The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-13
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
Continued from sixth Page.

for a few days, because the plow or the
harrow needs repairing or the team is
iaded and thin. Keep things in ship
shape and up-to-date; take time by
the forelocl1 If the ploW is not mended
it is your place to have it mended.
To let your stock run all winter on
the dry wiregrass without feed. Keep
no COW that does not give milk enough
to pay for her feed and more, and let
your dry cattle be good enough to de-
serve a forkful of beggarweed or vel
vet bean hay once a day.
To sit by a cheerful fire in blizzard
weather. while your cattle shiver be-
hind pine tree, and your hogs squeal
in a frantic effort to get under each
other.
To plant more tillage crops than you
can well cultivate. You will half chop
the wiregrass over the whole area and
raise half crops, while if you had chop
ped only half the space, you might
have raised a fine lot of hay for your
stock.
To pay close attention to the com
fort of your horses and cattle and
hogs, while you are working the life
and spirit out of your wife and chill
dren.
To sell the best of everything to the
bOWil PCOpAC anu COlAouliC NiAC ACAhoC
at home.
To refuse to provide the wholesome
comforts of life for the family and
then complain about the bills of the
physician and under taker when dis
ease and death result
To feed corn and good velvet bean
hay to scrub stock that you have to
work hard to induce anybody TO buy
when a reasonable amount of money
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enable You to grade up your stock to
a respectable basis.
To plant a crop without making any
allowance for frost or drouth, which
are almost certain to part down your
margins of time.
To keep more dogs than sheep.
To buy factory lard and wonder why
it smells to heaven, when with a little
breeding up and feeding of peanuts,
sweet potatoes and corn, you could
raise your own.
To use Old-fashioned, antiquated inn
plements because your grandfather did
and prospered. His competitors were
no better equipped than he was.
To waste your time bothering with
scrub stock, simply because that sort
can live on wiregrass and weathered
cornstalks and stable itself behind a
cypress tree. Even the deer is sharper
than that, for it lives on the sweet
herbs between the wiregrass, and can
starve your scrubs to death. You can
not afford to compete with the deer.
To spend your spare time-you are
apt to call it all spare time-at a cross
roads "deadfall." 1t is as bad as a
frost, the San Jose scale and the boil
worm all put together.
To expect your boys to stay on the
farm and help you, when they are large
enough to do good work, simply for a
previously enforced habit of drudgery.
Boys don't do that in these days. If
they cannot have a reasonable amount
Of pleasure at home, they will seek it
somewhere else.
To spend previous time grumbling
about the millionaires, the gold stand
ard, or transportation charges that
might be better occupied in getting
ground in first-class order for another
crop.
To wear out your life in trying TO
plow among the stumps or to be ever
lastingly mending the fence against
the razorbacks. A sensible man burns
out the stumps in winter and makes a
new fence.
To buy demijohn of whisky for
Christmas, when times are so hard, as
you allege, that you canont afford to
take a good agricultural paper