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High Farming

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
June
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

High farming simply means thorough cultivation, liberal maiiuriuy, bountiful crop, good stock, good fceJ, und paying profits therpfrom. It is 7iot strango thfit misconeeptions havo irisen in the minds of doubting farmera, who havo been eyewitnosses to son)" of the npread-eagle experimenta of enthusiastic farmers, btitter supplied with money obtained in a business they know how to manage than with practical experience on the fartn. Bountiful cropa and paying profits of course ere what all farmers who nre dependnet upon the farm for an income are striving to obtain ; and evcry yoar as it passes is ruconfirming tho npinion that the profits aro itnall, and will grow "beautifully lest," where high faruiing is not practiced. Ishernl ruanuring alone is profitable. Wehavdly know the productivo capaoity of a good strong suil, well worked and exeessiyely manured. This same liberal treatment amiües to stock with equal force and with like renilts. The returns are greater from two gopd animáis well fed a,nd cnrod for, than from twice tbatnumber cntily fed and neglectpd : and the actual protits are not to be oompnred, for from the lntter no profits nccrue. Success in farmiup-, if achiereil at all, mili come - does come - from good lands ■vwell kept, and good stock well fed. This ia high farming, and to it we are inRvitablv driven bv the tendencv of the

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Old News
Michigan Argus