The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-28
A Bad Practice.

pacity and sell the crops in the raw
state. thus reducing the soil from
whence all this material comes. I'll
the farmer could realize that he is a
manufacturer and the farm his fac.
tory, and to sell the crops off the
farm is selling the raw material
which always brings the lowest price
that he is thus losing more than half
the profit he should obtain from the
farm, there would be less poor run.
down farms; less run-out fields; less
heard of hard times, less poor bank.
rupt farmers and that farming Is
after all, vain delusion and does
not pay.
The farmer should consider that
the farm is not only a factory. but
it also produces its own raw matH-
ial from which TO manufacture ami
Giles of sale. Thus he has the id.
vantage of most every other man.
facturer. The soil and air are Tie
sources from which the farmer
draws his supplies of raw materid,
and the plant and anima life ars-ael
machines by which he WORKS up, tilts
raw material into useful manufat'
tured articles, such as milk, butter,
cheese, pork, beef, mutton, wool and
cotton. Instead of the farm being
adapted to single occupation, 1t is
really a combination of great many
pursuits. The implements and ma
chinery are varied, and the products
are not limited to any particular ar
ticle.
Let US look at some of the farmers
machines and see what advantage
he has over other manufactures. The
COW, which is the machine for con-
verting the farm crops into milk,
butter or cheese, is unlike other ma.
chimes, is self-sustaining and self-re-
pairing. Now the farmer finds a
great deal of matter produced on the
farm which has cost him something
to make, that there is no sale for and
would be lost, but by the assistance
of the cow he is enabled to manufac.
ture it into a form for which he can
find ready sale; while at the same
time he returns portion of the orig.
inal cost in the shape of manure for
the purpose of assisting to further in
crease the amount of raw material"
The eve, another farm machine
comes to help the farmer dispose Of
his crops at good profit by manu-
featuring them into greater variety
of saleable products in the shape Of
wool, mutton. lambs and manure
I besides keeping down briars and 9th
er pests of the farm. NOtwithstand.
ing the great advantage this valua-
BILE machinery is to the farnnFr, thsH
are many farms now without a head
of sheep upon them, who buy their
family supplies of wool and mutton,
and dig up the briars and sassafras
bushes with elbow grease, while
much of the production of the farm
that is not salable in its present form
could be eaten by the sheep.
The sow another valuable machine,
enables the farmer to cultivate crops
that are rarely salable except at low
prices, and manufacture them into
pork and valuable progeny that ma.
ture quickly and reach market in
short time, and thus makes the
farmer more Independent and farm.
ing more profitable.
Then comes the mare. that gives
us the power with which to perform
the work required. and adds her off
spring to the revenue. There are
but few farmers, if any, who do not
keep horses to work their farms, but
how many avail themselves of this
advantage of keeping a mare as a
machine and working her to her
fullest capacity? If the farmer will
give the mare a chance she will take
much of the farm crops that do not
sell at prices much above cost of pro-
duction, anG manufacture it into the
shape of colts that will make him in
dependent of the market and fill his
pockets with money.
Then comes the hen though but
small part of the whole, she is an
effective and capable machine to pick
up all the wasted seeds of every GOD
and manufacture them into ready
selling carcasses and eggs.
Thus we see the farmer ought not
to sell his crops in their crude or raw
state. but feed them to the various
farm animals and birds which act as
so many machines, performing their
work by different methods, manufac-
tured products which are salable at
all times and seasons of the wear.
Farmers consider yourselves man.
facturers, your farms your factories,
and work them to their fullest ca
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