Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-01-31

the pocket, AnO 80 lose all the 1ittle
change they put In and the worst Of
it is they do not know it-ifthey did,
they could mend up the hole, and &C
put an end to the loss. Every day
they are minus a few dimes, and they
wonder how they come so short
when bills are to be paid they canno,
imagine how they came to be so shor,
of change at the end ofthe year they
are surprised to fine so poor a footing
up. They work hard, rack theii
brains on plans, and still they do no,
get ahead much bills accumulate, in
come diminishes, and still they dc
not discover the hole in the pocket.
One man has bad fences, gates and
bars the cattle break through every
nov and then and destroy crops, and
occupy time in driving them out ; the
pigs creep through the holes; The
geese find many entrances the horses
get away ; the boys and men and ser
wants and dogs arc kept Oh the rur
after roguish cows and jumping
horses and CLUBBING hogs; the stock
becomes uneasy and does not thrive
The crops are injured; the fcnccs are
often broken down time i consumed.
The trouble is-that man has q hole
in the pocket. One nan has no shed,
nor barns, o %granaries, nor tool
houses: his hay and grain he stacks
his vegetables he burics. The rail-
spoilS much of his hay his grain i.
much injured and wasted; the rat:
eat his corn, and the damp weather
moulds it; his potatoes rot; his
pumpkins are destroyed his apples
do him but little good his tools arc
and rustcdin the open weather;
his stock is chilled and stunted for
want ofshrltcr. His trouble is. a,hole
IN his pocket. out of which slips all
his profits. much OF the fruits of his
hard labor.
Dnc man has poor plOws of the
-ci..:c stamp oi his ancestors. He
,nlv skins the land with it he can't
iiiord modern pillow he don't
pclicvein s~ub->oiling draining is the
of scientific fools; drills are
| hu,nbu@: deep blowing would spoil
he land. 50 he plcws and sows as
!i> grandfather did, on the worn out
soil of his venerable ancestor. He
4 hole in his pocket, and will
ave till he takes up to the Importance
II good tool, and good culture OF
himself and soil.
One man don't take paper cannot
ttlord it has nc time TO read does
lot believe in book-larlning likes the
Did ways best denies all the stories
lc has heard from rumor, about large
:attle and crops and profits doesn't
believe i'll new notions. For forty
ear he has planted his corn on the
.auIe ground soWn wheat in the same
icld: pasturcd the same land and
moved the same meadows; he has
luaru of rotation of crops" but does
cot know what it means or care to
Know. \ bad hole has this man in
lis pocket.
Who hasn't got a holein his pocket?
Reader. haven't You: Look and see.
Is there not cmc way in which YOU
ct slip the dimes You might better
ave-Some way in which You waste
and strength and mind. Ii So,
then YOU have Il hole i'll your pocket.
Indeed, many aman's pocket is like q
Whose pocket is y treasury,
safe and sure:-Colmam's Rurul
UOrid.
CLOVER AND GRASS LANDs.-If
more of II farm lands were kept in
and grass than is usually the
case, we should not only hear less
of the exhaustion of the
soil but should feel tolcrably certain
that, with ordinary good farming, it
i'll IL fair way of yielding large
crops of cereals annually on a smaller
of land. 1t is the manur that
j. made Oh Il farm that constitutes the
primary sources of profit to the far
lncr. 1t is the rapid exhaustion OF
and plantations by hoed crops,
corn, tobacco, etc, not only i'll conse-
qucncc of the immense amount of
phosphatcs which they extract from
the soil, but also by reason of the cX-
posture of the soil itself, in its light
to washing rains, and too
sumnc heat, which has
thrown out o. cultivation in this aid
other of the older states so many fields
that We're ono fertile, but are now
filled with scdgc grass, and rugged
and unsightly gullics and ravincs.
in our climate need to be kept
covered in clover and grass 10 as
great an extent as is consistent with
good husbandry. They Improve I'M
der the shade of clover, because this
dense covering prevents evaporation,
and because also the long .taproots, of
Of this fine forage plant pcnetrates
deep down into the sub>oil where
they rot, and furnish alimcnt for sue
crops.
y good crop of clover turned in is
moreover, to u good
i'll barn-yard manure, for it
contains all tho constituents in which
the cereals delight. Grass lands, for
rca,ons, when not too closely
cropped, improve the soil, inasmuch
Il, they not only prevent evaporation,
and add Vegetable matter to the un-
Ter soil by the decay of their under
leaves, b"t th"S also leave many ton.
Of vegetable matter to the undcrsoil
by their close network oftinc fibrous
roots wien the land is again brought
under the plow.-E..r.
HANDLING ilOGs.-A practical
breeder gives the following advice,
hich in the main we think sound,
for those whose herd j. not too large.
and who are engaged in a mixed hus-
Dandry: TO handle hogs to the
best advantage, u pasture is needed
Of mixed grasses, clover, blue grass
md Timothy uui IL * hos! IL ,l,,ro ;s