Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-02-27

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persons can other particular branches.
Some men can make most anything pay
and perhaps you can; try it. What man
has done man can do; and perhaps you
are the very man to do it, You will never
know until you try.
Keep dairy, sheep, horses, poultry,
pigs and make them all n specially. Also
raise a great variety of farm crops. 1t is
good thing to exercise your mind in va
rious ways. You will have dairy, and
of course make butter. There is great
deal said and written on this subject, but
set it all down rs 4 humbug. if you ever
chance TO hear or read it. Have way of
your own and stick to it. Don't bother
Yourself with any new ideas. Do as your
mother did; you know that she made good
butter without any question, and of course
you can if you do as she did. 1t is the
same thing as admitting your ignorance
to adopt any other persons theory Or prac-
tice. Butter is butter, whatever the meth
oil of manufacture.
We hear great deal about temperature,
time of churning, etc. What is the use
of taking any trouble about such things2
Cream will conform to the temperature of
the atmosphere, to some extent, and it is
difficult to prevent it, unless you use ice,
and its COSTS to put up ice and use it, and
adds so much to the cost Of the butter.
As to churning, do that when it is con.
venient. Some dairymen churn regularly,
without regard to the weather But what
is the use of stopping of good hay day
to churn, when you can do it on rainy
day, when you could not do much else?
In packing butter, do it as you are a
mind to; have no regard for general
rules in this matter. The most convenient
thing to pack the butter and smooth it is
the hand, and it is less trouble to take care
of it Finger marks won't injure the but
ter. Some folks do all the working by
hand and get the highest market price
AMI good big one, too; and as much salt
as your conscience will admit Of Follow
these directions, and if you fail of getting
satisfactory prices, don't ever think there
is any fault in the manufacture of the arti-
Gle. or the style Of putting up, but it is all
Il notion of the buyer. 1t is strange what
peculiar tastes some people have, when
they can detect several cents difference
per pound in different packages of butter.
but there is no accounting for it. 1t al
ways has been SO, and probably always
will be so. It's hard to be obliged to take
less for your produce than your neighbor !;
but then, such is the result of favoritism.
You are probably not particular friend
of the middleman.
In filling yonr land do it extensively. If
YOU fail of raising good crops don't let it
be said that you did not pillow enough. Be
economical; make IL little manure 90 IA
great ways In fact, spread yourself out
in farming although you spread thin.
There is nothing like making the most of
yourself and informing people of your i'm
portance,
If you cultivate large fields you will
naturally be behind your neighbors per-
haps, in beginning haying, But what's
the odds? You will get more hay by cut
ting late, and that is what you want, Hay
is hay, cut late Or early, and it is wonder
ful how it will fill up the barns; and well
filled barns make the farmer happy. Stock
wintered on such hay seldom fail to come
out in the spring in running order, Be
cautious about adopting new ideas in
farming. DO as your father and grand
father did before You; and if that run
down moving machine and horse rake
you bought at auction won't work on your
land among the stones and other obstruc-
lions, set it down us Il fact that all modern
farming implements are II humbug and a
cheat.
One thing should have spoken of be-
fore, and that is the care of farming i'm
plemcnts. We hear much about taking
care of things, of having place for every
thing, and everything in its place. Now
what better place to have plow than
where YOU want to use it, and what better
place to look for thing than where you left
it; and isn't the place for pillow in Il field,
and other things the same way? What is
the use of building sheds for such things?
They are expensive, besides taking Il con-
siderable time to put everything in par
ticuar place. 1t is handy to have the plow,
harrow, moving machines, wagons and
sleds, out already to hitch on to, without
the trouble of getting out and putting to-
gether. 1t is possible that tools kept in
this way may not last quite as long. But
when they fail all you have to do is to get
them repaired or purchase new.
Set out in orchard if you have not one
already, and observe the same rules as in
selecting stock or buying farming tools.
Buy anything in the shape of an apple tree
whether it is adapted to soil and climate
of your section or not Believe all tree
vendors tell you. OF course they know
what is for their interest, if they don't
yours, and are supposed to be men OF
truth. When you get your trees set them
most anywhere in the grass land, then con-
slider your obligation to the trees cancelled
and then look for fruit, but don't be disap-
pointed or discouraged if you have to look
some time. Your trees may need pruning.
If so, don't be fussing with them all
the while, but let them grow for few
years; then you will have something you
5 can exercise your skill and muscle on, and
. it is wonderful how, by u vigorous use OF
! the saw and axe, one can change the looks
l of y tree and that in n short time. There
are several classes of persons to whom YOU
; should be especially considerable as pill.
, peddlers and all classes of peddlers. book
1 agents, patent right men, lightning-rod
Q men, and in fact all persons who traveI
about the country. The world owes them
=, living and you may as well help support
= them bv purchasing their wares as any
other way so don't feel that your moneJ
S is lost. even if their goods do prove TO I've