Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-06-28
Useful Hints.

In farming many things can be sown
broadcast, but not money.
Labor is wealth, and should not be
squandered.
Franklin never uttered maxim equal
to Live within your means"
A taste for trees, and plants, and
flowers is the love an enlightened mind
and tender heart pays to nature.
Col. Hoxie, well known in Iowa, is
opening large farm one hundred and
fifty miles south of Dallas, Texas.
The farmer who will keep his plows
running in his corn fields, wet or dry,
will be rewarded in the autumn by a
good yield of corn.
Everything on farm should be done
well, and for this purpose the owner
must give it his. personal supervision.
Stock farm according to its produc-
tons. Have stock enough to consume
all rough food, but not e me Ugh e become
rough rough Without food.
Ii a farmer goes into politics, and
leaves his farm and half his brains at
home, both will be very apt to grow up
with weeds.
Does that farmer whose house stands
on treeless plain, know that every
traveller is aware of his want of energy
and enterprise?
If anything is the matter with horse,
COW or hog, but not seriously so, feed
lighter. AS thrashers would say, do
not crowd the machine.
The human race without the glow Of
green grass, and the garniture of groves,
would soon become hard, soulless and
dissicated Of the amenities of life.
There are thousands of wrecked for
tunes in every state caused by invest
ing too much in fine houses. They in
vest the principal in instead of the in
terest.
The man who pays no interest is al
ways in clover 1t is interest which
eats the profits up, and few farms are
profitable enough to stand heavy mort
cages.
But Tor extravaganza many married
double mi ght now be in possession of a
valuable farm or comfortable mansion
in town, which have gone with life's fol-
lies.
We hold it to be the duty of every
good farmer to render his home as hap
Ply and agreeable as possible; to combine
the solid comforts of life with the ele-
CANT pleasures of taste.
The profits on the farm are small, and
economy in all proper and legitimate
methods needs to be practiced in order
to provide comfortable living and pay
one hundred cents on the dollar.
Men who have farmed for eighty years
almost universally testify that they
learned more of the business in the last
forty than in the first forty of their
lives. And yet many think it is easy to
learn farming.
Many farmers have learned in stony
counties, and on paved streets and ma
cadamized roads to shoe horses Thus
thousands Of dollars are annually ex-
pended in this state, without benefit to
the horses or the owners.
Our idols, if we have any, are self
made men-men who by their intrinsic
worth, push, perseverance and industry,
have raised themselves from humble
positions to places of great trust and
honor.
When muslin is only eight cents pei
yard no one is excusable in letting his
patient and faithful horses be annoyed
and eaten by flies They give comfort
to the horse and patience to the driver
With economy and industry nearly ev.
cry Iowa farmer could have a good barn
instead of the miserable straw sheds
which during the past May have let rain
inside every day. But the trouble is
nearly every farmer is determined te
hire barn built instead of doing it him
self
The London Times asserts that Amer
lean potatoes threaten to drive thu
home raised article out Of the market
The American potatoe is no longer i'm
ported for seed, but in large quantities
for consumption. The Times finds in
the fact evidence of the remarkable pro
ductive powers of American farming