Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-01
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
rhASIiCAL SUGGESTIONS FOR
RURAL READERS.
5Iopg Plea For Syetem in Farm
sulphur for Fowls-Sheep
va otah--Frepartns Potato
seed -Somathing Worth
knowing Pointers.
a s'rons Plea for system i'm Farming

astrong Plea for system in rar.,inr
pHiting, drifting, drifting, Floating
a-ong with the current; dropping into
Tie ruts; slipping into the paths point.
eu out Dy existing circumstances, This
- as see the great mass Of farmers
orihs' this is the cause of so many
..aN, " Strengthened circum-
rant VI mediocre results and al
nost iruIless labor. This it is that
Mahes farm life the "humdrum" ey-
is.euce SO many realize, barren of salts
.ActoEy results, fruitless in much that
eAps 10 render life pleasant and at
uacu'e. Many a farmer is there who
neNef dreaming Of planning for more
ulah the single season, while there are
cutters WHO permit conditions rs they
hlu uleln to dictate their course Of
aclion. one will 90 out over his fields
III uae spring, select a little spot Of an
acre or two where the grass is failing
ana guess | will put a little corn here"
some other spot for like reason Win
oe selected for potatoes, and so il goes
III d series or patch work" ali oyeI. the
farm and all through the season. The
pio"InS, narrowing, ~cultivating, etc.
.ie jill performed at a cost augmented
because OF the small scale upon which
Tue WORK Is done. a little corn is pro-
uuceu ana led to the hogs: Il small
crop OF oats for the horses; a little
IL and Il few bushels of potatoes
LOT iaE2aiy use, and nothing 10 put into
market to be converted into cash. Now
10 o farmers who are always hard
up who never have any money to
spend Tor the pleasure that makes life
attractive, let me urge you to give up
your aaimless life and learn to do ONE
thlns, to accomplish results. Give up
playing ut farming drop the little
boy nj CT doing things, and work
Wlth some aim in view and sone sys-
TEN as a guide.
III you OWE a farm Of fifty or one
honlred acres or more, and ii is fenced
or 9nto small fields, the first step neces-
sary will be TO make a good substan-
tial fence around yeur pasture LAND
ana III you a do ne better between
your own and your neighbors', ana
stack your other fences out of the way.
Iou 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 a field
always costs the most (propOrtionateIy3
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 pillow each year. If ~one-fourth,
thea take it AL up in one piece. Crops
will not quarrel. You can Just as Well
put your pota%5es the whole ienSuI by
the side of the corn or upon the end Of
the corn rows, and yoar garden truck
upon the end of the potato rows. as
to make q separate patch of each sGri-
ETY..
| have lost TEuch time for want of
proper system IL arrangement of crops.
i now find ii a great convenience TO
put tEem all together ms far as praSti-
cable. If / am ~cultivatipg my potatoes
and wish to work in the garden truck
an hoGr, the TOOLS, horses and crops
are all together. Z don't have to load
up my tools and fool away time going
30 some other part of the farm before
Z can begin to convert my labor into
gOney. 1t is wen to bear in mind
I'm all your operations upon the farm
that time is money, that you cannot af-
ford to do any work that can as well
be avoided, and that q carefully ar
ranged sygtem of work TO be followed
out year after year viii trina 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.