Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-02-18
VICTOR FERTILIZER.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

-----s -...--...os Is Kept poor by keep
ing too much stock lie would be
prosperous il the stock was Of the right
kind. IT does not pay TO keep cows
through the winter that are dry
pretty much all the time. IL does not
Jay TO keep over lot Of lean md frac-
tious steers in the expectation that they
will make good working cattle by
waiting long enough All such ami
mails should be sold TO those who have
more food in store than their present
poor owners. A miserable mud melan-
choly lot of no-brccd sheep constitutes
no more desirable property either.
Their fleeces are not worth waiting for,
and their mutton is called such only
by courtesy. they are of no use TO IA
farmer but to help keep him poor.
Good stock, superior stock. pays for
itself all the time herd IF cows is
well worth wintering that VIII pay in
milk and butter many times more than
the cost of their keep. No other kind
ought, therefore, to be allowed on a
farm. No business man ever expects to
make Roadway against competition by
holding stock of goods that is of in
ferior value and out OF fashion; and a
farmer ought to observe the same rule,
and carry on his hands no stock that is
not OF the very sort to give him 81 good
footing in the produce market He never
can get good milk, good butter or good
beet from poor runts OF creatures whose
existence comes under the head of acct
dent rather than design. Superior stock
is the only kind an enterprising and
thrifty farmer can afford TO keep.
When COWS show beyond a question
that they cannot give milk enough nor
milk good enough to pay for theis'
support and yield liberal profit besides
il is time they were disposed of on nj
most any terms that will clear them off
the farm. 1t is the same with all
creatures that are an incumbrance on
the farm instead Of a profit; ieb them be
put off without delay, aud let the So
called sentiment in the case be- eradicated
by healthier considerations of what
constitutes thrifty and profitable farm
ing. If it were really made so, we
should soon see an end of dawtling.
routine, traditional. and iistless farming.
and the infusion OF "a vigorous clement
such as moves the world Of business and
carries life and activity into every
department.
There are, of course, many ways in
which farmer can trace the sources of
his unprospeTous condition; hut the
practice OF keeping on hand, SUNNI
and winter, lot OF practically worth
less cattle for Mi cattle are worthless
that are not prohtable-is N moth and
the canker that is surely Iatiuy out his
substance. 1t is simply a question of
time how soon he will succumb, for to
be acknowledged hopelessly poor is sub
mission. We repeat, no farmer can af-
ford to keep inferior cattle; u rich man
may afford 1t, and charge his indebted
ness to whim or delusive benevolence;
but the farmer who has his living to
make off his farm cannot affo rd it, nor
indeed can he afford to keep any kind of
cattle but the best. lie owes il to him
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- aonNA tsssaia. The Nar,s,r ata,x,k
he keeps, the poorer lie Is IN consequence
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