The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-23

In striking contrast with the manage.
ment of this farmer IL that of a gentle.
man who invited us few days since to
look over his farm of 800 acres. Here we
found score of men and hall dozen
teams, all moving like clock work, and
accomplishing their respective tasks with
an energy that was pleasant to behold.
This one thing do, and do it with all
my might, seemed to be the principle
of every man and beast. 1t was beauti-
full afternoon in the height of the hsying
season. While some of the men were rid
ing horse-rakes, others were tumbling the
hay, and others still were loading and
housing AT the same time we noticed
some men hoeing cabbages, and . man;
with gang of boys, was wedding and
thinning the carrots. We asked our friend
how he could supervise all these men.
Nothing easier" was his reply. ~
love to be In field with a score Of men
and half dozen teams around me, and
it only needs q word to make it all smoke.
OF course, some drOnes will get into the
gang, but it the Overseer is all right they
are soon brought up to concert pitch, or
else they are dismissed. Every man is
told his duty, and is expected to do it. I
used TO think there was no music like
that of machinery, but I never enjoyed
myself in mill full of steam and bad
odors as do out here in the moist air of
these fields. The discipline of the mill
and counting room, however, taught me
how to manage farm. Iconduct farm
just as did the mill-have q place for
every man and thing, and require every
man to be in his place, and every tool to
be in ship-shape. The whole is kept
we'll oiled, and, without friction, farm
work runs easily. The main want of
farm is the head. Hands arc plenty ana
work freely if the head is all right"
We could not help contrasting the talk
Of our friend with that of another farmer
who once said to us: 81 will never hire
another man by the month. Farm hands
are all lazy cheats; they will not work
worth cent unless your eye is upon them,
and, with all you can do to help it, they
make short days and short work." It may
be so, but such has not been our expert.
ence or observation. As is the master so
is the man. If the master has business in
him, he can get any reasonable amount of
work out OF his men, and can make the
farm pay. We care not much whether
the soil is bottom land-that is, land with
out bottom, and producing crops indef-
nitely without manure--or situated ON q
rough mountain, requiring ditching and
fertilizing in order to secure good returns.
The farm Of our friend formerly bust
ness man, now q business farmer-to
which we have alluded, was most unin-
viting tract Of land when he purchased it.
The first thing he did was to honeycomb
the land with drain tile. Then the rocks
and brush were removed and fertilizers
were applied. The soil was naturally
strong, but had become exhausted, es-
pecially of phosphates and potash, by bat,
management. Now the crops are enor-
nous No matter what crop is cultivated,
whether corn, potatoes, roots, grain or
grass, the return is large and remunera-
tive. Roots, however, our friend dislikes,
as the business is, as he expresses it, too
puttering for men, and boys, like colts,
do not pull steadily enough to suit him.
Grass is the crop that pleases him most,
and 200 tons are the present yield OF the
farm, which he expects t. increase with
every succeeding year. Oats he considers
exhaustive to land, and he much prefers
barley, always stocking with this grain,
unless he stocks without grain, which, 80
far rs he has tried, works we'll. Barley
he also considers the best feeding gran-l
better than corn. When his COWS are
from corn meal to barley-meal,
he pelceives the difference at once, in the
flow of milk their smooth hair, and their
general thrifty appearance. We mention
these casual remarks of our business
farmer as worthy of consideration, COM
ing, as they do, from man of figures and
close calculation.-AlAr. Hyde, IN N. Y.
Times.