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FARM ANI > HOME.
Tho NlKf of Farrow.
Everv farmer should be the owner o 1 a
homestead, an the improvement and
adornment of a home are incentives to
industry and enterprise, without which
the business of farming is neither pleasant
nor profitable. The ownership of prop
erty isjustlv a cause of pride and makes
man ambitious to exceed and excel. This
is the case particularly where a man has
acquired a farm through his own exer
tions.
The size of farms is a question of first 1
importance in farm economy, and were
pro(>er attention given to tnis subject in
our country, we should hear much less
about unprofitable farming. No lules
can Ire given for the proper size, of farms
that will apply to all sections, or to all
classes of farmers, but, generally, the
number of acres in a farm should depend
upon the amount of capital to be em
ployed upon it.
There is a tendency among our farmers
to try to cultivate too much land, many
of them taking greater pride in having
large farms than in having good ones.
Consequently their lands are poorly
cultivated and are not supplied with
manures; crops diminish from year to
ye ar until they fail to pay even the erst
of hired labor ; and, finally, whole fields
ate abandoned as “ worn-out,” and
unfit for cultivation. The greatest mis
take of many farmers is in buying more
land than they can pay for, actually
giving all their means and credit for land,
and leaving nothing with which to begin j
farming operations. Thus they are kept I
long in debt, chiefly from the want of J
suitable live-stock and farming imple- i
ments, and becoming disheartened they j
are incapable of that enterprise and
energy so essential to success. Th 1
farmer with money enough to pay for
one hundred acres of land, who buys only
fifty acres, and reserves the balance of
his money for improvements, will soon !
be able to accumulate money from the j
proceeds of his farm, and in time will
probably have an op|>ortunity of buying
more land from neighlmring farmers who
began by paying their all for land, and >
who at laat give by farming because it j
does not pay. Doubtless there are cases
where it is safe to go in debt in buying a I
farm, as when land is cheap, and is likely
to increase in value, or when an ex- j
l>erienced farmer sees from the location
of the farm and the character of the soil
that large and profitable crops may be
raised, and the farm paid for in a shuit
time. Hut in these cases the farmer
should not fail to provide necessary farm
animals and machinery, even if the farm
has to be bought entirely on credit, in
order to pay for these articles. In all
cases the mere reputation of having a
large farm is a consideration (no tr illing
to intiuence a wise man's decision as to
buying it.
Farming is really profitable only when
the net proceeds of the farm amount to
anything over a reasonable rate ol in
(erest on tlo capital invested. Hut
when capital is invested in huge, and for
the most part, uncultivated farms, where
Hie proceeds of the farm only pay interest
on its cost, the labor done on the farm is
little better than thrown away. A inateur
farmers who depend upon something else |
for a support, and who have money to
spend without a view lo profits, may try
thin plan, but a fanner whose support
depend* ii|>on bin daily labors, can afford
to cultivate no more land than can la'
attended to in the very beHl manner.
That large farms, if pro|>erly managed,
may be made more profitable than small
ones, i evident from the following con
sideration. A farm of five hundred
acres is required .1° support but one
family, and needs but one residence, one
barn, one set of other buildings, one set
of liajing and harvesting machinery,
and one thorough-bred bull, raui and
boar, ltut were this to lie divided into
five smaller farms, of one hundred acres
each, there would in' five families to sttp-
Jsirt, and there would lie required five
.sets of buildings, five outfits of expensive
machinery, five thorough-bred animals of
each kind, and a great deal more fencing
than would be needed on the one farm.
Large farms are by no means to be ob
jected to, when the owners have capital :
enough to cultivate them as well as some
of our small farms are cultivated. It is I
to the wealthy and progressive owners of!
large farms that we are indvhted for the
introduction of improved implements. '
live-stock, ami methods of culture. Hut j
a farm of five hundred acres requires,
besides a large capital, a giant knowledge ;
of business management. The owner of
such a /arm must depend in great part
upon hired labor, and must lie able to
plan hi* work and direct his laborers so
that everything shall proceed.with dock
work regularity. A man who does not
know how to employ the labor of other*
to advantage, should do his own work.
