Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-02-22

now operating a cement block ma
chine which enables him to make tile
at a cost Of 2 cents each for the small
tile. It's coming-the time when the
farmer will make his own tile, tanks.
barn floors, fence posts and lots of 9th
er things, and do it for less than he
pays for the perishable things which he
now buys and uses. sa.~
On nearly every farm in the country
more attention can profitably be paid
to the poultry interests. This may take
the form Of providing better buildings
for the birds, in getting a we'll bred
stock Of hens, in caponizing all the
young ROSTERS, in feeding less corn and
more Of an egg producing ration.
Where now the income from the poul-
increased to 5000.
Don't encourage that boy in his idea
that he has had enough schooling be-
fore he has finished common high
school course. Keep him going, even
urging. The successful man of the flu
ture must be an educated man. Things
have changed since you were a boy
and are changing more rapidly now
than ever before. The chances for the
plug man are disappearing, so give
your boy enough education to raise him
out of this class.
There are we'll defined symptoms OF
another crazy boom where lands of lit
tie or no value will be advertised and
suckers caught by the thousand. Just
suggestion here: Never buy land OH
the other fellows representation alone 4
See it personally, dig into the soil and
find out what the surface soil and sub .
soil are, study the weather records local.
ly and especially find out what the av-
erage rainfall is; make the acquaint-
ance Of the oldest settler and pump
him dry. Where one buys land I'M
sight, unseen, he finds out whole lot
Of things just as soon as he tries to-
make farm of it.
There are a million families in the
United States in and around our cities
passing from the cradle to the grave in
an environment Of respectable poverty
who could have their material condi-
ton immensely improved could they
but understand the possibilities con
nected with the intelligent culture Of
a small piece Of land. The good living
connected with a ten acre farm is only
just beginning to be understood. AS
we look at the situation there is no
other thing which offers so much prom
Use of amelioration of the condition Of
this hard up class as to get them in
touch with the SOIL For twenty-five
years it has been a grand rush for the
cities; now it should be .''back to the
land" .s
There are few fundamental and old
fashioned truths relating to farming
which it is as hard to make some people
recognize and live up to as it is with
other people and the Ten Command
ments. Among them is the fact that
the same crop cannot be grown year
after year on the same land without
deterioration of the crop and injury to
the soil; another, that crops cannot be
continually removed from the soil at a
profit unless the soil is fed and rested,
this corresponding to the ancient max
i'm, "Thou shalt not steal;;" another,
that the tile drainage of land will make
it drier in a wet time and wetter in
dry time; another, and perhaps the
most Important Of all, is that it always
pays better to grow a big crop on
small acreage than a poor crop on
large one.
We know a wealthy farmer living
about mile from a certain town who
decided that he would be more useful
and more happy If he moved to town
with his family, composed Of boys and
| girls, none Of whom had reached his or
her majority. He did so, and at the end
Of a couple Of years we find him back in
his country home. During the two
years residence in town the boys learn
ed more meanness than they will ever
forget, and no amount Of country air
] will ever purify their morals. The ia
ther, as the rule with most hardwork-
ing men who exchange regular work
for irregular idleness, formed a con-
venient lodging place for stray germs,
and as q result his health IS forever
impaired. Moreover, during those two
years Of idleness he made himself 50
obnoxious to his friends and others ii
town BY sticking his nose in affairs
which concerned him not that he has
forfeited much OF the esteem which he
had gained as busy and useful farm
O.. Let not your longing after the flesh
pots Of town life lead you into q similar
| mil mistake.