The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-11-15
HOME AND FARM.

Put as much land as possible in
fall and winter crops.
Stop leaks in your barns, stables.
and out-houses of al sorts.
Time is money. Husband it, and
make it add to your prosperity.
Do not expose potatoes much to
the sunlight, after they are dug and
dried.
The good farmer is he who pro-
duces most from each acre, and at
the least expense.
Put in variety of small grain
crops, thus providing winter pastur.
age while saving other feed.
Secure good seasoned wood for
your winter fires, and have it all un-
der shelter, cut up ready for use.
Peas sown for fertilizing should
be turned under while the peas are
in the pod. Bury both vines and
peas.
Push your work every day this
month, and thus save the labor and
toll Of the year past.
The bleak winds will soon be
playing upon your stock. Provide
shelter and warm quarters for them
now.
Wheat, rye, oats and barley can
all be made money crops, and thus
have something coming in all the
time.
Small farms well titled make hap
py families and prosperous and con-
tented populations and rich States.
Let every one who owns or culti-
Yates farm bend all his powers to
tue attainment of that end.
Frost came on the second day Of |
October, this centennial year--ear-
lier than it has putin an appearance |
for the past eleven years.
Study economy, and if you find
out that you are really extravagant,
there is hope that you will practice |
it. But no one will practice econo-
my. unless by study he finds out that
he is more extrayagant than he ought
to be.
House your sheep at night, when
the weather is very cold, and espe-
cially if it is stormy. Build them a
log pen, if nothing better, and cover
it securely, and you will find it
paying investment.
The past season, in many locali-
ties. was prolific Of weeds and other
green vegetation. Wherever practi-
cable, turn under this green fallow,
for it will add fertility to the soil.
Gather and save the autumn
leaves. and make comfortable beds
with them for young stock, after
which they will add amazingly to
your compost heap. and then to the
fertility of your land.
Pay special attention now to your
stock-not only your cows and hogs
and sheep, but especially to your
work animals. Get them in good
order and it will be easy to keep
them so during the winter.
There is a whole sermon to farm
ers in these few words: eff you
want your boy to stay at home, and
work with you on the farm. don't
bear too hard on the grindstone
when he turns the crank"
The people of the United States
pay 50, ,2O0.OOO,000 every year for
liquoIs and wines. This is nearly
the full amount Of our national debt.
Is it any wonder that money is scarce
when so much goes for liquors!
Would it not be wonderful if it were
otherwise!
Make paper bags for all seed you
design to make crops from the next
year. When practicable let the seed
ripen and dry in their pods. and
then write the name and date of
gathering. You can scarcely be too
particular in saving the best seed in
the best possible manner.
Men are not to be esteemed great
because their acres are counted by
thousands or their fences by miles.
The man who raises the highest av
erage number of bushels or pounds
to the acre, and makes the most
money upon the labor and capital
expended, is he whose example is
most worthy of imitation, aud whose
influence will be most potent for good.
A "Husbands's Rights Associa-
tion'' has sprung up in England.
1t demands impartiality and justice.
and that women shall not have the
privileges of both sexes and the
abilities of neither.
Probably one of the most trying
times in mans life is when he in
troduces his second wife. seventeen
years old, to his eldest daughter,
who is past twenty.
The Michigan man who sold his yoke
of oxen with the intention of paying the
national debt and have no more said
about it. was quite astonished. to learn
that the debt was over 800.
tcY. M. CA" +" stands for Young Mems
Ceeret Association, according TO the in
| depreciation of Hamblen county moth
er, and she forbids her son having any
thing to do with it. #a
The body of a soldier, buried in 1858
1 in a village cemetery in New Hampshire,
was taken up q few days ago for the
purpose of removal aud was found to be
/ turned to stone. At the time of the in
terment Che body weighed something
| over one hundred pounds, but when dug
up it weighed between six and seven
hundred. The features, clothing, and
even wreath of flowers in the coffir
were all as perfect as when buried.