Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-11
FARMING AND FARM WORK

FARMINu AND FARM WORK.
Plenty Of ssoom for All Corners.
Telegraph
Undoubtedly the cultivation of the soil
and the raising Of fiocks and herds may
always be depended upon to furnish q
living, and there is, therefore, no very
great risk in the enterprise. In view of
the overcrowded condition of all other pur-
suits this one may be safely relied on as an
unfailing resource at all times. Few
regions have been more rapidly settled
than have been Illinois, Missouri, Kansas
and Iowa, with farmers and stock raisers
since 1860. Hen ce, the westward migra
tory movement now again going on will
again produce general activity. For this
emigration will put a large amount of
money in active circulation, cause large
increase in railroad travel and freights,
relieve the overburthened labor markets
of the seaboard, and create new markets
for capital and merchandise. The condi-
tions are much more favorable to agricul'
tural emigrants now than formerly, bee ause
the railroad charges have been SO adjusted
that produce can be profitably shipped or
sold at the most remote and isolated
points. Land is everywhere cheap and
accessible, and railroads traverse immense
regions.
Our country is SO boundless that to talk
of the public domain being all gobbled up,
as do some pretentious writer's, is the
height of folly. There is wild land in all
the states in such quantities that no one
need want farm tracts in vain. And al
though the cry ego West " has long
since grown stale and hackneyed, the
West still remains boundless wilderness
an immense Ocean-in which the settle
ments resemble the Pacific islands. Maine,
New Jersey and West Virginia alone
would accommodate all the emigration
for the next five years. Pennsylvania has
been for fifty years ceaseless fountain of
emigration, and yet is herself admirably
adapted to receive millions of new settlers.
But whether emigration tends East or
West. only let it keep out of the cities.
There is not one in twenty who come
hither who have tho means to what VIC
call SETTLE" They are either laborers
or mechanics but instead of making
their homes in tho now lands and grow up
with the country, they drop into the cities
where they earn a very precariOus living,
and soon fall into the habits of idlenes.
and drinking, and never make any head
way. If they were to spread abroad ever
throughout the Middle states they would
find abundant employment upon the
farms. We venture to say to-day among
farmers alone in these states half million
of farm hands could find plenty of wol /
at much higher wages and with much
better living than they ever received al
home.
Ensilage Again.
In regard to ensilage once more, there
are beginning to be some distinct mutter
ings in opposition to it's value, and these
are-being first heard in the New England
states where this mode OF preserving cattle
food was first introduced. In ono silo il
is stated that the ensilage was "entirely
spoiled, mouldy and rotten" This silC
was constructed with great care !; the fOd
der was cut with $3.50 machine, and was
pressed down with jackscrews, &c. On in.
quiry of the foreman of another farm he
said that he did not feed heavily
with ensilage, as fault was found
with the milk as being "too
thin" This man thought the ''life of the
ensilage was in the gram and cotton seed
fed in connection with it; that if COW
was fed on ensilage alone, without any
grain whatever, she would soon be ruined
If he had his own way he would not again
fill the silos. He also found the cost OF
ensilage a great objection We notice
several other unfavorable opinions. Ont
farmer said he found that the less ensilage
he fed and the more bran and corn meal
the better his cattle Jared OF course l,
must be expected to have diverse opinion:
and reports on all questions So intimately
touching the interests of this great in
dustry. Still, We stick to our origina
assertions in regard to this mode of pre-
serving green provender for cattle, to lei
those with long purses do the experiment
ing, and let others adopt or reject accord
ing to what the general result may BE-
We had grave doubts of it being settled or
as discovery of much value and per
manent feature in stock-feeding but from
the earnestneSs with which it was takor
hold of, recommended, defended, and
figured into great prominence, there was
nothing for us to do but to watch the ex
pertinent, criticise the statements, anc
revise the statistics as much as possible
with the view of ascertaining as nearly a:
circumstances permit the actual woI Il
of ensilage as leading integer in it's rela-
tion to the farming interests Of the coun
try.
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