Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-11

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days past? Are we not upon our onward
march to greatness?
The yield of our mines this season, will
doubtless eXcede that of last year. The
placer yield may not be SO great, on account
of a scanty supply of water shouldth the spring
turn off dry, but the increased activity of
quartz will more than make it up. This
class of mines are yearly becoming more
permanent as development goes on.
Then our stock interests are beginning to
advance. Double the amount of beefwill be
driven to the eastern markets this summer
than during any previous year. The fact that
we can compete with the Western States
present poor facilities for marketing is proved
beyond doubt. 1t has also been demon
strated that We have the best wool-grow
ing country in America. Our California
neighbors are learning this, and are begin
ming to look in this direction for pasturage,
and thousands of sheep will be driven in this
year. In fact, every branch of industry
seems to be stimulated to renewed effort.
Then why despair? Why, set ourselves up
as croakers? True, we have no railroad,
neither is our young and promising com
mon wealth, at the mercy of any railroad
corporation. We regret that we have not a
railroad, yet we congratulate ourselves that
we have none to pay Tor. Some of our CO.
temporaries, think that the day when we
shall hear the scream Of the locomotive re-
verberating through our valleys, is far dis
tant, be 1t ever so, better that it never be
than that we bankrupt ourselves to buy it.
For while we almost regret that we did not
snatch at the golden bauble, when it was in
our reach, the people Of a half dozen states,
of experience praise our wisdom. Montana
has within her own border, all the neces-
sary ailments of greatness; all the natural
advantages necessary to build up a self sus-
tanning community, and although, we are
moving slowly, we are moving steadily on.
Each year as our pace increases, our hori-
zon will brighten, until at length, we will
stand side by side with any State in Amer
lea.
WHAT farmers should plant or SOW for
profit this year, is beyond the wisdom Of
anyone to advise, we do not propose to
set ourself up for an adviser /; every farmer
must be guided by his circumstances, and ne
cessities. 1t is pretty safe though to advise
as great a diversity of crops as possible, and
to have such crops as will be not only al
ways salable, but furnish continuous en-
ployment through the season. Where only
one crop is grown, the work comes all at
once, requiring greatly increased cost Of la
Dor or neglect at the critical season. 1t is
also safe to advise attempting a good deal
not however beyond your means to accom-
plish. Other things being equal, the farmer
who sows and plants most largely, having
of course plenty of manure and labor, will
reap most abundantly, and he who only
sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly.
We read so much about the Importance of
concentrating effort, and of the profit of a
little land well titled, that we are apt to for
get the other truth lying beside it, which is
that on a large farm it is hardly possible for
a farmer to make much money by cultivat-
ing only a few of his many acres. If two
acres or ten acres are enough to cultivate,
they are enough to own, and the farmer had
better sell the remainder of his farm than to
keep it lying idle.
No MAN can be expected to know every
thing, but if the little or much which each
one knows is'made known to a whole COM
munity, the result cannot be other than ben
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