POOH FARMING DOES NOT PAY.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 86, 2 March 1876, Page 7

POOH FARMING DOES NOT PAY.

The best way is to look facts squarly in the face (says the ' Rural Carolinian.') This is one of them. Poor faijming does, not "pay." We cannot isolate ourselves, if we would. We work in competition with the world. Rude, aniiquated methods, mere plodding unskilled labor, worn out uufertiilised sods will not serve us against science, skill, labor saving ' implements, and heavy manuring. On fertile, virgin soils, the old 'rude wasteful system may for a while give the farmer a living, by robbing posterity, but in all the older parts of the country we have got beyond that. If we cannot manure our lands, adopt the best and most economic methods of working, them, train and skillfully direct our labor, and use, wherever practicable, improved labor-saving implements, or we ' shall go under the rt struggle of life." ; Five bushels of corn to the acre, one-fourth or one-third of a bale of cotton, is not a remunerative crop, at any price for products that we are likely to get. If we cannot do better, we may:' as well " lay down the shovel and.the Hop at once. It is the same everywhere! In New England, in New York, in Pennsylvania, and even in the fertile JVesfe, there is the same co.mplaint, ' f farming: don' t pay. " But good ' farming • does *•' pay" there, arid it pays ; 'stiff better here. Make a bale of cotton tp the acre — a great deal better than that can ;|je doneT-and from twenty-fiye; to; forty bushels of corn — which is setting the .figures very low again-rand joiner crops in proportion,, and farmmg will no longer .be .tinremnherative.

A VALUA_____J->EAST.-~lt ; is reported th.at Mr S. Gardiner, who gave !2200 guineas for Roan Duchess at Messrs Robertson Brothers 71 recent salej has been- offered an ; advance of 300 guineas for the/ariimai; ' The offer was refused. The ' ' -Australasian '" adds ■: —*} This must have been highly 7 to herpersorial vanity/ if she 1 has^riy, arid if the transaction was. made clear 1;o her understanding. Tlie original- E price was 1 magnificent." Taking" the nei% at 4501b5, life, weight,, she. .brought, £(5. per: lb avoirdupois, hide,' horns and ioofs included."! ;' -.-»■-.-,