or six at the most.
Not to mention other neglects
equally and even more costly,
that the plowing in these
United States could be done as :
perfectly as possible, and the ]
as well as it can be, 1
would not the aggregate of the
Increase ofproducts be immense,
perhaps turn the scale, that is
evenly balanced, in
avor of farming as a money-mak-
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