Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-12-05
Misfellaneous.
FEEDING FOR BEEF.

The Agriculturist says: .Feedinc cat
tie must IN the future be made an ac-
cessory Of all grain or mixed farming.
l'air! ing' gram and cattle raising, and
special culture, will undoubtedly form the
lhree chlei divisions of agriculture. This
Is made necessary by the course of events
some oi which are the gradual change OF
the soli from It's new condition to the one
ID which IL must be led sympathetically
ana scientifically; the increasing popular
demand ior meat, dairy products, and
other choice domestic supplies, which are
needed ID community whose manner of
NE Is improving year by year, and also
oy the necessity of conducting our indus
lries IN very economical manner. SO As
TO meet The present active competition.
All these events, with others, TO which we
need not refer, are combining to force
farmers to feed their livestock and make
Deei, pork. mutton and poultry. of high
er quality Grain must be grown There
must De wheat, oats. barley and corn, to
supply the markets But we can no lono-
er grow these IN haphazard. slip-shod
manner, but only IN regular skiiliul ro-
talon, win grass, green crops and roots
lnterchanged. and liberal manuring is the
hrst necessity for all these. We cannot
afford to waste straw, chaff or fodder nor
can we sell roots In ii quantity because oil
their bulk, and also tor the reason that.
except tor feeding beeves, sheep, pigs,
cows, nobody wants them. There are
some who have adopted the new order OF
things, and are satisfied with the results
there are others, who not seeing. or refus-
ing to perceive, the pinch they are in, are
gong on IN the old way, year by year
growing poorer, more dissatisfied, more
gwen 10 complaining that farming don't
pay any longer" The trouble is not IN
their business, but in their poor manage
ment OF 1t. We have frequently spoken of
the need Tor better work, for higher cul-
ture, ior enlarged yields. and for the most
economical and skillful arrangements.
How to reach these is the point; that they
ale necessary is nowhere disputed. We
see plainly that it is only by choosing the
most desirable branch OF farming, suited
Tor particular soils, locations, and other
eontroing circumstances, and sticking to
this; bringing TO the chosen business all
The study. skill, patience and capital, that
may be needed. We emphasize capital,
because without this, ali the rest are una
VallDg. A farmer without capital is a
slave with 1t he has the means oi utiiz-
inE All his forces or capabilities TO the ut
most. No man can be farmer without
sufficient capital, any more than he can be
IA banker, merchant OF a manufacturer.
a man may 90 TO the prairie or into tb.
woods, upon fresh homestead with very
little capital, and worry out poor living,
but he sells himself to the government Tor
hVe years Tor this privilege, and for that
iime' until he has the patent for his land
III his hand he is not tree man. but is in
bonds; but to 90 into the business OF farm
ing plofi ably, capital is needed. When
the particular branch is chosen, not fancy.
because that will not do. for there ara
dairy farms and grain farms, one of which
will not suit the other business; and there
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