Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-09-21

beef or dairy product, is not only not
deleterious, but highly beneficial, in
creasing the wholesomeness of milk
; cheese and butter, while in practical
operation it presents the remarkable
exhibit Of supporting a largely in
creased herd on the former number OF
acres; and their increased manure in
turn vastly strengthens the land and
supports increased productivrness
The astonishing claim of Mr. Mills, the
exponent of the system in this country,
is to support on given number OF
acres from five to ten times tho same
number of dairy COWS, at the reduced
expense of scarcely one.seventh that
of the old system. Even should these
claims upon an average trial have to
be discontinued by twothirds, ensi
lage must be feature of future farm.
ing in Eastern Pennsylvania.
IMPROVED MACHINERY.
To an audience, the memories of
many whom run back to the fail
and sickle, and in the presence OF
this splendid display all about us Of
improved farm machinery, need not
speak Of the Importance to welldirect-
cd and profitable farming of the best
appliances. The economy OF power,
OF time and material in farm labor has
stimulated the native genius OF Yankee
inventive power to his best efforts in
behalf of better mechanical agencies
for those who till the soil. In 1926
two men and five horses were engaged
continuously for twelve weeks in
threshing 300 bushels ofwheat forty
years later, on a California farm, 40,31S
bushels of grain were harvested,
threshed, cleaned and stored in thirty.
six days by twenty-five hands, and in
the wheatfields of the Red River coun-
ties a steam thresher and gang now
count the threshing OF 1000 bushels
per day fair work. | need not pursue
this vivid comparison to depict the
part which improved machinery will
play in the development of Eastern
Pennsylvania farming in the years
near at hand. Under the same head
| beg you to consider the great mum.
Der Of details which arc sometimes
classed as "conveniences, though such |
features Of improved farm life as ice
houses, wind mill pumps or other de.
vices to supply water constantly and |
abundantly without manual labor, the |
application of horse or steam power
to all practical branches of labor and
the countless devices OF the tool house,
carriage house, barn and field which
do the work of an hour in FIVE minutes,
are now necessities TO successful farm.
ing in this section. A late traveller in
the South watched with curious in.
terest which taught him the lesson of
a great page in our national history
three men who spent whole after.
noon twisting a rope for well, and
used in the work thread that had cost
more than The required rope could have
been bought for.
FERTILIZERS.
The nature and value OF fertilizers,
the analysis of all commercial manures
and the relative cost and worth Of ami.
NAL fertilizers will be a subject to en-.
gage tho intelligent attention of the
farmer. A recent statute of Pennsyl.
vania enactment will greatly aid him,
but he needs TO be on the careful look.
out none the less to secure the really
valuable and nutritious material than
to avoid the fraudulent and worthless
The coming farmer on this soil will
be chemist in his way; and no ele.
ment of his success will be of greater
efficiency than his discrimination in
this respect. You have read of Duns.
ton Pillar on the Lincoln Heath, the
only light house ever known on land,
set there in the middle of the last cen.
tury to guide belated travellers over
the long stretch of dreary wasteland.
Now it stands in the midst, Of fertile
and highly-cultivated region with no
barren moors in sight from its top
made to blossom by the culture of
turnips and the application of phos.
pilates. The successful return to the
soil Of the sewage and excrement of
our great cities is an unsolved problem
as yet and 100 sewage farms on trial
in England give no satisfactory report.
The ultimately certain solution of this
vexod question can have no more
promising field to be worked out upon
than in this dependency upon four
cities Of the first rank,
GOOD STOCK.
Regarding the value of improved
stock in such n plan of farming as |
have in view, | am sure ! need not oc-
cupy much OF your time and mine.
Time and experience have fully vindi.
Gated the marked tendency of the ad.
vanced American farmer TO introduce
better blood into his barnyard and
stable. | need not now speak OF the
examples of $40, 900 paid
in this country for q single COW or
sli, 700 for sheep, nor of the princoly
prices OF our race horses, nor of the
number whose record dis.
tances those figures which once stood
as a synonym for speed nor of the
total value OF the live stock on Ameri.
can farms, alone far out-topping the
colossal figures of our war debt
to assert the demonstrated fact
that careful breeding of good stock is
in the interest of profitable farming to
suggest another important direction in
which the energy and enterprise of
the coming farmer of Eastern Penn.
sylvania must and will be devoted. 1t
Is in the near future that the mild.eyed
Alderney, the spirited Hambletonian,
The sturdy Perchoron, the fat and
1oecy Cotswold, tho sleek and shapely
Berkshire and tho hard.heshed and
3teady.laying Plymouth Rock will bo
the delight Of our farmers as the rule
and not the exception.
Drainage, irrigation, subsoiling, tho
rotation Of crops and nutrition OF ami.
mails, the quality of seeds, tho growth,
he nature, the contagious spread and
he determination OF weeds, the utliza.
ion of wastes, and few Of many
,ther questions in methods of farming, ,
% which its foremost exponents arc ,
gradually turning profitable attention,
md in tho settlement of which the ad.
1anced agriculturist will find great |.
gain. With all Of these the successful
armer will unite the general prnoi.
)les Of methodical business man.
'gement, a system Of closely kept ,
accounts, debtor and creditor state.
nent of every interest, balance sheet
or each department, THAT gains may ,,
,e computed and losses detected, leaks
topped and breaks mended.
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