The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-13
What 10 Plant.

Tie common farmer, should not and
does not expect to get rich very fast. lie
realizes that his business, like all others
that are safe, is slow one, and he is con-
1 tent lit yields him good living and
lat the end ofthe year puts small bal
ance Oh the rights His first care is
to provide a good support for him
self and family, and, this being so. he
ought to plan his work so as to secure
from his soil all that it is capable of pro.
ducing which will be demanded by his
table. lie should plant W hat he EXPECTS
to eat. In other words, he should raise
his own bread, meat, vegetables and
fruit. If he does this, he need not han
die great deal ofmoney in order to be
independent.
There has been Il fallacious notion
abroad during the past few years, that
| a farmer could buy his wheat and corn
and some other firm products cheaper
than he could raise them. 1t is high
time this idea was discarded, for il is
most dclusive and dangerous. When
the owner of an AK factory cannot make
Iaxes as cheapAs he can buy them, he
had better qnitthe business; and, when
farmer who owns soil adapted to
wheat and corn cannot raise enough OF
these for his own use, he had better sell
ont and go West There may be n few
farmers who devote themselves TO spec
ialities, such as producing milk, who
can make it profitable to buy western
grain, but, rs rule, any man who has
good farm can only make the ends
meet by producing his own bread-stufis.
We do not argne That a New HAMPSHIRE
farmer can raise wheat and corn 10
compete in the markets with the pro-
ducts of the prairies, but that he cannot
afford to buy for his own use and This
is so evident that ii seems TO require bDt
little argument. -
Just.imASine a,farmer who, after har-
yesting is over next fall, eau say. al have
enough to iatten my beef and pork and
| carry me round to next year. have
wheat enough TO make all the flour we
shall use in Twelve months. have no.
tatoes, cabages, beets, and all sorts of
vegetables beyond the possible demands
of our table. have beef, pork and NUT
4 ton, and poultry enough and 10 spare.
Except groceries, and clothing, which
ae cheap, have holding to buy this
winter - and compare him with man
WHO saYs;gfW Well have got good crop
OF potatoes aud oats and have hay enough
TO Winter The stock, but have got 10
buy all til e flour we need ami all the
mealwe use, and beets, onions and that
kind of garden sauce, if we have any.
and for the life of me don't see where
the money to pay for them is coming
from.
kyen if farmer could get as much
money by raising one kind of produce as
all the kinds he might raise would bring,
1t would still be be better TO plaut and
sow with Q view 10 producing all he
needs, for the marketing of produce in
wolves hard work, considerable expense.
and one or more profits which are saved
whom 4. is raised. So we think that in
deciding what TO plant aud sow this
spring, farmer should first consider
whnt he Ia likely TO need next fall and
winter, and lay his plans so as to have
as little TO buy as possible. When Il
comes to raising a surplus for market,
he can calculate closer as TO cost and
prices and have more regard 10 the char
acter of his soil.-[Mirror and Farmer.