The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-01

As the season grows warmer the
| horses should be fed sparing ely on corn.
| Oats, well crushed, make the best grain
| feed, as corn contains too much, oil, and
produces fat and animal heat, with lit
tie muscle. If cats are moistened pre-
tsViOt1s to feeding. the demand for water
after feeding will be lessened, and too
much at that time often carries the
| grain from the stomach into the intes-
tines, where it cannot be digested.
| Corn often causes sweating when given
1 IN large quantities, -DeBUer Tribune. q
"a Small Earning and Corporation.
The tendency of the present phase in
agriculture is toward the working of
larger tracts of land under one business
management. This must prove .prOfta-
bic when directed by great business
talent. A single capable mind direct
ing. the working energy of a thousand
men, will accomplish much more than
/ those thousand men working each on
his own planning. The business talent
| is not distributed in equal portion to
! all and when many willing hands are
moved under one expert, they will be-
come unit of tremendous force. gea d
/ Bonanza farming commands all the
| iaPor-saving machinery for each spe-
leific operation, and can use it with the
| greatest economy, since the proftin the
! use of machinery depends upon the
amount of work to be performed. "A
moving machine will do as much, and
hhetter work than eight men; but If there
be Only one or two days work to be
done with it in year, then the interest
on Its cost would hire the labor done,
and it becomes improbable. The small
L fo1. fbornfnv@o ~ a.
in the use of machinery, and, for this
reason, are sold to the larger proprie-
tors, while the small, independent
| farmers are becoming relatively fewer
| year by year.-The result is not favor
able to education or the advancement in
civilization of this class. Large farms
lessen the population on given area of
land, and, therefore, render it more diff
ficult to maintain schools. But this is
only part of the injury inflicted upon
the population. Instead of being made UP
Of Independent prOprietors, with small
class of temporary labOrers, the popu3
lation consists of few prOprietorS and
3 much larger class of permanently de-
pendent labOrerS. FF 5 ~
The aggregation of small farms into
large ones is to be deplored, and the
Leffe Give means to prevent this result is
an intelligent cooperation among small
farmers in the purchase of such labor
saving implements and machines as
are necessary to perform every
AGRICULTURAL operation most ecOnOmi-
caIly III farmer of 400 or 500 acres
can afford to purchase machines that
cheaper farm labor then eight farmers
Of so acres or five farmers of so, and
two of 70 acres, or an aggregate of 400
acres, made up of any-sized farms, can
Iquite as well afford to use in common
these machines These farms should be
contiguous, and nearly in a square body,
so as to lessen the distance of travel. |
When this is the case, the machines /
cost no more per hundred acres; and as
each farmer takes a share in proportion
to his acreage to be worked, he is placed !
upon an equality with the most favored |
large farmers, and can compete with
them in the production of the same
crops. These small farms usually fur
nish ample labor to occupy the owner
and his family and with the aid of the
co-opeFatien here mentioned ne might,
having a little active zeal in his oeeu-
patton, reach much higher proportion
al production than the large farmer.
Let us suppose that the expensive 40
ricultural machines required to Voik
100 acres will cost 81 200; this would
-
S125-a sum that any well-worked farm /
of thatsize could well afford. 1t MAY
De objected that six or eight farmers
could not profitably use the same set OF
machines; but this would seem to be
grOundless, as one set of implements \
would work all these farms in one
III all these small farms were wei
worked, these farm machines would
perhaps do rather more service, and
this.wOuld only add to their profit. 1t
would not often occur that more than
one Of these farmers would want to use
the grain drill on the same day, and ten
to fifteen days would usually be sIfii-
cient to sow the grain on them all The !
meadows could all be cut with one
moving machine, or. ifnot two Of these
could be purchased. A reaper will I
easily cut $50 acres of grain, and there
would seldom be more. The horse
power, feed cutter, and thresher would
make light work of il all. In short,
there could be no practical difficulty jim |
working out this cooperative problem
with any well-directed effort
1t would unquestionably improve the
social relations OF q neighbOrhoOd, which
is sometimes much needed. Farmers
need more business contact with each
other. and this might lead them to wider
co-operation-to unions to secure more
uniform prices for their products. If
small farms are to hold their position, 1
it must be done BY some such co-opefa-
lion as we have described Aggrega-
ton into large farms is a step in the
wrong directiOn-it is a political and
social blunder. Division. not addition, |
should be the rule for landed property
in this country. National Live Stock
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