The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-28

cotton picking times; and even then
they could not be kept close enough to
be guarded, except at great expense
and loss OF labor. AS the socalled poor
farm Is not necessity in the solution
of the convict problem, and seems to
be run for the purpose OF
raising funds for the support
OF paupers, although the profit has not
been shown, l would suggest that the
moLey invested in the poorfarm could
be more protitably employed ia some
commercial undertaking. Ii profit is
the object aimed at would respect
fully suggest that the county start a
daily newspaper, open d saloon or go
into the general merchandising. We
see vast fortunes being accumulated
in these and other enterprises and the
investment of county funds in some
kindred business would certainly give
better return than the poorfarm and
it would relieve the already over
competed farmer of an unworthy COM
petitor. If farmers would go into this
matter and demand remedial action at
the hands of their commissioners
when they seek election, it would be
more to their interest than yawping
and squawking around about things
that don't affect them and are beyond
their power to control. Anyone wish.
ing the exact figures on the poorfarm
business should secure a copy of the
Travis County Annual, which is, as
usual full of useful information.
Debt.
AS it has been in the past, so in the
future will it be necessary for the ma
jority of young men who become farm
ers to go in debt, and we will give a
few hints based on personal expert
ence as to how to get out of debt. says
Home and Farm.
The first rule should be, keep your
credit good" Never promise to pay
money unless you are sure you can
meet it promptly to day. This will
call for courage and self. denial when
the temptation comes to buy on credit,
and you may often think it hard to do
without luxuries and pleasures, or
even necessities, which your neighbor,
who is no better off than yourself. in
dulges in. But it will cost you less
trouble and anxiety to practice this
self.denial than to find this load of
debt accommodating and your good
name gone. The reputation for
promptness and honorable dealing
which makes your simple word as good
as your bond is worth years of
self. denial. and to get this good
name you must adopt another rule
which reads: "Do without what you
can't pay for" Another helpful rule
is to never wait for dun, but the day
the money is due, or little before, be
on hand with it. We have in mind
now farmer who started heavily in
debt and was paying ten per cent on
$1,000 of his Indebtedness, and in the
eight years before it was paid he was
on hand with his interest some days
before it was due, and he established
such reputation for punctuality and
business honor that during all the
years of his struggle with debt he
could and did borrow all the money
he needed without security Of any
kind. Truly Solomon was wise when
he wrote: IA good name is rather to
be chosen than great riches"
cdrmeT NuC U b6 Fltl6u.
Waldo F. Brown, the well known
agricultural writer of Ohio, writes:
'"Taken as class, farmers are better
off than other industrial classes, for
they are never out of employment and
always have plenty to eat. With the
single exception OF sugar che n
furnishes every staple need for the
table, for l do not think tea and coffee
necessary to either health or comfort.
with water and milk abundant. If
we were obliged to dep md ON the
farm until another crop could be
grown, our resources would be such
that many wage earners of the cities
would think themselves possessed of a
fortune were they as we'll off. 1t is
we'll for us to take an inventory occa-
sionally to see what we really have,
and to contrast our condition with our
less fortunate fellowbeings, who, will
ing to work can find no one to hire
them and in the midst of plenty are
suffering for food and consumed with
anxiety Tor the future
Bad Milk.
Tainted milk does noU necessarily
emit an odor. The more dangerous
the faint the less odorous it is. Doubt
less this sounds strangely to some,
asys The American Dairyman, but
nevertheless it is fact. In the warm
nights of summer, milk acquires taints
imperceptibly. These are more readily
created when fairly large body of
hot, fresh milk, as it comes from the
cow, is poured into a receptacle with
out aeration. When the animal heat
is retained decomposition sets in very
rapidly, aud in an hour, or at most.
two or three hours, the damage is
done. Here we have the basis OF all
trouble that occurs with cream that
suds or holds gas. Every one who has
tried to churn that sort of cream must
retain vivid recollection of the labor
they performed in getting butter and
the inferior thing it was when churn-
ing was completed.
Aeration in the first instance
would have removed the possibility of
taints and the subsequent difficulties
that attend its transportation into