Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-06-13
The wise creditor is slow to lend to

The wise creditor is slow to lend to
tho man who has scrubby cattle.
The best, which is not always the
highest priced, is the cheapest.
Success depends more upon correct
methods than upon hard work.
Some positively lazy men honestly
believe they are only economical.
Diogenes with his lantern could moi
have found good excuse for dull
| tools.
The wife of your youth is clearly en-
titled to the easiest pump in the house
well, and a covered walk to it from the
kitchen door.
Neither social obligations nor good
morals require you to lend to him who
does not take good care of tools, or
who does not return them promptly
American Agriculturist.
| Farm Notes.
Before the grass starts go all over
the yards and lanes and pick up all the
old broken implements and other waste
that is in the way; sell the iron and
add the wood to the wood-pile.
When you get your implements and
carriages for spring use and find that
the hens have roasted over them all
winter, see if you can not find food for
reflection in this waste of food for
plants.
The farmer boys horse should be an
intelligent, wide-awake animal-one
he can ride, drive or walk with pleas
ure-in fact, busin ess horse, for few
farmers feel that they can keep horse
simply to ride or drive.
Since wire fencing came into use
there is not so much cutting and draw
ing fence-poles to be done every spring,
but posts for the driveways must be
kept in repair and should be ready to
set as soon as the ground thaws.
Let the bushes grow In that rough
back pasture that you have been worry
ing about, pasture some of your fields
and use silo and you can keep more
stock in better condition with less
labor, and have more woodland.
A writer in the Rural New Yorker
calls attention to the somewhat over
looked fact that the manner of feeding,
handling and training colts depends on
their breeding, as trotting stock are
handled entirely different from that
which colts for draft purposes should
undergo. Draft horses are fed on feed
to make bone and muscle more than
flesh, and they should get plenty of ex-
ercise in winter as well as in summer,
when three or four weeks training is
all that is required to make them good,
serviceable horses.
When q COW gives milk about which
no signs are apparent Of imperfection,
and which makes the best of butter,
such cows may be fed literally with
bran, oats, midlings, corn, linseed
meal, roots and such foods calculated
to make a strong and perfect body for
the calf, and good milk, right up to
within a month, or even less time,
without injury to either calf or COW,
all old notions to the contrary They
should have hay with plenty OF clover
in it, aud all of their food should be
largely in excess with heterogeneous ele-
| mentS.
Whether to sell fat sheep shorn OF
unshorn is often question with feed
ers. Unless the farmer knows, by q
very careful reckoning of the feed and
labor he has bestowed on his flock,
that he is about to receive full value
for the fleeces as well as the carcasses,
he had better separate the two before
selling. The wool can not be weighed
on the sleeps backs. Humping it" is
haphazard rural transaction in which
the buyer generally gets the dump
and the farmer gets cit" Sheep shorr
too early would be unstable, of course
because of the suffering and loss O
condition which they would undergo
There is generally time coming, be
tween the strictly granted focks ant
the "grassers," when l-fattenet
sheep wilLsell to very good advantage
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