PROFITS OF LITTLE THINGS IN FARMING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3905, 25 January 1884, Page 4

PROFITS OF LITTLE THINGS IN FARMING.

Farmers make a serious mistake by despising, or affecting to despise, the small things that come in their way. In dairying, tho principal profit comes, it is true, from the butter or cheeso sold; but the eour milk fed to calves or pigs, constitutes an important part of tho income from the dairy. Pork manufactured from sour milk, ac "well as store calves and fat calves, all receive consideration from the careful dairyman. So it is in other things. It is ■well enough to sell pork alone, but the profits from the piggery may be greatly increased by keeping a brood sow. Many an industrious farmer's wife has realised a handsome income from the care bestowed upon turkeys, geese, hens, and ducks. The poultry alone, without retrenching upon inoro important matters, has often supplied the family with groceries, and clothed the wife and daughters. It is capable of even greater results. A quarter of an acre of berries may be cared for at odd times, and return a handsome profit. The vegetable garden, 100, is often neglected. Bees return a greater per cent, of profit than anything else a fanner can keep. Every farmer should produce honey, and thus add to his income. It is safe to say that the income of any farm can be more than doubled by the small things that would not interfere •with the number of cows milked or tons of hay produced.—Rural New-Yorker.