The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-05-22
squibs from a Farmers Note Book.
(S~uccessful Farming.)

weather keeps VI we Will soon turn
to pasture.
Some folks just have to turn out
to grass early because they have no
feed. That is folly. No n in
raising more stock than feed. The
silo helps out in the spring.
Some farm homes have no screens
on the doors and windows. It's a
shame that the pesky flies are not
kept out. l don't like to visit such
homes, do you?
Be careful around the telephone in
a thunderstorm unless you have a
safety cut out.
This brings up the thought Of pro-
tecting the buildings with good light
ming rods.
Don't believe in them? You have
let prejudice prevent definite knowl-
edge on the subject. Good lightning
rods, sold at an honest price are all
right.
Every farmer ought to carry in
surance on his buildings any way.
It's hard luck to see a $4,000 barn
go up in smoke and know that you
refused to insure it, or let the pol
Icy expire.
We farmers are game to every
sort OF scheme. No reason under the
sun why we should not own our tel
ephone exchange. But these things
Slip into the fingers Of large corpor-
atoms, and we pay for it.
BE sure and plant your taters in
the right change of the noon. 1
don't know when that is but usually
hit 1t just right for l have good
crops.
Pigs coming now will not be afict-
ed with the thumps If you have
pasture for the sows.
Cement is going to figure largely
in farm building in the near future,
as it has already in the cities.
Scraps Of news in the newspapers
indicate that there is some raiding
going on in the tobacco districts akin
to the work Of the Ku Klux Khan
that caused terror after the Civil war.
Is that the way to tight tobacco
trusts?
Congress has been a rather ex-
pensive luxury this session. Nothing
doing though the President has been
prodding the loafers mighty vigor-
ously.
II had the gift OF prophecy, I'd
say that the Parcel Post bill will be
postponed; the reciprocity measures
Will die in committee; the non-parti-
san revision of tariff schedules will
be still born.
Mex, month we will see the culmin-
alton of the long struggle for popu-
ssr.ty and nomination by the aspir-
ants for presidential honors. Let 1t
be soon so the country a settle
down again.
The proposed parcel post bill looks
10 ne like q joker. II we farmers
say it is all right to charge one mer-
chant. more than another for the
same service, then what are we go
ing to say when the railroads In
siss upon the same privileges Of dis
er%iminating in freight hauls?
Hard times didn't loosen up the
tightness of the labor market any
for the farmers. While there are
plenty OF men out of work they are
NOT the kind we farmers can use to
advantage. City fellows are OF little
value on the farm.
Graft isn't limited to politicians.
The hired man who wants you to
Keep q horse and buggy for him is q
CRATER. There is no telling where.
this will end II we farmers allow 1t.
Have you got the c%lothes-line SO
arranged that the women can hang
out the clothes without getting in.
the wet? II not, why not?
know It il too common for us
men forget to make these little con-
yeniences for the women but we.
should.
Ia there 4 good dry wink to the
wood shed and other out buildings?
II there mud scraper at the door
mat at every door? Is the wood un-
der shelter and the coal handy?
Maybe the old cook stove Ia 50
warped and broken that It will not
do good work. How long gwouldsyou
use a harvester that was past use
fulnessf Thensdon't expect the dear
wife To put up with@auchSa stove:
lust ask her kindly what little
things she Morld like TO have done,
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