Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-30

him and his works, developing into Il
rounded intelligence, then enter upnn IN,
farm and you will open volume yuu
never can master, because life is 50 short
yet every successive step will open up new
nelds OF interest. Here ;let me say thai
the English farmer studies adaptation the
most and the American the Least. We
American farmers seem 10 aspire 10 adapt
ourselves to every thing, hanging out like
weather vaue changed by every trade
wind or moved by each successive busi
ness breeze, multiplying competition of Il
disastrous character. Soon as one new re.
muneratlve vocation presents itself twenty
are ready to embark in it to its ruin,-vas
salation and Inconsistency too often proves
our ruin; whereas if we would but cult
Vate contentment, per5evere in well doing
exchanging no certainy for IN uncertainty,
ultimately we should make n point com p
mendable in life's Journey.
In farming there are different departures
and all differently fitted for each, as well
as different soils are in growing different
crops, or in periecting different animals
One man will 90 miles to see a sheep, ard
another like John Randolph half rs far to
kick one. The soil of one farm will grow
sweet succulent grasses, the other sour. The
latter wonders why his cattle are not fat in
early summer for beef, his COWS giving a
large flow of milk through an abundance
OF feed, while the former succeeds in both
The difference in adaptation must be kept
in mind. lis the want of adoption why so
many farmers do not succeed, and the saw.
ing almost proverbial in this day is, such
a farmer is a lucky farmer, because sue
cessful when, if you examine into the
matter you will find that adaptation enters
into all his arrangements, and nothing but
the Affections providence will defeat him.
He uses his brain, his soil. his muscle
to their appropriate fitness, influenced not
by the success of others on different soi,s.
pursuing different branches of farminy :;
but guided by his own star of adaption t.
4 certain wise result. Again. there are
many, and many a farm in Vermont upon
which the granter, or grantee has strug
gled for years to succeed upon that never
has nor never will, for major part of
their acreage are adapted to no other pur-
pose than TO return to their primeval state
to be recuperated by its own foliage. Such
homes are not adapted to farming and
better be abandoned, the sooner the better !;
and perhaps the time has come when a
new system should be inauguratel, farm
lines broken down in their occupancy to
warrant rebuilding consolidation of the
feasible acreage for tillage and pasture,
the remainder shut out for forest to re.
plenish timber aud water.
Wien we have learned what branch of
farming we would prefer. if sheep raising
is our taste, adapt the farm, the buildings,
all the surroundings to the business, times
and market, persevere, making but little
difference as to the price of our products
as to the even tenor,we pursue our cllling.
Like the sun glass concentrating the rays
if steadily held upon one point will pro.
duce an effect. If cattle is our choice,
beef or dairy, select 4 farm for grass ma
turally adapted, of the right quality and
then the breed. For here venture the
statement in reference to stock that if one
fourth of all the sheep, cattle and horses
in the state had been annihilated last No
vember and their places supplied by those
animals adapted to each owners specific
demand, wealth would have been added to
the state; in other words that, as n rule,
one fourth to one third OF the stock win
tered in Vermont annually is not worth
wintering by whom, and where, and in
the manner which they are usually kept
Exchange would remedy some of the evils
of the same stock by proper allp.ation
For you 90 into u cheese dairy OF even
good mixers and nothing very strange,
even at this day OF progress, if one half of
those cows could be put into neighbor B's
butter dairy for as many in exchange bet.
ter adapted to cheese making than butter.
Such an obedience to the laws of adapta-
tion would result in pecunary advantage
to both daries. Ii fruit is our choice,
study the soil, location, market and adapt
the variety and the moars Of utilization
that with 4 given amount of labor will
bring the greatest returns. In the manu-.
facture and application of manureS, the
same principle is of the utmost import
ance the soil, rotation of crops must be
studied with the view of constantly i'm
proving the farm and making profits,
giving the crop all the desired food, and
in due season for the perfect harvest, be-
lievng that this principle when under
stood and practically applied, one hundred
hnshels of corn can he raised to the ocre
where but sixty bushels now are raised. =.
and two toms of hav where now there is
hnt one ton. Acain, I uroe farm crons
shouId be- wisely adapted to the soil in
the;r rotary order. so that rest and reen.
naration ,yill attend Tho land Far ns
cbange of exercise to tbe hnman boIv
lives rest hecause a different set of mus.
cles are called into existence, 50 with
tbo soil diIIerent crons cali into ren,isition
Jiffsrent constituents and in different nro.
nortion of The same clements. ThenaG,in
toan, nnJ tools shonld he sncnrcd NV the
ssma ~ rnle. many a farm is now carried
on ,ybon bv :, change in the team and
fools for one inst adontcd for the business
wUmld save the labor of one man and
h,orl and mucb in tho keepino of The
,oon, mating handsome nrofit ve,rlv to
tha ownnr nanv teams nnon onr firms
to.aov if to ho ken. for three wears longer
W b,d dI be,tor be given awav and one obt9io.
aJ adj in tbo nloce that il iust fitted, nerform.
inc a thirG more work with less eynense
in in toenina Then our farm buildinos
tho;r location arranoement, convenienee
Gtnoss oconon,iral c6nstruction shoul1 he
nJanted % ~ The f1rming business in which
u,o prY" pro onroned w Vprv MANY farmers can
set down and devise n remodelino Of his
t bni,d;rgs % ~ saving hnndrcds Of dollars in