The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-07-09
dumptlon on the Farm.

Slowly and steadily all day long
accOmpIishes more than to hurry
aud worry for short time and
then quit. One gets less tired
for the same work accomplished.
If there are any vacancies in
the cornfield, fill them with beans
or something that can be turned
TO account. Keep every foot of
your farm growing something
that will help.
Now don't find fault with your
wife because she doesn't keep
pie baked all the time. Anyway,
too much pie Is not healthful. An
Indiana man died after eating sew.
en- PIES.
Stir the earth. Remembe that
as agitation Is the death of all po.
lltical wrongs, so is 1t death to
weeds. Man never devised a
more useful implement than the
hoe in It's various forms.
Your greatest aid in the har
vest Is your faithful team. See
TO it that your horses are not
pestered by flies, and that they
are pl operly fed and watered.
They have well earned humane
treatment.
Don't be afraid of OVERRIDING the
cultivation of the corn crop.
When there is a lull Ia other
work, If the stalks are not so high
that there is danger of knocking
them over, run the cultivator
through the field once more.
If you want nice bright hay
that the cattle will eat up clean,
and that will do them the most
good, don t wait till the blossoms
have dropped off and the stalk is
dry and hard; cut your grass
when 1T is crisp and juicy.
You are not done with your
sum mer's work unless you have
cut out the brush and stuff from
the corners of the fences. Per
haps you have some that will cut
little grass. Save it all, you
will need it before next spring.
We have usually succeeded best
in having our hay baled up as
soon as the stacks are out of the
sweat; then we sell at once. Aft.
er this time the hay shrlnks a
good deal, and more waste must
be cut from the outside Of the
stacks.
When the day is particularly
hot and trying, and things seem
to go at cross purposes, think of
something pleasant. Just draw
mental picture of the after-har-
vest outing that you and your
good wife and your boys and girls
are going to have. Remem Der
that love sweetens labor.
If a farmer is not better than
other men, it is his own fault, for
he lives closer to the heart of Ma.
ture. He hears the voice of God
every day, in sweet com munion
with the trees, the brooks, the
sky. He beholds the glory God
has painted; he shifts fragrance
from heaven. How can he help
beng good?
"It is an i'll wind that blows no.
body good, " and the hard times
have eased the demand on the la
Dor market, so that it is now pos
slble to get workers, and the
farmer and his wife may be able
to find some one IT, help, IL it is
only long enough to tide over the
extra work that harvest makes in
field aud house.
Those whose work atield re-
qulres their early rising, enjoy
the most beautiful part of the
day. The picture of daybreak H.
lumlning the eastern sky, and the
sun breaking through the mists
of dawn, Is one never to be for
gotten, and it is one so Elusive
that painters have tried In vain
adequately to put 1t on canvas.
A tub or a barrel often drops
down for want of a hoop. If ev
erybody knew how easy 1t is to
make hoop from wire-per-
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