The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-10-11
WHAT FARMERS SAY.

plenty of cash." A good horse always
brings a good price, and plenty of
buyers are in the market for them.
Even a small farm-S0 or 100 acres
Ought to market q big bunch of fat
hogs twice a year. April pigs will
bring good prices in December or the
first OF the year. The breeding should
so be conducted as to bring pigs in
February and May.
Every man is rock in our govern
ment structure. The principles OF
Democracy as taught by the immol-
tai Thomas jefferson are kept in Sc
curity only by these rocks remaining
in their places, and these principles
underlie our governmental system.
Not every farmer sows wheat for a
money crop; in fact only few do
this. 1t is sown in order to rotate the
soil with other crops. Some farmers
don't cut the crop unless it is very
good and the price fair. Hogs are
turned in and given the right-of-way.
Glover sown in wheat fields in the
spring is the beginning of the rota-
ton.
The future safety of this Republic
rests with the voters. 1t is not prob
able that they will permit it to crum-
BILE in 1900. Every man interested in
the welfare of the country should vote
for those principles enunciated in the
Chicago platform. Their success
means freedom from Wall street oil
garchy; their defeat means servitude
to all the combinations of evil in the
land.
Neighbors should visit, and ex-
change ideas regarding farm opera
tons, etc. This is good, and will i'm
prove those engaging therein. Hos
pitality and socisbility should be Gull
tivated. The farmer who stays at
home will be criticised, and that just.
ly. Mingle together and enjoy the
long evenings of winter in company
with neighbors. This makes a COM
munity solid, substantial and united.
One of the best preventives of ali
kinds of diseases to which dumb an
finals are prone, is pure water. The
stagnant pond is not pure water by
any means. That green slime is laden
with billions CT disease germs of every
kind. Pure water comes only from
pure sources-springs and deep wells.
Cisterns, if kept well cleaned, are not
so bad, but are not so good as springs.
The annual waste of manure on
farms amounts in dollars to thou
sands. Only few farmers have
reached the point where the value of
manure is appreciated. Others are
falling in line as the years come and
go. When the country is so thickly
settled that every acre will have to be
worked for all there is in it, then ma
nure will be used as it should. A
common practice Is to throw it into
the river or haul it to q ditch and
dump it therein, and the first rain
washes it away and gives the value to
a farmer hundreds of miles away.
The wheat crop inIMissouri for the
year 1898 was not as large as was ex-
pected. One of the chief reasons for
this was that much of it was damaged
by wet weather and rust, (which great
ly decreased the yield. 1t was thought
that % bushels per acre would surely
be reaped. The quality.of this years
crop was far below crops of 1928
and '95. There's going to be plenty
of wheat next year if sowing much
this fall means anything. Just what
it will be worth, like it was this year,
is question not easily settled. But
of course Joseph Letter won't have
the power to say.