New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-01-29

d GOOD farmer WILL not prevent 1T, Tor
he is largely dependent on help, and
help, never the most careful or compe-
tent, suffers considerable demoraliza-
ton when employed on a farm steadily
In very large numbers. We knew, sew
:era years ago, an excellent farmer,
who attempted farming on very large
scale, and it is safe to say that when he
died his property was not worth SO per
cent. of its value at the time he COM
menced his farming operations. The
demonstration of help. to which refer
ence has been made, was particularly
noticeable, and crops were not half cu1-
tivated, stock was injured for the lack
of care, buildings and fences became
dilapidated. and rything, indoor
and out, bore the appearance of haste,
neglect and decay. Even the man HIM
self, after awhile, partook of the same
general character. and became a
8 slouch.' -
Perhaps it may be thought by some
that these difficulties could easily be
overcome, but experience and observa-
ton do not warrant the belief. Such
failures as the one which recently hap
pened in the State of Illinois are not
encouraging in She direction of con-
GLIDING that farmer, because he is a
good farmer and an enterprising one,
con successfully cultivate 10000
acres of land. or half or quarter
that quantity. Farming requires too
much ability and sound jud gment to
expect that the owner of such farm
could gather about him enough of COM
paLtnt assistance to carry it oa, even il
there were no difficulties in the way of
maintaining its efficiency after it was
once secured. Everything about the
farm demands the greatest OF care. If
n board is knocked off a building, and
is not replaced, there IS necessarily
some loss, and there may be consider
ablo. If the cows arc treated unkindly,
there will be less milk and its products.
If the horses are neglected in the way
OF grooming or protection from the ele-
ments, the feed-bin must be drawn
upon moro heavily to keep them in
condition., and thus we might 90
through the entire details Of the farm,
and see how little it requires to cause
leaks in the profits. But the expert
enced farmer knows that his constant
supervision is usually necessary to Sc
cure this care. He knows that largo
proportion Of farm hands will slight
their work, if they have the opportu-
nifty. He knows that there are men
who if left to themselves will destroy
more than the amount of their wages,
and that there are those who will ruin
in q few weeks the best COW or team
that ever existed. But the farmer who
attempts to cultivate 10000 or S.
000-acre farm cannot possibly have the
supervision of everything.
The desire for large farms, however,
has led to other and very burdensome
evils. Men have started life with
quarter section, and in time have made
themselves comfortable home, and
were living happily in perfect free
dom from debt: But the greed for
more land has tempted them to pur-
chase on credit and to run in debt for
the additional machinery necessary.
Once in debt, they have in many in
stances never got out again, and if they
were fortunate enough not to lose all
that they had, they dragged through
life under heavy burden, when it was
possible for them to have possessed a
good farm and to have been independ-
ent. These instances and those similar
to those before stated, have been nu-
merous enough to satisfy anyone of the
impracticability of farming on very
extensive scale, and there is no excuse
for farmers making the mistake in the
light of these facts.
Instead of larger farms, we must in
this country make up our minds that
we must have smaller and better cult
waited ones. The fact that the country
is gradually filling up must not be lost
sight of. OF course we have an i'm
mense territory territory sufficient
to accommodate the present population
of the world, and then be less crowded
than China or Japan. But it will some
time be filed; and in the Eastern States
it is as completely filed as it ought to
be now. Still there are those in the
East who want farms in the East, and
the time will come when Eastern farms
will be cut up into smaller ones, and it
is altogether desirable that they should
be. It is desirable because it will in
sure q more thorough cultivation of
the land, and because every man who
owns an acre of land becomes steadier
and more substantial citizen. It is the
work ofpatriotism to encourage men to
become land Western Rural.
t.. A mother, in Newark, N. j., left
her infant child with its aunt for few
hours. The child went to sleep in the
cradle. The aunt tied a cord to the
door-knob and threw it over the child's
neck, so chat it could play with the
string when it walked up. The child
did play with it, and lifted itself out of
the cradle. where it was found dead,
having been strangled by the cord.