The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-21
PHILOSOPHY OF INTENSIVE FARMING
From Southern Progress, Philadelphia.

From Southern Progress, Philadelphia.
A currycomb is a valuable condment
to hay and corn.
A man will manage farm better for
having titled a garden.
An acre will give what a man re-
quires, but will give no more.
Without hands land lies wort HESS;
without lands hands are in a similar
condition.
Meal in a barrel signifies bread on the
table: 1t Is meal in a barrel when there
are acres to till.
Mortgages are like the waves OF the
sea-the vessels they hold up today
they swamp tomorrow. hN4a8
1t is quite as likely that q ducks back
will hold water as that a sub-soil Of
sand will hold manure.
No bank of deposit can, b. found by
a farmer thsc is ,a9s kafs ax6AhAt pays
90 large an interegt ls atc0tpp6Sf bank.
Ditchins @sshs hAfins daily de-
posits in a rsBabte Ssyings bank that
has never YET pSepa known TO default
a dividend timSsE N.Y.. g
Alplow is a caehief that never fails.
A spade is a Alvtdend paying clerk.
Industry, energy ana viii compose q
beard Of directors TO be relied on.
The farmer may grunt and grumble
until he Is biaelil tie face; butter, he;
will find. Is IN pEopoltion to the quail
.ity OF the cream churned. y
A farm may be- owned BY any man
who. has industry enough to work.
honor enough to command confidence
and courage enough to pinch at spots.
A shingle that has hole in 1t let's
cold water on the ease of its owner,
and interferes markedly as far as he
is concerned with the poetry showing
in the harmony.
can have conveyed to him none of the
sense OF pleasure felt by farmer as
day after day he watches the develop
ment of his stock.
The intensive farmers motto is: mo
ploughing where there is no manure
to turn under" He expends no un-
necessary force. He values labor too
highly to waste II. Investments are not
made where there Ia not a great deal
Of certainty in the matter of a prom
ise to pay back.
Crops are In the manure. not in the
land. 1t Is waste. both Of time and
muscle, to scatter the requirements Of
ten acre lot over one Of 20 acres. The
farmer will win q wager who ventures
to get more profit out of one acre than
another would get out OF five, the land
being Of like quality and the guam
tity Of fertilizing material being the
same for both fields.
Pigpens and barnyards are the manu.
factories of farm. and they are man
ufactories that always pay. There is
no possibility of failure or Of 60
ing behind. The secret of success in
farming lies In correspondence OF the
acres with the manufactures. II the
correspondence be with ten acres, then
ten acres are enough; IL with 20, 40. 80.
then 20. 40. 80 are to be worked with
profit.
The economies Of farm extend quite
as much to mind as to pocket. The
occupant need not worry himself about
q depression In railroad stocks or a de-
cline in the price of houses; around
him are means Of support. What II the
so long prognosticated dropping out
of the bottom" does occur, acres will
stay. Thank God for the acres, and
for the strength OF hands to work
them!
One Of the comforts of farmers
life is that he has time to talk. II be- :
sides muscle the farmer has brain,
another comfort is the knowledge of
what his estate Is inevitably to develop
into. II a farmer wants to be presi-
dent he can surely come to the office;
and to rule over forty or four hundred
acres occupied by wheat, corn, potatoes
or beans Is to be master where COM
pensations are many and cares fewest.
/ The farm is q home--not a place to
be lived at today and moved from to-
morrow, but home to be improved
and beautified-a home where orchards
are to be planted. where vines are to be
grown. where substantial things are to
be constructed. where children are to
be born and fathers are to die. Into
tie fields come and reap new genera
tions;, out Of the helds and into the
graveyard pass old generations.
There 10 no spot on earth where God
more continuously shows himself than
on . farm. Here becomes underst, Cd
the endearing name Father" The
God = Fdkher to the father. Providence
unreus the hsat-curlsd corn leaves.