Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1876-01-27
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Fee; Neither Earth.
Brains have been devsng schemes, and
pens busy to throw light upon New Eng
land Farming, / will also touch upon few
things which l believe to be OF the utmost
importance to success in the cultivation OF
the soil. am impressed from year to year.
and more and more deeply, that New Eng
land Farmers. aud especially those in
Maine. are making few grave mistakes.
one l.. in falling to appreciate the capabil-
ate> OF the soil A. they 90 ont upo" their
farms they do not really believe that each
acre Of average soil which now produces
from ) to 500 lbs. OF hay NAV be made 10
produce from 10 to 90 hundred lbs. One
acre my be made TO do a much a. acres
d.. under present management, think no
cue viii dispute. or even doubt this who j.
"a ga eful observer. but because man does
M, stop te look into the matter. he deivcs
oH year after year and cuts his 800 lbs. OF
H.r 20 the acre of inferior quality, ii to
>r) rs. is TOO low an estimate. then sup
pose he cuts from 10 to 1900 when be-
Neye i more than the average per acre OF
the moving fields OF Maine. \ &c suppose
he cuts that amount. instead Of 40 or 80
hundred; in the one case he gets from s.
to $50 while in the other be gets from $50
10 $50.
Almost every farmer may have > or 6
blades OF grass where now he has but oae.
ana we know full well that the prgdts OF a
f!rm depend not on the number of acres
cultivated. but upon the amount produced
from each acre to which labor is applied.
l. j. always a sign of thrift and good man
aEement when 4 man ceases 10 Try to cui-
t.yate more than lac can make rich. and
WORK thoroughly. New England >OI ha-
the dement's Tor prodWciHy. No one need 20
West or South TO have abundant crops
aud lUXuriaut h2rycsts. Oar soil ouiy
needs draining, warming. enrichins. and
culture. II be made mellow and the ma
uure : completely mixed with il. and crops
have necessary care we may have the very
be>t results Little patches here and there
- to show this. Ne.ghbor A, has every
sumner few acres really jri.HeI wiki
grass. Mr.. t.. has half acre in carrot,
and turu.ps, which are I wonder to the
neigh5orYood on account Of size and thrift.
SucA growth i r1re, lot because other soil
j. not equally good. but the management
makes the difference.
Why not do the same with all cultivated
soil. The answer j. on the lips Of hundreds
OF New England Farmers. 1T Is for lack
O! manure" Yes this l. il. The manure
h rF is the thing which turns 4 farm into
god. The prersr use Of manure bring, fat
Aarve>,s, mention the pyyper use. because
u.4aHrc i so often lis. by being msapp.ied
w Try 10 feed too much land with a small
pile OF dressing. 80 many a man keeps
him>c.! poor il>t the same As cattle are
poor ID spring when they have only half
.5ugh to eat during winter.
ii- is The practice with many, and it is
ding more to keep farmers discouraged
tlan all the causes combined. 1t is thank
les slavery, Tor fla man spreads only one
cfr: load to an acre he seldom hears from
it afterwards. All it amounts to IS the
work lie does and his expectations disap-
pointed.
| once knew q man who raised all the
calye, he had. and nearly starved them III
winter. We can Judge how much he made
b, it. 1t Is so with cultivating land. lie
,tr, .rts. N al NJ a,J SOU. ,,rra .,.o,, a..
has manure Tor, Is throwing away his time
strength and money. Let u farmers Of
Maine. adopt for single year the course
OF high cultir1tioR. Pour on The manure.
aud cork it Thoroughly 50 far as ne 90. and
| venture the prediction, we shall not COM
plain OF scanty crops. Good crops bring
cash. Every hill Of potatoes, corn, beans,
every bushel Of graiA. every root, every
hog. every egg. every ls OF butter are
readily turned for cash, and at good
p~ice | am told that this is nothing new
every body knows this, but we lack ma
HHre. There is the rub," But Is there any
wOAder that the manure heap is small:
How much time in the course OF a year do
the farmers Of Maine. spend in providing
it.
Perhaps one or two weeks each wear.
they may devote TO this work, whereas at
least ttr0 months each year should be thus
employed Many farmer might grow
rich from his crops. whose land now only
produces in "a dwarfed and stiEted meas
IRE. The sum total of his dressing IL what
the cattle leave at the barn, and even that
too often is bleached by sun and leached
by rain. and not much better than the com
mon soil. Such farmer cannot reason
ably expect that Mother Earth will re-
spond to his call very .bountifully. And
yet / have heard men who pursued this
method, declaim strongly against farming.
and say il was the poorest of all business.
when the fact is that ii is the best and mob
lest work of mems hands and that which
keeps all wheels in motion and supports
the world.
If what have said be correct may we
not all profitably ponder upon the subject
during these long winter evenings, and
with pen in hand draw out a programme 10
our Farm Account Book what we will do
another spring, and how We will do it.
REV. B. DODGE, Castine.
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