The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-22

and by time, care and caution, superior
articles can be produced, which will
not only serve the purpose, but such as
will readily sell in the market.
Beside, during the winter superior
article of gates can be made, and with
out violating any patent. 1t would not
take long for a man of mind to study
out decided Improvements on farm
gates. 1t is needed. Many of the
patents are humbugs and nuisances.
In the past twenty years considerable
sums of money have been paid for pat
ents for farm gates, and a man might
travel three months without seeing q
single one of the gates in use. They
have been tried, and failed. And vet
there is serious demand for better and
more convenient gate.
Good improvements on farm are
better than money loaned. There are
many such Improvements needed on
most farms. And much of it can be
done in winter. All the materials can
be got on the ground. Arrangements
can be made with mechanics to do such
work as the farmer cannot do, and fire.
quently there can be an exchange of
work in the winter, the mechanic want
ing hauling or materials furnished
toward improving his property; and if
such cases are sought out, both farmer
and mechanic can profitably aid each
other in having winter work. Live
men for years have been at just this
business, and they are prospecting be-
You'd their neighbOrs.
There is scarcely farm but has soft,
miry sloughs to be crossed by teams,
and by horses, cows and the members
of the family. Cows returning from
pasture in the evening drag their full
udders through these sloughs. The
winter is the time to procure materials
for bridging them. Stone is the only
good and lasting material to make
them of. In many cases the stones
can be laid flat, and let the water in the
channel run over them. In other cases
better bridges should be built. In near
~ every neighborhood stone can be had
for this purpose, and winter is the time
to do it.
If farmer has a few fresh cows, or
if he has few hundred dollars to in
vest in such stock, they will nearly pay
for themselves, if carefully fed and
housed, in one winter, and be worth
more in the spring than now. Here is
a wide and profitable field which can
never be oyerdone, and which will al
ways be remunerative. Any man who
has money, credit or enterprise, and
who will studiously attend to such bust
ness, need not be bowling about hard
times or let his notes 60 to protest.
Mills for manufacturing hominy,
pearl barley, or oat meal, are cheap,
and require but little machinery, and
yet the products of such mills are al
ways in demand ut 100 and 200
per cent. above the raw material.
If one farmer does not wish to invest
enough to start one of these mills, let
few neighbors combine and thus work
up their produce and give winter en-
ployment to hands and horses, Neither
corn nor corn meal, without being kiln
dried, can be shipped to many of the
Southern climates or the islands of the
sea, and there is large demand for
kiln-dried corn meal. The machinery
is cheap and anyone can do the work,
which would make winter employment
and create a market for our great staple.
The average Of Our own crops is not
forty bushels per acre. 1t might be
raised to eighty. The manure in all
our cities and towns is wasted, and can
be had in most causes by hauling away.
And yet on nearly every day in the
winter our teams return empty from
town. If man can live ut forty
bushels per acre, he can get rich at
eighty bushels, and this can be attained
if the idle hours of winter are improved.
There are thousands of pieces of
public road which can never be made
permanently good without gravel or
stone. The mucky soil will always be-
come soft in wet weather. See your
supervisor and get permission to haul
out gravel or stone for this purpose. If
you cannot make three dollars per day
try two dollars, rather than be taken
from your farm in the busiest season of
the year to work on roads.
And thus we could lengthen out this
article to columns enumerating the OBJ
jects to which the farmer can direct his
attention, make money and keep HIM
self from the consequences Of idle
habits. Our country will never prosper
as it should until enterprise gives en-
ployment in all seasons.-Iowa State
Register. ....