Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-01-19
A CIR leu L T u r AL
MISTAKES OF FARMERS.

MISTAKES OF FARMERS.
!. To think that any one can farm,
That man who has starved a. q can
vasser for patent tooth.pick or hat
Deen unsuccessful rs carpenter, car
jump into business requiring high in
telIigence and persevering efforts, and
being unfamiliar with details. be able
| TO make money.
2. The idea that large farm. hall
stocked and poorly cultivated, pays bet
Tor than few acres well and carefully
titled.
3. What IL IL but the worst kind of a
10 istake to pay hundreds Of dollars for
good farm machinery, and allow II for
want OF proper ,helter TO rot and be-.
come useless year or 80 sooner than IL
should =?
4. 1t is a mistake to let year after
year pass by with no attempt TO i'm.
prove the quality Of the farm stock
FLOODED cattle pay. They make beef
quicker, and the cows give moro and
richer milk. Better blood In horses
pays. A Norman or part Norman colt
Is valuable piece of property.
3. To let foolish pride or parrov
minded Jealousy prevent the adoption
or new methods when they have been
proved by practical men.
b. To get up after the sun, lean on
The fork handle. speculate for an hour
or two On what the weather 10 going to
De, let the weeds get q good start, and
then wonder why farming don't pay.
z. To leave lot Of uncbopped, wet
or halfsplit wood at the pile, a lot OF
old harness hanging In the kitchen and
muddy tracks In the dining room, aud
expect TO see the women folks good ma
tured.
8. To have lot Of half fed, enamel.
ted, lonesome looking fowls roostiuR
deJoctedly In some old cottonwood tree,
when few good, healthy Plymouth
ROCK or BIahma chickens, properly
housed, would make the poultry yard
an honor, instead of disgrace.
AN AGRICULTURAL CREED.
The following In the creed adopted by
a recent agricultural convention In Can
ada
We believe In small farms and thor.
ough cultivation we believe that the
soil lives TO sat, az we'll AZ the owner,
and ought, therefore, to be we'll mauur-
ed we believe In going to the bottom
OF things, and therefore, deep ploughing
and ent ugh of tall the better IL 1t be
subsoil pillow We b-ieve in large
crops which leave tue land better than
they found II. making both the farm
auu the farmer rich at once we be-
lieve every farm should own good far.
mer we believe that the fertilizer OF
any soil Is spirit of industry, enter
prise, without these lime,
gypsum and guauo would e of little
Use We believe t. goot fences, good
farm houses, good orchards, aud good
children enough 10 gatler the fruit We
believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife
in 1t, clean conscience We believe to
ask a man y advice ia not STOPPING, but
OF much beuetit; we be lieve that TO keen
q place for every hing and everything
Iii Its place saves many a step, and IL
pretty sure to lead to good tools and
Keeping them IN order We believe that
Kindness TO stock, like good shelter, If
saving of fodder we be ieve that IL il a
good thing to keep an eye on expert.
ments, and note all, good and bad we
belteve II Is good rule TO sell grain
| when 1t is ready xe believe in produc.
ing the best batter and cheese, aud mar.
k-ting IL when ready.
There Il no disease that horned stock
IL heir 10 80 erroEeously treated as what
is commonly called hollow horn. -
more from tho barbaric "cure" OF
saving of tie horns, with a view OF
! curing the disease, than inhuman
doctors think. A writer In the Tri
buns his this little hit "He knew
| she had the hollow horn. oh yes.
Shea got II. I've cut her horns off close TO
the head 10 save 'em 20 And then, when
the frantic animal raved about the yard
no knew the treatment was effective
IL some Of these hollow horn " be-
levers could read some agricultural pa
per year or two, they might get some
OF Their erroneous ideas sifted out. Some
one has said that hollow horn ia simply
neither name for hollow belly ; aud he
wasn't far from the truth.
Cary. smi Ii, In the Iowa Honest ,ad
sayh that amer iIying nearly all til.
"-ure cures" for lice On stock he had
gone back TO the tobacco remedies. To.
Dacco can bc bought cutap, and stems
can bo got from cigar makers for moth
ing. steep until you have strong de.
coc,ioh, and apply 10 every part. APP
piy the second or til ird time. TIE OK.
rerminate, one must not only kill the
ice on the stock, but burn all the bed
alpg, fun igate or whitewash all stables
al sheds, being careful to have the
" II UtWhbu GcbtiTdtt Every CIdCk anu
conner. If once rid Of them, examine
every new animal brought on the place,
and II necessary dortor Immediately.
The Tribune and Farmer says that
those who prefer TO have the finest
ii nish on their harness after 1t Is oiled
should follow theeo directions After
you have saturat, d he leather with AZ
much oil as IL will readily absorb
sponge of The harness with a thick
lather made of CASTLE soap, and when
ury follow in the same manner with a
solution Il gum trasacanth, Of which
Two quarts of " alter "a / / rec half piuts.
STR fie-ly while boiling, and when the
conrepts are cool lay on quite thin.
any COW can be MIXED dry in few
weeks by Irregular milking, sometimes
az iit,iIals of twcnty-four hours and
,,me times OF six. Separation from her
usual company, change 10 new loca
uon, a strange mixer and scolding
voice, are sources OF irritation that
more or less impair the milking quail
ties OF cow.
In Scotland theydo not award premi-
ums to stallions tor beauty OF form
aud symmetry, but fer their usefulness.
A stallion, when con peting in the show
room, nj st be accompanied by large
number of colts sired by him, and the
young stock are judged as closely As
the stallion.