>*tnall farms, though they may be less
profitable than large ones, will yield a
competency to any prudent manager,
while thev are a necessity to beginners
in farming, aud those whose capital is
limited. Small farmers may often em
ploy co-operation in work, aud joint
ownership of live-stock and implements,
and thus be nearer an equality with their
rich neighbors. Four or five such farmers,
living near each other, may combine in
purchasing blooded animals for breeding
purposes, reapers, mower* aud hay-rakes,
and other articles which are needed on
a single farm but a small portion of the
year; one machine, implement, or animal)
of each kind being enough fer all.
On Email farms all the laud in fields is
likely to be cultivated, and weeds are
more easJv exterminated, as f. w are
allowed to go to seed. Hv cultivating
the land better year after year, it may
fie improved and become easier cultiva
ted. The farmer who grow s only twenty
five bushels of corn per acre, to raise
five hundred bushels must plow and bar-
! row twenty acres, furnish seed for twenty
j acres, plant, cultivate and gather from
twenty acres, and allow for taxes and
interest on the cost of twenty acres. Hy
using manure and Iretter culture, forty
bushels jier acre might lx- grown on the
same land, anil to produce five hundred
| bushels it would be necessary to plow,
: plant and cultivate only twelve-and-a
half acres. The time and labor saved by
| cultivating a smaller numbar of acres
will amount to much more than the
extra culture required to increase the
\ production per acre.
i Fields are smaller on small farms and
less time is consumed in going from field
to field, and from house and barn to the
fields. Hesides, small farms firings neigh
bors nearer to each other, their owners
become leas isolated, and social advan
tages exist which can not lie enjoyed
where farmers own large tracts ol land,
and are obliged to give their whole atten
; lion to their hired men. Last, but not
! least, small farms are generally less
troubled with debt, which may be raid
j to be the greatest enemy of our people.
| When the true history of the recent
1 financial troubles shall have been written,
| ihe troubles will be found to have re
rul ed, in a great measure, from the vast
1 amount of debt incurred by the farmers
! ol this country (luring the past ten years,
j When our farmers shall free themselves
| from debt, the cry of hard timos need no
j longer be heard in country homes.
The above remarks are intended more
j .specially for those who are thinking ol
! Imying farms. Farmers who have
already more land than they can culti
vate properly, particularly if they are in
debt, would olten do well to sell a part
of their farms, and devote their attention
to what remains. Many who now try to
cultivate a hundred acres would find
their profits to be quite ns large, if not
larger, were they to confine their labor
to fifty acres. Others, who are not in
debt, but have more land than they
need, might make it pay to divide their
surplus land into small farms, and com
mence improving them. A few days’
labor once in a while, in clearing a place
for a dwelling house, and planting a few
fruit trees, would greatly increase the
value ol such lands. There are those
who are in debt wlm cannot conveniently
j divide their farms, who might sell their
I farms entire and buy smaller places. It
! is better to make a Hmall sacrifice in the
j rale of a farm that to have itsold at some
I future time at half its value to satisfy
i mortgage. It is a mistake for a farmer to
j buy a largff farm for the sake of having
! land to divide with bis children. They
i may never want land, or if they do, it is
1 l(etler to make money by good farming,
on less land, with which to buy land lor
them when they need It..
The farms of England arc all largo,
many of them containing thousands oj
acres; the farmers are supplied with
capital, and every acre is carefully cul
tivated, but this does not prevent the sale
of millions of dollars’ worth of our pro
ductions in that country every year,
j d’he farmers of our country are destined
j lo become the feeders of the world, and
| lo prepare themselves lor this work they
j should carefully study every subject con
nected with their progress and prosperity
! Not the least important subject in this
! connection, is the size of farms.- J. I true
thorite Hill.
i orii-Ful |*ork.
