The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-08-05
COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK

COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK.
AfIcISIc Prophecy.
The picnic season now is here.
And the paragraphist
Must furnish up with new veneer
The jests we long have missed.
The Young man In the new light ..pant.''
VIII crush the bithc squash pie:
The sandwiches alive with ants
Will mate the children cry
Fond lovers in the forest glade
Their eager love will tell
When all at once the timid maid
viii see snake and yell.
The man who swings the pretty girls
Will make his shoulders lame:
The dude who tries to row boat
Will wonder why he came.
The thunder storm that ends the fan
Will crash down prompt at four;
With startled ehricks the girls will run
And drabbed skirts deplore.
., yes, the picnic seasons here,
And the parapraphist
Will do his duty, never fear
And yet. he d not be missed
-S)n,etriUe y0urnol
Our hot sun and dry weather ripcn grain and
grass-or at least bring It forward 60 that it lie
ready for the scythe and the sickle, much ear
lier in the season than in the climate OF
Europe. July II really the first, and perhaps
the most important harvest month. The great
grass crop, with which .'the early and latter
rains has blessed millions Of acres, is to be cut,
cured and harvested. Winter grain, over
great part OF the country Is TO be cut this month.
while, Ut the same time, when from any cnuse,
short crops are anticipated or are to be provided
against, II - even now not too late to get In
crop of milct or OF fodder corn.
1t IL well to bear in mind that the most and
beet fodder which can be raised on the farm
when there IL likely to be short hay CROP il
fodder corn. Either large-growing sweet varie-
ties, or the Southern white dent most eatis-
factory. 1t is best to SOW late in order that il
may be in condition to cut either for curing dry
or putting into slos just before FROST for In the
season OF long cool nights it is less liable to
heat. II cnt up early it will not cure well, and
II It stands too long il will be hurt by frost.
Sewn the last OF July it comes about right.
july IL seed time for plants Of the turnip
kind. There are. indeed, cold, heavy soils,
| where Swcdes need to be sown in June to make
o crop, but generally the former half VI this
month is early enough, while for those known
| q English turnips, II sown the latter half, and
| up to the tenth OF August, they will give good
| returns.
| There are wecdy fields that really need to be
| thoroughly falowed before anything is
done with them. In these the pl0w must be
| kept going, and in light land the weeds are de-
etroyed ut sacrifice Of nearly nil the organic
matter, which muet be kept replaced in some
| way. Hence, 1t IL almost always better to fa!-
\ loy " n pr In IND fviv
| ing thorough culture. The fertilizer contain
ing no weed reed the cleaning Of the land may
be very complete, and the soil will be improved
In fertility.
SHOCKING GRAIN
The spring whea. crop will certainly not be a
large one. The continued dry weather would
seem to have already settled this. In anticipa-
ton prices are advancing. DO not knock five
to 10 cents per bushcl OF this price by bad
shocking or stacking. The further the farmer
| has to freight grain to market the more he
/ really loses from wet grain. The point il
transportation charges.
| Shocking should be done by two men. and
the shocks should be In straight lines for con-
venience in loading. But do not place shock
in q depression II it can be avoided. II il more
| profitable to carry the sheaves q little way !.
Never place more than twelve bundles In u
shock. More cannot be properly covered. To
| shock let each imam grasp the bundles, setting
the two pairs together aud thrasting them
| strongly into the stubble. Then each should
| place one bundle at the end nearest him, and
two bundles at each side, alternating with those
previously set This will make model shock.
ready for Gaping, il each bundle has been
driven strongly into the stubble and all lean
slightly to the four central eheayes.
! Select for cap-eheaycs long, rather slender
1 hup fhor fho tan hun las In tho
| 90 the tops may be pressed together. Break
| the heads OF the top ehcaves thoroughly, the
| under one towards each side and the cap sheaf
downward and spreading, SO the latter will
cover the entire shock. the tops towards the
/ prevailing winds Bring an arm down acrOes
each end, and the shock lie finished in much less
time than the writer has taken. 1t will stand
/ ordinary wind an rain, TINS cnring thoroughly
for stacking, and dew will be no impeachment II
the cap-sheavcs are placed on the onteide Of the
| wagon in carrying.
FEEDING CALVES.
The average boy of the farm has had plen.y
calves. Fed from pail in the hands OF boy,
tho calf is never properly fed. To feed one cali
and at the same time keep of several others as
hungry and eager only young animals car
be would be too much for man to successfully
cope with, except that lie can strike and kicl
harder than the boy. Yet how large a proper
ton of the calves raised are fed In this way? +
| moro than in any other. It IL not difficult, how
ever, to make all this work comparatively easy
whether there be only three, or four or twenty
| or more calves.
Have proper feeding place and erect linz
| Of etanchions similar to those for larger cattle
but accommodated to the size Of the calves
1t may be necessary to make the calves cnte
these to be fed for two or three times. The,
wi 10 arn NJ nlv hnrp thnv fhais
food. Then, upon the proper call being given
they will eagerly take their places. Whatever
the vessels fed from, whether Of metal or wood
pals or troughs, they must be hxcd go that the,
cannot be pushed about. and they must be KEEP
perfectly clean and fresh. When the calves
begin to eat grass they should within the mex
two weeks be taught to eat few oats daily
Thenceforward the milk alton may be dimin
iniehed ~ the grass and grain il increased, bn
the decrease on the one hand and the increase
on the other must be only ~ the paunch OF tn,
calf grows, Tho rennct or true digestive etom
ach Of the calf IL the larger OF the four. In Thu
ful-grown animal the paunch IL the largest, ant
this increase in the one case corresponds to tn,
relative decrease In the other as the animal 1t
tsins age.
AsUcEssFUL WOMAN.
A few years ago Mre Rachel Francis OF Al
lanta, Ga, concluded that she could max
/ AOACy ~ giving iHIO SnC OAIy uueIHCces 0u
managing to get few dollars together, sh
bought COW and began business. II was on
small scale, nut she prospered, and after tim
she had bought dozen or more cows. III,
work was done by her. shc was up early an
late. After milking the cows she would prepar
the milk for market aud deliver 1t to her cus
TONERS. In two years after Mrs. Franci
engaged In the dairy business she WAS know
by nearly every citizen. She was strictl
business, and went wherever her business Gale
her, no matter where that was. Mrs. Franci
invested her money as fact rs she made it, an
her investments always proved good ones
Mrs. Francis died few years ago, leaving .
estate valued at $4,000, including dairy farr
OF scyentyiye acres, we'll improved and stocked
near Atlanta.
Sunny ROOMS NAME SUNNY LIVES.
Let US take the ARREST, choicest, and eunnies
, room in the house for our living-room-th
workshop where brain and body are built mp an
rewarded: and there let us have baywindow
no matter how plain the structure, through whic
the good twin angels-sunlight and pure air
can freely enter This window shall be tn