Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-07-19
Farm Hints.

" Nothing" says Reynolds, is denied
well-directed labor, and nothing is to be
attained without it.
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-
ton. Have stock enough to consume
all rough food, but not enough to be-
come rough without food.
Nature above us is setting examples
every day, by freshness order and beau
ty. The pure in heart" take thought
for the beautiful.
The farmer who will now keep his
plows running in his corn fields, wet or
dry, will be rewarded in the autumn by
a good yield of corn.
Horses are better than men, they do
not hate their enemies as relentlessly,
but they always know their friends from
their enemies.
The poorest girls, in the various APP
plicatiOns OF the term, are those who
have never been taught to work. There
are thousands of them, as useless as
last years almanacs
We hold it to be the duty of every
good farmer to render his home as hap
ply and agreeable as possible; to COM
bine the solid comforts of life with the
elegant 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
100 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.
Cases frequently occur where man
who is too lazy to farm quits and be-
comes q very successful preacher. But
it never occurs where he is too indolent
to preach that he ever becomes sue
cessful farmer. That rule will not work
both ways.
Bone dust, wood ashes and such like
fertilizers are best for grape vines in low
ground. Stable manure applied in large
quantities on damp soil will produce
diseased vines. On dry ground the eff
feet is beneficial. The best soil for
grapes is dry, light, warm and rich. On
such soil apply top-dressings of we'll
rotted manure, alternating every third
year with dressing of Stacked lime.
Where grapes are being raised ON damp
ground care must be taken to keep the
roots near the surface Western Ru-
raj.
Over 1900 head of cattle are said to
have been entered at the cattle show at
the French exposition. England sup
plies the principal part Sheep and
hogs will also be fully represented. The
entries in the horse department at the
Palais de 1Industrie, consisted of %
3-year-old stations, 239 animals of four,
and 175 of five and six years of age.
1t should be born in mind that every
farmer who will take the trouble to keep
up a tasteful appearance about his
house, not only performs good work
for his own family, but stimulates his
neighbors to initiate him. Nothing is
more contagious than the desire for gar
dening when once it gets a footing
The white petunia is death to the
potato bug I. P. Allen, of Elk Falls,
Kansas, writes us this strange and real
ly important fact, if it is really SO: 1--WE
were troubled with potato bugs very
much when living in Illinois, and acct
dentally heard that the fragrance Of the
white petunia was deadly poison to
them, for when they came near it they
would drop dead, and we could gather
them up by the shovelful. My idea is
to plant the white petunia around the
potato patch and scatter through it,
and it will settle the bugs" y TiicA;' s
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