The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

The war is over, but there Is plenty
of fighting to do against the insect
pests. The money reward will not
come in the way of pensions, but in
territory conquered.
If the boys were consulted more
about the plans for farm manage
ment they would faster develop in
usefulness when they begin to
figure out reasons and results, hus-
bandry will have for them new
attraction.
Cheap lands are a temptation to
own large farms, but the lesson of
danger is hard to learn. If the la
Dor and expense laid out upon the
whole were put on the half there
would be doubling of net profits.
Two thirds of the Inhabitants of
towns and cities live in hired homes;
in the rural districts but one-third
of the people are renters. The two
thirds who own their farms have
them free from mortgage encum-
brance.
Some, when they put away their
plows, cultivators and shovels in the
fall, coat them with whitewash. If
yours are not in bright condition
now, try the plan another year.
The man that has the best prospect
for successful season on the farm
is he who has his work we'll in hand
and will not overreach himself in
his desire to cover too much ground.
We will get good crop for our
pains only when we give our crops
the best of intelligent care from start
to finish.
There ia no easy way to get clear
bring victory. There must be short
rotation, clean hoed crops, stubble
moved before weeds go to seed,
early cutting of clover, and other
such common sense methods. There
must be no let up, for in one season
we may lose the gain of a decade.
There could be no increase in acre
age, and many of the fields now cul-
tivated would have to be abandoned,
were it not for the mechanical in
ventions for lessening of expenses in
growing and harvesting the crops.
The world would have to eat less or
pay more for it's food. We remember
the cutlery against the harvester, but
it has, indeed, been blessing. The
simplifying of labor never takes
work out of the hand of the laborer
Blue grass gives a full months
pasture before other grasses should
be grazed. 1t grows rapidly in cool
weather, and yet is very nutritious
when young, SO that cattle fatten on
it very early in the season, while or
a clover or timothy pasture Of the
same growth they could hardly live
Authorizations are never profitable
We can not persistently palm off oul
articles for good ones, nor sell low
grade for the price of the higher
Nothing is made by reducing quail
ty, even if the price is correspond
ing low. Ones reputation suffers
We have never regained the pres
tige lost across the water through
the expectation of filled cheese, anC
flour of the maize wheat blend hal
threatened us great disaster. For
eign countries are glad of any pre-
text for excluding American pro
ducts.
If the farm implements were no
put away in good condition, and /
the farmer is not mechanic enough
to make repairs, it is sometimes tn
best thing to employ a mechanic fo
a day or so rather than cart every
thing away to the repair shops
Have the work done right, for it will
not pay to bOtch such machinery
The farmer can at least be his Owr
painter, and every part should b
covered from decay and be mad
attractive in appearance while pain
ia an cham