Could we turn back to the days of our grandparents, we should find farming a very different employment from what it is to-day.
Thanks to science, farming is no longer a haphazard trade.
I could read pretty fair, and so could Jim; but we were both lazy at it, and after working pretty hard all day didn't so much care about spelling out the long words in the farming news or the stories they put in.
Illustration: Map of life zones in which fox farming is feasible in the United States, showing the Canadian zone where conditions are excellent, and the Transition zone, in parts of which conditions are favorable.
A person who has always lived in the city would not be apt to make a success at general farming or fruit raising.
Along the streams of the farming sections, much damage is done by muskrats because of these burrows.
The opossum is going to become one of the important animals in fur-farming for various reasons: They are prolific breeders, bringing forth from 6 to 12 at a litter; grow rapidly; are easily fed and eat a great variety of food.
Fur farming as an industry is only in its infancy, in fact, not begun.
It is a well known fact that the finest furs are produced in northern localities and fox farming should not be attempted in the far south.
Foxes prefer the rough hilly countries and are usually found in good numbers in the hilly farming sections where there are old pastures and an occasional patch of woodland.
Some who have tried skunk farming have located the yards on the shore of a small lake or pond and have included a portion of the pond in the enclosure.
SIR: I have the honor to transmit the accompanying manuscript on the subject of Deer Farming in the United States, and to recommend its publication as Farmers' Bulletin No.
Fox farming has been attempted by various parties from time to time and those who have given the business considerable study and have persevered have generally been successful.
Apparently this crisis was produced by the demands of the farming population who had become heavily burdened with debt as a result of the economic strain put upon them by the long Samnite wars.
We got into the farmingdistrict about harvest time.
A short description of their mode of farming will illustrate this.
There are large districts of country in northern Mexico well adapted to sheep raising, not suitable for farming or inhabiting to any great extent.
The expense of defending that vast frontier would be saved; the rapidly increasing population would absorb English manufactures without limit, and their necessary devotion to farming would diminish their competition as manufacturers.
The climate of Virginia does not predispose to exertion; yetfarming involves hard physical work; and, beyond anything else, the wealth of Virginia was derived from farming.
I'm just trying to earn my daily bread, and farming suits me at the present time.
Why, a man with some knowledge of farming could make a comfortable living in a few years on such a place as this.
Caleb went into the farming district and invited a flour miller and several of the more intelligent farmers to attend the meeting.
About this time some responses, in the forms of half-grown boys and girls on foot, began to arrive from the farming district, and Grace had occasionally to leave the store.
The spectacle impressed Grace deeply, well though she knew the people; for from most of the faces was banished, for the time being, the weary, resigned expression peculiar to a large portion of the farming population of the newer states.
There are as many causes in farming as in any other business for men trying to make a start somewhere else, but a starter in the farming line is always very poor.
In this situation of seeming failure I began to think that farming of all occupations rewarded its devotees most stingily.
But for the people we are now describing real farming had not yet begun, so more of that a little later.
Without tools or draught animals, and even any knowledge of farming conditions on this new soil, and without means to buy tools, this struggle became for many both hard and prolonged.
But it was after all the ox who really helped subdue the soil and lay the foundations for farming and prosperity in general.
So it looked to me to have more advantages forfarming on a large scale.
In the war of posts, of desultory skirmishes, and of raids into the farming country, to which the struggle at the South was reduced, there was indeed little opportunity for Thompson to win laurels.
With the intention of making his permanent home there, he had started upon what promised to be a prosperous future in farming and horse-raising.
They had been married that morning, and were going away for a time to return later and start farming and mining in the Buluwayo district.
Val Moray is the son of John Moray, who is farming in South Africa, and he has a brother, Bob.
I want to get back to my quietfarming life again, and that is impossible while war devastates the land.
My uncle, Smith Lee, was farming on the Potomac, and was constantly sending me messages of condolence through my father.
You had better consult some work on farming as to the quantity.
My father constantly rode out to see him, and enjoyed talking farming as they rode together over his fields.
I am glad to hear that Fitzhugh keeps so well, and that he is prospering in his farming operations.
This value it has, not because of itself, as is the case with farming lands, but because of its situation in reference to the community around it.
Thus will our farming population degenerate into a peasantry more miserable than that of Europe, and our laborers be ground down to a level lower than they have yet known.
Farming is unlike other modern productive industries in that the cost of production does not decrease as it is conducted on a larger scale.
When the benefits of our natural resources are so widely distributed as this, there can be little occasion to alarm ourselves regarding injustice through the private control of farming lands.
Here was an evident case of killing competition for the sake of the farming interests, and the force of their unorganized sentiment alone was sufficient to secure the desired legislation.
The land is of the first quality, and the best farming in the United States is found here.
Any farming information I shall be very thankful {482} for.
When I began farming I knew not wheat from rye, or rye from barley; but I well know what are the benefits of farming.
Having been trained as a scholar, he added farming to his accomplishments, and when he settled down at Hyde Hall it was as a son of the soil.
Farming details did not arouse any aversion in him; he used even to dream with pleasure of work on the land, but at this time his brain was swarming with other ideas.
We shall get on together splendidly, Arkasha; you shall help me in farming the estate, if only it isn't a bore to you.
Augustus however recognised in this priesthood an effectual means of emphasising the agricultural side of Roman life, and of connecting the imperial family with the farming population.
This deity could be none other than the sky-father Juppiter, who had stood by them in the old days of their exclusively farming life, sending them sunshine and rain in due season.
The origin of this Lar Familiaris, as he is called, is interesting, because it shows the intimate connection between the farming life of the community and its religion.
In the old days when Rome was a farming community, the guardianship of the gods over the fields was one of the most important elements in religious life.
He was always for the things that was doing in the town at meetings and unions, and he took no interest in farming or country work.
The American business agent of a Bohemian farming paper, already quoted, could not say enough in praise of the Bohemian farmers.
We need hardly predict that he will betake himself to Doorn Draai at the expiration of that week, there to learn farming under the auspices of Mr Kingsland, for it is too obvious that he will inevitably do so.
The economic position of the farmer has been materially strengthened within the last forty years, yet much remains to be done before farming may be considered an altogether satisfactory and attractive occupation.
One of the greatest needs of the American farming community, therefore, is for a vitalized church.
The fact that urban industries offer shorter hours, better pay, and cleaner work than does farming has attracted many young country people.
Machinery is shortening the hours of labor for the farmer, and scientific farming is increasing his efficiency; nevertheless, in most sections of the country rural life still means long hours of hard labor for small returns.
Irrigation, reclamation, and dry farming increase the available supply of farm land.
Interview some one familiar with farming conditions for data on this topic.
At the present time the discovery of coal on land secured by settlers for purely farmingpurposes entitles the government to dispose of the coal deposits under special conditions.
Despite the excellent work done by the Department of Agriculture, American farming methods are in many sections of the country both careless and wasteful.
We must get better schools, better houses, better barns, better farming implements, better kitchen implements, better roads.
Both mining andfarming can be carried on the year round.
The farming districts at the edge of the Black Belt, where the races were about equal in numbers, already had a kind of "share system," and in these sections the economic chaos after the war was not so complete.
He valued his fine farming and fine cattle a great deal higher than Juniper Hitchcock's gentility.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "farming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
