The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-15

hills, if moles throw up the earth
more than usual, IL the asses fire.
quently shake and agate their ears,
Ii hogs shake and spoil the stalk of
corn, If the bats send forth cries and
fly into the houses, If the dogs roll
on the ground and scratch up the
earth with their forefeet and if COWS
look toward the heavens and turn up
their nostrils as If catching some
smell, If oxen lick their forefeet, and
oxen and dogs lie on their right side
rain is coming.
What Lamp Flame Tells.
If the flame of a lamp crackles or
flares it indicates rainy weather. The
same Is the case when the SCOT detach-
es itself from the chimney and falls
down. When the SCOT collects round
pots and kettles, takes fire in the form
of small points, like grains of millet, it
means rain, as the air is cold and
moist. If Goals seem hotter and the
flame more agitated than usual,
though the weather be calm at the
time, it indicates wind.
When the flame burns brightly and
steadily straight up, it indicates fine
weather The sound of bells heard at
great distance Is sign of wind or
change of weather. The hollow sound
of forests, the murmuring noise of the
waves of the sea, their foaming and
green and black color announce
storm.
Pleasant or unpleasant smells, as If
they were condensed, are signs of
change of weather. Spiders webs, or
leaves of trees, agitated without any
sensible wind, indicate approaching
wind and perhaps rain. A frequent
change of wind, accompanied by agi-
tation of clouds, indicates a storm.
A want of dew or a too great quantity
of 1t, being a mark of strong evapora-
ton, announces rain. The same holds
good when white hoar frost is thick.
Salt. marble and glass become moist
some days before rain; corns and old
scars become painful. Dry stones
and moist earth announce fine weather.
Dry earth and moist stones announce
rain. Wind, beginning to blow in the
day. is stronger and endures longer
than that blowing in the night.
Most farmers speak of their business
being we'll under their own control and
refer to running the farm but in very
many cases the farm is running the
owner and the latter is being poorly
paid for his labor. Any business, no
matter what it is, is profitable to it's
owner just to the extent of the amount
of profit it makes for him and no more.
The man who does business Of $1O,-
900 a year with $4,000 a year profit is
succeeding just as we'll as the man who
does half again as much business with
just the same profit. Some of us are
running our farms along these lines
and are doing it by trying to farm too
many acres and hiring too much help.
We find in the end that while our oper-
ations are larger and We have handled
more money, We have worked harder
and under more expense with exactly
the same amount of profit So far as it
is possible so to do the farmer should
put himself in position so that he can
do the bulk of his own work and do it
| without injury to himself. To accomp-
fish this he must reduce his cultivated
i area and specialize the crops. There is
scarcely a section of the farming coun-
try where a little thought would not
enable the farmers to grow some one
or two or three crops with greater pro-
fit than they are now growing a dozen
and do it with less hard work and as
much or more profit. Are you runnin.
your farm. friend or is your farm run.
ming you?
Try this plan of getting humus into
the soil and at the same time furnish
ing good forage crop for your stock