Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-04-28
HOW TO DO 1T.
Gold Fields IN I1ltnois.
8 ByERY THING BUT NJ OWN Bus,Nrss
sr JACOB srRAwN, or MORGAN CO., Ill.

AneEe uas been o continual complain
Of hard times. Good people, if you vii
take my advice do believe We will hav
easy times in less than FIVE years. an
afraid il will take three years of close At
tsntion to business and good economy witt
it to get out Of debt. l feel certain there
hgold enough within less than one foot o
the top Of the earth to pay ten times q,
much - W oil owe, and please one an,
oil. Pay strict attention and will tel
you how to find it. In the first plac,
when you 60 to town &c. every thing 20,
want 20 that you need 60 no more thar
once in two months. Get your fre. woot
forthwith cut and split it up ready to use
In the next place see that you have plent,
OF Hour, meal and meat, to hold out unit
after harvest. Next, see that your plows
hoes, hsrrows and oil your tools are in
good repair. Have place for all you,
tools, and every tool in its place.
Everything about farming, driving stock
fattening cattle, and raising horses and
hogs, and almost everything about my
whole business have learned by expert
ence. ! feel SO certain that there is such
. large amount of gold in the soil, that
am anxious that all should try and find
it.
Make it an universal rule to 90 to bed
at O'Clock, from the first of October to
the first Of April, and get up at 4 o'clock
winter and summer. Whenever you awake
instead Of lying and rolling over, roll out
and get at something that wants to be
done. Get done eating before six o'clock
winter and summer. ...-....
Commence powing for corn IS soon as
the first frost is fairly out of the ground
IN March. Plow two inches deeper than
you ever plowed before. Get ready to
plant 1T as soon as you can. The first
warm days in April commence planting.
and stick close to it until you are done.-
Commence plowins your corn when it is
not more than three inches high, or as soon
as the weeds begin to start. Plow often
rs you can. Piow close to your corn.-
When your corn gets large enough to bear
IT, piow 1t deep, especially the last plow-
ing. Commence cutting your grass be-
fore the seed gsls fsIriy ripe, IL you have
much to cut. When you begin, do not
let it have but one dew. Rake and cock
it in good sized cocks, SO that peert boy
eau keep up with stout man pitching
If it looks like rain when you roll up hall
q cock, get on it with all your weight and
give yourself good shake. Then run
your fork about five feet from the cock and
tura it in the cock. Do not pat with
your fork. That is losing time. Remem.
ber 'time is money Go as far from
your cock as ever you intend to get hay
enough to finish it. Put it right on. just
before you finish the cock, spring upon it
and tread it two seconds more. Then you
may haul it with grape vine or rope,
whichever you may have. Forthwith,
stack it as soon as you cock it. If you
are afraid it is tov green, sprinkle little
salt upon the stack, every two or three
cocks. The greener it is the more salt it
requires. If there is no appearance Of
rain, cock it up as soon as it will do
Then if you do not stack it until the next
morning, there is no need of treading it.
Do not let it stand in the cock more than
one night until you stack it. Take no
pains in dressing your cocks; you can
cock it up rough and stack it nearly as
soon as you can cock it well. think it is
very poor policy to cock hay and let it
stand until the bottom and all the outside
is weather.beaten. You waste half Of
your hay and it is still to be stacked. Put
but one stack in place and right in the
centre ofyour cocks. 1t will enable you
to get it stacked great deal sooner
Fence your stacks well so that your sto *
cannot taste your hay. In feeding out
do not leave hay within forty feet of the
stack. Everytime you feed, put the hay
in fresh place. They eat it much
better, and by taking pains you can ma
nure whole meadow. With feeding on
yonr meadow and treading in the winter,
itimproves the meadow very much. When
the heavy rains come, and the frost is
going out OF the ground in the spring take
the stock off.
think it is not best to SOW more wheat
than double the amount you think you will
want for bread. Always SOW your whea,
in September. Whenever you get youl
hay and wheat stacked 20 over all you,
fields and pull up all the cookie burrs, and
the balance Of sour dock you did not see
in June. The time to pull up The SOU
dock is after the FIRST rains in June then
It comes up easy. Il it should get TOT
hard to pull get chisel made two ant
half inches broad, fifteen inches Ion,
and thick enough through so that NAL
cannot bend or break it. Get shank pu
10 il for man to Put his foot on, With
handle on il to push il down by the sid.
Of tho dock, then pry II up by the roots
II is mach ea Ter than TO pub them wher
they ge, old, and burn tnem wien the seed
get ripe.
If you have olj land Plow II up ten o
twelve ineles deep in the iaIl or iore-par
Of winter. You will find you will raise q.
most double the quantity Of corn will
loss work than BY blowing shallow in tbs