The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-23

SeasOnAblo Hints to Farmers,
FALL, WORE


Now is the time for industry in the farmer
Haying over, the ditcheA should be dug, and
the old oaeS cleaned "a, and their contents
hauled into the barnyard or on to the com
post heap. The muck and pairing from the
roadside shoald b, hanled nswy as NEe fall
rsi4s VW make 4, 1orpa. aiggino and Mailing,
and of course less profitable. The bitches
dug and muck hsuled the walls should be
built, for it is much better handling the rocks
now than after Jack Frost has had hold of
them. Then, when the ground is dry and
work of other kinds does mot thrive, is the
time to haul sand or loan upon your moss
covered meadows. All these meadows need
is to be warmed up little. Ditch them and
cover them with coating of sand or loan,
and the moss and wild grasses will leave them
and in their room The tame grasses will -four
ish. Then this is the season for cutting the
bushes in the fields and by the roadside, in
fact, anywhere. Cut them now, and they
viii have little chance to sprout, and much
less in the spring. The sooner now that you
have your "burnt ground" cleared and sgot
into rye" the better, though no great time is
rs yet lost. 1t is, better, however, to be in
season with this work, even if other work is
put OIL till later season, for we know of no
work more tedious than s:getting in crop Of
rye after cold weather comes, upon "burnt
ground" 1t is dirty, tedious work at best,
but in the cold weather of October and No
vember it is awful. See to it, that it is done
this month.
and hauling out the manure to the compost
heap. The weather is cool and the oxen can
do the work better now than in the spring.
Besides, the spring blowing and getting ont
the winters manure, will take much of your
time. and what can be done in the fall is bet
ter done, and by far better to be done.-Nep
Hampshire Farmer.
SIGNS OF PROSPEROUS FARMER.
We clip from an exchange the following
appropriate observations on the signs of
successful farmer, and we earnestly commend
them to the consideration of every thought
full reader:
When lights are seen burning in his house
before the break of day. in winter especially,
it shows that the day will never break on the
breaking in of the winter of adversely.
When you see him drive his work instead
of his work driving him, it shows that he will
never be driven from good resolutions. and
that he will certainly work his way to
prosperity.
When he has house separate from the
main building purposely for ashes, and an
iron or tin vessel to transport them, aid it
shows that he never built his dwellings for
a funeral pyre for his family, and perhaps
himself.
When his hog-pen is boarded outside and
IN, it shows that he is ''going the whole hog
or nome in keeping plenty inside his house
and poverty out.
When his sled is safely housed in summer,
and his farming implements covered both
winter and summer, it plainly shows that he
will have good house over his head in the
summer of early life, and the winter of old
age.
When his cattle are properly shielded and
fed in winter it evinces that he is according
to Scripture, which says that "a merciful man
is merciful to his beast
When he is seen subscribing for newspa-
per, aud paying for it in advance, it shows
that he is speaking like book respecting
the latest movements in agriculture, and that
he will never get his walking papers to the
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