Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-10-23
THE TIME TO SAVE.

There is no time of the year
when economical management tells
more effectually upon the pronts
Of farming than during the iall
months. In the hurry and hard
work of harvest times many things
are apt to go to waste which a
little care and trouble would pre-
serve for future use. For example,
in, gathering fruit, especially
where there is an abundance of it,
there is likely to be more or less
carelessness in handling and
storing it by which the fruit is
bruised OF destroyed outright.
Half,rotten, gnarly apples may be
used for feed OF utilized in some
way. There is no necessity Of al
lowing anything of this kind to go
to waste. There is always some
place on a well-regulated farm
where all the odds and ends of the
orchard may be made of service.
The same may be said of potatoes
and root crops. No matter how
cheap or how plentiful these thing
may be, it will be found profitable
to save all, the good for future use,
the poor for immediate consump'
ton in some way. The lighter and
less important crops Of the garden
and field should be gathered IN as
carefully as the larger ones. 1t
pumpkins are worth growing at all
they are worth gathering and put
ting under shelter before the frost
has touched them and started their
decay. If properly cared for,
pumpkins may be kept in good
order long after winter sets in and
will help greatly in keeping up a
flow of milk in COWS and be hearth
" rehshed by all kinds of stock.
Corn stalks is another kind of fod-
der that is often considered OF
little Importance and usually re-
ceives but little care. They are
piled up in the fields and left until
the last thing, or until the rains
and frOsts have about destroyed
them for fodder. But corn stalks
are worth saving, and should be
stood up in bundles until dry and
then drawn into the barn or stack.
ed in proper shape to shed rain.
Other ways in which great saw
ing can be effected is in making
needed repairs in season, to barns,
Cranaries and cellars. The heat
and storms of spring and summer
are quite sure to open up places
through which rain and snow will
find their way into mOws and bins,
and a careful inspection should be
made during the pleasant autumn
weather, when repsirs can be made
as they should be. A loose shingle
on the barn, a broken clapbOard, a
window off its hinges, a door that
does not shut, a leaky roof, a de-
fectiye floor-all these little things
if not attended to in time will let
in the destructive elements and
drain away the profits Of the years
work, and there will be more COM
planning that farming does not pay.
4 few hours work with hammer
and nails on a sunny October day
on the roof Of a barn, or around
managers and grain BINS, may be
worth more to the farmer in dollars
and cents than weeks Of hard toll
in the fields in midsummer. 1t is
here, as elsewhere, easier often to
get than to keep after getting. 1t
is one of the things hard to &C
count for, that a crop which has
cost weeks of labor under hot
summer sun to plant and hoe and
keep tree of weeds, is neglected in
many important particulars just at
the time when the reward for the
labor is almost in hand. 1t is a
great deal easier to permit a few
bushels of apples or potatoes to
rot on the ground, or spoil in the
cellar, than to care for them through
all the weeks and months up TO
tue time Of harvest. A single
small leak in roof over a NOW of
hay OF grain will destroy in a few
hours what it was the work of
months to produce. 1t is the wise
farmer who does not let the profits
Of his summers work slip away
from him in hundred little ways
after they seem to be secure in his
storehouses.