The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-07-17
Aarirulturf.
WIZ rarm. or. Rau.ing Dsvs,

Ayonng farmer sho signs himself u. J.
a., gives us bis ideas A. 10 WHY come farms
run out AID as 10 wha, il necessary 70 keep
them up ADD mste farming pay, a. fol
lewss
Why 40 macy farms are rennins down.
lisa question often sskea, aud often We
bear the remark that farming don't pay.
The farmer ths, manages 90 as TO mske IL
profitable Is the one yen will fnd thai
keeps bis harm M, crossing steadily better
every year The che ihs, Il crying farm
ing don't pay is the one whose farm IL
ias, decreasing 10 value aud crops A
good farmer il At work on bis farm the
mos, Of the time. trying TO make improve
menis aud raise larger crops every year.
He Ia seldom seen lounging round the viii.
iage store. planning other mems business
Tor them, because he has enough u his
own aud attends 10 IL; aud you never see
him riding out. unless he has some bnsi
ness that must be attended TO, la short.
he makes II point to be on his farm as
much as he possibly can, which is the
most OF the time. man will tind enough
TO do that will pay you to do on farm to
keep him busy all the time, II he has a
disposition to do IL; aud when you find q
farmer Of this kind, you will fad farm
that 10 growing better. The manure heap
is too often neglected, This 10 the life Of
. farm. aud farming cannot be dons sue
cessiully without IT, In the summer the
successful farmer will spend his spare
moments putting loan, muck or something
Of the kind, into bis hog.yard. He beds
his COWS down every night with some ab
sorbent; and 10 so doing he has 80 or Az
loa is OF good manure to use on his farm
In the fall; while, on the other hand, II he
spent his spare moments in riding out or
in the village store. he would have had
only very few loads to enrich his farm
with in the fall think we can make
manure in the aforementioned way q
great deal cheaper than we can buy il
The majority Of farmers lack help; only q
few can siiord to hire at the present prices
but they ought to get along with less help
than their fore.iatbers did, aud do more
work. By using agricultural implements,
ore man is about as good as two 80 years
ago; and instead OF hiring so much, be
should buy them to work with and not be
such an old foey rs to do as our grand
fathers did pitch manure with q wooden
io.k, cut grass with hand scythe, rake
il with q hand rake, etc, But let US have
the tool, and then do the work and keep
our farms up raise more and buy less
Let us wear out, not rust out. l don't
mean that we should overwork ourselves,
but keep steady at it. not Jump all day to-
day and do two or three days work fol-
the sake Of gaddiDg two days, but stay on
the farm aud keep steady at our work. In
this way we will wear longer and get
along easier. and our farms will be i'm
proving all the time. When we do this.
we can make farming pay. | believe IN
raising mixed crops: for il We should SOW
all grains and it should prove to be poor
grain year, then we have almost lost our
labor. Ga the other hand, il we plant a
variety, IN probability We shall have sea
son to fit something, and we will raise .
crop OF some kind. The above are some
OF the ideas OF young farmer.