The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-17
S5nme, farm and Garden
WHAT FARMING Is AND Why S0EE
FARMERS F4Ii.

II any one considers "ghat farming
is" or what ii ought 70 -, they would
oome to the conclusion that farming
ought to be the managing Of land % a.
to keep il in condition TO pay for occu-
patton, and there may be many frms
which will pay for occupation which VIII
not pay for cultivation; that is there are
vast tracts of country which, from the
nature of the soil, from the high price
OF labor and from its adaptability
20 remain in permanent actual grass,
would pay exceedingly well to Craze
with any kind OF live stock and by rails
ing stock, dairying, fatrening and wool
growing, &c, money could be made
very fast-this would be farming, and
any system of cultivation and cours of
cropping on good, free working land.
which would keep the land rich in plant
food and allow Of selling enough to Gov
er expenses and pay interest Of capital
and also profit to occupier, would be
farming, and good farming TO. There
fore, it is easy to say what farming is;
but robbing the land is not farming
IL is a running down OF Gods beautiful
earth and although many men pur-
chase a fine tract of land and accumu-
late a fortune from the fine crops the
new virgin soil produces, If they take
crop after crop without some system of
reimbursing it for the drain upon its
productive powers, they are no farmers
in strict sense OF the word, but real
despoilers of their country's wealth and
are deserving of reprobation.
Farming. TO be worthy of the name,
should be so conducted that the manure
mede on the farm be applied to produce
a very heavy quantity Of some nutri-
tious food for cattle or sheep; thus, the
converting of such an extra growth Of
vegetable into dung and urine again
adds to the richness of the soil, so that
a rotation can permit the sale OF same
valuable crop, and the end of the term
or course will fad the land better than
before, and the measure made on the
farm will have increased because the
produce from which it has been made
has been more of it, and consequently,
on an improveing system, the manure
will augment in proportion to the crops.
Market gardening is not farming
fruit crops is not farming; for horticul-
ture and agriculture are not one and the
same, and it is seldom this kind Of mixed
farming does any good. Near to any
supply of manure from livery stables and
other city sources, of course the soil can
be compensated an1, indeed, be forced
TO such degree of fruitfulness, that it
is not of the least consequence how fre-
quently crops of the most exhausting
characteristics succeed each other.
The truth is, farming requires TO be
carried on as all other successful ways
of business are. Amy shop-keeper, if a
man of business. will have such articles
in his store as sell readily, and as he finds
that one particular class of goods pay
him best for having always on hand, he
takes pains to have ineXhaustable sup
ply; therefore, if iine, powerful draught
horses, good milch COWS and heavy long
wool mutton, sheep pay those who raise
them, and the first and last mentioned
pay duty and freight from Canada, he
has only to use his natural common
sense, save duty, save Jreigtt, and
make money, instead OF grumbling at
hard times.-A Working Farmer, ia
Rural Nelr Yorker.