The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-04-07
Agriculture.



rel.les 10 all kinds Of business a. eiosely
80 i, does to farming Boa are no farmers
economicAlf someone asks Yes They are
in acme ~sy.. bal iew are 20 10 every
ssy. aud 3, iss reason for much poverty
Thrift msk,ng economy does no, consist
wholly 10 vice expenditure. IN refusing 70
spend nor 10 the buying Of . scsni pat
tern OF second grade calico Tor Mollies
annual dress. bought sla poser hs,
cutter last fall for " II hss Gu, the led
der for III my stoct since, snd ssved Ne
purchase price several times IA hay. How
lid / get such baresinr aud Is this the
Kind OF economy refer TOP Answering
the latter question: fra, reply. No Bu'
| will show you sample Of ti,rsvsganee
that Is all too common. asked tue CLERK
Of large impiem sni house TO sho~ me 3
power cutter. He I'd none 10 stock. The
owner OF my machine overheard the state
ment aud said he had just bongh, new
one aud would sell bis old one Tor " !
found ! could see IL without going lar ont
OF my way, aud drove to his farm with
him. The cutter 81 once recognized ~
one Of modern make still sellirg actively
on it's merits. He found il worked hard
and was dull, and he had not the energy
and gumpiion TO oil aud sharpen 1t, Hall
an hour with oil aud emery has made the
thing do wonders ever since, HIS was
sastefulness. aud it is sample OF what Is
going on in many other places A neigh
Dor near Sunny Crest has made the same
mistake. To make thiugs spend long
way by CAREFUL intelligent usage saves
buying new.
The changing Of worn culiivator teeth
10 the paces OF unworn ones, protecting
the wearing whiflietree with strap OF iron
frat changing ends with it, summer use Of
hall spoiled winter horseshoes, prompt REL
pairing OF all things needing 1t, exchange
ing the places Of worn, middle stall psnks
with those nearly new on the outside, the
use of old vehicles and hsi nesses in stormy
muddy times, putting on three horses OF
Ii shtenipg the load where it threatens to
strain the span all these things and many
more are economies. Neglect them and
th IN Try to make up for the neglect by The
judicious use Of money, and the economy
will be only farce usually,
There is an economy in stock feeding,
also, especially in feeding unbalanced
food. Coarse fod der needs rich food to %
with it, Ek
Spring is upon US; glorious spring :
how we all love herl How glad every
living thing is that the letters O.
winter are broken, and that spring is a.
hand, with the glorious unfolding OF na
ture and the manifold duties and activities
it brings to us
But guess l had better cume down
a little from this soaring altitude, and tall
bout practical things, or my readers viii
think that screw got loose while WAS IL
bed with the grip.
Let me see; have several things ! wanl
ed to write about, but they have gone oul
Of mind. One thing. have been asked to
write book on farming and l am consld
ering the proposition. Harriet thinks
had better not. while am lnclingd to dc
| it. Is this another sign that there is
screw loose?
TIE farmers around Elmwood are most
ly milk farmers, and interested in the m'lk
war that the FARM JOURNAL spoke OF last
month. SO far the farmers are ahead and
| hope they will stay ahead. They have
been in the grip OF the city man for years,
and am glad to hear OF this new declare
ton OF independence. In the first place
the city man fixed the price to be paid for
milk then be paid it or didn't; then be
bought by dry measure and sold by wet;
then he fixed things with the Board oil
Health so that the farmer could not water
the milk and be could; then be shut down
on part Of the supply in hot weather when
butter was low and the farmer busy with
his harvesting; and worse than ell, he was
proud and sassy.
Just now there is truce 10 the war, but
imagine the enemy is waiting for warm
weather, abundant pastures, and an over
supply Of milk. when it will open again as
fierce ss ever, and il the earth be not SOAK
ed in gore it will be drenched in milk.
By next winter, however, il the farmers
live up their high calling. they will then
march ahead to . substantial and enduring
victory.
In the meantime, let them mend their
own ways, stop buying so much feed TOT
their COWS, Minnesota -four and bakers
Dread for themselves. Let them produce
something besides milk and hay Is their
fathers did, and not buy so much; let them
re,establish their orchards, gardens aud
heuneries, grow their own strawberries,
make their own butter produce their own
veal and mutton, and IN general go back
the economics OF . genera ion ago.
Some Of them actually buy kill dried cotp
meal prod uced on farms thousand miles
away.