FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Feed the soil first — this will feed crops, cattle, and men. Point of any sort laid on green timber rather hastens than arrests decay. Farmers of experience unite iv the statement that a crop of oats is the least exhaustive of auy cereal — thnt in fact it takes very little from the richness of the soil. A Farmer in St. Lawrence Co., N,Y,, made the best of butter all through, dogdays, with the mercury at 90 degrees, by using huge tin tanks, 28 l«y 40 inches, aud setting his milk a foot, deep. The tank he set iv cold water, and thus kept his milk from 36 to 48 hours without souring. A farmer who kept a strict reckoning with his pigs found that a bushel of ground corn and the meal scalded is good for 201 b?. of pork. If the pis is fed on the cob it makes only 101 b. or 121 b. of pork. The most money is made by getting a nine months' pig to weigh about 3 cwt. c "*■ There has long been a general idea prevailing that .anybody can be a farmer, that brains aad knowledge are necessary for doctors, lawyers, and merchants, but not for farmers. ."This great mistake is slowly being corrected. It requires just as much sagacity to be . successful in i farming' as in any other bjsiness profess iou .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 66, 18 March 1871, Page 2
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233FACTS FOR FARMERS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 66, 18 March 1871, Page 2
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