New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-27
HOUSE AND FARM.
H.v to MAJ . r.rminx Prons.bie.

How to Mahe Earmlnx Prontable.
will lay down a few rules for success
full farming as follows:
1. Have order and system in all you do
having in your mind in advance what
crops you intend to grow: and provide
the seed, so that no delay will occur when
the time comes for sowing and planting.
You should also closely estimate the
amount OF stable dung that you can spare
for crops, SO that in no case shall crop
be grown on land that has already been
over cropped, unless some fertilizer has
been applied to it.
2. Obtain good help, if possible, as
half Of your success depends on the kind
Of hired help you nave; and don't employ
too many hands, man and a boy will
often Go as much as two men, especially
if the latter are left to work by them
selves, as they frequently spend half of
their time in talking; hut a man is not
apt to talk much with boy, and the con
sequence is that he attends to his work.
Ofall the nuisances that ever suffered
on farm, l have found Cabling help to
be the most Improbable. WhenI hire
man, 1 tell him plainly that he must
not "fool' away his time (my time) in
talking to other men while at work, I'M
less he wants his walking papers,
3. Work with your help. This is the
key that unlocks the door that leads to
prosperity; don't say any more to them
while at work than is necessary, as YOU
will set bad example by telling :.yarns,n
etc. Suppose that farmer is hcing
corn with two or three men, and he saws
"Boys, have you heard the news?" And
he and all stop work, or partially stop to
hear the ''news," which takes, perhaps,
| Is minutes to relate, and what little corn
is hoed while the "boss" is relating the
news" IS but half hoed, and might as
we'll have not been hoed at all. Now, a
day is made up Of minutes, and the waste
of a few in this or that way constantly
during the day, is sure to result in I'M
successful farming in the end. Say to
your man, in plain English: "Shut up
and attend to your work, or take your
money and 60. hire men to work-not
to spend their time in talking
| 4. Don't covet the name, she is
good man to- work for; but rather the
name that had many years "He is a
hard man to work for, but he is good
| pay That meant that made my men
do fair days work, which hired men
nova days. call "hard.' The fact is, farm
ers, that nine farm hands out of ten won't
do half days work, on All average, if
you are so easy with them that they call
you "a nice man to work for
5. TO do good work, you want the
best farm implements that you can OBJ
tain, and plenty of them, SO that if one
gets out OF order while in the hurry of
work, you can use some other implement
till the broken one is repaired. You will
save money in the end, by throwing away
your old plows, which were made about
the time of the deluge, and getting the
best patterns, with steel mold.boards, as
they pay for themselves in single sea-
son in the saving of horse-f flesh in their
draft. Again, see the old rusty hoes that
many of you use, bought perhaps twenty
years ago! Take out the handles and sell
hoes as old iron, and buy new ones, be-
and do it much better, in day with one
OF the most improved new ones, than you
can with one of those old stubs that some
OF you use.
Feed your land, if you expect it to
feed you.
Make all the manure that you can, this
is the bank that pays your drafts and
notes. The best farm that exists may be
ruined in q few years by continued
cropping, without applying manure; and
put under the pillow only what land you
can fertitize literally. Adopt rotation,
Of crops, and keep your pasture and
meadow lands in good condition, as the
profits on your cows depend on the quail
ity Of their pasture, and the quality and
quantity of hay that you cut; and keep
good stock, as a cow that gives twenty
quarts Of milk day, can be kept almost
as cheaply as one that gives only FIVE
quarts.
T." What is worth doing, do aoezz." Put
this into your memorandum book where
| you can see it often. Did you ever hear
ola slovenly farmer getting rich? No,
not one of you. Then dc your work
we'll, as it pays the best in the end. If
you are making fences make them to stay
as built, for years. A good farmer NAV
be known by his fences alone.
"A Preliminary Requisite.