The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-09-19
TOPICS FOR THE R

TOPICS FOR THE FARM.
Winter Oats.-A Greenville, Tenn,
correspondent writes to the Louisville
Courier-JournaL: But not SO with the
oats crop, which is the largest
ever raised. The best variety of winter
oats known in Tennessee originated in
Greene County, Tenn, and has been
for nearly two generations in
the Henderson oats. For the past three
years the journals have given some
notoriety to this grain, and the seed has
been sown to a very limited amount In
the South and West, and in some of the
States. l hear good reports of
its success. Winter oats have many
good qualities to recommend them for
cultivation. In the sections of
the country where the springs are short
and the summers are hot, the winter
oats will yield more than double the
crop sown in the spring. 1t has a longer
to grow and perfect itself, and the
grain is fully one-fourth heavier, and
the great number of bushels to the acre
to make up the Quantity. The slow
growth gives it a stout stalk to bear up
its heavy ladened head, and it is not
to lodge or fall down. 1t is free
from rust or disease. 1t will stand the
winter as well as wheat or rye, if it is
sown early in the fall, in time to give
it a good deep root before the cold sets
IN. IL makes tae Dest OF iate AN pas
tere, anu u the oousn II Is PasIuieu an
WINTER anu tnen ieIS IN q Spite u
gro" oT,aIurity. ihis variety Vi oaVs
gr9ws sail vi poor ianu, anu Plouucess
wen WHERE tne spring sown crop gum
not De grown 70 pronI. FROM Ine Iact
maj tle gram Is very Plump ana heaVy,
IL makes oat-meal qulse as gooo IN
quality as the inPoleeu OF
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hees1e sie 1nieo 'Iu ice. apove .ne
levsi Oh 1ne sea, anu so Iar as Ireezlng
anu Inawlns arg cohceIneu, !ne winters
are qItse as seVeIe y OIL :ne m Mho cIops
a 90 m.HNnlSy "nu Nv afhie
IN Ionn0e ar so"in niole auu more
eseiy yeaI Sni sidin, anu 1ney az
In nion;g Ill. .In ;ua anu
~ Pio"is 1870 lo Juss al.si
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'n0 u 'n' oiop.
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Tools and Teams.-Professor BeaI
states that a beginner at the farm bust
ness had better not, just then, buy &
very large assortment of tools. His ex
penses are likely to be large, and he may
not know exactly what he wants. o.
this he may be certain that poor tool
are not economical. He should remem
Der that a days work of a man is Otter
worth a dollar or a dollar and a half
while a good hoe can be bought for hal
that amount. Labor that is performe,
with a dull, rusty hoe that is loose o.
the handle will cost more than that per
formed with a nice new implement. /
is economy to throw away poor tools an,
buy good. ones.
10 some extent the same is true of
team. 1t takes as much tune 9th
driver to care for and drive a poer teau
as it does a good one, while the cost 0
feeding each may be about equal. Til
wages of a driver will cost about a
much as the wages OF a team of tw
good horses. Why waste a half or
third, or even a quarter OF the labor Q
a valuable man In setting him to worl
with a cheap, light, or inferior team?
A good, handy, fast-walking team j
more economical at a high price than
team which walks slow or which is awl
ward or of poor quality. A poor tool o
a poor team is always dear at an
price, and is N of the signs of mismar
agement and poverty: An implemen
should be as light as IS consistent wit
strength. There Is a great satisfaction
in handling excellent tools. 1t is we
to be a little shy of patent high-price
implements of all kinds, unless you hav
plenty of money to spare.
The thrifty man, on garden or farm
will take care of the tools and the team
He will paint the former, oil them, clea
them and house them. The carele.
man will leave them in the open al
scattered about the premises where the
were last used, or he will leave thel
along the road or in the lane, or in fror
of his barn or dwelling house. We ca
nearly always judge of a farmers car
and generally of his success, by seeir
his tools, and how he takes care of ther
Many men are heavy-fsted and twi
and pry and break or soon spoil near
every implement they lay their han,
on. They are proud of displaying the
Others. are the hest of hands take ho'
of tools with care and use them properl
Such men are handy, lucky and profit
bic to employ.
The beginning farmer or gardener WI
need a few carpenter tools. 1t will
very fortunate for him if he has hi
some instruction and practice in the u
OF u tools, and In keeping them
gUou lePall' o.her things oeing equ'
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