Year: 1875

gomery Grange, and a copy requested
by vote of the Grange, for publica
ton in the CHRONICLE.


"How we can make farming pay?'
is question more, easily asked thar
answered; especiallys,When you add tt
that question, as many do mentally
without working ourselves" .Thi
question, without the mental addition
is difficult to answer; and to answer i
all together in satisfactory way, es
pecially to people of small farms OF
small means, is in my opinion an i'm,
possibility. I do not claim that l can
answer any portion of it correctly, fol
all know, fully as we'll as I do, that 4
person who has been trying to make
farming pay for seven years and so fal
has not succeeded in making his ex
penses, would very probably be inca.
pable of answering such a question
but, though / have made nothing il
the way of dollars and cents, l dc
claim that have gained something in
the way of knowledge and sense, BY
hearsay, observation and experience,
gaining the most Of my knowledge by
experience, which, by the way, is a
very costly but very perfect school tc
learn in. This little knowledge o.
farming, gained by observationandex
perience during the last seven years
I propose now to impart to you, so far
as l am able to do so, saying as l &c
along what | think is necessary to have
to do and to have done, in order tC
make farming pay. 49, - -


The first and most important thing
needed, as every one knows. is farm
and a good one. if You can possibly ge
it. In my opinion, for regular farming
purposes, one had much better pay
$45 per acre for 100 acres Of rich lane
than Sl5 per acre for 300 acres of pool
land. It is true, you may improve the
poor land and make it rich, but-whils
you are doing so,sif you are gooC
farmer, you might make enough on th'
rich farm to purchase two poor ones
As a general rule, 100 acres of ricf
land will make as much produce as 30'
acres of poor land of a better qualit.
and, as matter of course. at mucl
less expense for cultivation, includin,
the cost of labor, teams, fencing, &c


The second thing needed is comfort
able buildings. not only as shelter fo
yourself, but for your stock and farm
ing tools.


No man should feel satisfied tha
everything is going right on his place
whilst his stock, exposed to ever.
snow and rain, are shivering with coll
before winters chilling blasts, or hi
farm tools lying loose around exposed
aliketo the SHOWS and rains, and scorch
ing rays of the sun of winter sprin
and summer, as the different season
roll around, rusting and cracking an
loosening at every joint.


The third most important thin
wanted after you get the farm ant
necessary improvements, is good stoc
and farming implements.


Remember when you go to purehas
these things that the lowest price one
are not always the cheapestin in the enc
Get the best, if you are able to do SC
Don't buy an old worn out horse o
mule at any price don't take them
they are given to you, they will 500
be worthless to work and then an ex
pense on your hands, unless you com
NIT serious sin Of putting them o.
on greater goose than yourself, or
still worse sin by letting them peris
for the want of attention. Get goo
horses or mules, and carry out th
same rule in supplying yourself wit
all other kinds of stock needed. ]
will cost as much to keep indifferer
stock as it will good, whilst the profit
derived from the good are much create
Don't buy worn out or indifferer
plow or wagon, or any other farm in
plement or carpenters tool becau:
you can get them at low price. Goo
ones are the cheapest in the end the
will cost less for repairs, and you ca
| work much easier, and do better wor
! with them. After you have supple
yourself with good stock and farmir
tools, you should take care ofthem an
keep them good. Stock ofall kinds nee
shelter in the winter and regular a


tention in the way of food, water, &


Close attention to stock at feeding tin
is an important duty Of the farme


though many of them don't seem


think so. Trusting this part Of yot
labor altogether to hired hands al


that too. often after dark. in my opil
ion is sll wrong. Stock kept in goc


condition are best for all necessa


purposes and it requires less feed


keep fat stock in good order than


does to keep poor ones fit for servic


One milk COW, well fed and proper


attended TO, will give more milk ar
better milk than three, half fed 81


half attended to. Your farm too
should be properly sheltered and a
I ways kept in place when not in US
Have place for everything and ke,


everything ia its place, is good o
, rule and should be adopted and ca
. ried out by all farmers.


, iAfter you have supplied yourst
with farm comfortably improved al


we'll stocked, you are ready to go


work and make living for yourse


and wife and children if you ha


them, and if You have no wife or chill