The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-05-30

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FARM AND HOME.
Maxims for the Farmer.
1. Only good farming pays. he who
who lows or plants without reasonable
assurance Of good crops annually had
better earn wages of some capable neigh
Dor than work for SO poor apaymaster
AZ he is certain to prove himself.
2. The good farmer is proved by the
steady appreciation Of his crops. Any
one may reap an ample harvest from a
fertile virgin soil ; the good farmer alone
grows good crops at first, and better and
better ever afterward.
8. It is far easier to maintain the pro-
ductiye capacity of q farm than to re-
store it. To exhaust its fecundity, and;
then attempt its restoration by buying
costly commercial fertilizers, is wasteful
and irrational.
4. The good farmer sells mainly such
products a are least exhaustive. Ne
cessity may constrain him for the first
year or two to sell grain, or even hay /;
but he will soon send off his surplus
mainly in the form of cotton, OF wool, or
meat, or butter and cheese, or something
| else that returns to the soil nearly all
that is taken from it. A bank account
daily drawn upon while nothing is de-
posted to it's credit must oon respond,
No funds" So with o farm similarly
treated. =
5. Rotation is at least negative fertili-
cation. 1t may not positively enrich a
farm ; it will at least retard and post
pone its impoverishment. He who grows
wheat after wheat, corn after corn, for
twenty years, will need to emigrate be-
fore the term is fulfilled. The same
farm cannot support (nor endure) him
longer than that. All our great wheat
growing sections Of fifty years ago are
wheat-growing no longer, while England
grows large crops thereof on the very
fields that fed the armies of Saxon Har.
old and William the Conqueror. Ro.
tatiOn preserved these, as the lack of il
ruined those. -Boston Journal If Chem.
isfry.
when 60 Sell Grain.
A correspondent Of the Ercniny Wis.
consin writes /: ! would say to you, the
one great mistake of the farming com.
munity 10 this : the practice of contract.
ing debts to be paid in the fall of the
year instead Of having them come due in
June or July, in order to have the bene'
fit of the fall and spring markets. ]
find a great many of the farmers sell
their last bushel of grain at one-hali
or two-thirds its value in order to pay
their liabilities, and so lose the profits,
thereby damaging themselves and tho
surrounding community by draining the
country Of every dollar, leaving nothing
to make improvements with. l have
noticed that the middle-men are fully
aware Of your obligations. or, if not, the
first thing you do is to inform them, by
saying, 81 must raise some money te
pay debts ; what Ear You give me o
bushel for my grain?" That gives them
TO understand that you are obliged to
sell, no matter what you get. and they
take the advantage of you.
sewing Plaster.
A correspondent Of the Western Far.
mcr writes 4: The best method of sowing
plaster is undoubtedly a machine made
for that particular business, as it is
heavy to carry and ratherdirty to handle.
In the absence of that, l have prac.
ticed considerably is to put your plaster
in q wagon ear the hind end then, with
a driver, n person can SOW his plaster
very evenly and comparatively with ease.
Another way is TO carry it in a basket
andsow by stakessimilar tosewing broad
cast. As to the proper time to SOW OF
wheat, I would state that if you seed
with clover, Immediately after seeding i.
the best time ; il not seeded, / SOW nc
plaster, as l have never received any
benefit by putting it on wheat. The
best time to BOW plaster on clover is
after it gets a good start, generally about
May I, but never before the gras,
starts, rs I have noticed some farmers
doing this spring.
How 70 Insert screws In Plaster Walls.
1t often becomes desirable to inser,
screws in plaster walls, without attach
ing them to any woodwork ; but when
we turn them in the plaster gives way
and our effort is vain. And yet a screw
may be inserted in plaster so as to holi
light pictures, ETC., very firmly. The
best plan is to enlarge the hole to abou,
twice the the diameter of the screw, FL
it with plaster of paris, such ~ is used
for fastening the tops of lamps, ETC., and
bed the screw in the soft plaster. Wher
the plaster has set the screw will be held
very strongly.
A Dry Cellar.
A correspondent Of the american
Agricuiturist tells how to make a dr.,
cellar out Of a wet one He says "Dit
ont the bottom Of the cellar, commenc
ing at the sides two inches below til,