The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-08

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The farmers road TO success is paw
ed with good resolutions.
A well-filled woodshed and a conven-
tent water supply go a long ways to-
ward promoting domestic tranquility.
In some poultry houses it is fight
between the man and the house to see
which gets the most good out of the
business.
Lie down and stretch out few min
ties every day. Shut your eyes and
let the world so. 1t will do you more
good than anything else.
The most recent idea in branding
stock is to burn the telephone number
in the skin. The owners of stray cows
may then be easily located.
At the sale of @. W. Fink, of Mary
vile, Mo-. thirty-fiye head of Aberdeen
Angus cattle brought 5000, an aver
age of $123 for each individual.
Sip the cold water you drink these
days lot of cold water gulped down
will be apt to bring on collie. You
haven't the time nor strength to waste
in that way.
This is the time of the year when il
takes the tuck out OF tie boys to WORK
much before breakfast. Don't expect
to do a half days work on an e-rty
stomach. You wouldn't think of treat
ing the horse that way.
If the corn cultivator undergoes a:
much improvement in the next few
years as it has in the past, it viii
almost be a white shirt job to pillow
corn. The dustless feature should bt
next given attention by makers.
Farming and politics is combina
ton to which 10 graduates in large
eastern college have announced as theil
future life work Running for Office
and farming are commonly associated
but not popularity after such prepare
ton.
The reason why wool merchants al
ways request the tying of fleece will
cotton or hemp cords instead of binder
Irvine is because the Irvine fibres ge
mixed in with The fleece and in dyeins
refuse to take the color. This make:
extra work in picking out the objection
able fiber.
Italian farmers are suffering from
scarcity of labor more than the Amer
lean farmers. During the past TIVE
years 2JO.000 laborers from the prov
inces of that country have emigratet
to the United States, but most of thes'
stop in the big cities and do not worl
at farming.
The old way of growing garden truck
in little square or oblong beds. is on
of date Long rows are far the best
Then the horse and cultivator can d'
lot of the work we used 10 do b.
hand. Life is too short and too bus.
to admit of rlucb hand work anyvher
in these days.
Hundreds of years ago, Tull said
''Tillage Is marur and while he wa
mistaken as to this, he was thinking
along correct lines The fact is, tn
more finely divided the particles of tn
soil are, the greater the moisture con
tent of that soil and the more solubl
the plant food.
For all one can tell nowadays hi
cultivators and curry-ccmbs may b.
made of old wagon tires and boot
Jacks picked up anywhere betweel
Maine and California. The old irol
| gathering Industry has become an eN
tenslve one and in large cities may b
found acres of scrap piles awaiting re
melting.
The value of the farm telephone wa
strikingly shown recently in the cas-
of Mrs. George Stech, of Centervillt
Iowa. A tramp broke into her HON
when she was alone with her baby, bu
before Re smashed in her front doc
she ran to the telephone to give tn
alarm. The tramp attacked her befor
she could do so, but the receiver beip
off the hook, her screams were hear
by many of her neighbors along tn
! line and assistance soon came.
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