Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-04-07

following, writes
Webb Donnell, in the American Agri-
culturist.
The farm was taken in q run down
condition, with buildings small and
poor, and fields so poor that
they only yielded some twenty
five tons OF hay. At the present
time the place cuts about one
hundred and twenty-five tons of first
class hay. The fields are delight
TO the eye in their fertility and
smoothness. The barn has been en-
large to probably four times its former
size, with comfortable and convenient
quarters for about thirty to forty
hogs and pigs, twenty cows, and eight
or ten horses A sllo OF eighty tons
capacity was put in last year. Butter
is made from the herd of grade and
full-blood Jerseys, which sells at
quite an advance on market rate. A
large orchard has been planted, which
calls for great expenditure of care
and time. Quite a large area is sowed
to grain which, with the other crops
that are raised, calls for a still
further expenditure OF labor. A saw
mill near at hand has been leased,
and business is being carried on here.
A beginning has been made in rails
ing heavy draft horses, by crossing a
pure-bred Percheron on heavy mares.
found the proprietor in a very
gloomy frame OF mind, but hard at
work. He had about come to the
Copclucinn fbat farn,inO dnaa not no Al,
that he had to work like slave,
but received nothing for it. Even as
he spoke, however, he would sandwich
in the remark, as the conversation
turned to various things, that he in
tended soon to build new barn, and
go into sheep-Eaising, or that ne
should soon build another silo. 1t
was easy TO understand why the man
was discouraged. wonder that he
did not see it himself. He has too
many irons in the fire, and is trying
to do too much on small capital.
His dairy product must pay WE'LL but
every cent that comes from it as
profits put into some new scheme,
or spent in enlarging an old one.
This keeps the farmer cramped for
money all the time, and also keeps
him worked to the verge OF despera-
ton. There Is something very at
tractive about doing business on a
large scale, and 1t may be profitable
in certain cases where capital is
abundant SO that advantage can be
taken in buying and selling, but it is
simply suicide for the average farmer,
of limited means, to spread himself all
over 400-acre farm here in the East.
The man of whom l write could
probably make good thing by dairy
ing if he would attend to that solely,
and he would moreover then have
time to breathe and to inquire of
himself whether it pays TO make a
beast of burden Of ones self through
life, getting only living out OF it,
simply for the sake OF doing large
business. He would much better
mark out particular line of work for
which his farm is suited, and which
he knows will pay fair profit. and
let his work all count for something.
The merchant who, with limited
means, tries to run dry goods store,
grocery stand. book store, and a
boot and shoe emporium, usually goes
into bankruptcy. Farming will stand
a pretty serious kind of mismanage-
ment, and still give family living,
such as it is, but the business won't
admit too much foolishness. The
man who tries TO carry on sheep-rais-
ing, horse-raising, orcharding, hog
raising, cattle-raising, dairying, and
the growing Of field crops, in addition
to various outside schemes of money
making, attempting to do a large
part of the actual work by employing
his own waking hours and those OF
his wife and children, is making a
serious mistake. He may keep from
going under with all his schemes, and
In some cases may even increase the
value of his stock, farm, and build
ings, but he does it at the expense of
his own and his family's well-being.
No man has right, unless he is
peculiarly situated so that he is
forced by necessity, TO work to such
an extent as to deprive himself of so
many OF the civilizing enjoyments of
life, much less has he the right to de-
prlve his family OF them.
OF all people in the world the
farmer and his family ought to lead
comfortable lives, but good many
come far short OF it, and too often
through their own folly. They either
farm ignorantly, or are striving all
the time to do more than their capt.
tai, or their strength, will admit. 1t
would be a good deal better in such
cases as the last mentioned to take
in some of the sail and pay more at
tention to the steering apparatus, so
that the craft won't ''wobble" about
so, and thus lose Roadway, to use
figurative expression. Attention to
details is matter Of very great i'm
portance in agriculture as well as
elsewhere, and this cannot be given
when one has too many irons in the
DIRE.
spout r3r Handling Grain.
Take board 10 inches wide and
four feet long for bottom OF spout and
part OF hopper; also, two pieces, 10
inches wide and Is inches long, to
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