The opinion is quite general that corn
fed pork is harder, contains more nutri
ment, and shrinks Icsa in the not and in
the frying pan than pork fed on milk,
slops, or partly ou flesh, as happens where
swine are kept and fed in slaughter yards,
and the food of which is more or less offal
of slaughtered animtls. Nevertheless
the opinion isalinsst wholly an erroneous
one, as we shall try to show. Granted
that under a temperature so low that
lard remain firm and stiff, corn-fed pork
is firmer than pork led ou milk, slops, or
flesh, but this firmness depends on the
relatively larger amount ol stearine than
of oleine in the composition of the fatty
matter of corn-fed pork ; but it is a firm
ness which is wholly lost at high temper
ature, like that of summer heat, or the
average of tropical weather.
Where pork is made partly on milk,
slops, flesh, and similar food, the oleine
of the fat exceeds in quantity the stearine,
and while the moat so made may at
ordinary temp? lain res apjiear solt and
flabby, it really contains more nutriment
—that is, more albuminous matter—and
will shrink less in cooking than corn-fed
pork. And here is the explanation: In
corn fed jiork, the cell tissues which
envelop the fatty matter are very thin
and light, and consequently tender, and
when heat is applied, either by boiling
or frying, the cells burst the lard escapes,
and the fleaby portion shrink to almost
nothing. And this happens because
corn is very deficient in the substances
which make cell tissue—that is, in
albuminous matter. On the contrary,
milk and slop are very rich in albumin
ous matter, aud flesh is almost wholly
composed of it, and consequently swine
fed aud fattened on these substances
have cell tissues largely developed, and
where the lard escapes in cooking, there
is a much larger portion of solid meat
left.
In the old country, where swine are
raised and fattened on peas and barley
and the like, and where such a thing as
an exclusive corn diet is almost unknown,
cooks make a great account of ••larding”
—that is, cutting the fatty part of pork
into long, narrow stripe,and sewing them
into certain meats and game birds pre
vious to cooking for the purpose of in
creasing their flavor and juices. With
the ordinary corn-fed (Kirk this cannot be
done, and “ larding'’ in the United States
is much restricted or gone out of fashion.
Ia the case of the foreign pork, its
abundance and strength of cell tissues
make it suitable for tbe operation : in the
other, the delicacy and tenderness of the
lame substance render it quite unfit for
that purpose. As further illustration of
how particular kinds of food affect adipose
and cell tissues, >t may be stated that the
meat of hogs fatted on beech-nuts and
.‘‘mast” generally, so far as the fat is
concerned, is semi transparent; and a
slaughtered bog, hung by the heels, will
' drip lard-oil from the snout at an ordi
; nary temperature. In candle-burning
days, the farmers and dwellers of the
middle states learned that the fallow of
grass fatted beeves would make candles
I which would not run in mid-summer;
j but the tallow of corn-fatted cattle
required to lie hardened by the addition
of aluir, resin, or some other substance.
| — Cor. Country Gentleman.
<! Min k.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
j Times writes: “Experience has taught
I me never to raise a calf, no matter how
i good the dame, unless sired by a
thoroughbred.” Here we have th
| whole secret of successful breeding in a
nut shell. A calf sired by a bull of good
milking stock, but of no particular food,
whose pedigrees can not be traced to
sires who have transmitted their good
qualities through several generations,
may, and often do<s make a good cow;
but if sired by a thoroughbred bull of
good milking stock, the chances of failure
are reduced to a very low rate, and can
only be further reduced by using a
thoroughbred cow of the same stack.
Thoroughbred stack seldom, if ever, fail
to their own qualities, and
common stack often do it; but in the
latter case it is only chance work, and
yet we know there aie those who will
still continue to raise calveß of common
staok, when at an increased expense ol
less than five dollars per animal, they
might have had good milking ancestors
on at least one side. The dairyman who
expects to build up a first-class dairy by
raising Ihe cows can hardly make a better
investment than in a male from noted
milking stack. The expense, when it is
divided among the product, makes a very
small amount to each one, but the aggre
gate result is large.
