The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-03-16
Ghq Sarmer.


This has always been our advice TO far
mers and had it been followed, a great
amount Of disappointment and sOrrow
would have been avoided. As a rule,
people who 20 away from their old homes
and old friends, where they have always
resided, 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 happi-
ness. You may argue that your family is
growing up and the old homestead is too
small for all, and you desire to keep all
your family together. If you 60 "West, "
with the money for which you can sell
your present farm you can buy Ave times
as much land, &c; but you forget that
this farm is to be stocked with horses,
cattle, sheep, swine and implements be-
sides, 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 poses a 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 aud butter, and as a natu-
raj 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. If you raise wheat you must
get from thirty-fve to forty bushels to the
acre; If corn, from seyenty-five to ninety
bushels per acre; if oats, seventy-fye bush
els-and so on. You must have a full
supply Of rutabagss and sugar-beets for
your dairy cattle in winter, and carrots for
your horses. You must have your acres
of strawberries, raspberries and blackber-
ries to catch the early markets. You must
have your apple-orchards-a young one
always coming on--and your pear orchard
of the best standard varieties. You should
also raise the most saleable and productive
beans by the acre. Highly MANFRED and
cultivated, and always ready to take ad-
vantage Of the markets, farm of seventy
acres or less would be practically gold
mine, and would give employment to every
masculine member of the family, however
large, always excepting that of the late
Brigham Young.
Smaller farms must be more devoted to
vegetables and fruits, and viii pay at least
equally well, and ought to do so even in
larger proportion No one who knows
low TO conduct his work skillfully here
and viii be industrious and economical,
can fail of becoming really independent.
Ill-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 If peo-
pie sicken and die here, they will sicken
and die anywhere. There is no protection
against contingencies which are unavoida-
Bile, even in the "best-regulated families !"
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-
graph.