Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-08
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
RURAL READERS.
Strong Plea For System In Farm
ing-Sulphur for Fowls-Sheep
In Utah--Preparlns Potato
Seed Something Worth
Knowing -Polnters.

strong Plea for system In Farming
Drifting, drifting, drifting! Floating
along with the current: dropping into
the ruts; slipping into the paths point
ed out by existing circumstances! This
Is as | see the great mass of farmers
moving; this Is the cause OF so many
failures. Of strengthened circum-
stances" of mediocre results and al.
most frultless labor. This Il Is that
makes farm life the "humdrum" OK.
istencc 50 many realize. barren OF salts
factory results, fruitless In much that
helps TO render life pleasant and nt-
tractlve Many farmer IL there who
never dreaming Of planning for more
than the single season. while there are
others who permit conditions as they
find them TO dictate their course of
action. One WIN go out over his fields
In the spring, select n little spot of an
acre or two where the grass IL failing
and guess | will put u little corn here"
Some other spot for like reason VIII
be selected for potatoes, and SO II goes
In series of patch work" all over the
farm and all through the season, Tho
blowing, narrowing, cultiyatiug, etc,
are MI performed at cost augmented
because OF the small scale upon which
the work h done. A little corn IL pro.
duced and fed 10 the hogs: u small
crop OF oats for the horses; n little
wheat and n few bushels of potatoes
for family use, and nothing 10 put into
market 10 be converted into cash, Now
to those farmers who are always hard
up" who never have any money 10
spend for she pleasure that makes life
attractive, let me urge you To give mp
your almless life and learn TO do ,ome-
thing, To accomplish results. Give up
playing NJ farming" drop the little
boy manner of doing things, and work
with some aim In view and some sys-
tenn as a guide.
II you own a farm OF fifty or one
hundred acres or more, and II In fenced
Off into small fields, the first step neccs-
sary will be to make n good substan-
tinl fence around your pasture land
and or you can do no better between
your own and your neghhors, ana
stack your other fences out OF the way.
You cannot afford to spend your time
with short burrows hacking weeds In
fence corners etc. So arrange your
work rs TO reduce useless expenditure
of strength The outside Of Il field
always costs the most (proportionntely)
to keep clean. The larger The field nm.
der cultivation, the greater the econ
omy In producing the crops. Decide
what proportion OF your land you de-
sire Ia plow each year II onc.fourth,
then take II all up In one piece. Crops
viii not quarrel You can Just as well
put your potatoes the whole length by
the side of the corn or upon the end OF
the corn rows and your garden truck
upon the end of the potato rows, M
to make II separate patch of each NGri-
| ETY..
| have lost much time for want OF
proper system In arrangement Of crops.
| now find Il great convenience 10
put them all together as far as practi-
cable. II am cultlyaiing my potatoes
and wish To work In the garden truck
an hour. the tools, horses and crops
are all together. ! don't have TO load
up my tools and fool away time going
to some other part Of the farm before
! can begin to convert oay labor into
money II IL well to bear In mind
In all your operations uAon the farm
| that time IL money, that You cannot af-
| ford to do any work that can Ms wen
! be avoided, and that n carefully mr.
ranged system of work to be followed
| out year after year will trim OF the
useless or worse thnn useless work
that cuts off the profits wherever me
work OF the farm has not been care
fully mapped out. Farmer.