The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-01
farllers' GnlMmll.
"Speed the PLOW."
Stay Where You Are.

This has always been our advice to far
mers and had it been followed, great
amount of disappointment and sorrow
would have been avoided. As q rule, peo-
pie who 90 away from their old homes and
old friends, where they have always resid-
ed, within reasonable access of the ready
markets of large city, where they receive
the cash for everything they sell, truly 90
away from their homes, from the comforts
OF life and comparative happiness. You
may argue that your family is growing up
and the old homestead is too small for ali,
and you desire to keep all your family to-
gether. lfyou go "West," with the money
for which you can sell your present farm
you can buy five times as much land, &c:
but you forget that this farm is to be
stocked with horses, cattle, sheep, swine
and implements besides, houses and barns
are nearly always to be built, and that
these things take a pile of money. You
cannot raise out there more wheat or corn
per acre than here, which you may have to
haul many miles to a market, and then get
about one-half the prices the same sell for
here.
If you own say only seventy acres of
land within fifty miles OF Philadelphia,
with railroad facilities, you possess mine
of wealth, by only going in the right way
to work it. There are other things be-
sides wheat and corn and oats to raise
But you must increase your capital upon
your farm. You must keep more cattle,
make more milk and butter, and as a nat.
ural consequence more manure, which is
the best capital. Instead of pasturing,
you must soil the cattle-that is give them
their green food in the stalls, instead of in
the field you raise wheat you must get
from thrty-five TO forty bushels to the acre;
if corn, from seventy-five to ninety bushels
per acre if oats, seventy i've bushels-a
so on. You must have full supply of
rutabagas and sugar beets for your dairy
cattle in winter, and carrots for your
horses. You must have your acres of
strawberries and blackberries to catch the
early markets. You must have your apple
orchards-a young one always coming on
and your pear orchard of the best stand
ard varieties You should also raise tile
most saleable and productive beans by the
acre. Highly MANFRED and cultivated,
and always ready to take advantage of the
markets, farm of seventy acres or less
would be practically a gold mine, and
would give employment to every masculine
member of the family, however large, al
ways excepting that of the late Brigham
Young.
Smaller farms must be more devoted to
vegetables and fruits, and will pay at least
equally well, and ought to do SO even in
larger proportion. No one who knows
how to conduct his work sklllully here
and will be industrious and economical,
can fail of becoming really independent
lll-health is the only drawback, but there
is no place more secure from disease than
this State and the greater portion of New
Jersey, Maryland and Delaware. fpeo-
pie sicken and die here, they will sicken
and die anywhere. There is no protection
against contingencies which are unavoida-
bic, even in the "best-regulated iami-
lies ~
We would therefore say to all who have
allowed the idea to get in their heads that
they could do better somewhere else, that
it is the dictate of the commonest wisdom
to combat all present evils rather than to
fly to others of the magnitude of which
they know nothing Germantown Tele.
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