The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-09-17
Come, farm and garden
Results Of Good Earning.

Results Of Good Farming.
There is no more important or effec-
tive incentive to good farming than the
experience and success of good farmers.
What has been done once nay be done
again, and the following letter from
New Hampshire farmer in the Mirror
and Farmer of that State does not ex-
ceed the practical results which we have
known in many other instances:
lam what might be termed an enthu-
siastic farmer. ! believe that farming,
when conducted with the skill, economy
and enterprise that cbaracterizes most
other fields of industry, affords ample
remuneration; that it is conducive to a
better physical developemeDt; that its
lessons and surroundings promote
higher moral and spiritual develope-
ment than any of the numerous avoca-
tions of mankind; and therefore it pays.
Nine years ago last fail purchased the
farm upon which / now reside, paying
therefore 81, ,40O-running in debt $500
on the purchase. For about three years
previous to my purchase the farm had
been rented, and about II years pre-
vious to that the owner made yearly
practice of selling about four tons, or
one-half of the English hay, returning
no equivalent therefor. He usually
kept three COWS, horse and a pair of
~ ha IL ont no /
informed, about eight tons of English
hay, and about the same of meadow and
stock hay.
During the nine years Of my owner
ship, have paid for farm help, 81, ,974.
have purchased /, ,127 bushels of corn,
at a cost of 81, ,O69.7O; 12 1-2 tons of
shorts, costing s37s; have paid out $3.50
for hay; purchased $40 worth of man
ure, ashes, ETC., amounting in all to S3,-
92179. My improvements during this
period consisted of erecting new barn,
3SxS0, with all the modern improve
ments, digging a well some 20 rods away
and supplying both house and barn with
running water, putting in about 100 rods
Of underdrain, removing hundreds of
tons of rocks from the fields, and bring
ing the land to such state of cUltiva-
ton as to cut last year 20 tons of hay,
where eight was cut before, wintering
more than double the stock the place
was able to carry when purchased
it. Such an outlay would cause many
doubts and fears in :he minds of
timid farmers as to the financial result.
Now for the receipts: During these
nine years have sold from the dairy,
besides what was consumed by the fam
lily, land that not a small one) 8,518
pounds of butter for So, ,64S.5 calves
and veal sold, S38S. AZ; have fattened
and slaughtered II, s12 pounds of pork,
worth at the time of slaughtering ST.
215; pigs sold, S1S2; poultry and eggs
Sl3.22; for rapples, 1896; potatoes, S147.-
80; for beef and mutton, $3.50, making |
a total of S7,O89.7O.
But this showing does not embrace |
the expenses incident to, living. find, by /
footing the yearly receipts and expendi-
lures from all sources, that the amount
stands as follows: Total receipts, $12,-
315.55; expenditures, 81, ,275.6S; bal
ance of receipts over expenses, s, ,039.S7.
But this is not all. An inventory of the
stock on the farm over what it was nine
years ago amounts to about 1925.
But to tell the whole story in a few
words as possible, the debt of $500 has
been wiped out, S225 worth of land ad-
ded to the farm, all Improvements above
enumerated, and little left for rainy
day. All this, let me assure you, has
been made from the legitimate opera
tions ON the farm, excepting about $50
made one season packing pork, and
about 500 in purchasing cider apples to
send down to Massachusetts. Is not
reasonable ambition2 Can one out of
in all other caIlings show
better record in the same length of timer
The thousands of deserted homesteads
throughout New Hampshire, the grad
ual diminution of our rural population
and the growth and increase of popula-
ton in our cities and villages point un-
to a belief that farming is
not remunerative. This / unhesitating- .
y deny. If it has proven unremunera-
live to such, it is only because of bad
Indifference, and want
Of proper skill and enterprise. This
'obbing the soil is what has robbed you.
This fear of buying a bnsheI of grain, of
eeoing your beasts with liberal hand,
If tilling your soil and draining it with :
/ true appreciation of its wants is what :
las wrought ruin in our midst