The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-04-27

8. A. Williams said he was well satisfied from
observation that those farmers succeed best who
raise everything they need Those who do SO
live more comfortably and with less trouble
Their ability to do 1t depends upon their DISPOSE
ton and willingness to give attention to their bus
mess Some men have time and a disposition to
look after colts. If they have not they will not
find colt-raising success. In Marshalrs district
a great many mules have been raised, for ten
years past, and as result, farmers being better
supplied, mules will not bring the high prices
there that they do in other parts of the county.
Ohio s. Lee agreed with others that farmers
should not buy anything they can raise. A far
mers capital is his farm, and If he turns his en-
tire attention to one particular branch of farming
IL Will take all he can make to buy what he needs
Farmers should raise every year a colt or two,
sufficient to keep up their farm stock; They
calf at 8 years old will be worth $50, and you do
not miss what it eats. Wherever a farmer can
save cent he should do it.
james Lee differed almost entirely with those
who had spoken. A great many things, he
thought, were cheaper to buy than to raise. In
toned cheaper than he could raise it. A farmer
must have specially TO be successful. He may
miss 1t occasionally, but in q series of 10 years he
will make money. He had found 1t more profta-
bic to buy cattle, Craze them, keep them year
and sell them than to raise calves. The average
crop of cloverseed is not over one bushel to the
acre and the amount of stuff cut of to get that
bushel of seed impoverishes the land great deal,
and will only SOW or acres.
Thos. A. Hays said 1t pays to raise crops either
to sell for profit or to consume, either animal or
vegetable 1t does not generally pay to raise
horses because we have not the right kind of
stock. 1t Will pay to raise Short Horn cattle but
not scrub stock. 1t will not pay generally to
raise cloverseed.
Alex. F. Hays had no doubt it would pay to
raise some kinds of cattle. Cloyerseed can be
bought cheaper than you can raise it, but per-
haps you get more weeds in buying It,
Geo. Il. Silver believed that farmers can better
afford to raise than to buy everything they use,
because they have a home market. Some
things we are forced to raise, such as small fruits
and vegetables, and we should raise them even If
it costs more than the market price to do 1t. He
could not afford to raise oxen, on account OF the
time required to break them. In raising colts a
farmer is likely to keep more than he needs and
they become consumers instead Of producers 1t
may pay to raise some While they may cost as
money as much. IL will not pay to raise Jersey
bull calves, but 1t does pay to raise Short Horns.
diversity IN farming is the only true and profit
table method in this section.
BENJAMIN Silver, Jr., thought that location,
condition Of the farm and mans own DISPOSE
ey on a certain crop while others lose He be-
lieved In specially in farming as in other BUSH
ness. There is no money in raising colts or seeds.
A colt at years old will have cost say $40 and
there is great risk in breaking it. A farmer had
better buy the smaller seeds. We would be bet
ter oil If we never sowed wheat, but we are COM
PEELED to SOW it to set our land in grass
Harry Wilson said 1t depended upon the condi-
ton of a mans farm what he should raise and
what he should buy. 1t is doubtful If it always
pays to raise some small seeds, but cloverseed,
although i does not always pay, will pay in an
stock. 1t is only from the increase of their stock
that some farmers can make anything.
Edward p. Moores thought farmers should raise
may seem less to buy than to raise, but
when we have to pay out the hard cash we often
find that hard to raise. II is good idea to raise
mules and also cloverSeed, cabbage seed and
everything else we need on the farm.
J. 7. G. Hopkins said he had always been a buy
er but was inclined to believe it must be cheaper
to raise than to buy.
VIM. d. Lee was decidedly in favor of raising
all we need.
A NJ mi sold he had to tba,
OF the opinion that there was nothing man could
not raise cheaper than he could buy and was of
the same opinion still The club, also, seemed to
not be looked at from the standpoint of what
some do but of what can be done if proper atten-
ton is given. AS to cloverseed, he believed that
when the rotation of crops brings it around it
pays better to save than to buy. He thought rails
ing colts ought be made to pay. Here in Hartford
we don't raise the right kind of colts as work
horses. III we don't get trotter we get an un-
saleable horse. We have stock mares of good
cheron would give us larger and more servlceable
farm horses. Instead of waiting or 5 years to
break them, they could be put to light work when
~ years old. At years, If sufficiently matured,
they would bring good price.
Judge Walters said If called upon to vote he
would vote with the majority that it pays better
however, the labor of producing which in the
small quantity needed is almost as great as the
fore pays better to buy than to raise them If
farmer only needs one bushel of cloverseed it
don't pay to save it, If he has a field of 20 acres
it will pay him. He thought certain garden seeds,
of which but small quantity is needed, can be
bought cheaper than they can be raised. 1t does
not pay to raise bushel or two of timothy seed.
The hay Is worth more than the seed. Buck
wheat will pay in some localities-the Buckwheat
Patch, for instance-but it would not pay Deer
Creek farmers. II farmer can raise something
he can sell for more than it costs to buy some
thing he wants. it pays better to buy than to raise
the latter. If man raises an acre of wheat for
instance and from that acre can buy as much
buckwheat as he could raise on 10 acres it is
cheaper to raise wheat and buy buckwheat-
Breeding horses interferes with ordinary farm
work, but it Is different with cows. 1t is always
profitable to raise calves of good stock. He had
heard farmers say ii is cheaper to buy corn and
money to rom to buy hem Where ra ehe
ing anything Is in the line of regular farming bus
iness 1t is generally cheaper to raise than to buy
VIM. Munnikhuysen thought the answer to the
question depended how upon man is situated.
A few things, garden seeds, for example, can be
bought cheaper and better than they can be
raised. Saving grass seed depended entirely upon
whether we have crop or not. If we have a good
crop it is better to save it and sell the surplus 1t
pays to raise. young stock if we have the right
kind. 1t is not profitable to raise the males of
Jersey stock, but both males and females of Short
Horn stock should be raised. If we had a breed
of heavy horses they would at three years bring
three times as much as our present stock. II is
little expense and trouble to raise colt:
DR.. W. s. Archer thought farmer should try
to raise ma GRITTY of the things he needs but
every farmer should have specially. Some far
meTS can succeed Detter with one thing and some
with another. He was of the opinion that a cross
of Percheron with the stock of horses now in the
county would make good farm horses. They
should be dropped in November and fed grain as
soon as they will eat it. He thought saving seeds
and other things often consumes great deal of
time which could be spent to more advantage in
some other way. 1t pays farmer to have spe-
cialty-some of horses, some of cattle and some
even of buckwheat.
DR.. T. II. Roberts said his views had been ex-
pressed by Mr.. Munnikhuysen.
Adjourned to meet at Mr.. A. NJ. Fuford's, May
W.