Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1873 — Sound Ideas on Fanning. [ARTICLE]

Sound Ideas on Fanning.

A lecture delivered at Baltimore, Md., contains propositions peculiarly applicable To the Eastern portion of the United. Slates; and all bat the third proptr ' sition Will apply with equal force everywhere. They are: 1. That the area under cultivation should be within the limits of the capital and labor employed; or, in other words, that on impoverished soils no one should cultivate more land than he can enrich with manure and fertilizers, be it one acre or twenty. - ' 2. That there should be a law compelling every man to prevent his stock from depredating on his neighbor’s fields. 3. That soiling of feeding crops green is more economical than pasturing. 4. That deep tillage is essential to good farming. - 5. That the muck heap is the farmer’s* bank, jind that everything should be added to it that will enlarge it, and increase at the same time its fertilizitig properties. ' 6. That no farmer or planter should depend upon one staple alone, but should seek to secure hifnself against serious loss in bad seasons'by diversity of products.