The Elbert County tribune., 1907-11-07

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Pigs will not be profitable If forced
to sleep out of doors these cold fall
nights.
Never buy a COW until you have
tested her by milking her twice in
succession.
Regular time for feeding with the
sheep is rs important as with the 9th.
er live stock.
1t is wise farmer WIN knows how
to hire others to do work he is not
able to do himself
Poverty is punishable by hard labor
for life. No need of the farmer be-
ing overburdened by either.
Getting hay in on the eight hour
system is good. that Is, eight hours
before dinner and eight hours after.
1t is more profitable to discuss farm
problems than to get tangled up in a
political argument with your neighbor.
Borrowing your neighbors' tools
and borrowing trouble are sometimes
Identical. for the one leads to the
other.
Pass on the good ideas to your
neighbors. 1t is the good things we
share with others which we keep most
surely for ourselves.
If the cows were permitted to
choose owners would they want to
stay with you or go with your more
thoughtful, careful neighbor?
Ringbone on the hind foot of horse
may be benefited by treatment, but
when on the forefoot unnerving is
about the only cure for the lameness.
Who are the "old fogies?" Surely
not the rugged old farmers who have
too much sense to adopt off-hand
every new-fangled notion as it comes
along.
The diseased hog should be removed
from the herd as soon as possible and
placed in quarantine. A little pre-
caution will save spread of serious
epidemics, sometimes.
The farmer that hauls bad cream or
milk to the creamery lowers the quail
ity of butter produced by the cream.
cry and Injuries the interests of all the
farmers patronizing the place.
Are your cows afraid of you? If so
they will not do the best by you. ]
would not keep a hired man on my
place five minutes who did not have
enough sense to treat the cattle right.
Don't do all the thinking for your
boy. Cultivate the habit in him of
thinking for himself. Make him self.
reliant. Let him get up against diff.
culties and then let him work his own
way out.
At show in New York city recently
a new-fangled mixer operated by cleo
tricity was in practical use. Is the
day approaching when the work OF
dairying will be SO simplified as to be
classed with the easy occupations?
Make the poultry house snug for
the winter. Be sure there is good ven
tilation, however. Try the muslin cur
tain over part of the window from
which the glass has been removed
This will give fresh air without
draught.
1T is the lofty ideal that redeems
the life from the curse of common.
ness, and imparts a touch of nobility
to every calling" and none more SO
than that of farming. 1t is the farm.
er with the lofty ideals who finds in
the old farm . wealth of Joy and glad
ness and an appreciation of the bounti-
full goodness of God.
Apple culture offers one of the most
promising features of fruit farming
of the future. There is cheap land in
abundance in sections where the soil
and other conditions are well adapt
ed to its production. But men are
wanted who have an intelligent appre-
citation of what the trade demands,
and a knowledge of soil care and cul-
tivation.
The farmer is living more comfort
able today than he did twenty years
ago, and 1t costs more. With larger
outgo there must be larger income.
We often wonder IL the farmer is do
ing all he can to make mis- farm pay.
Sheep have long been a neglected me-
dunn Of making the farm pay, at least
by many farmers. In the opinion of
those who have tried 1t there is no
more profitable product of the farm
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