The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-28
NULTUM IN PARVO..

Seed catalogues are numerous AL
most every seedman claims special ex-
celleLce for a few new things in his line
These are always high priced, and the
almost universal desire to try new things
leads MANY to invest their money. Now
if these things are good, it won't take
long to find plenty of them on the mar
ket. However. in the meantime keep
right on planting the things you know
something about.
When a siXteen-year-old boy, unskilled
in every particular, can secure as wages
on a farm $40 month, his board and
washing. as he can today, he is alone to
blame if he is not worth $1,000 by the
time he is tWenty-fOur years aid. But
how many of them will save anything?
While a possible crop of onions is 500
bushels per acre under exceptional con-
ditions. an average crop may be placed
at 800 bushels, or about twice as many
bushels per acre as potatoes.
Right now, during the last days of
April, is the time to set out strawberry
beds We have sometimes thought that
the doing of this might almost come un-
der the head of legitimate Sunday work.
for the doing of it is certainly work of
necessity and mercy.
Why don't people visit each other more
and learn how each is doing a thing and
what it is done with. If our friend is not
doing a thing as wen as we do, it is our
duty to point out a better way. If a
we can learn something. Take the WON n
folks and the children along. What is
life without friendship!
Farming is now a better business than
it ever was, because farmers are better
farmers than they ever were. Science
has furnished the knowledge how, and art
the means by which hard drudgery may
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healthful exercise into pleasant recrea-
ton. And vet there are farmers who
still claim an interest in the curse of
Adam and refuse to accept redemption
because then they would not have enough
to grumble about.
We know you're busy. but spare lust
a little time for the flower bed Won
ing and refining influence in the home
the dear flowers. If there is time for but
one border of fiowers-the pansy verbena,
phIoN. sweet pea, lnignonette etc. bright
and blooming all summer, what a sweet
reward for small outlay of time, money
and labor.
Were each farmer to open his eyes and
look about his farm a S he should with
out being blinded by his. prejudice or the
propensity which is usually found in own
ership. he Will see plenty of fence cor
ners and waste places that are contrib
utng nothing toward the receipts of the
farm. "That which is not gathering is
scattering abroad"
Every farmer should have a strawberry.
patch. The strawberry should have Il
place on every table 1t is the king II
fresh fruits and puts up nicely. A very
small piece of ground, properly tended
to. will produce most wonderfully. There
is nothing to which a small patch Of
land can be devoted to that will create
so much delight in the home
The regularity of the milk flow de-
pends largely upon the regularity of the
milking. Milking whenever it is conVen-
lent will spoil the best of cows.
Nearly everywhere in the West and
Southwest ineXhaustibe wells can be had
at reasonable depth and at a moderate
cost. and there are thousands of pros
porous farmers who are able to sink q
Wen of this kind. Their prosperity might
be greater and their wealth augmented
if they would sink a we'll and build a
reservoir to supply moisture for the
thirsty crops during the dry months of
summer.
No farm house is complete without a
few flower beds. We should have beauti-
full things about us and see them every
day in order to develop into perfect man.
hood and womanhood Flowers not only
build up characters, but influence our
lives III many ways.
In their early history short-horn cattle
were known as TeeSWater, so named af-
ter the locality of their origin on the
banks of the river Tees in England. The