The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-22
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81: THE FARMER.


Some men select farm in much the
same way that wives are often taken,
| says The American Cultivator-that is,
they take one that they have known
almost all their lives and endeavor to
adapt themselves to what they have
| instead of fixing an ideal in their own
mind and then searching for some
thing which they think will prove very
near what they had decided upon.
| Perhaps they succeed as we'll as any,
| for they are not so often disappointed
as others have been. Their intimate
acquaintance leaves less chance for dis
| covering faults that they had not sus-
| pected. The faults they knew before
| in wife or farm they are prepared for,
and if they cannot be cured they must
be endured.
But there are some young men who
have fixed idea of what they want in
farm which they propose to make a
permanent home, or at least they have
decided that they want to give their
attention mostly to some one branch
of agriculture, and they seek a place
aOapIeu TO U0aC
If dairying is to be their principal
business. they want good pastures and
a supply of pure water. Good meadow
can be made upon any tillage land by
manure and fertilizer, or corn can be
grown for the silo on any dry, warm
SOIL but good pasture is not so easily
made on rocky hillsides and cannot be
made in a swamp until it has been
drained
For sheep raising high and dry land
is most important, as much travel in
wet places causes the foot rot in sheep,
while poultry farm should be upon
high, dry, sandy or gravelly land
Orchards and vineyards do well upon
the sloping hillsides. and something de-
ponds upon the varieties to be grown
and the climate most usual there
whether 1t had better slope to the
| north or the south, but for bush fruits
and berries a strong and moist soil is
necessary.
For market garden business a va
riety of soil is wanted, because there
are plants that just rejoice in deep,
rich muck and others which need a
warm and dry. sandy soil. For the
market garden and for small fruit
| nearness to a good market is most i'm
portant not only to enable the grower
to bring in that which he has to sell,
but that he may have short haul for
taking out the manure, of which he Is
likely to need more than he will have
at home.
For what is called general farming,
where one keeps some cows and per-
haps sheep, with swine and poultry,
grows his own hay and grain for them,
with vegetables and fruit for home use
and in good seasons a surplus to sell,
he wants variety of soils, as he does
in the market garden, but on a much
larger plan, and nearness to the mar
ket is less important He can plan to
have the most of his surplus products
such as are not quickly perishable or
to have them in such form as will give
considerable money value to a load
not too heavy to transport a consider
able distance by his own team, by cars
or by express.
Dairy products, dressed hogs and
sheep or lambs can be produced where
land is plenty and cheap as well as
they can on a place within few miles
of the city, where land is valued at
$1,000 an acre or more, as are many of
the market gardens. So also can hay
and grain, apples, potatoes, squashes,
turnips and most of other winter vege-
tables, and the saving in cost of land,
interest and taxes will more than COM
pensate for the extra cost of getting to
market with produce.