Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-04-16
GOOD THINGS WELL SAID.

No house in The country can be called
Il complete home without garden attach
ed to it.-Ploughman.
There was a time in the early agricul.
ture when barnyard manure was just as
much an invocation as commercial fertili
zers.--J. J. II. Gregory.
Nature is broad in her charities She
aims to give all organisms IL chance, and
everywhere seems to give ller sanction to
the law of competition. G. Cook
If a single experiment could establish
a theory, We would all know how to protect
our cabbage from the flea hectic, and our
squash vines from the striped cucumber
beetle-A W. Cheever.
Good cows, like good people, die young.
The high feeding which such cows receive
is probably in part responsible for this.
We can feed higl,cr when - COW la. Green
feed, and the ability 10 feed larger quaint.
ties of grain and meal may prove one of the
important advantages of ensilage.
There is good deal TO admire in the
vigorous phraseology which you in Ameri
ca employ in reference to things which
vex you, and the term Bogus Butter" is
the most telling designated have yet seen
applied to the article which has done and
is doing so much mischief to dairy farmers.
Prof Sheldon.
The demand for trial stations has grown
more urgent after our recent test winters.
Settlers from every part of the Fast and of
Southwest Europe continually repeat the
mistakes made in the early days, as each
one is naturally prtjudiced in favor of the
varieties. modes and methods of his native
state--J. l.. Budd.
Peter Tumbledown bought a flask of
whiskeY and a box of cigars and posted off
to urge the passage of a law to make mon
ey plenty and times easy. When he START
ed the potatoes were freezing, the pigs
trough leaked, and rats were colonizing in
the corn crib. He failed to get the law
passed and his bills are not yet paid
Farm Journal.
The time will never come when winter
dairying shall be overdone. With warm
welllighted, clean stables, plenty of early
cut and we'll cured grass, with the contents
of a good silo, snd wellfille root cellar,
the comfort health and profit of the
cows should be no more problematical in
winter than in summer An Ohio Dairy.
man.
With all my reverential regard for the
people of my native land, their descend.
ants in every Western state seems to have
improved upon their ancestors, owing 10
to the character Of the soil they work
which thus far has not demanded the
scrimping habits of economy acquired by
those who have titled the harder soil oi
New England.-L. L. Allen.
Let all wives who are unhappy because
of discomfort accept admonition and COM
passion. Let 'tfarmers' wives as a class
protest against the prevailing tone of con.
dolence, and assert themselves to be health
fully nurtured, wholesomely fed, sufficient
| ly cultured, becomingly attired, comely as
well, and not apprehensive of insanity
farmers Wife in N. Y. Post.
All signs point to a radical change ir
the method of cattle'raising in the West
| The ranges are overcrowded, and Iosse!
during the past few winters have been cor
respondirgly augmented. The poor farme
is demanding land to cultivate. Ranch
men who have fenced large tracts feel tina
they are trespassers and must own or lie
gally control the land on which their cat
tie Craze. Then they must have bette
class OF stock. "The scrub must CO." ant
with him the ''free grass" of to day.-Liv
Stock Indicator.
Delicate young ladies, whom often tn
slightest exertion tires, will find that
little time regularly spent in the gardel
will have a favorable effect upon them
Devote the first part of the morning, or Al
hour before sunset, to your garden. Com
mence with what seems the most pleasan
work-tying climbing vine. against tn
porch, cutting off the fading flowers, o
raLing flower bed; but do not tire youl
self out in the beginning, better to wor
only FIVE minutes at time than becom
fatigued and discouraged. With your il
terest your strength will increase, you
dropping spirits revive, aud the blush {
your roses become reflected upon you
IL NJ. IpI-stS