The Meeker herald., 1893-06-17
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR
RURAL READERS.
A Strong Plea For System In Farm
ing-Sulphur for FoWis-Sheep
in Utah--Prepariny Potato
Seed Something Worth
wIng--Pointers.
a strong Plea for system i'm rnrmin.

a strong Plea for System In Farming
Drifting, drifting, drifting! Floating
along with the current; dropping into
the i7its; slipping into the paths point
ed out by existing circumstances! This
Is as l 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 fruitlcss labor. This it is that
makes farm life the "humdruin' ex.
istencc no many realize barren of satis-
factory results, fruitless in much that
helps to render life pleasant and at
tractive. Many farmer is there who
never dreaming of planning for more
than the single season. while there are
others who permit conditions us they
lind them to dictate their course of
action. One will go out over his fields
In the spring, select little spot Of an
acre or two where the grass is failing
and guess i will put little corn here"
some other spot for like reason Will
be selected FOR potatoes and SO II goes
In Il series of patch work" all over the
farm and all through the season. The
plowing. narrowing, cultiyating. etc,
are all performed at IL cost augmented
because of the small scale upon which
the work Is done. A little corn is pro-
ducef and fed 10 the hogs: ~ small
crop of oats for the horses. n little
wheat and Il few bushels Of potatoes
tor family use and nothing 10 pu, 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 mp
yonr aiinless life and learn TO do .ome-
thing. to accomplish results. Give mp
playing mt farming drop the little
boy manner of doing things, and work
with some aim In view and some sys-
ten as n guide
If You own n farm of fifty or one
hundred acres or more. and II Is fenced
OF into small fields. the first step neccs-
sary will be to make Il good substan-
tial fence around your pasture land
and ~ 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 furrows. hacking weeds IN
fence corners, etc. So arrange your
work rs to reduce useless expenditure
of strength The outside OF field
always costs the most tproporliountcly)
to keep clean. The larger 'hc field I'M
der cultivation, the greater the econ
omy in producing the crops. Decide
what proportion Of your land YOU de-
sire 10 plow each year. II onc-fourth.
then take ii all up in one piece. Crops
will 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. rs
10 make II separate patch Of each Nari-
ETY..
| have lost much time for want of
proper system in arrangement Of crops.
| | now find it Il great convenience To
! put them all together as far as pra",i-
cable. If | am cultivating my Dotatoes
and wish 10 work in the garden trucl,
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
| cnn begin to convert my labor into
money. 1t Il well to bear in mind
in all your operations upon he farm
that time Is money. that you cannot nf-
ford TO do any work that can as well
he avoided, and that n carefully ar
ranged system of work TO be followed
out year after year will trim on the
useless or worse than useless work
that cuts on the profits wherever the
work of the farm has not been care
fully mapped out.-Ohio Farmer.