The Elbert County tribune., 1907-11-14
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Don't be fusser
Dandelion leaves makes good feed
for the hens.
It makes it easier to wean two colts
At the same time.
Did you ever know a strawberry bed
to be too rich or too clean?
Use only a pure bred ram II you
wish to improve your stock.
A shelf in the woodshed or cellar Is
4 good place on which to keep the
oil can.
Cows are apt to choke on the ap-
pies you feed them unless you cut
them in two.
OF all the chores on the farm, the
milking is the most important and
should be done on time.
- The old farmer who is progressive,
and the country is full of them, is a
great help to any community.
Yes, you can learn something even
from that shiftless neighbor of yours.
He shows you how not to do things.
Whose fault is it II your sheep have
not been profitable this year, with
mutton and wool at the top-notch
price?
Give the hogs plenty OF ashes or
charcoal and salt. An old ash bank
thrown into the pen and well-salted
will do the hogs good.
Practice the golden rule in your
stock deals. Do not misrepresent will
fully. A clean conscience is better
than a pocket full of money.
Appease the appetite of the wood
box, the coal hod and the water pail
and wife will be in better temper to
prepare the food to appease your ap-
petite.
With the decrease of farm help
there is bound to be an increase in
farm machinery and horses. Prices of
horses continue high. Keep on rails
ing good draft colts.
Here's a good toast for the farmer:
"Here's health, wealth, long life, hap
piness and prosperity; good crop of
corn, good price for your wool, more
friends and less need of them"
Be sure and have a goodly supply
Of fuel in the shed ready for the busy
housewife. Think of her having to go
out to the woodpile and to pick from
snow-covered and ice-coated sticks.
The music which sounds good to the
farmers ear is the cackling of the
busy hen, the growing of the lordly
rooster, the contented gruntng of the
swine, the lowing of the cattle and the
barking of the dog.
AS you drive to town to do a little
shopping it will make a more careful
buyer of you to repeat over a few
times the old proverb that "he who
buys what he does not want will soon
Sandy soils to be enriched by green
manure should be cropped at the
same time to receive the maximum
benefit, as the nitrogen from green
manures which is not at once utilized
for the crops is carried away in the
drainage.
Ever have your neighbor bring back
the tool he had borrowed in broken
condition saying, You get it fixed and
I'll pay for it?" You are put to the
double trouble of making the repairs
and collecting the bill, besides being
deprived of the use of the tool until
it is fixed. Such a neighbor is a good
one to cut off the borrowing list.
Have you housed all the farm i'm
plements yet? In passing along the
roadside the other day during one of
the drizzly cold rains we always get in
the fall, noticed a plow, bright and
fresh from the fields-and a brand
new one It looked, too-which was
standing out in all the miserable
weather. And the next time that
farmer uses that plow he will have to
turn many a furrow before the rust
has been rubbed from the mold board
Butter containing 16 per cent. or
more of moisture is classed by the
pure food law as adulterated butter,
and to manufacture 1t legally requires
a license of 5000 per year and the ad-
ditional payment of ten cents per
pound. Manufacturing adulterated but
ter without a license is liable to lead
to fine of 1000. besides the original
tax of ten cents per pound and the Ii.