The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-05-17

MONEY MAKING By FARMING.

ing. The question OF economy IL
not only relevant to the farmer IN
his business, bat may just now claim
the attention of all classes at the
South. l will simply dispense with
this general reference to the subject
with the assertion that there is no
people under the sun, more extravs'
CANT in proportion to their Income
than are the people of the South.
Economy in its application to hns'
baudry has an embracing signif
cance. 1t not only includes prudent
arrangement = care Of little things,
and when the end justifes the means
the most liberal outlay.
BY prudent management | mean
no expenditure of brain, or muscle,
or money, that will not at some time
and some how pay.
Few farmers attach any impor-
lance it would seem to the value OF
time. Prudent management means,
making ones own time and the money
paid for that of others count the most.
At least oue.tenth more work IS done
on g farm where the owner has
we'll matured plan for every day IN
the week, and for each hour IN the
day. than where everything is hap
hazard. In large manufacturing es
Establishments, five minutes added to
the daily time Of each employees
labor without a corresponding 10
crease of pay, makes a profit on a
wears business when otherwise there
would have been loss; aud so in the
business of farming, an hour or two
saved each day makes in life time
of an average length the difference
between a poor man and rich one
| know that you may smile at the
idea but consider one hour lost each
day for three hundred of the year.
Each hour should be worth ten cents
Or a total of thirty dollars year.
If you had saved this thirty dollars
for the past thirty years, and put 1t
a. interest with like amount each
year added, at seven per cent com
pund interest, you would have nearly
ten thousand dollars. | have saved
this hour several times since Febru>
airy, by being in the field by half
past five and six o'clock. When one
lob is done, have another ready and
avoid travelling over the farm to
work 10 several places the same day
Prudent management includes the
use of all labor~ssving implements.
You should use every thing that will
save more value in lim3 TIA ~ the
wear of the machinery and the in
terest on the money value. lime IS
what farmers usually under est mate,
or fail to estimate at all. Macb inery
and system will enable, in many
cases, one mao to do the work of
two or three, by the old method, and
this saving alone, other things being
equal, would give man wealth 10
half life time.
Pruden. management also requires
a knowledge of much that appertains
to growth of plants, their separate
structures, and needed food. Each
requires different treatment and a
general understanding of the nature
of what you desire to raise, and the
elements in the soil where to raise it.
The same is true with reference to
animals. Some knowledge OF what
enters into their growth-the kind
of food best suited for making milk,
or fat, or bone and muscle, as the
case may be enables farmer to feed
bis stock with what is need to secure
the end proposed
Prudent management enters large
" into the domain OF manufacturing
on the farm. A Competent dairy
woman will make anywhere from
fifteen to ihirty-fve per cent. more
butter from a given number of COWS,
simply by intelligent scientific MAJ
nipalation of the milk and cream,
than the don't care negro whose ig
norauce and accompanying self com
placency, will not tolerate sugges>
tons Besides the ordinary town
COW, Ia the vicissitudes Of colored
culinary life has perhaps half dozen
different mixers during the course
OF the year The fact that the cows
product does not pay is not charge
able so much to the COW as to the
imprudent management Of her.
Prudent management, includes
also, thought as to what crops it is
best to raise to meet the demands of
the market, and thus secure for what
we have to sell the largest price If
anything is drug during any given
year, i will be sure to be 10 demand
the next. The farmer who has oats
to sell this year will realise hand,
somely. One general rule reaches
most cases. When any product is
selling below the cost of production,
if that product is something that can
be decreased or increased at will,
and is something that must be had
at some price, that is the product to
invest time aud money in raising.
Many Of our readers may remem-
Der when pork sold a certain year at
thirteen cents a pouad 10 the hog
The next year it went down to ten,
and the next to six cents. The 4th
year it vent up to twelve again, toll
lowing law that Is everywhere re,
cognized 10 business-tbat large