Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-10
Comparison Between Farm Life
and City Occupations.
VALUABLE AGRICULTURAL ITEMS
Read the Farm Papers and Expert.
ment Station Bulletins and
Profit Thereby.
Sharp plows save the farm teams.

Help costing the least money is not
always the cheapest.
Give the young calves shade whetba,
at pasture or still-fed milk.
Supply fresh pasture for milch COWS
before they begin to fall off in milk.
Note the June color of butter: if il
what you wish to initiate at other sea.
sons.
1t is essential that the hives be shaded
for, if the hot sun strikes them, the bees
will desert.
You cannot afford to buy all your home
supplies, no matter how big crops you
grow to sell.
Paying for milk by the butter-fat test
puts premium on good cows and care
full breeding.
Great Britain imported during the
month of April, 1898, about $l7,5OO
worth OF honey.
Be careful in hiving new swarms to
get the queen into the hive, or the bees
will not remain.
Odd times can be used to advantage in
cutting weeds, which will seed a little
later if left alone.
Surplus earnings cannot be invested
in anything that will pay much better
than good barn.
Experience is a costly school. Then
profit by the experience of others by
reading the farm papers and experiment
station bulletins.
Ii you have COWS coming fresh during
the hot weather, see that they have
plenty of fresh water and a shady place
in which to lie down.
Lay a drain from the cellar which will
keep it dry. 1t will make it a more suit
able place for storing provisions and
more healthful to live above.
Dairy cows must be well fed. They
work hard in manufacturing milk, and
cannot give the best results ii they must
work all day to get grass enough.
If you have no shed or shelter of any
kind for the farm wagon, run it under
some shade tree. The hot sunshine fol-
lowing rain Injuries it more than the
rain.
Do not allow the farm buildings to
lack paint. The cost is covered by the
saving in lumber which results, and the
improved appearance is worth some
thing.
HEALTHFULNEss OF FARM LIFE.
1t is an open question whether the
time has not come to throw, as it were,
a halo OF sentiment upon the life of the
farm and to cause this halo to permeate
all departments OF home life and so to
rob the occupation of much that now
seems to make it distasteful, saws the
New York Ledger. To be sure farm
work is hard work; but that it is harder
than trucking and bricklaying, carpen-
ter work or thousand and one trades of
the city it would be difficult to prove.
The hours are longer, but they are spent
out of doors in the healthful, clear, brac-
ing, fresh air, and health and peace of
mind are likely to come with them.
Once his days work is done, the town
dweller has his clubroom, HEADQUARTERS,
saloon or some other favorite ioungine
place, where he can discuss timely TOPICS
with his fellows. That this discussion is
any benefit to him there is grave reason
TO question. 1t makes him dissatisfied.
uneasy and rebellious; but, all the same,
ne has it, and that, too, because he
wants IT.. The farm dweller lacks this
source OF amusement; but he can in
most localities go to the corner grocery
and learn what is going on in the world,
and 1t is safe to say that he gets a far
more reasonable and healthy idea OF cur
'ent events than the man in the CITY.
As the country becomes more thicklv set
led and lands are cut up in smaller sec
ions, it would be the easiest thing i'm
aginable to have general place of meet
ng IN every community. A reading
'oom with the agricultural books, papers
lnd general literature of the business, a
weekly lecture on all the newest ideas
belonging to the occupation of the farm
Ind an evening or so week for purely
oclal pleasure and amusement would do
nuch towards making farming commu-
lltles desirable places OF residence.
there are many who contend that farm
lours are too long. On this subject it
nay be said that men who follow it live
onger and have better health than in
lmost any other profession. And it is
'ut Just to say that the pleasure OF driv-
ng, riding, the garden, flowers and fruit
re too highly appreciated by many per-
ons to be willingly surrendered, even
hough they involve a good deal of hard
III N anu lO emu OF care.
HE LIMIT FOR GOOD BUTTER AND CHEESE.
Hoard's Dairyman truly saws: We
nay have dairy schools by the hundred
nd graduate good cheesemakers bv the
thousand; yet, if we do not have good
nix, we will not have a good product.
he farmer who supplies the milk is the
IAN more than any other who governs
ne character Of cooperative butter and
neese. More than this, if nine men
apply good, sweet milk and one man
al milk, the one-not the nine-will
oVern the quality. In our efforts to i'm
rove the quality OF dairy products we
lust not forget that most important
ctor of all-the man who makes the
llk. Everything waits for him, He
ust wake up to the necessity OF his own
nprovement. He stands in the way OF
IS own profit. He must be teachable
list as long as he is in cooperative
ork. If he makes up his own butter or
leese, no one is punished for his care
SSness or Ignorance but himself. 1t is
ell to settle clearly the ruling principles
success. The primary principles lie
lth the farmer; he is the foundation.
the foundation fails, down goes the
perstructure. The secondary princi-
es lie with the maker. OF course. his
norance and stupidity can spoil the
st OF milk. Everywhere in this COM
icated game do we need knowledge
Id skill: He that despiseth knowl-
ge snail come TO grief.m