The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-01
FARM IMPROVEMENTS.
The Only Way Of Keeping Rural Property
from Losing Its Value.

The Only Way OF Keeping Rural Property
from Losing Its Value.
When the busy crop season is over,
we should give the farm a thorough in
spection to see what improvements can
be made. There are very few farms
but what could be bettered in some
way, and it should be the aim of every
owner to make, each year. some per-
manent improvements thereon. 1t
does not matter whether the farm is
large or small, the value may be great
ly enhanced by making additions in the
way of buildings and fences, the plant
ing of valuable fruit and other orna-
mental trees, the clearing of land,
cleaning old fields and fence rows of
bushes and by adopting other measures
to render the premises more attractive
and the soil more productive
The farmer should consider his farm
the little world over which he reigns.
To make and keep it in neat, attract
i've condition, will give him an air of
independence, self-respect and hospi-
tality. 1t is also true that the appear
ance of farm will often make great
difference in the price it will command,
if offered for sale; for, in this, as in
many other matters. people judge by
appearances. As far as you are able,
have a good. neat and convenient
dwelling-house and out-buildings. Let
the lawn have q tasteful display of ma
lures beauties-shade trees and flow
ers. Nothing else so inspires the young
heart with sentiments of purity and
love. as enduring as life, as the beauti-
ful shade trees and lovely flowers of
home. Have a well-arranged vegeta-
BILE garden and an orchard of well-se-
lected fruit, and these in variety, both
early and late. This will tend to in
spire in the heart Il love for home, and
instead of boys going to the towns and
cities for the wonted pleasures, they
will find them in their lovely homes,
and it will also enhance the value of the
farm.
There are other items of equal inn
portance in estimating the value of a
farm. The first is its fertility. or pro-
ductive capacity. The man who in
creases the fertility of his soil. thereby
increasing the yield annually material
ly adds to the money value of his fields
and advances the real worth of his
premises correspondingly. Manure is
one of the things of which farmer
can never have too much. The more
he makes and uses the better his crops
will be, and the broader become the
foundations which he lays for perman-
ent prosperity. There aremany farm
ers who are not careful to make and
save manure, and who pay great deal
of money for fertilizers to make up the
deficiency caused by their own neglect.
This is matter to which too little at
tention is given by many farmers.
Some seem to be always making ready
to attend to this. but never do it They
go on carelessly and negligently. al
lowing the soil to degenerate from year
to year.
Every farmer can best see what inn
provements his farm needs. While one
farm requires better buildings or fences,
or both, another calls for enrichment of
the soil. Every farmer, whether his
specially be grain-growing. dairying.
grazing or fruit culture, knows what.
or should study what his most urgent
needs In the line of improvements are.
and should make efforts to carry out
these improvements. A farmer can
not stand still If he Is not improving
his farm. it is safe to say that it is going
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