The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19

Advice to Those Who Don't
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Advice to Those Who Don't
As Need It.
c. w. Gone, of New York State,
through the Rural Nee Yorker,
gives the f0ilowinj, advice tothose
who don't need il y
Always leave your tools where
you uso them Then tho next
time you want them you have only
to remember whore you used them
last, and go aud get them, In this
way you may avoid the annoyance
oflending A man who wants TO
borrow a plow is not as likely to
call upona neighbor who general
ly leaves it in the back field as ono
who keeps it 10 the barn, clean and
bright.
Never paint your out buildings
or farm tools. 1t is wicked any
body knows that it will make them
last ttwiee as long, and that it is
robbing mechanics Of their bread
''Let every man live by his trade"
Always plant your smallest po-
tatoes, (aId rotten ones if you have
any, Eat the best and you are
sure Of them. If you plant them
you run a risk. Bugs and rot may
destroy them. One potato on the
plate is worth u dozen in the
ground where you have to dig. for
them.
Do not stable your cattle; it
makes a great deal of extra work
and don't do any good They are
dumb brutes. How do they know
whetheri it is cold or warm Stack
some hay out in the middle of O
ticld--Gf you have some damaged
all the better) IL will make an
excellent place to winter sheep
and calves. Feed them on the
ground and save hauling the ma
nure. Ifsome OF the sheep hap.
pen to die, pull off the wool and
feel thankful that you have 60
many less to wash and shear in the
hurry ofsummer.
Some short sighted people heap
their manure TO make it rot. This
is the height Of folly. Let it alone
three or four years and it will rot
itself. If thereis so much manure
in the yard that you can't wade
through it, get some rails aud fence
of a yard on the other side OF tn,
barn. If IL accumuIates so as tc
make it difficult for you to get tc
the barn, sell out, or move lh,
barn.
Don't waste. your money anc
timo trying to raise fruit trees. |,
requires an immense amount of la
Dor to prune and fight the worm,
and mice and then if they grow
and bear fruit bad boys may stea
it; you can save great deal o
annoyance by not planting any
Betterspend your money for tobac
co and your time smoking it.
Above all do not squander you
money for books and newspapers
No matter how much weak. mind
ed people talk about tho moral in
fiuence OF good reading, the bene
htof the experience Of practice
farmors. and the theories of scien
tifc men, and oil such nonsens,
just give them to understand tina
you know what is what, and le
those take the papers who have n
mind OF their own. | know a mic
old farmer who never had pape
in his home till no was fifty yeaI
OF age. His father loft him 20
acres Of choice land which he worl,
cd as we'll as he knew how, an
made a comfortable living, On
spring tho postmaster told him
he would subscribe for good ~
ricultural paper, read 1t CAREFUL
and work according TO instru,
tions, ho would warrant him
clear thousand dollars that yea
On these conditions he paid for til
paper, read it, worked faithful,
and at the end of the year he fis
ured up carefully and found thu
he had cleared only nine hundre
and sixty dollars. flo sued tn
rascally postmaster for the otht
forty, but by somo dodge of I'll
law tho william cheated him out
it. Ever since then the old gor
has been down on postmssters an
newspapers.