The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-12-27
GRANGE DEPARTMENT.
Valuable Hints 10 Farmers and
Others.

Be sure and have a particular place
for every implement about the premises,
and when not in use keep it right there.
By so doing, great deal of time, trou-
BILE, and vexation and hard feeling will
be avoided. Put everything, when not
in use, where you can put your hand on
it in the darkest night. Don't let your
tools lie out In the open air, exposed to
the, sun, rain, snow and all the vicissitudes
of the seasons, as some do; for IN this
wise your implements will soon rot and
rust, and You will be obliged to buy new
ones. Keep everything under shelter
and IN its proper place show TO the
world that you are a man Of sound sense,
good judgment and fine economy. When
you clean out your fence rows and cor
ners, don't dash the briers and weeds
over the fence into the public roads, or
put it on the top of the fence, or leave
such to rot in the fence corner; but show
to every passer by that you know how TO
economic by burning the trash in the
field, placing 1t on poor spots to rot, or
by placing it in the gullies and washes,
where it will benefit your land and do you
some good. Never recklessly destroy
trash Of any kind that you know can be
turned into manure, or annoy the public
with it, by placing it in the public road
or by piling it on your fence, where it
will rot your rails and 90 to destruction.
Every farmer should have a good wood
house, and during the nice, pleasant fall
weather it should be we'll filled with
wood If this is not done, the mild days
of winter should be taken advantage of,
when the house should be filed with
wood-dry wood. Always have ii supply
of dry wood in wet weather near at
hand, for it is great economy to have nice,
dry wood to have to bring in during the
wet and stormy weather of winter. How
does one like to get up of a cold morning
and try to start fire with soggy or green
wood? How does the poor cook like to
use wet wood in her stove when she is in
a great hurry? The poor housewife has
troubles and hardships enough to encoun-
ter through life without being forced to
burn wet, soggy wood IN her stove. Shell
ter your stock. When you get your house
filled with wood, 20 to work and see that
all your stock and poultry have suitable
quarters prepared for them. Never al
low single animal or fowl to remain out
of doors during a single one Of these long,
dreary, cold winter nights. 1t is great
economy to keep every domestic fowl and
animal housed during bad, cold weather.
They feel much better and require less
food by being housed, and you save cords
of manure that would otherwise go to
waste, by so doing.
Never buy anything you do not really
need-just because you can get it cheap
or on time-and waste no money on whis-
ky or tobacco. Payday rolls around
after awhile and you are in no better CON
dition to pay than when you bought on
time. And when you buy whisky and
tobacco, your money is gone for that
which is thousand times worse than
nothing. Then let them alone, for tobac-
co poisons the whole nervous system, and
breeds disease, and is miserably filthy
besides, and as for whisky, it is one of
the most terrible enemies against which
contend, and costs us more than any
other article. 1t has power to run men
mad, and destroy men by the score-yes,
by the thousand. Never borrow trouble.
Don't go half way to meet it, for it will
come soon enough. Do everything in
the right time, and in the right manner,
and look every man square in the face,
when you talk to him. Ever steer clear
of breakers, and fulfill all of your prom
Uses, if possible, and you are pretty apt
to reach the goal of fame's renown in the
end.-James II. Bruner, GAINESVILLE,
Ind, Farmer.