GOOD AGRICULTURAL CREED.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1027, 30 March 1894, Page 3

GOOD AGRICULTURAL CREED.

According to the Canada Farmer, the agriculturists of Canada met in convention and adopted for themselves the following creed : — 'We believe in shiall farms and thorough cultivation \ we believe that the soil lives to eat, as well as the owner, and ought therefore to be well manured ; we believe in going to the. bottom of things and therefore deep ploughing, and enough of it— all the better if it be a subsoil plough ; we believe in large crops, which leave' the land better than they found it, making "both the farm and the farmer richer at once ; we believe that every farm should own a good farmer ; we believe that the fertiliser of any soil is a spirit of industry, enterprise, and intelligence — without these lime gympsum, and guano would be of little use ; we believe in good fences, good farmhouses, good orchards, ai.d good children enough to gather the fruit ; we believe in a clean' kitchen, a neat wife in it, a clean dairy, and a clean conscience ; we believe to ask a man's advice is not stooping but of much benefit ; we believe that to keep a place for everything, and everything in its place, saves many a step, and is pretty sure to lead to good tools, and to keeping them in order j we believe that kindness to stock, 'like good shelter, is saving of fodder ; we believe that it is a good thing to keep an eye on experiments, and note all, good and bad ; we believe that it is a good rule to sell grain when it is ready ; we believe in producing the best butter and cheese, and marketing it when it is ready.