Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-10-15
FARM MAXIyIS.

Thinking about piece Of corn adds
FIVE bushels to The acre, sometimes ten.
The fifth rail OF fence is generally
worth more than the other tour.
Weeds in corn or potato fields are
like notes on interest at twenty per
cent.
II a particular production is all tha
rage sell out while prices are high aud
buyers plenty.
Fail and winter evenings are the most
profitable times for mental culture, So
cial happiness aud resi-.
Ii is never best TO overdo economy
by letting the hogs or geese habitually
eat the grass in the front yard.
Encouraging words will sometimes
make a scythe cut we'll an hour longer
than it otherwise would.
Give the boys work and take pains to
teach them. 1t is 10 this source that wa
must look tor our best farm men.
Cigar smoke in a corn field may pre-
vent the depreciation of the crows but
il never fails to make the net yieldless.
When the mortgage on farm is so
heavy that the owner never tiies 10
lessen or lift it, the sooner he finds "a
small place the better.
1t is important to get at the bottom
OF things, and equally so whether done
by tough thinking or a subsoil plow.
Some kinds OF wood season better out
Of doors than under cover but il is not
so with the beam aud handles ofaplow.
Vegetable decay prepares for sub'e-
quent life An exception 10 the rule is
rotten potatoes and ,urnips in cellar
in May.
1t is better for farmer 10 eat salt on
his potatoes instead OF butter, II the lat
ter is needed TO pay an old debt at the
village store.
Every farmer should compete for all
premiums at the annual fair in his llrc
except "the fastest trott.r owned aud
raised in the county"
Men may deceive each other but they
cannot deceive Mother Earth. Dealers
may sell sawdust gusno al fifty dollars
ton. Lut they cannot count OF the soil
as helper in their imposition.
A very successful farmer once re-
marked that ''he fed his land before it
was hungry, rested il before il was wca-
nv, and weeded il before il was foul.
There are two things that every fam.
er must have-things that subserve like
purpose anI are OF about equal impor-
iance-a grindsione aud newspaper.
The owners eye will detect ten needs
on the farm where hired servants will
one.
The leaves Of a maple or elm stand
ing near the farmhouse door arc often
more valuable than the fruit ola whole
orchard planted elsewhere.
A farmer need never 10 say, eli i
could only get work Ishould bc happy.
His store never lacks customers. Ills
factory need never be run on half time
When The paint gets Oft the rims ot
the best wagon wheels they lose mois-
rure and shrink very fast in dry wealth
err. The quickest preventive is mixture
of petroleum and linseed oil applied 10
the felloes with brush several times
over when they arc dry.
Look after the feet OF your horses. IL
not shod when running on sandy land
the hoofs should be pared evenly and
kept smooth around the edges, On hot
roads a thin non-conducting pad should
intervene between the shoe and the
| hoof
Elderberries are not so named because
they are older than other berries. They
derive their name from the fact that mn
elder of church first discovered their
color by sitting down On bunch ct
them at q picnic.
IL is hard to keep horse with tender
or suffering feet in good condition. Sore
feet detract as much from the comfort
and strength OF borse as do corns and
bunyans from abuniaD.
Farm horses are now working hard
and require plenty OF strong food. Their
shoulders aud breasts aud limbs sbor]d
be thoroughly spouged with cold water
after being worked. It's as refreshing
to a horse as bath is TO man.