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AGRICULTURAL.
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GARNERED FOB THE GAZETTE.
By D. A. K.
Business Habits on the Farm. —As
most farmers labor with a view to pro
fit, is it not a little strange that the
various operations on the farm are not
conducted on business principles? Is
it not strange that scarcely any effort is
ever made by farmers to ascertain the
actual cost of a bushel of grain, or a
pound of pork, beef or wool ? How can
the farmer know that his business is
profitable unless he takes some means
to ascertain the 'cost of . production ?
How can he know whether he is pro
ducing a crop at a cost far less than
it commands in the market if he does
not keep an account of the expenditures
in producing it? We venture to say
that not one farmer in fifty recognizes
or carries into practice this fundamental
principle of business, so important to
success in any other occupation. How
is it possible for the farmer to prosper
unless his income is greater than his
outgo? It is a serious question, and
one which every farmer should ask him
self—ls my income sufficient to exceed
the amount of my outgo ?
Herein lies the neccessity of the great
est care in keeping a strict account of
the cost of preduction and the cost of
putting the products of the farm upon
the market, at the most favorable times
and in the most economical manner.
If one does not knew what his ex
penses are, how is he to know whether
he is daily becoming poorer or not?
Hard as the times are, it will be some
satisfaction To know that one has kept
the expenses of the farm and the house
hold within the limit of his income. It
is only by close attention to economy in
little things, and by the prctice of con
stant self-denial, in such hard times as
the present, when there is a constant
shrinkage in values, that one can expect
to prosper. Not only should the suc
cessful farmer keep an accurate account
of the real cost of labor, rent of premises
and cost of living, but, when cropping
season is t over, he should devise some
means to continue clearing expenses.
_ His .teams should not be idle, for it is
better that ’they do enough to pay for
their keeping than they should stand
idle. If large wages can not be earned,
small wages can, and it is better to take
small wages and keep hands and teams
busy than to remain idle, and thus con
sume what has already been earned. We
repeat, then, that it is not only neceeary
that we should keep posted as to cost
of production, the kinds of stock which
are most profitable, but we should fol
low farming as we would any other oc
cupation, in a business way, if we expect
to mako it a pecuniary success.
[Rural World.
Principles of Good Farming —The
better to retain important facts in the
memory, I am ever fond of reducing
the principles of good farming to brief
maxims and rules, compressing into a
single short sentence the gist of many
a page. Thus I carry about the mental
pabulum to bo digested at the handle
of the plow or hoe. The following are
some of these principles:
First—The farmer who would suc
ceed well, and derive pleasure as well
as profit from his calling, must manifest
an active and abiding interest in his
vocation. It takes heart work to make
hand-work pleasant.
Second—Tho farmer must study how
best to increase and maintain fertility to
his soils There is no inertia in agri
culture. There must be progress, either
forward or retrograde.
Third —Tho farmer must strive to
increase the quality as well as the
quantity of his crops. It is tho quality
that determines tho price. In this “Ex
celsior” should be his unvarying motto.
Fourth—The farmer must seek with a
watchful eye to improve his market facili
ties. It is transportation that eats up
the|profits.
Fifth—Tho art of raising better stock
is not as well known as it should be.
Keep no more animals than you have
the facilities to feed and care for well.
Sixth—The farmer must seek to im
prove his social, intellectual and finan
cial condition.
The Future Farm. —The first recol
lection of early life is amid tho shrub
bery of my mother’s garden. To me
Eden was just such a place. I have
carried the picture through long years
since, and, in town or country, home or
abroad, the one desire has been to pos
sess just such a spot. The future cul
ture and enjoyment in this country is to
be upon the farm. Not the dreary,
slovenly, uncultivated farm, but the art
garden and the landscape garden, the
fruit garden. A professor of agriculture
and a director of any of the many opera
tions of a neat, handsome, thoroughly
tilled and embellished homestead are to
be among the most elevated and respect
ed positions in the nation. The future
of the nation is the farm and the fruit,
art, and landscape garden. Wed your
self to a piece of land and make it an
Eden, and hold to it in spite of all the
temptations of the world.—[Bonset.
