The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1905-02-04
PRACTICAL FARM NOTES.

Think about the fertility of the
farm more and not so much about
making money,
Go exceedingly slow with ginseng
until the future of the industry il
proved. This is safe advice to take
The Department of Agriculture has
a notion that an era of higher wheat
is approaching.
foundations caused the loss in
Germany last year of nearly S. Il !.
100000 worth of property, mostly
crops.
A dairy school has been opened u
connection with the University oil
California.
Elbow grease and self-denial will
knock the props from under almost
any mortgage.
The grain farmer can have no
more profitable stock around the
barns than half a dozen good cats.
The farmer who is bigger than his
farm will win. The farmer who is
smaller than his farm will lose.
Some years ago people wondered
what would become of us when the
timber was used up. The question:
is answered by cement.
What dreary place is a farm
without fruit-it will be a race be-
tween the doctor and the sheriff as
to who secures final possession of it.
1t is not the number of farmers in
this country that makes it really
great, but the number of good farm
ers.
ANY creature, man or beast, must
have something to do every day to
be healthy. Sitting down and eat
ing heartily all the time will soon
undermine the best health.
Keep an account book and record
in it faithfully the transactions of
every day. A farmer who does not
do this is just as bad off as sailor
at sea without chart or compass.
There are farmers sous i'll towns
and cities squeezing out a seanty,
unbalanced ration as second-rate
professionals, who could have made
the farm pay large dividends.
Cut loose from every mistake made
last year and say Goodbye" to re-
greet. Too late to feel sorry when
you are slipping halfway down the
barn roof Dig in the fingers and
toes and let everything else wait
Eating is not going out of fashion;
therefore farmers may take courage
in the producing work Butter,
milk, eggs, poultry, beef, mutton,
pork, all vegetables, must be raised.
Who but the farmer can supply these
things?
The time is soon coming when the
power now going to waste in many
swift-howing farm streams will be
utilized to turn dynamos from which
will come light and power for farm
needs.
1t is never ceasing wonder and
marvel how nature will take the
rainfall, the sunshine, the heat, and
out of the same sort of plant food
make a thistle, a rose, a skunk cab
bage or peach.
The father who would have his
son stay with him, must teach him
to love the farm and the things that
make the farm an attraction. There
is but one time to teach child, and
that is all the time.
Handsome is as handsome does. ,"
The finest marked Brahma hen the
writer ever owned laid only thirteen
eggs during the entire year, As il
takes hfty-two eggs year to pay q
hens board, that handsome lady
was greatly in our debt.
An authority says ton of apples
takes only sixty cents worth of fer
tility. Apples ought to be a very
profitable crop at that rate, when
compared with the tact that ton
of hay which sells for, say $40, re-
moves about 81 worth of fertility
from the soil,
Why buy fruit trees just because
the catalogues show up fine pictures
of them2 Let us try to find what
kinds are best suited to our locality