Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1870 — The Art of Good Farming. [ARTICLE]

The Art of Good Farming.

Bad fanners will admit that there are crops to be grown which can be harvested at such a stage of their existence as to take very little from the soil, but they do not care to study this matter as of much importance. The art of good farming is to grow as much unexhausting produce as is possible, and to manufacture all such product into manure for the increasing of the fertility of the soil; consequently, the first thought should be directed to the best crops for every season of the year, and the second consideration ought to be how to convert them into fertilizing substances, so as to make money by the operation ; and this will result in obtaining possession of a machinery called live stock, which will turn all the produce into solid and liquid matter best suited for the purpose of fructification. Following such a system, the farmer, his machinery, and his farm, will all thrive together; andHecan look with pity on those who exhaust their soil by letting their crops go past the stage where nonexhaustion ceases, and then sell off what has abstracted the heart from their land. It is the ripening of grass which injures hay and soil > —Farm Journal. Tub Phrenological Journal and PiCKAon’s MtiarnLY— The July number begins the Mitt volume or this magazine, and contains,, besides Physiognomy, Kthnoiojfy. Psychology, etc., pwwaUs mi clwwtsrs of BMttovwt, Hit

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