The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-24
The Confessions OF q Gentleman
Farmer.

Springfield Republican.
The steady-going granger, who, with
old.time methods and q conservative
avoidance of all bookkeeping expert
meuts, gets comfortable living from the
soil and even adds little to his bank ac-
count every year, will read in the JAN
uary Aoricutturist with unfeigned de.
light the story of the farming exploits of
Zone OF them city fellers' with high no
tons of scientific agriculture. The getty
teller" in question is Col. Waring, 30
widely and pleasantly known in his
magazine writings On agriculture and the
various economies of rural life, and the
particular tale referred to is a summary
of his ten years experience IN running
the famous Ogden farm. Col. Warnings
narrative is certainly very ingenious,
and contains much that may profit and
| instruct both the would-be gentleman
farmer and him whose blrthrlght Is the
farm.
Some of the ColonePs easy nonchalance
in telling the story OF his agricultural
losses is due, we suspect, to the fact that
another man furnished the money with
which to carry out his notions. This
generous provider of the sinews OF ideal
farming dealt out his cash with unstinted
hand, and nothing that could possibly be
thought OF TO better or increase results
was lacking tor need of funds. Now, at
the end of ten years, the balance-sheet
foots up on the debtor side $l25O57, to a
credit of Sl8,O25 less, which represents
the net loss. To begin with, the farm OF
70 acres was quite run dow when the
Colonel took it. Among the items o. ex-
pense are farm aud buildings $4,000,
labor $l6,702, implements $4,000, feed
$4,000, live stock $2055l; upon the
other side of the account are live stock
disposed of $S2,53l, live stock on hand
$l3 500, produce sold $2332l, and good
will $4,000. 1t will be seen by this
showing that live stock was Col. War
ing's strong point, and the raising OF
blooded cows and the making of superior
butter stand out as the conspicuous sue
cesses in this expensive farming venture.
Indeed, the breeding of Jerseys Is the
Coloneps particular hobby. and it Is on
the sale CT these sristocrstic animals and
of their butter at fancy prices that his
hope of ever redeeming his losses IN the
future rests.
The moral of Col. Warnings farm ro-
nance is that running farm on purely
business principles, with all the seductive
but expensive appliances that may be had
in the way of convenlences, is pretty apt
to end in loss. He couceives, however,
that farming on q still grsnder scale than
his attempt, and expensive enough for
the commercial element to support the
industrial, might be made to pay, but as
a rule, farming, to be profitable, must be
done in the limited way that will allow
the farmer and his family to do most OF
the work. Ard the Colonel adds still
another word in behalf of his pet Jerseys.
Any dairy farmer, he says, who will take
the pains to cross his stock with this i'm
proved breed will certainly augment the
profits OF his butter-making; while if he
breeds q good quality OF pure blooded
stock there is money in that, and the
field for breeders OF frst-rate reputation
is stesd Oily extending. COMPRISING all
the dearly bought wisdom of his agrl-
cultural experience into a sentence, this
most interesting representative of the
class o! gentlemen farmers, in conclusion,
SAYS: "ro do what is done in the best
way that can be afforded, and to send to
market the very best class of goods that
can be produced, seems to me the means
by which good and prudent farming is to
be made profitable"