The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-27

| by NOol SoIu from ibO Sneep 100 lbs at
45c.................. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1857 30
| BY butter from cows, 1850 lbs at 35c. 3GI so
| by pork solo, 1900 MS at Sc .............. % 90
| by sheep ana wether lambs ............. l5D 90
| BY cattle.............. ................ i15 90
! by poultry and eggs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 100 90
ny apples and cider...... 50 90
by Wheat. ........-....... ............. 30 %
| By maple sugar. Observation-Disclosures. rs 90
| si4si 90
FARM DEBIT.
| To labor, self and man..................s 800 60
10 board ".................... $50 90
| To use OF tools. ..,.., 80 90
To interest on 5000. 300 90
To taxes. Observation-Disclosures. so 90
1890 90
Balance In favor OF farm after support
ing FAMILY or persons. 53l 90
He says, 81 think the above fair aver
age of the income of my farm for series
of years."
This mans advantages of education were
very poor. He told me that he commenced
working on the bench at fourteen and af-
ter that had but two months schooling an
nually, and was required to work in the
shop every evening when he went to school,
The other farm joins the one Just de-
scrlbed. 1t is just twice as large, Its mar
ket value is twice as much the soil as fer
tile and buildings as good. 1t is as well
adapted, every way SO far rs | know, to
| yield good income as the other. Its
owner is fully as intelligent, and equally
well informed.
am not aware of any particular in
which their circumstances are not equally
favorable for profitable farming, except
that the first has the advantage of a son ar
rived at maturity, whom | presume has
been an efficient assistant on the farm
have examined the accounts but have
mot In f,, tail D,,e &. i,
that the footing up of the profit and loss
on the same basis as the other, the large
farm has been for a series of years carried
on at an annual loss of $3.50. No account
being made in either case of rents, fuel and
farm products consumed in the family. The
small farm pays q per cent. interest on
valuation of $4,000, and 1881 beside. The
large one pays no interest and loses beside
interest $3.50. 1t is valued at $I2 200, and
think can be sold for that. The small
farm sells. as we have seen, S14S1 annu-
ally. The large one sells $500 annually.
Both families live well, neither OF them ex-
travaganty. Gentlemen, shall leave you
to draw your own conclusions while pre-
sent few suggestions such as occur to the
mind of one who, by virtue of long and
severe manual labor, may freely be consid-
cred something more than a theorist on
|
| rno,, Ti.O H......- ..,.,-. ndor. ~on,a we'll
considered and well defined system that is
adapted to his soil, his market and his cir
cumstances and having fixed on his plan
of proceeding he should bend all his cner-
giles and turn all his resources to the sue
cesstul execution of the programme.
lie must not change tactics at every
tluctuation of the market. nor be discour-
aged at Transient misfOrtunes, but push for
ward, through sunshine and storm, con-
WINGED that success is duty, and resolved
to be satisfied with nothing short of sue
cess. In considering the great question of
adaptation the farmer may depend upon
this as a cardinal truth, that he should en-
gage in that which he understands from
practical experience. His judgment and
knowledge of details must be matured by
practice. Otherwise he will meet with diff
ticultes at every step. Suppose the farm
to be adapted to keeping sheep, and the
farmer is acquainted with the business
can go into flock and pick out the good
sheep, and knows how to breed them and
care for them, and has sense enough to
raise large, rugged sheep that will shear
six pounds or seven pounds of clean WOOL
and will fatten readily and make large
carcass, there is no reason why he should
not make money off from such a flock.
know of flocks of good merinoes of this
character that pay well. But If man I'M
dertakes to keep sheep who does not un-
derstand the business, or who has not pas
lures for them, he will get cheated " hen he
buys. He will make bad selections when
he breeds and his lambs will be delicate or
too small, or the tiecces will not be right or
they will make poor nurses. He will sell
those he ought to keep and reserve the ones
he should sell. He will have too many for
his keeping. He won't make them thrive.
and his dividends will consist of pulled
| wool. He will say farming does not pay.
, 1t will not do for the farmer to raise crops
that do not pay. 1t his soil is wet and
rocky and too hard to cultivate he must
| not raise grain to any great extent, but
give his attention to grass. He must raise
| those crops which pay the best income fol
the soil and the labor expended, and leave
the land in the best condition for succeed
ing crops. The farmer must keep such
farm stock, whatever the breed, as i.
adapted to his purpose and pays well fol
} the food consumed and care and he must
[ give it such care and treatment that it car
convert to food consumed to another ant
, more compact form of merchandise will
t the least possible waste. 1t is unnecessary
to 70 into details. think my meaning i:
1 understood.
There can hardly be more certain Oh
stacle in the wav of success than the at.
+ tempt to do too much In the effort to ac-
a complish more than there is capital and
time to do WE'LL all is sighted Nothing il
done in time and nothing well. am be-
y lever in thorough farming and yet could
give YOU long list of losses consequent
upon saving too many irons IN the fire, and
, not 90 far from my own farm for examples
, A delay of week in putting in the seed of
ten turns what might have been good croI
into A failure. Seven days behind time in
wedding doubles or trebles the labor, re-
duces the benefit to the crop, an adds still
; farther disarrangemen to the farm work
I A week behind time in beginning hayinG
may not result in deterioration the frs
grass that is cat, but that which stands
a 10 the last of the haying suffers q
change OF the sugar and starch to
woody fibre. Rainy weather may inter
t vene aud the cutting Of grain come on, SO
b, that instead OF one week behind 10 may be
\ three or four. low fence that you are
J going to fix "noxt week or "soon as you
Q can get to it," tempts the cattle ana they
+. destroy or injure crop, and learn tha'
+ fences can be scaled. Nothing can be
e clearer than that the farmer must limit ms
: plans to match his capacity for execution,
whichis in measure controlled by his cap
ital or his means for employing help. |
!. would not be understood as saying that
c think farmers do not plan business enough.
: 1t is my opinion, on tho other hand, that
0 the common fault is there is not energy
| enough in executing. AT all events the
= work should all be done thoroughly and in
!, season.
, II appears to me that a very essential ell
ement of success is practice of a system OF