The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-07-27

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Tie man who persists in planting all
small potatoes will get just what he
plants.
We always value the strawberry the
most just as 1t takes its departure. No
other berry quite takes its place.
The use Of salt on the hay will not
prevent the green clover from burning
up your barn. Some folk think 1t Will.
Queer condition of things In this
country-rich soil, but not enough help
to harvest the crops, especially In the
fruit growing sections.
II Is pretty well settled that corn
planted on fall plowing will ripen from
q week to ten days earlier than when
planted on spring plowing.
A farm automobile which will haul
the plow and the harrow and also serve
as farm power Is one of the coming
possibilities In the near future.
A few years have entirely changed
the appearance of all the vast prairie
regions Of the west. The groves have
destroyed the ocean-like look Of these
vast plains.
This country could very proftably
use 10000 Cinnamon as farm laborers
and nobody be hurt. Almost that many
could be used In the dairy and fruit
business alone.
Some way we can never quite get
used to q woman smoking, still there
are lots Of old ladies who get no end
Of comfort out of an old cob pipe. Why
should they not have the same privi-
leges cheerfully granted the old man?
For the first time In forty years the
writer of these notes Is SO situated this
summer that he has no garden Of his
own, and the having to pay 10 cents
for quart of stale peas or measly
little bunch of beets has made him
vow he will never be caught this way
again.
Now that the old farm mortgage Is
no longer hanging over your head and
there is besides nice little balance at
the bank there is no better thing to be
done than to commence improving the
old place. AS you will look 1t over 1t
which 1t may be done.
| Tho type of corn which will give the
| best crops is In all probability one
which has been raised In your locality
| for many years, one which has perfect
ly adapted itself to local conditions.
There are many mistakes made In I'M
porting seed corn, as only too many
farmers have found out to their sor-
row.
We hardly know whether 1t Is any
worse to sell your neighbor COW
which does not pay her way in your
dairy herd or sell her to the local
butcher for all your neighbors to have
hand In eating her up. The principal
difference Is that in the first case you
get the cussing. while In the last the
butcher gets 1t.
II you wish to destroy the grove
around your homestead and the fruit
trees In your orchard, turn the stock
loose and let them have the run of
grove and orchard. You may charge
the death of the trees up to borers,
drought or Providence, just as you
please, but the truth is that you killed
the trees the day You turned the stock
In.
1t beats all how much annoyance
and vexation can be worked up out OF
the everyday work ot life If one is al
ways looking for trouble and bound to
/ find 1t. And. invertlng this statement
1t also beats all h0w cheerful and
hopeful way Of looking at life and Its
work will checkmate trouble and make
life worth living. We always feel sorry
for that person who Is born with the
corners OF his mouth turned down.
Through all the country there is al
awakening interest in securing bettel
roads. The time has come when mer
no longer figure to zee how little worl
they can give in pay ment of their roat
taxes. and in many places q larg'
amount Of purely voluntary work Il
being done on the roads. This is /,
good sign, for in common with the car'
given the cemetery and the position
accorded to woman the good road indi
Gates the progressive civilization OF 1
community.
There is developing an unusual In
terest all over the country in natur,
study as a valuable feature In the pub
lie schools. This is study which in
yariabiy greatly interests the youni
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