Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-04-05
Horticultural.
" Ii will DO for Now.

This is one Of the cOmmOnest expressions
We hear from formers who DO not take the
Country Gentleman OF any other agricultural
PIPER Ii Is an excuse Tor any hap-hazard,
slip-shOd style Of farming that thOughtless
shlftlcssness desires to pursue. The big barn
door needs a new board, but a piece nailed
over the lower end Of the vacant space will
keep things out and 90 for now. The cattle.
it i true Do not break through, but when
there comes "a driving snow storm things are
not kept out we'll
4 / must straighten up that gate one Of
these days. It's got sagged so it don't
swing"
DO not wonder at it, my dear man. Do
you remember that you hung it on the big
post, drs ing a stake down at the other ed,
and bending piece Of wire for a latch
You left it. saying tn do for now. -
When docs your gate sag, in the few mo-
ments every year 1t Is open, or the days,
weeks, months, when it Is shut, with no
support whatever at the latch end 1t you
had planted a post firmly and made a bridge
at the bottom for the upright piece at the
end Of tie gate to slide upon furnishing
support when tie gate Is shut and latched, it
would have saved you much time and yexa-
ton, and added years to the durability Of the
gate.
man who drags his gate around on the
ground year after year, deserves nothin.
better than a pair Of bars or a gap. By the
way, gap Or pair Of bars is far too often
made TO do for now. Many time single
par Of bars costs the farmer during the hay
ing and harvest, the price Of two or three
gates. 1t often takes a team and from two
TO five men IN waiting to open the barway,
when one could swing open a gate and the
other drive on without stopping the horse for
moment.
II viii 20 for now is plainly written
all over the farms Of the men who love the
expression. They lived in neatly painted
cottages once, out making them . do another
year or 50 y without painting, has given the
rains, sun and wind shauce for a grand old
reyel with the cIaptoards.
4 pretty white paling surrounded the
dooryard ana garden, but the successive
patchings with old boards and rough hcwn
stakes, has ma IL it look like the fences they
tell OF IN Arkansas, - made entirely of alliga-
tor 5 back bones The neat little garden
gate-shel ! describe its one-hinged, latch
less, broken-picket condition as it Is now?
Look at the barn yard of the g it'll for
now farmer. big stone pile with two Oh
three rails along the top, fences one side
] his is particularly convenient, as he place
the hay for his cattle on the stones and thel
DO not stamp it under foot as they stanC
shvcring In the southwest W nd, eating from
the rudely improvised rack. \ zgzag raj
fence bounds another side, and along this
with two lengths Of rail fence each, are con
structed sundry pig and sheep pens in tn
corners. \ third side boasts board fence
patched up with rails in the place Of missi ng
panels. This Is an - it'll-dO- for-nOw y BAR
yard. 1t generally contains from invent,
rods to halt an acre Of ground sparsely GOV
cred with wasting manure.
And here let me object To the unuecessar
extent Of most barn-yards, entailing an un
aYOidable lste of that source Of a farmer
woalth-manure The smallest possible
compass is the most economical, since !
neither takes an unnecessary area of tillablj
land nor gives SO wide an extent over which
TO scatter the manure as to make 1t impOssihl,
to collect it all. | have noticed that TIN
thriltiest farmers have the smalLestyards
Looking into the barn of the farmer OF til,
class of which speak, hat waste is there
Rails are laid upon the ground for floor t
the bay - They'll do; and besides,
makes TO M for a ton OF more Of hay" Ill
for Gets that half Of this is wasted by mould
ing, or perhaps he may guard against tha
by leaving all that IS wasted in the bottom
10 put fresh hay on the ensuing year
1 remember an instance where a MAJ
bought " place and requiring a quantir,
of hay, purchased what the retiring Owne
bad let I'll tie bay. | think he paid so
+ here IS quite chunk at the west end
and then, Won know it must be as much a
three feet thick al over the bottom of tht
hay 80 50 he thought he had good barg in
with hay at s. per ton. But mark, the mar
was uuacquaiutcd with - it'll do-fur-now 3
farming. md soon found that he had paiC
SO a ton for bis hay. You may deIend up
On it. be promptly h0ored ais bay.
The eranary Is an important repository
and your easy-going farmer usually taket
sumo pains 70 - TX - it every year, stopping
rat holes with pieces of TN, etc. but / dc
not think of halt dozen granaries that hav,
hight enough 10 enable a man to perceive q
rat hole. unless 1t Is large enough to admit a
young ear. The hog-pen j. another = do
for-nOw = slab constructed thing, involving
the consumption Of a dozen bushels rnors
grain per hog iattened, than the tight, warm
apartments IN which 4" real - farmers feed
their porkers.
Brother farmers, - it'll-do-for-now = i a
thief that is stealing away year by year those
little items that 20 to make your farm look
snug and thrifty, and the little comforts and
conveniencus that make home delightful and
happy In many ways your farms are run
ming down, and what some careful hand be-
fore you has adorned and beautlfied, your
negligence Is laying waste and desolate
Rth CT. az you make ready to use the bad
expression, by putting rough slab in the
place OF a broken picket or a missing board
how many months and years the unsightly
will be made TO . do tor now. frank j.
Sibley, IN Country Gentleman.