Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-11-19
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
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by cutting n swell behind him around the
country. Wait patiently until the old
man" dies and bequeaths to you his farm,
then hire Dan Tucker TO take care of II,
instructing him TO use his own judgment
and not bother you. Encourage the rails
ing of livestock by attending horse-races,
and patronze breeders by stalking your
money on the result. Connect yourself
with the agricultural press by subscribing
for some journal that gives rural advice
from the standpoint of "tho Turf and
Ring"
Show your interest in the growth Of
rye, barley, and hops by partaldng freely
| of the beverages tboreirom concocted.
Give your countenance in the same way
to tobacco culture. Don't get married
! you can hardly afford hdt sort of hus
bandry. In about four years, if the farm
is good one and if you are as frugal rs
you will be likely to be, Dan Tucker, or
more cnterprlsing neighbour will toroclose
sundry mortgages, take your worthless
property off your hands, and leave you to
go to sea to complain of your bad luck"
denouncc farming as an occupation, and
wonder what has become of your money
IF you are an old hand at II, without ex
pensiye vices, and still manage to keep q
farm going on slip-shod principles, the
following rules, closely followed, will en-
able you to do all your work uniformly in
the worst possible manners
C0Hcernlhg Ldad Buy all you can on
credit, and mortgage every thing TO insure
its payment. To farm it by the thousand
acres is Napolconic---t shows genius, you
know, and sounds well.
Purchase poor land at u low price,
rather than the best at high price; you
will thus get, at least, half MS much har-
vest for your subsequent labor, and you
will have all the Improvement for moth
ing-it there should happen to be any.
Never drain; If you do, the ihrm.work
| will be FASTENED, crops increased, and ma
nure saved-bosidGs which, you will lose
the stagnant water and the buried crock
cry"
Plough shallow; keep doing as your
grandfather did, and stick to it that "yal-
lerIearth is pizrn."
C0Rce1aiag MdnurG.--Build your hog
pen, and, if possible, your barn yard,
across n running stream; this will carry
the filth off your farm, and you will not
be troubled with it, Some of our best
farms are always stuck up with manure
II there is, unfortunately, no stream
handy, move your barn, when the manure
has become packed five or six feet in your
yard, to another sidchill and start again;
the original deposit will wash away in
time. by this philosophical method of
, thanking do thousands of farmers through.
out the West get rid of Il nuisance, and
, promote that cleanliness which is said to
be next to godlinGss.
Don't be persuaded to SOW clover and
then waste it by plowing it under; be
sure that these book-farmers" who ad-
vocatc such doings have clovcr-sced to
sell
, If, after the above treatment, your soil
, yields any crops, never feed or plow
under the straw or corn-stalks, but always
burn them; you will thus get them out
Of the way" and will gradually diminish
the growth of straw and stalks, till ulti-
matcly there will hardly be any to burn.
C0acerHiHg CyOps-Plant and SOW very
late; by so doing, you will diminish the
crop an amount equal to the whole net
proft-that is, you will get nothing for
your labor.
Allw your corn-fclds to be filled with n
dense underground of weeds, and your po-
tatoos, turnips and onions with dense
over-growth of ditto; il will not cost
half 50 much to harvest your crop, and
money paid out in the fall is an important
item.
Don't be fooled with the cry OF "rota-
ton" Dirt is dirt, isn't it y--and if II field
will grow potatoes, of course it will grow
wheat. Keep your corn in the "corn-lot"
all your life, as your father and mino did !;
if you were to jump around from field to
field, as the book farmers advise, your
0 corn crop would very likely outgrow
the granary, and then what fix you'd he
o in
Y ConceWiRg Stock--Sco how little food
. will keep COW alive. All you save is
clear gain and II is astonishing how this
O sort Of economy counts up !
{ Feed rs irrcgularly as possible, Wait
C ing an hour or two for breakfast will whCt
. the cows appottcs; and il will save them
I anxiety if they don't know precisely when
to expect it.
F.. | wouldn't waste many oats on horses
0 how do horses get along in those
= countries where oats won't grow
Q Besides, oats mako horses risky
get! thom used to going without
y and they will be sobercr and more man.
;, agcable, and just as well satisfied to gnaw
/ the wood-pilc or the fence, A friend OF
. ours, q carpenter who fed his horse fru
a gally, took ii into his head that the ami
NAL ate the shavings wherowith he was
, boddcd, which were supposed to serve as
. a divisor and distcnder. So he saved al
= other food and taught the sagacious crea
); ture to rely wholly on pino-shuvings. The
horse lived some weeks, and finally died
:, as the owner boliNed of oyer.eating.
Never throw corn TO pigs; men can ca
corn, and there has been enough wastet
u on hog troughs to keep thousands of hu
y man beings from starvation, Above all
never feed pigs until they stop squcalmg
: To squCal is bad manners, and well .bre(
swine ought to bo broken OF it,
T. = Let neat cattle, soCalled, lie in their owl
droppings MS much as possible, for II vii
Il keep them warm. Never curry them-i
l, makes them tender,
n Teach your cattle to jump; It will no
II cost you half SO much to feed them, and /
$ it costs your neighbors more, that is the
y lookout A careful observer says; "Cat
tie may be taught TO go over any fence 10y
careful training as tollowsi First Civ,
them very little and very poor feed, whiCl
will make them light and enterprising
As soon rs they 20 over the lowest part q
the fence AFTER provender, put ON anothe
rail and make them jump back again, say
Is ing: Plague take you, | guess that Y
/. keep you outr Next day drive them on
10 again, repeating the ohiurgation an(
N adding another rail- In short time
T. they will be able to take care Of them
II selves
r. Cattle will live with very little care
h Stables and sheds are an expensive ans
h needless luxury. You will be surprise,
.e to see how much exposure to snow storm
cattle can stand when they are ono
q. hardened When winter ssets in, turn nj
ID your stock to the hay stacks, pull dowl
NJ the fences (unless you havo discipline,
,d them according the last paragrphG an,
ia make them earn their own living Il
IN the spring you will have and.pike pig,
a humpbackod cows, and horses of gothi
il, architecture, with appetites as sharp a
Is. their hipa, Don't fail to teach your stoc
fe selfreliance, In this way the cattle wi
h. 90 further before you,kill them, and thei
at meat will go further at(er you kill them
pound for pound
Have nothing to do with agriculture
books or newspapers, Remember th
hOnored adare; 1.-The better the scholar