Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-02-24
farmers' Column,
eeSDeed the P1Ow79
Too Little Stock on the Farm.

A careful estimate of the annual
drain upon the farm, through rearing
and selling of live stock, would show
to any one that our farm animals are
remarkable in the matter of their use
fulness and manufacturers Of fertiliz-
ing material. They leave an enormous
amount of this during the years before
going forward to the market, the total
hardly within reasonable conjecture,
while the drain made by their annual
growth is really very moderate. An
experienced farmer from an Eastern
or Middle State does not need to have
his attention called to the fact Of dim
inishing crops in the case of fields or
farms where maturing has been neg
lected, for as annual reminders, when
the sickle or the husking peg are in
requisition, they are quite enough even
for the dull perceptions of that class
of farmers who do not read their paper
and to whom the saying, "their per-
ceptions are dull enough for any use,
is quite applicable.
1t would be an interesting expert
ment to most men, and a very convinc-
ing one to any man, to set apart gil
ven piece of ground-say pasture or
meadow, on high land, even on hill
side, upon which the droppings of a
single animal should be distributed,
carefully providing against too free
washing and note the productiveness
of that surface as compared with 9TH
ers of like extent not so treated. The
man who in this way sought evidence
in regard to using it in his daily prac-
tice, would be quite likely to reason,
that the larger the number of farm an
finals on the place, the larger would
be the grass yield. 1t is, in any bust
ness, the skillful use of opportunities
that proves the possession of tact and
it is upon tact that the farmer and the
stock raiser must mainly depend for
his success. The merchants goods
are within doors, and protected the
farmers stock is out in the open wea-
Their, and he has nothing to rely upon
but his own tact and vigilance in see
ing and meeting the constantly chang
ing elements and out door circumstan-
ces. If his farm is pretty fully stock
ed, then he is more likely to give his
mind up to stock interests, and, as a
rule, hundred animals will be more
likely to receive the merited attention
than ten.
The man who has a car load of fat
animals to dispose of at one time can
rely upon better sale than who has
only fraction of a load and if there
be number of loads, than the gain to
the seller is in keeping. Also as to
the price. A smart buyer will not
banter to have penny split on large
sale, because for every business reason
he is the gamer in time; besides the
convenience Of getting into train to
advantage, by being able to concen-
trate clever shipment. promptly
Then, again, if the full capacities of a
farm are given up to breeding and to
: feeding, an interest is enlisted in the
subject of quality that quite generally
insures attention to any needed inn
provement. A grass farm is, from ev-
cry point of view, the easy farm to care
for, while at the same time it is the
farm that will hold its resources with
strong grip, because Of receiving its
daily rations from the stock it feeds.
Write to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 233 West
ern Avenue, Lynn, Mass, for names of ladies
that have been restored to perfect health by
the use of her Vegetable Compound. 1t is q
positive cure for the most stubben cases of
amale weakness.