Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-20

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himself snd teams gives himself and fa0i-
~ . good living. afford 70 hire help. o..
In other words, 70 vhss extent can . farnssl
End is profitable to exsspd bis bssiness.
There are pumesoss considefsSioas % b
taken into sccouas- Farming 10 MOI unlike
some other kinds Of business. For II
stance, . man hiss . ssers in . cosatsy
village. He can sell annually tuss sbost
20 many seeds. He vesld Ike
to increase his bssiness, 70 do larger
amount Of trade bet he plses will not 3D.
nit Of IL. He must DO the best be can
where he 10. Many fsrnsrs are similarly
located. They can % jas sbsss 20 much.
To do more would Be 70 increase expeasss
I.resly. snd then fss the kind o. farming
in which the mas may - engaged there
may not Be . demand for increased psodpess.
Toe conditions ssrrouading hin muss de-
ssfmine his course. II he 10 . market gar.
densr, let him ask himself II the market h
has viii support 40 enlarged production. II
making milk, lot him ask. can eel more
mik If l should buy more cows. II an o.
chArdiss let him study IL the results Of sales
Of fruit for an aveSsge Of eight or ten years.
iookirg 1t the markets carefully, would
warrant him 10 putting out more trees. II
he il interested In colts, hens. sheep or
sseet corn, let him decide from his own
.nviron meut il il would be wise to extend
either branch Of farming shove What be 10
At present carry log On.
Nov after this long Introduction Of our
own we may nnd some good hints In the
ialk Of those present It the meet
log Mr.. Brown believed the farmer
could hire help at profit,
in ordinary farming. because there
would be no adci,ional expense for teams,
farm implements and machines, nor would
the wear and tear Of buildings Be increased.
Albion Dudley estimated the entire ex-
penses Of family consisting Of . man and
wife with Ave children at $1,000. and he
had concluded from several years expert
ence that he could not get much Of lv
ing without hiring help. Marx Mills said
the farm must be kept mp to its highest
FONT Of productiveness. He said that
whsnev r he had run behind Is had been
when he had allowed the number Of his
farm stock Of cattle to get too small to eat
all the hay and grain the farm produced.
He had been astonishsd soma years to ind
when balancing his accounts, - he did every
year, to nnd how his profits had diminished
in comparison with other years and could
always trace the trouble to this source.
He gives himself no anxiety about the price
OF hay Is he never sells any ~ he cannot keep
up the fertility Of the soil in that way, or
afford to hire help, but he can do both BY
feeding the hay upon the farm. James
Staples said that nearly every farmer 10
his neighborhood 10 in . prosperous condi-
ton. and can and does. hire help to advan-
t,ge. There are . few, perhaps. who do
no, and say it 10 impossible to hire help to
advantage; but il you should look for .
reason, you would fnd, although they have
. large number Of acres, but few are cult
waited and in . paying condition. II the
owners would stock up their farms, pillow,
dress and cultivate the acres that are capa-
bic of producing splendid crops. there would
be DO trouble in employing help to assist in
raising crops At = profit. So 1t 10 In other
parts of the county. A large majority Of
farmers are making good living, and car
ing for their families in the best manner.
Surprising the grumblers should sell ont
and go to the city and engage In mercan-
tile or come other city occupation, how
many think you would succeed7 Where
are to be found the largest number Of fail
ures in business-failures which not only
ruin themselves, but many Of their friends
who have placed confidence in them? They
certainly cannot be found in farming
community. E. H. Gregory cultivates
about six acres in early market crops. Last
year with the help Of one hired man for q
few months in the very busiest part Of the
season. he had raised over $500 worth OF
pro iuc,s from the six acres. And ye,
farmers think they are doing we'll At grow
ing sweet corn If the crop pays them an
average Of e55 per acre, and farms
are carried on with hired labor
at that. The farm. says Mr.. Gregory
"sill respond every time the farmer does
his part we'll" Cheap help does not pay
If help is to be hired only good, intelIigen,
help 10 profitable. II we have farms tina,
are capable Of being worked, ssid Mr.. A.
G. Hunt. We ought to be capable of hiring
help and working them to advantage. One
OF the most intelligent farmers in Penob.
scot county . man Of close observation and
very prudent in his statements said he for
merly gave part Of his attention to lumber
ing, but since he had given his whole att-n-
ton t, farming. it had paid him much better.
Mr.. Joel Richardson said that in the last I've
years be had increased the average yield Of
bis wheat by eight bushels per acre. IIis
average yield Of wheat is$ twenty
eight bushels per acre. just
think Of that The average Of the country
is not above fourteen bushels per acre. and
yet here 10 PeDobscot farmer scoring an
average Of twenty-eisht bushels. 1t shows
that farmers can make farming pay in this
good old State, and that there are places
where farming 10 advancing instead Of 60
ing backward. And We are sure these
cases are not all confined to the good old
county Of Penobscot.