Continuous Cropping and Tillage Dairy Farming for Small Farmers (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Continuous Cropping and Tillage Dairy Farming for Small Farmers A few years ago the catch phrase, Three acres and a cow, formed the main plank in the platform of a band of social reformers. The idea contained in such a phrase may be all very well in theory, but the practical man who cannot do better than feed a cow on three acres of land had better give up farming, and take up some occupation requiring less skill and energy. This latter statement applies specially to the small holder, who, with the advantage of being able' to concentrate his resources on a small area of land, may reasonably be expected to produce more per acre than a farmer whose operations are concerned with an ex tensive area. The smallholder whose land is situated near a good market town where fruit-growing and market gardening are possible is already obtaining treble the revenue from his land than the large farmer in the same district obtains. This kind of intensive cultivation, though, is not possible in districts with a scattered population or where railway and market facilities are lacking. The small farmer under these conditions is compelled to produce more or less the same kind of soil products milk, butter, beef and bacon - as do his larger con temporaries. The trouble is that the farmer, large or small, has not realised to what extent these agricultural products are capable of being produced where an intensive system of cropping is followed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.