Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-03-13
FARM And HOUSEHOLD.
Neglect and Carelessness Result In Loss
to The Farmor
Lsnd Is Human in the Respect That It Needs
Rest-A Mistake About Ferment.ny Seeds.
Farm Notes, Choice Recipes d other
Interesting Fireside Reading
NEGLECT nrced. Loss.

The average farmer loses more in
the course OF year from negi, ct than
he has any idea Of, writes M. / Bank
having good fence on all land in-
tended for pasture. Very often few
hours work in the spring repairing
the fence around your pasture would
save many dollars worth of grain and
good deal of vcxation getting stock
out of corn or wheat field early in the
morning after heavy dew.
Cattle will very often cat enough
green grain to render them almost
worthless, if it does not kill them.
Hogs are not inclined to do themselves
any particular harm, but look out for
the grain. They like to sample the
whole field. A drove of twenty or
thirty will destroy enough in one
night TO keep the fence in repair on
the farm whole year.
A poor fence around a truck lot is
the means OF the years supply OF
sugar corn, and anything that was
planted in it, being destroyed by hogs
or cattle. A few days repairing fences
will save q great deal o; annoyance
and loss.
Farmers are always condemning our
public roads which generally deserve
it, but take look at their own private
road which they use day after day and
see If that cannot be improved consid-
crably. You will not find one out of
five but what can be. Some are not
safe 10 travel. But that same farmer
who annlnnonc ,Nt,lNlin pnnIc mill
travel day after day over this road
until he breaks something, or perhaps,
cripples a horse, which will cost him
many dollars TO replace. Had this
same farmer spent one day with his
farm hand and team, he could have
made good road without spending
any cash.
Careless feeding and handing brood
mares very often Will cause the death
OF both COLI and mare. Careless feed
ing yTceding animals of all kinds will
cause loss in some way.
Land Needs Rest.
The word 'rest" has great mean
ing in this busy, pushing. restless
age, says +. p. Smith in the Ameri-
can Cultivator. Itdoes not mean mac
zion; but rather change with the ele-
ment of worry, anxiety and strain
eliminated. When applied to the land
it is not robbed entirely OF this new
meaning. The land needs rest; it
needs time 10 recuperate, and get back
The clements and strength which years
Of successive cultivation have taken
from it. But the kind OF rest which
The busy man most needs is change of
occ upation, and SO with our soils,
they need Il change of plant growth.
To grow one kind of crop, on the same
sol. year after year is such a heavy
strain on it that it will shortly be-
cone barren and unproductive.
If some crop had been sown and not
harvested, but turned under. the land
would be better for it. Or, again, if
the land had been plowed in the spring
and narrowed and cultivated to keep
down the weeds and then pre- pared for
winter wheat, this crop would have
had good chance to grow. The land
would have been enriched by the ac-
ton Of the sun and moisture, which
would give it the desired change. Sum-
ner following, as this process is called,
ihould be practced oftener and then
tetter crops would be obtained, and
,ur soils would not continue TO deteri-
oiate. Give the land rest OCCASION
ally, but do not be misled by the idea
that simply change of plants will
bring about the desired result