St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-04-11
Hints.

Farmers spring is upon you. tt
demands and duties will crowd upor
You thick and fast. Amid the greater
demands do not overlook the smallc,
ones. Lest you should, let us kindly
suggest few hints.
AS to your years stock eff wood il
you have not cut and piled that under
your wood-shed, you may as we'll lc,
that pass /; you can haul one load at a
time during the season, and cut i,
each night and morning, Sundays ex-
cepted, for it will be green and chop
easy it does not burn out so fast as
seasoned wood then there is some
thing so interesting about going out
to the wood-pile and pitching in an
hour or so in harvcsttime, to say
nothing about the good humor that
such an arrangement keeps the women
in.
Those shade trees in front of the
house and along the street that have
never been set might, as well be post
poncd to some other time You can
get along as we'll without them as
you have done heretofore they might
get broke down, and it would take
some trouble to get the bricr bushes
and other rubbish out of the fence
corners.
As to fixing up the fences, it is a
bad time to do it in The spring, farmers
are so busy then the cattle have got
such notion of jumping the fences
that they will jump them any how.
"Old Bose" is a better remedy than
high fences it is far easier to say
sic" take 'em lug 'em :" than to
always be laying up rails and mailing
on boards.
If your gates have settled so as to
require the strength of man to tug
them around, all the better they will
not be opened only when necessary,
and then only by men who will not
forget to shut them the wind never
blows open such gates, neither do
boys injure them by swinging on
Them.
If your smaller gates have a hinge
'r fastening of, never mind you can
10 that some odd spell if the hogs
get into the garden and cat up the
Early peas and vegetables, or the old
SOW gets among the sheep and eats up
halfdozen lambs, take a club, call
he dog, and settle the account at once:
t will give you more real satisfaction
han the fixing a half-dozen gates
Gould.
If any boards have got off from the
'arn, never mind such trines it must
re a poor barn that can not stand
aving a half dozen boards off. If
'ou run for every such triilc, what will
'ecome of your leisure moments
A very convenient place for old and
ew implements, such as wagons,
leighs, sleds, plows, harrows, scra-
crs, rollers, and old bits of boards,
imber, plank, etc, is along the front
f the house. How can a man Oxford
D shelter such things? Why it
'ould require nearly a half-acre rooted
vcr.
The place for whiflletrces, chains,
leviscs, axes and hoes, is to drop S
hem where last used. Many a far
Ter knows better than to make fool
himself running to carry such
lings to some hiding place for shelter
lowing-machincs, horsc-rakes, era
les and scythcs. should always be
1T in the field where last used for
IN chances to one if they do not re-
uire to be used in that very place
1e next time.
Your manure should be piled against
lc sides of your barns and stables to
reserve them from rotting. If the
caps get so large as to be trouble
one, move your buildings, or do as
mother man did-make a bee and
aul and scrapc the manure into the
ver.