Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-12-16
Farmers Column.
OF WILL Do for NOM.N

"Tt viii Do for Now"
This is one of the eommonest ex-
pressions we hear from farmers who
so not take the paper. 1t is an eX-
cuse for any slip shod, haphaZzard
ttyle of farming that thoughtless
men desire to pursue. The big barn
door needs IA new board, but piece
nailed over the lower end of the va
cant space will keep things out and
,lo fornow. The cattle, il ia true, do
not break through, but when there
comes a driving snow storm things
are not kept out as well.
al must straighten up that gate
one of these days. It's got sagged so
il don't swing" do not wonder
mt il, my dear sir. Do you remem-
her that you hung it on that hig post,
driving stake down at the other
end and bending q piece of wire for
latch ? You left il sa, ing "itll do
for now" When does your gate sag,
in the few moments every year 1t Is
open, or the days, weeks, months,
when it is shut, with no support
whatever at the latch-end? If you
had planted post firmly and made
a bridge at the bottom for the ups
right piece at the end of the gate to
slide up on, furnishing support
when the gate is shut and latched, 1t
would really saved you much time
and vexati0n, and added years to
the durability of the gate. A man
who drags his gate around on the
ground year after year deserves
nothing better than a pair of bars or
gap. by the way; gap or pair OF
bars is far too often made to DO Tor
now. Many time single pair OF
bars cost the farmer during haying
and harvest the price of two or three
gates. 1t often takes n team and
from two to five men in waiting to
open bar-wsy, when one could
swing open gate and another drive
on without stopping the horses.
ut will do for now' is plainly
printed all over the farms of the
farms of the men who love the eX-
precision. They lived in neatly
PARTED cottages once, but making
them "do another year or so' with,
out painting has given the rain ana
sun and wind chance for grand
old revel with the clapboards. A
pretty white pailing surrounded the
door. yard and garden, but the sue
cessive patchings with old boards
and rough hewn stakes has made it
hook like the fences they tell of in
Arkansas, "made entirely Of alliga-
tors back bones" The neat little
garden gate-shall describe its one
hinged, latchless, broken picket con-
dition?
Look at the barn.yard of the it-'N
40, for. no,C farmer. A big stone pile
with two or three rails along the top
fences one side. This is particularly
convenient, as he places the hay for
his cattle on the stones and they do
not stamp 1t u1lder foot, as they stand
shivering in the south. west wind,
eating from the rudely impoverished
rack. A ZigZag rail fence bounds
another side. and along this, with
tw } lengths of rails each, are con
structed sundry sheep and pig pens
in the corners. A third side boasts
q board fence, patched up with rails
in place of missing pannels. This is
an t-'ll~do~fOr. nown barnyard. III
generally contains from twenty rods
to half an acre of ground sparsely
covered with wasting manure. And
here let me- object to the unnecessary
extent of most barnyards, entailing
u
of q farmers wealth--manure. The
smallest possible compass is the most
economical, since it neither takes an
unnecessary area OF tilla5le land MOI
gives so wide an extent over which
to scatter the manure as 10 make il
impossible to collect it all. | have
noticed that the thriftiest farmers
have the smallest yards.
Looking into the barn of the farm
er of the class of which we speak
what waste is there. Rails are laid
uron the ground for a floor to the
hay: They'll do, and besides il
makes room for a ton or two more oil
hay" He fOrgets that half of thi:
Is wasted Ivy moulding, or perhap:
he guards against that by leaving al
that is wasted in the bottom, to pu
fresh hay on the ensuing year.
remember an Instance where MAJ
bought "A 'p!ace," and requiring /
quantity Of hay purchased what th'
retiring owner had left in the bay
I think he payed $50. There wa
quite chunk at the west enc, ant
then. you know, it must be AS muct
a. three feet thick all over the bot
tom of the bay :" so he thought h.
had good bargain with hay Mt S
per ton. But mark: the man wa
unacquainted with "it-'li-do-fOr
now" farming, and soon found tina
he had payed SIS per ton for his hay
You may depend he prompt.
"flOOred" his bay.
The granary is an important repos
itory, and your easy going farme
usually takes some pains To fix"
every year, stopping rat holes wit
pieces of tin, &c but do not thin
of half u dozen grHnaries that hav
light enough to enable a man to pei
ceive a rat hole, unless it is larg
enough to admit young bear.
The hog pen is another dO-fOr-noN
slab constructed concern, iuvolyin
the consumption of a dozen bushel
more grain per hog fattened than Tia
tight, warm apartments i'm whicI
real farmers feed their pOrkers.
Brother farmers, "it-ll-do for now
Is thief that is stealing away yea
those little items that 90 to max
your farm look snug and thrifty
and the little comforts and convent
ences that pnake home delightful al
happy. In thousand ways you
farms are running down." AN
what some careful hand before yo
has adorned and beautified you
negligence is laying waste and desc
late. Reflect, IA you make ready I
use the bad expression, by putting
rough slab i'll the place OF u broke
picket or missing board, no,
many months and years the insight
ly thing will be made to do 10
now. Country GeRtLcman.
ABOUT BILLIoUsNEsS.- clergy
man comes to see me q dozen times
yaar ohpnt his billipnSupGs RiI