The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-11-19
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
R0YInR EarIners.


There is class of farmers who are con-
stantly on the lookout for a better place to 20
to. Their farms are always 'for sale," and
they dream of luxuriant lands in some other
part of the country which can be bought "for
song" where they imagine they would be
more prosperous, and enjoy life better than
where they now reside. Many of these men
own mortgaged farms; and for such men to
desire to remove where they can own a free
farm, though it be far far away, is but nat
ural manifestation to better ones condition,
which the human mind cannot resist. But
where can these men go, after selling their
farms, and be contented? This is serious
question, which no man can answer of his
own knowledge. Suppose they can sell out
and command $1,000 or 81, 500 after paying
all their debts, and they start for 1.-The West,'
Kansas, Missouri, Iowa or some other State.
Eighty acres of land, with a comfortable
house or log cabin on it, can be bought for
from SIS to $40 per acre. The land is ali
right, as good as ''lies out of DOORS" but alas,
for the surroundings. Neighbors are scarce,
society is a myth, and the poor, trail house,
wife who follows her husband without a
murmur pines for friends. The children
have to 60 two miles or further to school,
and in the winter time they cannot attend
much of the time on account of the storms.
Churches are STEW and far between" and
the people are generally mixture of various
nations, and the result of all this is that
many an Eastern farmer who goes West is
unhappy and wishes himself back on his old
homestead. So if he goes South, or any
where, he will not find things just to his
mind. If one thing is better than on the old
place another is worse; and taking all things
into consideration, but few farmers change
their residences, who are able to make a liv-
ing on the old place, that better themselves
by removing to distant State. One may
obtain rich lands at a low price where there
is no market for what he grows; and he may
get into an unhealthy locality, and soon he
may bury his wife and children, and what
then?-a gloomy world for him. - Colonial
Farmer.
EzThe Vaine of Bones as n Fertilizer.
In Mr.. Henry Whites essay, which was
published in the Royal Agricultural Societys
journal in 1S45, the average quantity of
cheese yielded per cow per annum at that
period was computed at three hundredweight,
although he stated that under favorable cir
cumstances it might reach five hundred
weight. The application of boiled bones to
cheshire grass lands was then being very
generally applied, and in some instances the
product or the soil was actually doubled in
consequence. Mr.. j. Dixon, in his prize es-
say on manuring grass lands, published in
1893, stated that in wide range of the coun-
try around Crewe, Nantwich, and Church
Mlnshull, extending to the City of Chester,
the land was then sustaining from 30 to so
per cent. more stock than was the case 80
years before, and that the increase of cheese
was IN about the same ratio. From a large
numb of facts which he gives, one case
NAV be taken, that of a farm of 100 acres in
the township of Tot, which, owing to bone
manuring, had been increased in its stockage
from 20 dairy cows and 3 or colts to 30
cows. s feeding beasts, 16 head Of young
stock. besides horses and colts. But it
appears that while the very general applica-
tion of bones has had this good fertilizing
affect on the pastures, the result has not
been equally favorable in improving the quail
ity of the cheese, which popular opinion
fancies to be all the worse for it. On this
point, Mr.. Henry White, in reporting on
the exhibition Of cheese at the Chester meet
ing of the Royal Agricultural Society in
1858 said: ''There is an impression on the
mind of many cheese factors and others that
Cheshire cheese has deteriorated in quality
ever since, if not in consequence of the very
general application of bone manure to the
grass lands; and there is no doubt that the
superior heritage which this application in
duces does render more care necessary in the
management of the produce of the cows
when converted into chees."