Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1881-02-03

NOW we will examine the hammers: the
tace IS SO broken that the only place the
farmer is sure to hit is his thumb: one claw
is gone, and for a handle piece of limb has
been driven in. The best thing that can be
said OF the spade is that it was \ spade once.
How much labor is wasted in year by the
use OF such tools. Thanks TO progress the
ma| hinery is generally better though not as
carefully housed and kept in repair as it
should be. Why such things are not i'm
mcdiately remeded is partly because the
waste is little at a time and it is not noted.
II book account could be kept each year
OF wasted time the aggregate would appear
so enormous that it would lead to speedy
remedy. There is as much loss in the use
OF the walking plow as in any single imple-
ment on the farm. With good sixteen
inch riding plow and three horses, the farm
er can acreage double the number. of acres
each clay he can by the use OF the walking
pl"w and two horses, and do the work one
third better.
One horse out of twenty ia ready tor
work. never refuses meal, goes when told,
is fast walker, and is generally valuable.
What America.needs is some country like
France that will purchase the nineteen for
steak.
1t costs but little If any more to raise a
colt to three years old than q steer, hence
horse breed would seem to pretent great in
ducement to the average farmer. The sale
OF fine span of matched colts every year
would help many a faamer out OF difficulty,
but here we are with our "old plugs'' NOV
ing at the rate OF p miles per hour on high
way or blowing two acres in the field.
Tell the boys to hitch up those hal: blood
Clydes: away we go, doubling speed, be-
fore the wagon or on tie plow.
The most valuable thing TO farmer is
time.
Neglect to do the necessary thing at the
proper time is I'D unfailing source of loss on
the farm 1t is pleasant and we gote town
to-day promising to finish pIowing the corn
ground tomorrow; Tomorrow 1t rains and
'he planting is delayed, which makes US
late the whole season, till frost settles our
account and deducts twenty per cent. for
not comngto time. Twenty tons of hay
are in the field, cured and ready tor the
NOW we think the clouds will blow away.
and we take the risk j; tomorrow we find
the loss of tweaty tons hay IS expensive
tuition.
So, in thessrohnds Of farm life, neglect, the
tI,nr, ,,.Tvx t,.
of defeat.
Prompt attention to work at the right
zine is guaranty of prosperity.
Frequent changes Of work is a great
means of waste in labor. "1'he man who
mows little rowen when the dew is on,
then picks few apples, digs few potatoes
and draws Il load or two Of muck to his
yards, all in one day noes not ecOnomZe
his labor. He keeps a great many things
on the stocks at once, in all stages Of devel
opment, but nothing is finished and he is
always at a loss to know which to de.''
10 these we may add want Of skill, care
ltssness, unnecessary work, inconvenient
buildings, poorly planned farms and yards,
and we have Il combination Of losses too
great for the ordinary farmer. Too many
men try to compensate for these wastes by
increased penuriousness He wrlngs from
the comforts of his family to supply the
waste of ignorance, neglect and lack of
force. Boys brought up under such condi-
lions will abandon the farm and hate the
lite of farmer.-Gate City.
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