The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-15
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F. c. Huntington & Co.,
Leading Seed Merchants,
For special quotations.
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Buffalo Express.
Prosperity, as rule. is dependent on tho
mans thorOughness in business appllcatlon
He must be able to forecast the demands OF
his markets, and to meet these demands
with products which fully answer all re-
Quirements. He must produce these crops
in the smallest possible area on which they
can be grown, in order to lessen cost ana
labor OF production and amount OF capital
invested: The great trouble with most OF
farmers IS that they spread their Work over
too large an area. Every additional acre IS
so much more capital invested In the pro-
duction of a crop which might have been
grown on less land. This increase or acre
age compels superficial cultivation, meager
fertilizing and greater risks. 1t costs less
to harvest fifty bushels of oats, or three
tons of hay. from one acre than from three.
1t costs less to make $50 pounds of butter
from cow III single season than from
two cows. Working small farm does not
mean profit, however. but raising big crops
on small farm means net cash.
1t is time to remember that the more
thorough and sklllful culture Is usually tho
the cheaper. 1t is time to remember, too,
that the farmer who has to employ hands
all the year must so diversity his farming
that he will have productive work at all
times of the year. He wastes q part OF his
productive force if he provides but for
salable products requiring culture only in
summer. He must become manufacturer
as we'll as producer, and feed out his sum-
mer crops-at least the majority of them--ln
the winter In such way as to get Det-
ter prices for them, retain them anurlal ele.
ments on the farm for future crops, and
give profitable employment to the hired
man or men. Consumers pay higher prices
for fresh butter and eggs In winter than In
summer. The farmer should SO arrange
his dairying operations that his cows
shall give milk from September to June,
and go dry during the harvest season.
He can thus use bis hired help. to
the best advantage and at the same time
make his dairy more remuneratlve. Grain
nowadays, and it was proved by a trial at
a New England experiment station that Dy
raising corn for ensilage and buying feed
ing grains and cOttOn-seed meal beef can
be made in New England to-day and sold In
her markets at lower prices than Western
beef costs delivered there, and still leave
handsome profit to the feeder. The agri-
culture of this country has spread over too
many acres. What is needed now Is more
intelligent application of science and work
on each acre. The past year was poor
one for wheat in England, and statisticians
there report that the wheat crop only
averaged twenty-eight bushels per acre.
This is over 100 per cent. moro than the
average per acre in this country. In other
words farmers here work good deal more
than twice the land for the same returns:
Still more profitable is the catering to the
fast-increasing demand for what were once
considered luxurieS. Fruits little out or
season; vegetables just gathered and put
into market in few hours thereafter, two
or three weeks before the time of their us
nal appearance; early lambs, we'll fattened:
fat and quickly grown broilers OF. turkeys;
anything extra nice and attractive in the
way of food products. are always sure to
bring high prices, and the demand is never
filed. The people who consume them are
able and willing to pay high prices for
them; competition is always limited, and
the increase in price is proportionately far
above the cost. The money-making
farmer is the one who sees all these things
and practices them. He is not the one who
is dawdling about the Hobbies of legisla-
lures, to try and secure what he fOndly
hopes is legislation that will abate the nat
ural or competitive evils of his business,
and that will make the Country prosperous
by main strength, as it were. Legislation
can correct some evils good Judgment and
good farming can correct many more. When
weather and consumptive demands are all
right, almost any farmer can make some
thing; when these factors are unpropitious,
every poor farmer is compelled to assert
that farming don't pay" for it is true in
his case.