To ltlnkr Hntlr llnrri.
An English butter maker of large ex
perience who is now on a visit to this
country for the purpose of looking over
our cheese and butter dairies, gives us
the following information concerning a
method in practice among the best but
ter makers of Eugland for hardening or
rendering butter firm and solid during
the hot weather. Carbonate of soda and
alum are used for the purpose, made into
a powder. For twenty pounds of butter,
one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda and
one teaspoonful of powdered alum are
mingled together at the time of churn
ing and put into the cream. The effect
of this powder is to make the butter
come firm and solid, and to give it a
clean, sweet flavor. It does not enter
into the butter, but its action is upon
I the cream, and it passes off with the
| buttermilk. The ingredients of the
| |H)ivder should not be mingled together
until required to bo used, or at the time
the cream is in the churn ready for
churning. _
llcrkslilre vs, Clilmi.
Avery good test of the relative merits
of the l’oland-China and Berkshire
breeds was that made by Lank Williams.
At the same time, he penned and com
menced to fatten one hog of the breeds
mentioned. They were the same age and
subjected to the same treatment while
being fattened. <>n Monday last they
were both weighed upon the city scales
here. The weight of the Berkshire was
885 poundsand that of the Polaud-China
78-1. The merits of the two breeds have
long been a subject of dispute between
those acquainted with the qualities of
both, and we think this test of their fat
tenning qualities about as fair as any
which could have been devised.— Olajow
Tima.
Military Surgery "in Turkey.
The following details will seem incre
dible to those who are not acquainted
with the peculiar ways of the Turkish
administration. An artillerist had his
knee shattered at Sistova by the explo
sion of a shell, aud after bis wound had
been temporarily dressed he was trans
ported from the field of battle to Constan
tinople. In spite of his intense sufferings,
he listened with the greatest interest to
all the news from the seat of war. On
his arrival in Constantinople, amputa
tion was found to lie necessary; but
before the operation could be performed,
permission had to be obtained from the
ministry of war. This permission must
always lie obtained before an amputation
can be performed in a Turkish hospital,
and it not unfrequently happens that the
patient dies liefore tbe civil functionaries
have oeasd deliberating on the demand
of the surgeons. Fortunately for our
artillerist, his ease was pushed through
with exceptional rapidity, and the de
sired permit was given after a delay of
only eight or ten days. The brave
soldier, who had awaited the pleasure of
lhe administration with the most exem
plary patience, bore the operation with
heroic courage; there is still hope that
his life will be saved.--.Vsi/iea/ H coon/.
. There is a precocious six-year-old boy
who is wonderful on spelling and defini
tion. The other day his teacher told
him to spell “ matriomony,” M-a-t-i
--in-o ny, said the vouugster promptly.
“ Now define it, - ’ said the teacher.
“ Well,” replied the boy, “ I don’t ex
actly know what it means, but 1 know
mother's got enough of it.”
. .Church clocks in the Fays Basque,
France, always strike twice, because
clocks are very rare, many persons cau
not read the hands, and in out-of-the
way places there is frequently no min
ute hand. The clock of the church
strikes the first time to give warning,and
at the second lime every one listens to
the hour.
Attitudes in Sloop.
A writer says: “There are those who
believe that no man can sleep in a satis
factory way unless the head of his bed is
turned to the north. Whether this rule
applies to women is doubtful, since the
alleged proneness ol the sick to sleep in
: a circular position renders it always
difficult to decide toward which point of
the compass the sleeping feminine s head
actually points.”
It is said that in well regulated hos
pitals ihe patients are laid with the
head to the north and feet to the south,
and the doctors report, that they recover
fastest in this position. The reason
j assigned is that the electric currents flow
1 from north to south. The men don’t
seem to care, but the women have im
mense faith in physicians. But the hus
| bands and fathers report that the femi
! nine form ever seeks the curied up posi
; tion. Even in chairs when alone they
| take it. It is their natural and favorite
one. The fair sex argue in a circle.
