The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-11-30
FARM anu 0arne,l.

ADVICE TO THOSE Who DON'T NEED IT.-G
". Cone, of New York State, through the Rural
Nep Yorker, gives the following ''advioe to those
Who don't need it:
Always leave your tools where you use them.
Then the next time you want them you have
| My to remember where you used them last,
nd go and get them. In this way you may avoid
he annoyance of lending. A man who wants
o borrow pillow is not 80 likely to call upon a
leighbor who generally leaves 1t in the back field
s one who keeps it in the barn, clean and bright.
Never paint your out buildings or farm tools.
t is wicked; anybody knows that it will make
hem last twice as long, and that it is robbing
mechanics of their bread. "Let every man live
~ his trade"
Always plant your smallest potatoes, land rot
en- ones if you have any, Eat the best and you
ire sure of them. If you plant them you run a
'isk. Bugs and rot may destroy them. One
potato on the plate is worth half dozen in the
,ronnd where you have to dig for them.
DO not stable your cattle. 1t makes great
leal of extra work and don't do any good. They
re dumb brutss How do they know whether
is cold or warm? Stack some hay out in the
niddle OF field-tf you have some damaged all
he betterl 1t will make an excellent place to
winter the sheep and calves. Fead them on the
round and save hauling the manure. If some
the sheep happen to die, pull of the wool an
eel thankful that you have so many less to wash
nd shear in the hurry of summer. ~
Some short-sighted people heap their manure
make it rot. This is the height of folly. Let
alone three or four years and it will rot itself
there is SO much manure in the yard that the
attic can't wade through it, get some rails and
ence of yard on the other side of the barn
1t accumulates so as to make it difficult for
on to get to the barn, sell out, or move the
arm.
Don't waste your money and time by trying to
aise fruit trees. 1t requires an immense amount
labor to prune and fight the worms and mice
nd then if they grow and bear fruit, bad boys
nay steal it; you can save a great deal Of annoy.
nee by not planting any. Better spend your
honey for tobacco and your time smoking it.
Above all do not squander your money for
ooks and newspapers. No matter how much
'eak Reminded people talk about the moral in
uence Of good reading, the benefit Of practical
irmers, and the theories Of scientific men, and
IL such nonsense, just give them to understand
hat you know what is what, and let those take
papers who have no mind Of their own.
now nice old farmer who never had paper in
is home till he was fifty years Of age. His faith.
left him two hundred acres of choice land
rhich he worked well as he knew how and
made comfortable living. One spring the post.
haster told him if he would subscribe for good
gricultural paper, read il carefully and work
ccording 10 instructions, he would warrant him
clear thousand dollars that year. OF these con
itions he paid for the paper, read it, worked
hithfully and found that he had cleared only
Inc hundred and sixty dollars. He sued the
ascally postmaster for the other forty, but by
pine dodge OF the law the william cheated hin
at of it. Ever since then the old gent has beer
own on postmAsters and newspapers.