The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-02
Euupgonitb;r Farming.

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II ll'y KEEP, II surrey "'pI ana circuit "c
'""Ilt o. "ll l'IHl iI3h'a'Jl"i7, upon "
I'Ni'W, "u"ld NOT II'IN many more or less
'Il'a"''''''oI N'I"nf''-''I from one
cause, some from another. Now, lhcsc
instances OF h'l-rUrctS7cS, rs wen rs
liIo'c other successful ones, FORM Whal Is
termed experience, ana are valuable
teachers for future plans ana hopes, ana
should he more frequently gwen TO III"
farming pubIlc. 1t Is just tins eXprrI,
enc" which may be kept fresh to li8 ana
our successors, and can he obtained IN
no other way Than ny keeping an 'NArl
account and record oI all iarnl operations,
which when furnished to others, would
he ol treat value, ny warning lhclh OF
the shoals ami lulcksahd' to be avoided,
and tn" successes to be improved upon,
BEGINNERS III farming, coming from other
walks III Iiic, ANA even young men, bred
10 lh" farm but inexperienced n head
MANAGERS, but morr"5prclaIiy those com
lur from other pursuits, having read the
glowing description OF the success Of cX-
prricuccd farmers, have their minds
Inrcd by the charms ofruraI life and art,
and by experience are frequently disap.
| pointed, whereas had the non-sIcccsscs
Of these snmc experienced farmers been
set down beside their successes, and also
the reason or iniIurmCcs IcadingtOthCsc, Il
valuable chart would have been furnished
TO the inexperienced, enabling them, in
stead Of workin" IN the dark, to avoid
Improbable result. in the same line. 1t
is too often the case that experiments in
any thing new are tried by making heavy
investments, instead of trying them on II
small scale, rs should be the case and
in Il farming community unsuccessful
ventures in any new enterprise injurc
ones reputation for Judgment, etc, cs-
p~rciaIly among u certain class, and it il
frequently brought upagainst him in ale
ter life, however successful he may have
been generally, especially if he is too
often termed Il "book .armcr,p and
is using his ]cncIravors TO advance
agriculture to its true position among
the arts. 1t is wise and profitable
to experiment carefully, in a small way.
in new schemes which have the sanction
OF reason and judgment, but beyond that
it can hardly he advised, for any thing
that may cost more than it brings di-
v"rtS farming from what may hitherto
have been Il profitable course We usrl-
ally iInI thUsc farmers the most success
lnI who steadily adhere 10 the sys-
TEN Of raising such products rs the farm
* best adapted to and the markets de-
mand, pushing their efforts to i]ncrcas,
the production from Il given area and
diminish the cost Of the products. The
actual profits of farming are not as read
lily determined rs are the profits of mcr-
rhandiaing. In the latter everything is
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merchant counts the interest on capital
invested, rent, cost OF Labor, etc, and
easily arrives at his profit or loss, and, if
he breaks up, discharges his clerks, and
SELLS his stock, he has all in an available
form; but with the farmer the result is
less easily arrived at-his business may
have been prosperous, but he may have
distracted his proiitson crops direct from
the intrinsic value of his land (capitaD
and iisuch il the case, even il the farm
sells for the same he paid for it, it is still
not worth AS much to his successor.
Profitable farming, then, w0uld seem
to include the proposition that all the
land of the farm, and the improvements
thereon, should increase, or at least not
dctcrioratc, in productive caplbilirv,
while it furnished Il fair profit on the Ia