The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-14
Compilation of Valuable Rural Facts.

The love Of flowers is a graceful trait and
their cultivation is a refined and refining pas
time. If you can do no more have at least a
bed Of hardy ANNALS. A single packet Of
mixed seed planted in well prepared bed
will give prOfusiOn of bloom during long
season and will brighten up the yard and the
old farm house wonderfully
Do not give up the garden as soon as the
days become lOug and hot You will want
green things IN the autumn as well as in the
spring and something new should be planted
every week up to the first of August or even
later. Have a succession Of corn, peas
beans. cucumbers and melons and celery
cabbage, turnps, DC, until the ground
freezes. This Is the way TO make the garden
pay.
While not busy with anything else it
would be a good time TO mulch the trees that
were set out last spring. Should the season
turn out 10 be wet one the mulch will not
be Of so much value, though It will do no
harm. But if it is a dry season, or should we
even have an ordinary period Of dIouth dur
ing the hot weather. the mulch Will help to
retain the moisture IN the soil and about the
roots, and may save the life of the tree. A
mulch of straw viii answer but strawy man.
ure is better, SO that when il rains the fer
tllty will be carried down. The mulch should
be thick-not merely a fOrkful scattered
arOund-and should extend out three feet or
more on each side of the tree.
A
large farming is the universally admitted fact
that the fewer acres can be and are farmed
better than the many acres The smaller
area permits cOseness of supervision and
cultivation which Is not easily attained on
larger scale, and better prOpOrtiOnate results
are consequently attained The same fact Is
true of the small dairy as against the
large one, the small flock of poultry,
&c. and this Notwithstanding the gen
eral suppositiOn that a large business
can be conducted more economically
and proftably thana small one. The converse
of this is true in farming because the best re-
suits can only be obtained when the work Is
performed directly under the eye and hand of
the owner. Hired labor deprecates IN value,
and in the return IL brings 10 the employer IN
lust the ratio that it Is scattered over wide
area or among manifold duties The forty
acre farm, the ten-acre fruit garden, the dairy
of ten COWS, the poultry yard with hundred
fowls-these are the things that pay, and that
affords the owner solid satisfaction and con-
tentment
TO make dairying profitable the farm should
DO SO handled that 1t will maintain a con-
stantly increasing number Of cows. But this
cannot be done If all the milk is sold 10 the
factory. and you do not feed generous grain
ration. Out of nothing nothing comes" and
milk sold from the farm carries of with II con-
stantly portion of the farms fertility In
less you are content to let the farm grow
little poorer every year this loss must be sup
piled by feeding a concentrated grain ration,
and applying the manure TO the land. Milk
selling exhausts land more rapidly than soil
ing beef or other stock (but not so fast as sell
inc grain. But this IS not a reason why
farmers should 60 out Of the business. rs
dairving properly conducted is so profitable
that the dairyman can afford to buy and feed
grain to make good the exhaustion. And it is
inst this course that will make the dairy pay.
Good pasture in summer. and clean, bright
hay IN winter, both in ample quantities, and
cotton seed and meal IN quantities varying
from two quarts per day while on pasture up
to five quarts when feeding hay makes an
effective sensible and economical ration for
the dairy. and one that will serve to keepup
full flow of rich milk 1t is not trouble
some 10 handle or feed and will do better work
than many more complicated dlet.-Clncin-
natl Commercial-Gazette.