Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-04-27
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B The following hiat 10 wool growers,
Il ATTENDED e IL washing uool viii aliaes I'M
variabiy insure good rolls FROM Che cardiRg
machines. CEp your sheep before the next
growth is long enough to interfere with the
shears IN clipping. Wash your weol in water
mis- IN the wafer quart Of chamber lye and
handful Of salt, then rinse it ia clean water
Haltd-piek year wool well, but IL any Of the
heeces are fleece. grown or matted be sure
and keep hem by themselves One aeeccso
matted viii spoil one hundred If y5n grease
your own wooi As many do, take one poard
Of clean lard 70 ter pounds Of wool, unless
the wool be colored. such as walnut brown,
theil il viii require little more.
Wool CaRpre
THINGS A FARMER SHOULD NOT. DO.
"A farmer should not break up more land
than he can cultivate thoroughly halftilIed
land is always growing poorer while well
titled land is constantly improving. A thrifty
andprudent farmer will not devote his sole
attention to the improvement of certain fields
on his farm, because the land ia easy TO work.
and let other portions Of his premises go
unelliivated, and grow nothing bat brush,
bogs,s sbriars and stones.
A farmer should never have more cattle,
horses or other animal stock than he can
keep in good order. An animal in good or
der al the beginning Of winter is already half
wintered Nor should he let his cattle ea-
dare the chilling storms Of winter in az open
yard or field, whilst few dollars expended
in the way Of making comfortable stables
would amply repay him in saving Of fodder,
and afford a greater amount of milk.
4 farmer should never depend too mach on
his neighbors for what he can BY careful
management produce on his own land. He
should not make it common practice to
either buy or beg fruit while he can plant
trees and cultivate them on his ewn ground
nor annoy bis neighbors by borrowing tools
to work With, while he can make or buy them.
The borrower is servant to the lender
A farmer should never be so immersed in
political matters as to neglect doing his va
rious kinds Of work In due season, and to
snug up matters and things for winter; nor
should he be so inattentive to politics as to
remain ignorant of those great questions of
national and state policy which viii always
agitate more or less free people.
A farmer should notbe continually borrow
ing his neignbor's newspaper, while he can
easily save money enough, by curtailing gsome
little extravaganza, to subscribe and pay for
one or more ofhis own.
A farmer should never refuse fair price
for anything he wishes to sell. have known
men torefuse dollar and half for a bushel
Of corn, and after keeping it FIVE or six.
months they were glad to get dollar for it.
| have known farmers to refuse to take fair
marketable price for their butter, and
after keeping It three or four months they
concluded to sell it for only two-thirds
of the price which they were first offered.
"a bird in the hand is worth two in the
BUSH =
a farmer should not allow his wood-pile to
be reduced down to the lshortg.', merely
drawing little by pieeemeal and green at
that. Hemust expect to encounter the sour
locks Of bis wife and family, and perhaps be
compelled (in a series Of lectures to learn
that the man who provides green wood to
burn ia the winter, has not measured the first
rules Of domestic economy. Nor should he
employ some ''botch' mason to build his
chimney ''upside down" so that his family
will be nearly smoked out of the house and
the walls Of the room become as yellow as
saffron.
A farmer should not let his buildings look
as old as the hills, and go to decay, while he
can easily afford the means to keep them in
good repair; nor should he allow tattered
clothes and old hats to be stuffed in the win
dows, in place Of glass. If he does, he need
not be alarmed if he acquires the reputation
of mean man, or one who tarries long
where liquor is sold by the glass.
A farmer should not be contented with
dilapidated looking fences on his farm, SO as
to tempt his cattle to become unruly and des-
troy bis crops, while he has plenty OF oppor-
tunities and materials to make or keep them
in repair. - Workiag Farmer