Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-03-10
Why Some Men do not Get Along.

DUO w BLU We ScS Two lEcCui ilSs
or two farmers, both starting out ii
life equally poor. and at the end o
ten years we find that one owns his
home or his farm, while the other i.
a renter. Both have been equally
industrious, both are equallv honest,
and both have good careful wives.
Some ascribe this difference te
good or bad luck Bat while
luck does enter to some extent in
affairs of life, for one man may be CT
a raiway train, which, without any
fault Of his, may smash up and mai:u
him for life, while his rni"h',pr oI
the same seat with him NAY ,>c.;;a;
vet The intlu ,nce of " for'une" npon
the every day affairs of lifei1 greatly
exaggerated. In fact In;,liy inen have
become ruined, by a blind trust il.
"good" or bad luck. We regret
that domestic economy is taught in
our high schools, for it is az the very
foundation of individual and naiona!
prosperity. Perhaps on some future
occasion we may treat upon this sub
ject in detail. and discuss the ail-m-
portant question: " If the family III
come is 5000 or $500 per year. how
shall it he applied so as to yield the
largest amount of coinfolt?' Bus at
this time we will be content to point
out few of the usual and most obvi-
Gus errors that lead to waste.
On the farm the waste consists
principally in not taking good care Of
machinery, and in the town, is not
keeping up repairs, andin a careless
ness Of small expenditures. A har-
vest costing $3.50 or upwards is only
in active operation about ten days
each year. Now q machine of that
character should be equal to wear
and tear of one years work. This
would give us, as the life of the ma
chine, from twenty-five to thirty
years. This is by no means an out
side estimate, as many of the original
Buckeye reapers made twenty years
ago can be found in Ohio and Indi-
ana nearly as good as new. What
is the average duration of usefulness
of harvest in Western Iowa?
Scarcely five years. Wherein lies
the difference? In Ohio every well-to
do farmer has his we'll inclosed tool
house, with water tight roof; and
what will a building cost 12x20,
with single roof and siding?
Perhaps $50, perhaps S75, according
to the price of lumber, and whether
the farmer can put it together him
SELF Such a building twelve or
fourteen feet clear, SO as to have a
good loft, will be a water tight store
house for all farm machinery and
implements needed on an ordinary
farm. DO you say you are poor to
afford it? Then resort to temporary
substitute of prairie hay, and a broad
enclosure. If you are too poor to
afford shelter to your machines, plows
corn planters, shovels, hoes, etc. you
are to poor to own them at all, and
the longer you farm it in this shift
less manner, tho poorer you will be.
Shelter for all sorts of machines, har-
ness, ETC., and keeping them in prop
or repairs as soon as any defect is dis
covered, is among the first requisites
to successful farming. The next in
Importance is to afford good shelter
and care to live stock. How often
must farmer be told before he
acts upon it, that in warm
stable or under good shed, the feed
ing of eighty bushels of corn will
make more meat than the feeding of
one hundred bushels of corn to
stock exposed to the weather.
And the question of next Importance
is the saving of manure, and its return
to the field. Not. to replace what is
annually taken away will very soon
convert the average fertile land into
q wilderness. Good farming makes
lands rich through cultivation, while
poor farming exhausts them.
1t may be said that these observe.
tons are not new, but so is the de-
calogue not new, and yet it has to
be repeated again and again, until
people not merely give it their all.
stract assent, but also practice. its
precepts. Let farmers exert greater
care, and they will be less oppressed
by debt and will have less cause to
complain of their " bad luck. -
Council Bluffs Nonpa,'iel.
Fun AT HoME.-There' nothing like
it to he found-no, not if you search
the world through. I want every pos
sible amusement to keep the boys at
home evenings. Never mind if they
do make a noise around whistling
and hurrahing! We would stand
against if we could have a vision of
the young men gone to destruction
for the very reason that, having cold,
disagreeable, dull, stiff fresides at
home, they sought amusement else
Xhara. Don't lat tham wander be-