Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
Farm gcrap.Rooks and No es.

A couteDpsrS.y suggests to farmers the
keeping Of fsrIn not5s and strap. book Ct
important p.ia.ed matter relating to the ex-
psrielcs Of osders, The suggestion is a good
and timely one, and should be needed By
every farmer who desires TO make the NEST of
his own and otae.s expaCieaCe. No man has
a memory 30 Eeteativo that h. en- call to
mind the results e experience ss all times
when needed No man n remember exactly
his own impressions and conclusions year or
a month after they have been formed, AZ vel
and as wildly as they occur TO him at the
time they are formed. If it becomes neces-
sary for business 81 70 carry with him a
note book in which TO 1t down bis business
transactions and engagements that relate to
business, why in the sauna sense is il rot Fec
essary for the farmer TO 90 50? IL is geuer-
orally observed tlas experienced ana
successful neTchan hscrme tie beet
aud most successful farmers when
they turn taer tJution that
way Why is this? 5 mpiy because ia tho
management # ihsir IJe,csnjile experience
they have acquired the ! ahi' Of keeping
couuts and ~ % OF their basine.s, aud wAea
they so to farming % y cary t,is habit with
them. 1t is well TO hayt GJJd memory I'd
retain all that is learned bus few hare Il, IN
cries so perfect as not to resd help from nctes
made at the tins Of tue Occurr5a;s IF ihe
event to be remembered. Who does not read
with pleasure and post an Old scrap'ooot OF
diary kept by himself a d n years ago, when
that scrap-bJok OF diary has been kept vita
reference TO 20 wide g Id OF experience or
knowledge rs agriculture or horticulture
When a farmer sJws q !,eid with wheat, or
&ia In ear gyp ~ nTs
memorandum as to the condition Of the soil,
the weather, or time # the year CT month.
may become { great value u him il after
years. When he has kept these Llenor lnl.
for number of years they BECOME doubiy
valuable, for they afford correct basis of
comparison anu estimate OF probabii
ties in tie futur,. Ii q horse or
COW is sick, and , particular kind
o. medicine given il. or particular
kind of treatmsuG cures i. memorandum o.
the facts and circumstances becomes OF great
value for refsIeGcein asi liar case il future.
The whole science OF ggTieulsuIe rests upon
experiment and ascsr5Siaed facts. Ii vs. have
no memoranda of these facts preserved, how
can we expect to improve our systems of
farmipgy The best books or treasisss on
agriculture are those based on personal ex-
psrieuce, as taken down en- paper either st
the time the experience j. had or at future
time. Private notes Of Individual experience
IL grape culture or WNS2z culture or any otnSE
kind of special culture ere OF the greatest
advantage, not only to ths person who makes
them, but they may be mads so to others.
The farmer who is known to make these
notes and to keep scrap.books Of notable
facts IS learned and Published, will not only
find these notes and scraps of great value to
himself, bus he will soon become the
referee and wise man Of his neighbour odd
in reference to all matters of which he
keeps notes. TIE best agricultural journals
are those thai become tie publishers Of the
experiences and conclusions Of contempt
raneous pssc.icai farmers. If each farmer
in a township or county would make a daily
record Of bis observations in reference to
practical culture, and send it to his local
paper at the end of each month for pablics-
ton, the records thus preserved and pub
Eshed for one year could hardly fail to be.
coma one of the mosS valuable agricultural
works ever published. II it is Instructive for
farmers to meet together and compare expe-
.rience by oral communications, certainly it
would be instructive for them to read each
osher's notes and memoranda of experiences.