. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. A Plant Destbuctive to Bees.—Tho largo podded milk weed, almost invariably causes the death of every bee alighting upon it. Tho bee either adheres to the plant or else bears awaj' a small scale sticking to its feet, and cripples itself fatally in attempting to remove the annoyance.—Af/ricuUaral liepori. Why Farming is Unprofitable. The question, " Will farming pay?" has been discussed before the New Hampshire State Fair aa follows: It is complained tha
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. A Plant Destbuctive to Bees.—Tho largo podded milk weed, almost invariably causes the death of every bee alighting upon it. Tho bee either adheres to the plant or else bears awaj' a small scale sticking to its feet, and cripples itself fatally in attempting to remove the annoyance.—Af/ricuUaral liepori. Why Farming is Unprofitable. The question, " Will farming pay?" has been discussed before the New Hampshire State Fair aa follows: It is complained that farming is unprofitable. Men are leaving tho farm and seeking employment in manufac- tures and the trade of the city. New Hamp- shire, the agricultural part of Massashusetts, of Maine and Vermont, have gone back in population and productive agricultural wealth in the last ten years. Without seeking to touch all the reasons for it, may we not find it largely in this, that we ask too much of the farm? Having a capital of $2,000, $3,000 or $5,000 invested in it, we ask that the farm shall support our families, educate our child- ren, and give us a comparative wealth for old age besides. And yet, do we treat it as other men do their business by which they succeed? If we fail in getting all this from it, we say at once that farming is unprofitable! We are unmindful of the fact that in mercantile busi- ness, onlj' one in a hundred is fairly success- ful, and only one in a thousand eminently so. Does not farming do as well as that, and bet- ter? Does only one in a hundred farmers succeed to a competence, aiid only one in a thousand succeed to affluence? And yet do we not deal with our farms in the same way that we have seen that the nation does with its producers? Do we not take everything off and put comparatively nothing on the land? In every otlier business of life all the gains a man gets he immediately puts back into his business. The merchant increases his capital year by
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