A female Josh Billings has suddenly
and unconsciously developed herself in
Cincinnati. She removed from Pitts
burg to that city, and after becoming
domesticated wrote to her friends at
home as follows : “Sinsinnaty is anise
place anuff, but tha keep a good many
geese here. I don’t see them in the da
time, but I heer them at nito o in aul
drekshuns.”
A kiss for each falling star is the lov
er’s rule, and whenever a meteor shools
across the firmament the listening pe
destrian may hear from the shadows of
tho front steps suoh exclamatious as
“Oh! George, don’t! There now, you
naughty man, I hope you are satisfied.”
— : :
A confiding Connecticut cat hatched
eix chickens from eggs that a hen had
abandoned, and now goes about scratch
ing up worms for them in her humble
way.
DOM PEDRO.
There came an energetic ring at the
door bell the other morning, and we de
scended the stairs and grappled the
door knob. A middle-aged man, with
sinister countenance and ginister breath,
stood before us.
“I am Dom Pedro, Emperor of Bra
zil,” he said.
“Ah!” we replied; “how’s the Em
press ?”
“Never mind the Empress,” he re
joined ; “just give your undivided atten
tion to the Emperor for a few minutes.
You see, since leaving Brazil I have be
come a little short up for means, and
am making an effort to raise the wind,
as the Americans say. lam selling the
Centennial spelling book. I met a par
ty down town who said you were an ed
itor, and needed a spelling book badly,,
and—”
“Wbat else did he tell you?” we in
terrupted.
“He said you had a wife who was or
thographically shaky, and eleven child
ren who should each have one of my
books by all means.”
“Anything elBe?”
“Well, yes. He said that you wore
old clothes and pretended to be poor,
but that you w’ere in reality a foreign
prince, with gold enough to sink a canal
boat, and that if approached by royalty
you would unbosom yourself, and, as
the Americans say, ‘come down.’ ”
*• That isn’t all he told, is it ?”
“No; he also informed me that you
had wine in your cellar that was made at
the time of the first crusade, and that
you would invite me in and fill me so
full of pound cake and the juice of the
ancient grape that I would be compelled
to get into one of your most luxurious
beds and remain over night.”
“Then you are tho Emperor of Brazil,
are you ?”
“I am—the simon-pure, bona fide
Emperor of Brazil.”
“Well, Pedro, as you came along the
fence there, did you notice a section of
it that swings on hinges ?”
“Why, of course I did. You mean
the gate, I suppose. How do you ex
pect I got into the yard ?”
“We thought perhaps that as you
were an Emperor, you spurned to walk
through an ordinary gate and crawled
under the fence. Now, Pedro, old boy,
let’s see if you can get though that
gate again without knocking any of the
paint off the posts.”
He started slowly down the path, but
stopped presently, and by the move
ment of his lips we judged that he was
indulging in silent anathemas. We qui
etly picked up a l rick and he moved on
again and was soon out of sight. That
is the only way to deal with Centennial
spelling-book emperors.
TRUTH HARD TO BELIEVE.
Dr. J. T. Gilman’s mare, Fannie, is an
equine of unusual intelligence, and some
of her peculiarities have previously been
recorded. A few days since while the
doctor was visiting a patient, the hoise
was left in the yard, as usual, without
being fastened. After the doctor went
into the .house, Fannie walked up the
yard Ynd began browsing a rose bush.
The servant girl came out and spoke to
her, and she turned and walked back to
the door. In a few moments the horse
returned again, and began to whinnie
and stamp on the door step. The girl
came out again, and was not a little
startled to see Fannie running out her
tongue at her, and acting strangely.
The organ protruded its entire length,
and was kept exposed with a determi
nation worthy of a patient undergoing
examination by a physician. The girl
finally examined the member, and found
a thorn from tho rose bush had got un
comfortably fastened to it. She remov
ed it when the thankful animal made a
profound bow, and went back and stood
puietly by the door until the doctor had
'completed his call.
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