The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-02-26

| Wnen your product Is ready for the
market, sell it as soon as possible.
The shrinkage and like causes offset
the rise in price which you are wait,
ing for. Take your product right from
the field to the market and You will
find it pays. TO be sure, if you have
cold storage it may be we'll to keep
back perishable fruits until a glut is
over; but as a general rule the other
| plan works best. The man who sells
| pork when it reaches 100 or 1875 lbs.
makes more money than the one who
waits until It reaches $50 lbs. Chick
ems sold wheI they weigh two pounds
a piece bring more then at any other
time. Make yourself farmer and a
merchant combined. 1t will pay you.
Keep at something. Time is money,
and those who are making money are
always busy. The farmers of the East
have a great advantage over those of
the West, in being close to market.
Another. reason which can be ad
.vanaed in favor of diversity of crops
IS thSt there are some things which
are injured and even killed by drought
while others suffer less, and the album
dant rains which generally follows
very dry season are sure to benefit the
later crops.
Don't be afraid of putting on style,
a nicely gotten up package of butter
will attract the eye and bring higher
price than one which is not pack
my butter in parchment paper, with
my name and address upon it and find
it pays. Don't be discouraged at your
first failures. The first day that
tried to do my own retailing, sold
two half-pound prints, and the next
week l found a ready sale for more
and so on until l could sell all pro-
duced. Make a name for yourselves.
If it is known that your goods are al
ways fresh and equally graded to the
same quality, they will be in demand.
lone thing more. We as farmers
must awaken to the necessity of hav-
ing good roads. Time lost is money
lost. Bad roads require much longer
to travel than good ones, and good
roads produce value to land and farm
ing industries as well as anything else.
| would finally impress upon your
mind one thing as essentially import
ant. 1t pays much better to cultivate
small amount of land thoroughly
than TO go over twice the area and
only till at it.
WASTES ON THE FARM-BY JAMES ARM
STRONG, EX-LAND COMMISSIONER
OF IRELAND.
1t is astonishing to one who is not
native American to see the vast
amount of wastage on the farms in
this country. If we are to enter into
a lively competition with those of
other countries, we will have to adopt
and carefully carry out certain plans.
Above all things we must practice
economy and also cooperation. Why
should they be satisfied with inferior
animals and old time methods. The
animals of to-day contrast with those
of the past as the locomotive Of today
does with the Watts engine. 1t has
become thing of necessity to keep
good stock and feed them well.
These institutes are devised to make
each member think and work. and
one of the main things is to consider
how to avoid waste. Waste of what
OF not only products, but time and
energy. Study the best methods of
doing your work. Never keep your
selves confined to single line of work
or animals, because if that line fails
you necessarily fail. Grow crops that
will pay, and it is better to cultivate
fifteen acres well than twenty indiifer-
emily. See that your ground is kept
in order. Keep the weeds down.
Never let them mature. Before they
are ready to distribute their seeds,
destroy them. 1t will not take long
to kill them in this way. Keep clean
your hedges and fence rows. 1t saves
ground and a large amount of work
is unnecessarily repeated year
after year, which if once done proper
" is easy to keep in order. Man is an
initiative animal, and if you deal with
your farms carefully and systemati
cally, you will in a year or two see the
beneficial effects upon the entire
neighborhood.
Our main source of waste is in our
manure. We use too much CONNER
cial fertilizer. There is no necessity
for it. The farmer in the old country
manages better. He keeps his manure
and fertilizer heaps carefully covered,
and saves the waste by evaporation.
He adds it to all such things as will
add to its bulk, gathering in muck
leaves, &c. Feed your cattle upon
the poorer parts of the farm and they
will help to enrich it. An intelligent
use Of commercial fertilizers is abso-
lutely essential. Study the needs of
your land, and apply such remedies as
it needs. A man can as easily ruin his
land as benefit, and an injury to land
by that means is waste at both ends.
Unity of purpose accomplishes won
ders. Let your interests and ideas be
in unison and perservere in carrying
in, ~ IF litIr
in the productions OF Denmark nearly
ruined the trade Of England and Ire
land at one time. 1t is rule that no
two men ever do exactly the same
thing in the same way. Twenty or
forty men send twenty or forty varie
ties of butter or milk or meat to the
market and the price differs with the
quality of the product. The remedy
for this is cooperation. Unity makes
uniformity. Join together on a true
basis and you cant be beat. Singly
you have to compete with all. Jointly
you save energy, time and money
which is all wasted to a certain extent
by the old methods.
THE SILO AND ENSILAGE.
BY A. r. EASTMAN. OF wATERVILLE,
y. "A SUCCESSFUL DAIRYMAN.
tits essentially necessary for farmers
to be thoughtful men. They are too
often workers as individuals and not
in community. Let us look into other
industries which have grown and con-