Why, in cutting fabrics, they assume
1 lines similar to their own rounded torms.
Men take their’s straight. In bed they
stretch out full length to thoroughly rest
the frame. Women, however, adopt the
I curve of the sleeping Venus of Titian.
Again, we must quote fathers and hus
bands, who say women prefer everything
I round, from a dollar to a flounce, be
cause their own forms are charmingly
rounded. They love to sit on the floor
in circles to converse. Their favorite
position in slumber is a slight curve,
with both hands thrown over their beads,
and frequently meeting in a circle over
| their night cap or pent-up curls; decid
! edly a more bewitching way than the
, half circle of felinity.
Why this difference between man and
woman ? some conundrum propounder
may inquire. The books don’t tell, nor
can the fathers. It is developed from
infancy. Why, one might as well ask
why a woman sits on the floor to put on
her stockings, whiles man sits on a chair
to put on his socks?
He Grabbed Her,
A good story is current in lower
I’eoria, which has the additional merit of
being strictly true, at least we are so in
formed. It seems that a Milesian gentle
man of somewhat advanced age has
son, who recently went to his father
and proceeded to inform him that he
proposed to commit matrimony. On
receiving the announcement the old
gentlemen said, “well, my son, to whom?”
“Miss Jane so and so,” replied the son,
naming her. “Do you lovelier?’’ was
the next question, to which a satisfactory
answer was given. “Is she a good girl ?”
,‘ Yes; as nice a girl as there is in lower
l’eoria.” “ Well, my son, how are you
going to support her; haH she any mon
ey?” “Yes, father; she has $1,500
that 1 know of.” “ Then,” said the old
man rising from his seat, catching hold
of his son and yelling out the words,
“(Irah her, my hoy; grab her. Don’t
wait to ask anybody’s consent.” Inas
much as the wedding came off a couple
of days ago, we assume that the sun
followed the lather’s advice rod “ lirab
bed” her. —Peoria (111 )Democrat.
How it Feels to be Shot.
Capt. Henry Romeyn, of the sth in
fantry, is now in Detroit recovering from
tbe wounds which he received in the last
battle with .Inseph’s warriors. He tells
the story thus: “ You see, I had been
struck five times. One ball shattered
my field-class; another raised a disagree
able lump on my left shoulder, and the
others only damaged niv clothing. I
ought to say that very early in the fight
my horse was killed, and when I saw
Gen. Miles riding close up, apparently
unconscious that ho was getti ug into a
hot corner, I warned him to keep back.
I had been lying comparatively hidden
in tbe long craw. I stood up t > take au
observation, when quicker than a flash
some warrior singled me out and let
drive. I felt as if a redhot iron bar had
been thrust through me. I stood rooted
in my tracks for a moment, gasped and
felt the air coming in at my back. The
next instant my mouth filled with blood,
aud then l knew that I had been shot iu
the lung. I walked about 75 yards and
then fell.”
Tlio Origin of tli* Ulster.
Accordingtoa Paris journal, Donizetti
was really the inventor of the Ulster.
One day, at Paris, he sent for his tailor
to measure him ft r an overcoat. The
tailor found him at the piano surrender
ing himself to the raptureof composition.
Nevertheless he was persuaded to quit
the Moved instrument and deliver him
self up to the man of tape and chalk.
The tailor made the first measurements,
then stooping, began to take the length
of the garment. ”To the knee, sir?” he
said, timidly. “ Lower, lower,” said he
composer, in a dreamy voice. The tailor
brought the measure half way down the
leg, and paused iuquiringly. “Lower,
lower.” The tailor reached the com
poser's ankles. “ Lower, lower.” “But,
sir, you won’t lie able to walk.” “Walk?
Walk ? Who wants to walk ? it, sir
(.with an ecstatic lifting of the arms), I
never walk— 1 soar.’
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