Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-02-18

sufficient amount to carry our WORK },
through in due time. And If we shouid
ucceed in finding help for few days IN
our business drive, the laboring class are
fully aware that they can demand about v
such wages as they please to ask. Conse-
ouently the scarcity of help and the hlgn u
price of lapor almostneeessitates the tar- v
mer to slight his work, greatly to MS
and while it becomes one OF
the most important duties that devolVes 7
upon our farmers to most thoroughly get : =
their seed into the ground by a sufncleht
working of the soil, they are almost
obliged to leave the ground incomplete.
The great amount of loss occasloned by !
these serious neglects to keep our WOrk up ,
in time, has embarrassed many FARMER
financially, and filled his whole soul Win :
Encouragement. 1t is one great reason !
why we hear so much complaint Oh haro
times among our farmers at the present
day. | believe it to be one great cause OF
real estate changing hands so often, and
why we find SO many poor among the
farming community. For the want OF
success in farm enterprise they sell and
buy, hoping to better themselves like men
in "A iockey-yard, until they trade them
selves yearly homeless. and, as the last
resort. 90 into some backwoOds place, or
among the rocks, where land can be bought
for about four-and -sixpence per acre, win
stone and bushes thrown in. with, perhaps,
a little old hut for a h'use, and plenty OF
room outside for a hay-stack, and SO settle
down for life, without one ray OF hope
beaming upon their vision, only that when
they die their property will cause no anx-
iety among the heirs.
1t will not be expected that snail DE
able to make any indellible impression
upon the minds of those much older IN
wears and experience than myself, but II
can impress the minds OF any OF our young
enterprising farmers, with any Thought
that will be new and profitable to them
selves. | have accomplished my purpose
In the Fl rst place, if you are wise, you Will
make a wise selection in choice of farms,
and AS an exercise of your wisdom and
better Judgment, you will see, as already
suggested, that your buildings are all II
90 ID repair, especially careful to have your
4 barns not only comnodious and warm tor
vour stock. but as AN almost Indispensable
requisite for your success in farming, have
them lust suited for the convenience OF
, both making and saving manure-wlthout
which your farms will depreclate in value
wear bv year, and the chances are you may
) want to sell out in Il few years
believe that we ought to manufacture
our own fertilizers at home, just as far us
f nossible with the means we have, in pre-
: ference to buying anything, however good,
t that is offered in our markets. But VIII n
t we have done the best we can with mate
: rial we have to work with and then lind we
:; are deficient in quantity to do justice TO our
} soil. then. as au alternative, L would rec
ommend commercial fertilizers which are
D reliable and which can be obtained at
g fair value. Who of Us would think TO
/ ente tain a beloved friend we had not seen
: for many years, who had come from some
. flr-off country. with the crumbs that Tel
, from orr table. and would not rather give
It him the best the house .tfOrds? Have we
: 4 truer friend than our mother soil? i
d we have not. then let us treat her with al
+ due respect, feeding her with every kind o
V food for which her bowels yearn, and God
II who alone can give the increase, accor
o dino to His divine nature, will allow her L
IS make due returns according TO the strength
II she has received. And if her strength
# should prove ineffi ;ient to tbuni INT crops
% ut the same time | would earnestly rec
% Commend that we thoroughly cultivate
n the one that will be likely to make US I'M
ID best returns, and destroy the other which
l. is the more common one, and which Is 81
lie detrimental to the highest good OF on
Is farming community that IS, the obnoA
Is ious weeds which SO much trouble GU
l. soil, and sap the very vital breath of plan
pit food from the land
| We NAV chance to learn many goo
tn ideas from books and agricultural papers
Y and vet they are not all reliable authority
y for find there are about as many mind
a as men. Therefore, as an indispensable
or requisite, we should allow experience
he be our best teacher. | would not wish t
e. be understood, however that l would di'
to card book farming entirely, or treat li9h
IN " the columns of our agricultural paper
ut for | esteem them all as valuable to tn
ey b sandman. | am not sure but III
W. teaching of St james would apply ju
1t. here, when he says, . Faith without worf
i1 is dead. being alone Give me eXperien'
re with the books, that we may not be oblige'
of in case of failure, to condem the book
op and the writers thereof because our labt
O. is not fully rewarded.
be To enter into all the particulars pertain
wv inc to the proper treatment of the prop
rs treatment of the soil, would exhaust yol
no time. but never the subject. Therefore
or must defer speaking upon the many In
did portant points, and confine myself MOI
of particularly to a few Of the more prom
80. nent ideas. We read that - Holine
on becometh Thy house, o Lord OF Hosts
not For convenience sake, let us change ii fe
words of this eautiful sentence, and v
Ia oct at our doctrinal point: Cl"anllne:
BILE becometh thy farm. o Her OF the sol
On, and | verify believe 1t to be one OF u
Ich great secrets of success, and that II
to would more thoroughly eradicate ever
OF thing obnoxious to the crop we cultlva'
cir we should find our crops remuneratlng
his, Jwo-fold above the extra expense OF laoo
be ONLY by thorough working of the 81
es, can we accomplish this desired resu
ing And besides the increased value OF o
ed, products, there ought t. be n satlsfactl
ms sufficient to stimulate our farmers 10
1t faithful discharge of this duty, ana as
our result, instead of from forty to SIX
ent bushels of marketable potatoes to the ac'
be- we might have from one hundre a
rue TWENTY-FIVE to two hundred bushels;
ady stead of from forty to fifty bushels OF COZ
lble we miget have from sixty to eighty bus
the els: instead of from twelve to elghte
the bushels of wheat, we might have fro
k is twenty-five to thirty-tive; instead of fro
cad forty to sixty bushels of oats, we miS
ure have eighty bushels, or more--;lnd OH
use, crops in like ratio
DIRK In REGARD to the most profitable CT;
pile crops for a man to raise, think every N
r.as should be his own Judge in the case, as
'uld should he the better acquainted with
ion. own locality, nature of soil, etc: {
ling locality and nature of soil may be far b
o to ter adapted to the oat crop than anoth
our one farm may produce a good crop
in wheat almost successfully, while anot
'our will utterly fail This cannot be attrlb
raw able, altogether, to the management OF
wise farm, Notwithstanding that fertility of
vim soil and good management are indispen
ing BILE to ali paying crops. Very much
med been written in regard TO the best met
get of restoring our lands that have beco
hose Exhausted by continued cropping and
tvt nd IN thiS nj