The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-05-25
TIL E. a GRI G JJLT Or I /. WORLD
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR
RURAL READERS.

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PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR
RURAL READERS.
A Strong Plea For system Ii, Farm
. ms ulphur for FowIs-Sheep
in misunderstanding Potato
Seed Something Worth
Knowing Pointers
Strong Plea for System in FARMING
@ Drifting, drifting, drifting! Floating
along a with the current; dropping into
the luts; Slipping into the paths point
ed out BY existing circums stances! ibis
IS: 1[F as I see the great mass Of farmers
moving; this is the cause Of SO many
|, 1a1lures, Of .'straig htened circum-
stances sta OF mediocre results and al
most frnitless labor. This 1t is that
makes I. farm life the I'humdrun'' ex-
lstence SO many realize, barren Of salts
factory results, fruitless in much that
helps to render life pleasant and at
tractive. Many a farmer is there who
never dreaming of planning for more
thanT the single season, while there are
others who permit condi lions as they
ind them to dictate their course Of
action One will go out over his fields
ID the spring, select q little spot Of an
acre or two where the grass is failing
and guess will put a little corn here
Some other spot for like reason will
De selected Tor potatoes, and so it goes
in series of patch work. all over the
farm and all through the season. The
blowing, narrowing, cultivating, ETC.,
nAIsfO7slnn(t -. eNCst az tod
because of the small scale upon which
the work is done. A little corn is pro-
duced and fed to the hogs; q small
crop OF oats for the horses; aNlittle
wheat and Il few bushels of potatoes
Tor family use, and nothing 10 put into
market to be converted into cash. Now
to those farmers who are always hard
up" who never have any money to
spend for the pleasure that makes life
attractive, let me urge you to give up
your almless life and learn to do .:ome-
thing, to accomplish results. Give up
playing at farming drop the little
boy manner Of doing things, and work
with some aim in view and some sys-
tenn as guide.
If you own a farm Of fifty or one
hundred acres OF more, and it is fenced
of into small fields, the first step neces-
sary will be to make a good substan-
tlal. fence around your pasture land
and (f you can do no better) between
your own and your neighbors, and
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 as to reduce useless expenditure
Of strength. The outside of q field
always costs the most (proportiouately)
to keep clean. The larger the field I'M
der cultivation. the greater the econ
omy in producing the crops. Decide
what proportion Of your land you de-
sire to nlow each year IfeOne- fourth,
then take it all up in one piece Crops
will not quarrel. You can just as We'll
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, as
to make separate patch Of each yari-,
ETY.,
I have lost much time for want of
proper system in arrangement Of crops.
now find it a great convenience to
put them all together as far as pr:acti-
cable. If am culivating my potatoes
and wish to work in the garden truck
an hour, the, tools, horses and crops
are all together. I don't have to load
up my tools and fool away time going
to some other part of the farm before
I can begin to convert my labor into
money. 1t is well to bear in mind
in all your operations upon the farm
that time is money, that you cannot af-
ford to do any work that can as well
he avoided, and that carefully ar
ranged system Of work to be followed
out year after year will trim off the
| useless or worse than useless work
that cuts off the profits wherever the
work of the farm has not been care
fully mapped out.-Ohio Farmer.