Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-12-23

paralleled severity and as most farmers
have their crops Of potatoes on hand, they
should be protected beyond possibility Of
loss.
Look out for missing shingles on your
house and barn Nothing among little
things is more disastrous than leak in the
root, and few things are more annoying.
To get up of a morning to find some of
your best rooms damaged, furniture and
carpets wet, or, what is worse, to be called
up at midnight, with the thermometer
away down below the freezing point, and,
after thrusting your feet into your slip
pers and getting light, go down cellar,
bring up tubs, and set them so as to catch
the drops of water finding their provok-
ing way through some rotten or rift place
in the roof, is not the most agreeable
work for mind or body; while small
stream of water occasionally running on
to the middle of ones best hay NOW, if not
as personally disagreeable, may be in the
end as expensive as the same would be on
the parlor carpet. Now is the time to
guard against all these annoyances, and
prevent otherwise inevitable loss
Look well to your stack-yards and es
pecially the tops of your stacks. Some
unfriendly current of air may have disar
ranged the covering put on with careful
hands in August If so, the matter should
receive immediate and thorough attention.
See that every chance for loss or waste of
the fodder which has been gathered for the
cattle be guarded against. 1t will be all
needed before another spring; and whether
1t is needed or not, waste is unpardon-
able always, everywhere, and in the least
as well as the largest things.
Fill up your barn yards with muck.
Especially place a bank at least two
feet deep under your COW stables.
The loss of the drippings for the last ten
years in New England alone, where barn
cellars are almost universal, would amount
to tens if not hundreds of thousands of
dollars. We save but little more than
half the enriching material we might.
What we cannot see we consider value
less (or seem toy whereas, it is for some
plants the best, and equal in quantity (al-
most) to the grosser material. 1t should
be saved, and an abundance of muck, or
mould, or rich earth, deposited where it
will absorb it, will do much, though not
all, toward accomplishing this most desira-
bic result If thirty loads, in addition to
what is placed at the bottom of the cellar,
could be accessible, wherewith to sprinkle
the manure-heap once week during the
whole winter, what wealth of fertility
would it give to the farms which are now
starving by reason of this unnecessary
and suicidal wastel
See that all watercourses are opened.
There are many places on every farm
where few minutes labor in the fall will
save hours and perhaps days in the
spring; or where the washings of the
hillsdes by the winter and spring rains
can be saved ON lower lands, instead of
being lost by being carried into some
neighboring stream. 1t is vigilance,
equally with labor and brain, that makes
farming paying as well as pleasant
business.
Last, but not least, make the living
rooms in the house comfortable. A bit of
something (patent or homemade put
around the edge of the kitchen or outer
door, o cheap carpet spread over the
work.room tloor-sundry places where
the cold wind is wont to find its way into
the house closed up-good, dry wood and
an abundance of it, are among the ways
inswhich comfort is secured, and thus hap
piness and content-HearM and Home
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PACKARD's MoNTHLY-The numb,r for
January, 1870, contains The Blood Royal OF Eng
land-Mad and Badly N. s. Dodge; selfRenun
citation as Virtue, by M. L. Stockton; Do Hearts
for T y ~,
veydrop's Queer Friend. by j. Franklin Fits At
Rehearsal illustrated Poem)-by Alice Cary The
Bucket Shops of New York by Oliver Dyer Adah
Isaacs Menken, by r. H. Newell; "Ouida" by
Celia Logan Kellogg Beautiful Snow Improved)
My Heart is Locked--( Poem)--by Frederick r. Mar.
vim; Thaddeus Stevens by Phebe Earle Gibbons;
Facts about Working Women, by Eleanor Kirk
Irving's English Home, by Elihu Burritt; Wo-
mans Prayer Poem)-by Mrs. Mary E. Tucker
Our Street, by Periwinkle; The Wisdom of Igno-
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Dr. j. Il. Snodgrass; Which Is Besty (Poem)-by
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