New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-04-29
THE FARM AND FIELD.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE
WESTERN FARMER.
Farmers Barn Yards--Make a Good
Garden--WindoW Gardening--
Strawberry Beds--Seed
Sowing.
Farmers Barn Yards,

Deol e'IuS yON SCC. GNSu IL you
have other duties, 60, if for no other
reason than out Of curiosity. In
ride Of twenty miles you will not See
ten half neatly-kept barn-yards, and
not more than two-more likely not
one-as it should be kept. You will
see a wagon here, another there, over
there sled and in another place a
hay-rack, flat on the ground, all
ranged about the middle of the lot;
and besides all these things you will
see plows, corn-planter, harrows,
small hay-stacks, piles OF boards,
rails, posts and many other things I
cannot now enumerate, thrown
around in a @haphazard way that
ought to put any farmer to shame,
Not blade OF grass to be seen, when
there should be a well-sodded yard.
In thinking OF the many, many farm
ers | have known, can remember but
one who has a well-kept barn-yard.
And, as the yard indicates, he is a.
very methodical farmer. s|Aplace for
everything and everything in it's
place. is his motto, and the entire
farm shows that his motto has be-
come reality, not mere theory.
When he drives into the lot his
wagon has a place OF it's own; each
piece OF machinery has it's own place.
Nothing is left in the center of the lot
for horse to run over and perhaps
cripple itself. This barry ard furnish
es pasture for two work horses dur
ing the summer nights, and for four
or five calves through the entire sum-
mer, yet it does not contain over two
acres. But the horses are never al
lowed to run in it when the ground is
soft. OF course, it never becomes cut
up and rough. The farmer has hauled
plenty of gravel about the barn, and
little or no mud is found there.
AS most barn-lots are along the
road in line with the house-yard, one
would suppose as much care would be
taken to keep them in order as is used
ON other premises. There is lust
Where you are mistaken, as a ride will
convince you. The house-yard may
be perfectly neat and the adjoining
barn-lot may be perfect slough Of
filth and disorder.
Why do not these men realize that
their lots are but lots on an other
wise lovely picture? Why not use a
little forethought when driving in
with machinery and vehicles? It takes
no longer to drive a wagon to the
same place each time, than it does to
unhltch wherever the horses NAV hap
pento stop.
But says one, II haven troom.
You think you have not room
SIMPLY because your lot is in such a.
confused tumble that you do not
know yourself how much room you
have until you "size up" as the
housekeepers say. Just try it once;
II not for you own satisfaction, daso
Tor the pleasure of the people ENho
pass your place. At first they may
make remarks and be inclined towon-
der what can have taken possession of
you, 1t is SO unlike you to have order
in your barnyard. But nev:r do you
mind their talk, when this systematic
plan has become q habit with you,
others may be led, seeing FOUR light"
to go and do likewise.'' -
Wake Good garden. SO" w. .
No man should spend his labor and
time over so large ,an acreage as to
fail in making a frst-class garden. In
this much of tie satisfaction and
often no little part of the profit of
country and farm life consists. It is
rather disheartening for the city res
ident- who goes into the country dur
ing summe15 for fresh air and the fresh
homegrown small fruits and garden
vegetables to look into back yards
and fiEd tin cans carelessly thrown
away, which show that even for such
common table luxuries as tomatoes,
green corn, and often green peas, the
farmer and his family have nothing
better for him than he could himself
buy at the retail grocery. If farmers
wish to attact other men to their
business. as it is clearly their interest
to DO, they must IN every way make
farm life as pleasant and enjoyable
as possible. Labor-saving machin-
cry enables the farmer to
take life easier if he will. He com
plains that low prices for staple crops
take off all his profit. Grow less of
these crops then, and devote a larger
share OF time to fruit, especially the
small fruits, and to garden vegetables.
So soon as the farmer grows enough
OF all kinds Of vegetables for table
use I'D their season he has procured
luSuries that only wealthy men can
afford. AS he thinks over what he
would have been obliged to pay for
such delicacies, the harder lines OF his
life fade away. It seems worth while
to live on a farm, and when he gets to
feeling this way it is ten to one that
he falls into the habit OF marketing
surplus he does not need. and thus
after a few years developes into
market gardening the natural way.
First make a garden that will supply
your own table with all garden deli
reacles, and il there is a surplus it twill
be sure OF a profitable market.
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