1860. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



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to others, he must discourage them ; and lastly, I will fail, from frost, or drouth, or blight. But he 

 his own record proves him to be a very poor far- -will not have his eggs all in one basket, and some 

 mer. The man who spends 24 days' labor on an ! of his crops will be good, whatever the season may 

 acre of corn, and gets but thirty bushels at that, | be. This season, the corn and ap])le crops are 

 should not attempt to raise corn, neither should i staall. But the small grains, and potatoes and 

 the man who jjuts but 10 loads of manure on an j hay, have been good, and the farmers have a good 

 acre. It costs no more labor, except for hauling ' supply, and arc ha])]n- and contented, and are inl- 



and spreading, to put on 20 loads, than 10, and 

 with 20 loads on an acre fit for corn, mcU cultiva- 

 ted, he v.ould obtain 50 bushels, and 200 bushels 

 of turnips, worth 10 cents a bushel, making the 

 result as follows : 



Corn. 50 bushels, vrortli $50 



Stover 10 



Turnips 'JO— S80 



proving this fine November weather in making 



Dments to trv aj 



and whv should tht 



arrang 



not ? Who does not make losses and meet with 

 discouragements in his business, be it what it may ':' 

 The mechanic sometimes cainiot get work, or fails 

 to get his pay when his work is done. How is it 

 with the shoe business nov>-, to which Mr. P. refers ? 

 I'understand that both manufacturers and laborers 

 are working for small profit. The farmer has a« 

 To the debtor side add .'MO for manure maknig , f^,^. ^^^^^ ^^^^ j^^^.^^^ .^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^.^ engaged in 



Then deduct 6 davs labor and halt the i ^^^. ^^^^^ business whatever. I think there has 



it $0 



value of the manure, and we have $41. Now de- 

 duct this from the product of the acre, and we 

 have $39 profit, and observe that we have allowed 

 the man 81 per day for his labor. If, then, a 

 farmer can get a dollar a day for his IS days' 

 labor, and a dollar a day for his oxen, and .$o9 

 besides. I ask if it is not a good business ? What 



been no time Mitliin the last 5 years, when corn 

 would not bring $1 a bushel, or butter 25 cents, 

 and certainly hay and ])otatoes are sufficiently high. 

 Brother farmers, go on and make ample prepara- 

 tions for a wider breadth of crops and deej)er and 

 more thorough tillage next year, with the full as- 

 surance that von are engaged in the best, the 



right has any farmer who can^do^this, to croak | ^^^^^^^ ^j^^ ^^^^^ healthful and the most moral bus 



?ss of any class of men i 

 Concurd, Nov. 15, 1850. 



over farming as poor busniess .-'_ Or to say that j^^^^^ ^f ^^^^. ^.j.^..^. ^^ ^^^^^^ -j^ ^j^^, communitv 

 the farmers are weann'r out then- lives and their 



J. R. 



For the Kew England Farmer 



THE NEW PLOW. 



Messrs. Editors : — Having heard that a new 

 Look around upon your neighbors, i implement of the plow kind was to be tried up(m 



farms, and coming to want ? 



Manv farmers are doing the very thing I have 

 stated, only, they get 60 bushels of corn and 300 

 bushels of turnips. 



Friend Pinkham must turn over a new leaf in 

 liis account book, and look at matters with a more j 

 cheerful spirit. 



who have pursued farming with industry and | the intervale at Charlestown, N. H., four miles 

 skill for 20 or 30 vears. Have not their farms im- i from my residence, on the 11th inst., I availed 

 proved ? Have they not better stock, and more I myself of the o])portunity to see it tested. I 

 of it. better carriages and tools, better orchards, j found the plow in full operation, my old friend, 

 better buildings, better furniture, better clothing, I Mr. Holbrook, of Brattleljoro", guiding its course, 

 more books and papers ? Do they not educate j though without much eflbrt, for the plow, when 

 their children better, and are they not more in- j gaged properly, would almost keep its place in the 

 telligent than they were when they began to be j furrow without guiding. I saw several different 

 farmers P How many farmers do you know who i sized mould-boards and land-sides, with a skim 

 began life poor, or in debt, and who have paid I share of cast iron and steel, some of each kind 

 off their debts, and are now the owners of good i of metal, lying about upon the grass near the 

 farms, and occupy a respectable standing in so- 1 scene of operations. 



cietv? How many farmers within the circle ofj This was rather a novelty to see so many plows 

 vour observation have failed, in proportion to the i in one. The o])eration was Avatched closely by 

 "number of merchants who have gone through the I several of the best farmers of the neighl)orhood : 

 same operation ? ^ and it was really a new thing under the sun to see 



I know very well, that the farmer's life is not an j hov,- rapidly one plow could be changed to anoth- 

 idle life. He must improve all his time, must be j er, all, and each one, doing its ajjpropriate work 

 up with the lark, and make his arrangements with j in the best possible manner. 



care and skill. He must shell his corn in the j There was the deep tiller, without the forward 

 evening, or on rainy days, v.hen he cannot work ] or skim share, going to the depth of twelve inch- 

 out of doors. He must do everything in its ap- I es, with a proportional width of furrow slice, per- 

 jiriate time. He must learn to kill two birds with I fectly inverted, flat furrow, and so along upby a 

 one stone. For instance, he Avants to prepare } change of moidd-board, to eight, six and five inch- 

 a ])iece of land to yield a good crop of grass. He | es, the cbaft, of course, lessening as the change 

 plows it thoroughly, puts on 25 loads of manure i was made to less depth. The forward shart*. oi' 

 to the acre, and thus gets 50 bushels of corn and ! skim, was put on with a short land-side and mould- 



beans, the land in a good state to be seeded down, 

 with a dressing of ashes or plaster, or Superphos- 

 phate, to wheat and grass. He thus gets a good 

 crop of corn, 24 bushels of wheat, worth .$48, and 

 th^ straw, worth $12 more, and three or four good 

 crops of grass, before it needs plowing up again. 

 He must look ahead, and make his arrangements, 



board, and the implement again slioAved itself to 

 be very earthly-minded, for it Avent doAvn to the 

 depth of tAvelve or fourteen inches, throAving the 

 earth up four to six inches above the level of the 

 inverted flat furroAv sod Avhich had just been turned, 

 leaving it in the finest condition for a pulveriza- 

 tion Avith the harroAv or cultivator. This Avas the 



not for one year only, but for a series of years. He i kind of ploAving that struck _my fancy as being the 

 A¥ill occasionally meet with losses. His crops I very best of the best. I tried holding the ploAv, 



