Nevada County picayune., 1888-03-14
AGRICULTURAL.
Economic Principle of Farming.

abundant maturing, attended with favorable scasons is very apt to assure good crops :that is all that can he said as regards making abundant crops :: the rest depends on proper and ju- dciuus management in attending to details: no business can succeed without economic management. and the first principle to observe k that expenditure must not exceed income 1t is not what a man makes. but what he saves that adds to his pros perity; stop the leaks and waste will he prevented; rccollect the old adagc. w anton waste makes woe farm. as well as with all other pur- suits. attending to details has done more to assure success than anything else after having everything regulated to run hv proper system, for with out system everything is left pretty much to chance. There should be a place for everything. and everything should be in its place, and if this was observed how much time would be saved and how much loss of many things would be prevented. have seen instances. and it has often hap pencd with myself. where tools. i'm plcments and other things have been mislaid and hours of work have been lost in hunting them up and some times never found. have seen when blowing has been stopped for only a week. and when orders have been given to start again. some of tlfe hands have lost much time in hunting up part of their gear, and then come up and tell you hamc- string cant be found. perhaps a clev- is. even to trace and something else-all such is q loss of time and materials and causes often veNation and troubles; to prevent such, a gear house, with lock and key and ev- erything in it's place would save tune trouble and expense. house for everything with key and lock. and in 2 year or two bv what would be say ed would pay more than the cost of the house. System is the foundation of success. and, as General Wash ingtOn remarked i'll one of his letters on agriculture. "a bad system was even better than no system. "a stich in time saves nine" As regards buildings, fencing and gates, as well as to washing of the land and to all else where wear and tear takes place, negroes are not to be depended on in such matters. as wear and tear is one of their strongest instincts :; hence all such attention comes under the eye and ears of the owner and manager of the farm, as when ncglec- ted il comes out of his pocket, and in such neglect expenses increase. Fencing and manures are the heay-  lest expenses that the farmers now incur, fencing in particular. The legislature ought tO come to the relief of farmers and do away with fenc- ing and save them that expense. as well as to preserve the forest. Our climate k becoming colder. drouthS more frequent and intense. floods more damaging to our lands from precipitation of the water from the cleared hills after heavy continued rains, timber iS becoming scarce for fuel and building purposes. hence the legislature should inter venc and protect the farmers, save the forest and guard against ruin and devastation that the loss of the forest has brought about bv destruction of the forest Agriculture and com merce suffer from it's effects. and the farmers should insist on the lcgisla- ture protecting them by doing away with fencing. II k to the interest of the State that the forest should he preserved, hence it becomes the duty of the legislature to preserve il, so far as the waste of timberis con cerned as to fencing. If the legislature is tender footed in making one general law, let them pass q law that only the owners of timbered lands be allowed to vote on the fence question. for its defeat has been accomplished mostly by persons who own not q foot of land or tree. Leave il to those who own the land and the timber, and who are directly interested in the matter, and that would he fair and proper.
 JoEN II. DENT.
 Cave Spring, Ga.
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