Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-06-22
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.


70 Young Farmers
So much Is said and written shout
farming nowadays. the subject seems
exhausted with old men. whose brains
and vision arc not as active as our
young farmers, whose hopes, energies
and ambition are in the spring-ude Of
life. II is as much as the old men can
do ITO carry on their farms as best they
can. for their activity and energies are
pretty we'll gone, so all they can hope
for IS to make q crop with as little
trouble and expense as possible. and
are satisfied If they make provisions
sufficient for the use Of their farms
and money crop to pay the ensnses
Of the farm and family, and & they
succeed in doing 20. they do we'll
that is all attempt. and SO a. I have
been successiql But ihs changes
how going on ID farming. which.
science and improved farm machinery
is developing. is work for our
young farmers; they are young and
active, and they should have the am
bition, energy, perseverance and will,
TO take advantage Of circumstances,
and make farming a success. To do
this. they must read as well as work.
and make theory and work practically
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 q state lOf fertility,
that will assure you its production will
amply repay you for the expense and
labor bestowed upon it; how many
young men have been discouraged,
and given up farming, because their
firstoattempt at farming was failure
Cause and effect should be one Of
the first subjects the young farmer
should investigate and study, for of
fects are the results Of some causes.
Like the failure that discouraged him,
the cause was, the lands he planted
we're not in condition to yield re-
munerative crop, hence, the effect was
failure. If a 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 1t over again. have
met with great many such reverses
in my long experience at farming,
which / expelled from my thoughts
by arousing my energies to try
it over again. and if the failure
was from any cause attributable to
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. It wont
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 plow to help you
out in fertilizing, by rotating crops,
and turning under 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 we'll 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 well 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 obsepv-
ing iudicious 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
to accumulate by slow and 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 a few years
the increase is so much added to your
capital, which keeps increasing under
judicious management Farming is
not a speculative business, and should
not be made so. It is a regular busi-
ness of system aud methods, to be pur-
sued iudiciously and perseveringIy,
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 its
proprietor as that Of a farmer. Young
men can choose no better occupation
than that of farmer If they set about
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