The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-08-08
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
To Young Farmers.

exhausted with ord men, whose brains
and vision are not as active as our
Young farmers, whose hopes, energies
and ambition are in the spring-tide OF
life. It is as much as the old men can
do to carry on their farms as best they
can, for their activity and energies are
pretty well gone, so all they can hope
for is to make a crop with as little
trouble and expense as possible, and
are satisfied if they make provisions
sufficient for the use OF their tarnas
and a money crop to pay the expenses
of the farm and family, and II they
succeed in doing so, they do we'll
that is all I attempt, and so far have
been successful. But the changes
now going on in farming, which
science and improved farm machinery
il developing, is work for our
y6ung farmers; they are young and
active, and they should have the am
bition, energy, perseverance and WIZ,
to take advantage of circumstances,
and make farming a success. 10 DO
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and make theory and work practlcally
beneficial My advice to all young
farmers would be, not to over-reach,
have small farms, and farm on the
diversified and intensive system, and
let your first object be. to the keeping
up of your land in a state of fertility
that will assure you its production wlll
amply repay you for the expense ana
labor bestowed upon it; how macy
young men have been discouraged,
and given up farming, because their
first attempt at farming was a failure.
Cause and effect should be one OF
the first subjects the young farmer
should investigate and study, for Ell
fects are the results of some causes.
Like the failure that discouraged him,
the cause was, the lands he planted
were not in condition to yield re-
munerative crop, hence, the effect was
failure. If failure should be the
result of some cause, termed Provi-
Dental, such as extreme drought or
from storms, or sickness, be not in the
least discouraged, for that arises from
causes that could not be averted, but
take heart and try it over again. have
met with great many such reverses
in my long experience at farming,
which l expelled from my thoughts
by arousing my energies to try |
it over again, and if the failure
,roo "a III -,
any fault of my own, in judgment or
execution. I guarded against it in
future, and remedied the failure as far |
as it was in my power to do so. Self |
reliance is your main dependence. De-
pend mostly on your own resources, |
and make the farm as self-supporting
as possible, first, by raising all your
own food supplies, and make all your
fertilizers as far as possible. 1t won't |
do to depend on merchants and manu-
facturers to supply you with food and
fertilizers. If you do, failure is inevita- |
BILE. Depend on the pillow to help you
out in fertilizing, by rotating crops, |
and turning uEder all vegetable mat
ter on the land to decompose. By |
this mode in a few years you
will see your fields recuperating
and producing better crops. Keep !
all the stock you can without mourning |
expense to do so, and that will help |
greatly in making manures, as well as
enabling you to put your land in bet
ter order for planting and cultivation. |
Stock is no expense when you can
maintain them out of your own cribs |
and barns. They pay we'll for the feed
they consume, especially now when so
much work is done by machinery,
which requires extra stock to work. |
Let corn, oats, rye and clover be your
specialties, and the cotton your surplus
crop, paying proper attention to rotat- |
ing your crops. By such system you !
will improve your crops, and succeed
as farmer, at the same time observ- |
ing judicious economy.
No farmer can expect to accumulate
wealth rapidly these days by farming,
so they need not attempt it; if at
tempted, failure is the result Farm
" Wy SAOW anu sure proc
ess, that is, make the farm self-sup- /
porting and self-sustaining, and with
judicious economy, and paying as you
go, by gradual increase of crops, and |
stock, by accumulation. in few years
the increase is so much added to your
capital, which keeps increasing under
judicious management. Farming is
not speculative business, and should
not be made so. 1t is regular bust
ness of system and methods, to be pur-
sued judiciously and perseveringly,
paying strict attention to details. Like |
all other business it requires study
and calculation and constant attention
to make it a success, and no business
is so much under the self-control of it's |
proprietor as that of farmer. Young
men can choose no better occupation
than that of a farmer if they set about
it right JNo. Fl. DENT.
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