Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-05-24
XaTHt x#terests,
How to Make Farming Pay.
PART THIRD.
Tennessee Farmer.

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be entirly trusted to others, and the
farmer who depends exclusively up
on the work and Management of share
troopers and hired labor, as regards
all details, whilst he devotes his
time to fishing and hunting or loaf
ing about country stores, may con-
tinue to say with some truth that
farming don't pay" There is much
said about hands not working as
they did in the olden time, and when
left to themselves much of this is
true, but the farmer who takes the
lead and works himself will find
much of it untrue. Be economical
but never penurious. Never allow
anything wasted that may be made
useful, either at the present or In the
future. Even soap-suds and the water
that you use to wash the tobacco gum
from your hands are good fertilizers,
especially for fruit trees. All ashes,
droppings of stock and everything in
the way of fertilizing substances
should be placed together in some
pen made for the purpose and
taken care of until you wish to use it,
In this way you will save many dol
lars worth of the best fertilizer dur
ing the year. The old way of max
ing fattening hog pens with one end
in your stock pond and the other on
land that you never cultivate to save
the little trouble of watering hogs,
is a very "old fogy" notion, as you
can plainly see when the injury to
your stock water and the loss of ma
nure are both considered. Twenty
hogs fed for three months on one acre
of poor ground (almost worthless)
will make it rich enough for any
kind of a crop. If you have no poor
ground that you wish enriched, still
make your hog pen out of your pond
with plank floors and water troughs.
ibis will keep your hogs from wal
lowing in the mud and save from
filth your stock water. Feed
all kitchen Stops to your hogs or
cows, and never ollow any thrown
out around your dwelling. This is
best not only for the stock that eats
it,but also for the health of your FAM
lily. Keep at
LEAST ONE SHEEP FOR EVERY TWO
DOGS.
Little things when taken alone
don't amount to much, but when
many are added together they
amount to more. AS the good gen.
eral in time of war is ever wary and
watchful, keeping all points guarded,
whether important, SO must do the
farmer who intends to make farming
pay. The old-time notion of making
doctors, lawyers and merchants of
your brightest boys and leaving the
dull ones to manage the farm, is very
far from the right way. Always Sc
lect your smartest boys for the farm,
and should you unfortunately have
some whose minds are not sufficient
for such an undertaking, let them
try one of the professions named.
Now, in conclusion, l propose tC
reeapitulate in part and also say in
brief some things not said before.
Plow deep and cultivate your land
well before planting and your crop:
well after planting. Do not depend
upon any one or two kinds of crops
but raise variety, and buy as little
as possible of anything that your eli
mate and soil will favorably produce
After you have completed a croE
save it at the proper time. Sell what
you have to sell when the market is
at the highest and buy when lowest
if you can only know, and if yor
don't know the Tennessee Farmer
and few other good newspapers
regularly received, paid for, and
read, will materially aid you il
guessing. Nothing aids more in
keeping an intelligent farmer vel
posted as regards many things worth
knowing than few good and relia
BILE newspapers. Indeed, my expe
rience is, after having regularly reaC
some twenty or thirty different news
papers for many years past, tina
there is hardly any paper so poo
that it does not pay its readers in
some way more than the cost of sub
scription.
Save everything worth saving anC
don't think that anything is of sucl
little consequence that it should bt
wasted. Pay proper attention to tn,
education of your children, remem
bering ever that their minds neeC