The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-18

AC0pAhS , buo AlSlSp, II u lLs1I SuGSG can
absorb enough of the poisonous excre-
tions of the body to make it unfit Tor
use in a few days, a thick mattress,
which can absorb and retain athousand
times as much of these poi
sonous excretions, needs to be purified
as often certainly as once in three
months. A sheet can be washed. A
mattress cannot be renovated in this
way. Indeed there is no other way of
cleaning a mattress but by steaming it
or picking it to pieces, and thus in
fragments exposing it to the direct rays
of the sun. As these processes are
scarcely practicable with any Of the Or
binary mattresses, l am decidedly of
the opinion that the good, old-fash-
Toned straw bed, which can every three
months be exchanged for fresh straw,
and the tick washed, is the sweetest of
beds.
If in the winter season the porous
ness of the straw bed makes it a little
uncomfortable, spread vel it two
WOODEN blankets, which should be
washed. With this arrangement, if
you wash all the bed-covering often,
you will have q sweet, healthful bed.
Now, if you leave the bed to ai-, with
open windows during the day, and not
make it up for the night before evening,
you will have added greatly to the
sweetness of your rest, and, in conse
quence, to the tone of your health.
Improved Methods on the Farm.
Fran the Breeders Gazette.
There are very few farms in this coun-
try, east or west, hat have ever been
made to produce V so per cent. of
their capacity, and very few farmers
capable of making even 100 acres do
more than this. A vast majority of
those who own more would be benefited
by selling the surplus and using the
proceeds as a capital to improve the re-
naming acres, and by purchasing better
stock.
The little Island of Jersey is said to
maintain n animal to every two acres
on the island, including roads, fences
and the ground occupied by buildings.
Their farms average about ten acres.
LII +" NOIy LOW IlioUluCCS Ill btl1S OuUUT
n animal has been supported to each
improved acre. This proves what is
possible under the best management.
The best talent, the intensest study,
the most knowledge and the best bust
ness methods should be,
and will be devoted to agricul-
ture for years TO come The
professions are overstocked. Doctors
are without patients and lawyers with
out clients, as most of them ought to
be; but good Jan DIS are cheap and plenty.
Intelligent laborers on the farm are
scarce and better paid than any other
class. Farming has been accepted as a
last resort by those unable to live by
their wits, OF good enough fcr such as
We're considered incapable of or indif-
ferent to thorough culture. The men
t~ally-active boy has taken a medi-
cal course or a law course of
lectures after completing his educa-
ton" at the academy or college. These
are now full to repletion they
are in need ofthorough drainage. Now
that farmers begin to see that theyneed
more culture, more knowledge and bust
Less methods to attain any standing in
their own business. and to fill credit.
ably such public positions as their mum
bers and their occupations entitle them,
let them win back their sons from the
shop and Office to their farms, where's all
their intelligence can be more profitably
employed. Let them send their sons
to the agricultural college instead of the
medical school; let them attend a course
of lectures on botany and chemistry in
stead of law, and they may possibly do
something to make farming more at
t~ractive rs well as profitable, and take
and hold that station in life to which
the poets fancy has assigned him.