MIXED FARMING.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1328, 23 October 1884, Page 2

MIXED FARMING.

Mixed farming has its advantages i«u; some respects, if tbe farmer is aot to<* -'' ambitious to make his one little farm - 1 produce the fruits and gr ainsof all cHmtf and conditions. Where the farmer ;- raises, or rather attempts to raise, • ; little of everything, he is reasonably sure of succeeding m something, lv « this way he may secure a living, whil* it is very certain that he will do no more. In vegetables, fruit, beans, Ac* there ii-riothiug like a sandy ioil, It if aiso most excellent for dairying, sheep* . raising, and poultry-raising. In taot r such a soil offers just tbe right land, of a chance for "small farming," an it it otten called, and tbere is more real comfort and enjoyment m thig" kind of farming than m, all the wheat-raising that was ever carried on. ' There it , profitiu this kind of farming,' too.'aa' it l amply indicated by the prosperous con» I ditionof thousands of such enterprise!. The time i 8 soon coming when : \te'miiit” ' do much more of this small farming than wedjrribwr- In thiff line farmiric is becomine: an art and a science, '.' It requires' 'skill, apjd "good management here, "and there is rqom'jfbt the exercise of all the' scientific know* ledge that can be obtained, "While m« telHgent labor is needed' in all' depart* ments of farm work, the poor farmer it of tenest found following the plough* *vi : r the whbii field, and Very appropnatcily. ; too, when we consider what a failure hi. ' would make m the fruit or Tegetablf 5 ' garden: It does not require a Terygreat "' ' J amount of akill or scientific knbwleiagaf' to plough, "sow, and harvest ' wheat; and * when I see a man doggedly puJsuing^'V that line^o f farming upon a poor wornout farm', I know that his mind and intelligence are just as limited ad; hit'"' inoomeV His a'grienltur'al mind' J ci»u ; " contain but one idea, and be can "ne'forr 1 ] teiai from his agricultdral dignity tutor fictently to even enquire' into the meriti of tKe "small truck," as he ' termi th»" \ small farmers' productions.