The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-27
SOME GUMPTION
 ON THE FARM
From the Farm Journal.

From the Farm Journal.
 A farm is worth twice as much as it is worth in dollars and cents
 Slowly and steadily all day long &C., complishes more than to hurry and worry for short time and then quit. One gets less tired for the same work accom- plished
 If there are any vacancies in the corn field fill them with beans or something that can be turned to account. Keep every foot of your farm growing some thing 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 eat ing seven pies
 Stir the earth. Remember that as agi- tation is the death of all political wrongs so Is it death to weeds. Man never de- vised a more useful implement than the hoe in its various forms.
 Your greatest aid in the harvest is your faithful. team. See to it that your horses are not pestered by files. and that they are properly fed and watered. They have well earned humane treatment.k
 Don't be afraid of overdoing bhe culti-
 
 lull in other work, if the stalks are not so high that there is danger of knock ing 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 it is crisp and juicy.
 You are not done with your summers work unless you have cut out the brush and stuff from the corners of the fences. Perhaps you have some that will cut little grass Save it all, you will need it before next spring
 We have usually succeeded best in hav- ing our hay baled up as soon as the stacks are out of the sweat; then we sell at once. After this time the hay shrinks 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 a mental picture of the after harvest outing that you and your good wife and your boys and girls are going to have. Remember that love sweetens labor.
 If farmer is not better than other men, it is his own fault. for he lives closer to the heart Of nature. He hears the voice of God every day, in sweet communion with the trees, the brooks, the sky. He beholds the glory God has painted; he sniffs fragrance from heaven. How can he help being good.
 Tt is an i'll wind that blows nobody good,' and the hard times have eased the demand on the labor market, so that it is now possible to get workers, and the farmer and his wife may be able to find some one to help, if it is only long enough to tide over the extra work that harvest makes in field and house.
 Those whose work afield requires their early rising enjoy the most beautiful part of the day. The picture of daybreak H. 1umining the eastern sky, and the sun breaking through the mists of dawn, Is one never to be forgotten, and 1t is one so illusive that painters have tried in vain adequately to put it on canvas
 A tub or barrel often drops down for want of hoop. If everybody knew how easy it is to make a hoop from a wire perhaps a piece of waste telegraph wire often seen by the roadside-the work would not wait. Simply band the wire around the tub to measure it, remove 1t and twist it fast Then drive 1t on like hoop: drive it fast. It will not break, and being galvanized will last indefinitely.