Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-07-15
OUR FARMERS.
CUMPTlON ON THE FARM.


A farm is worth twice as much as 1t
is worth in dollars and cents.
Slowly and steadily all day long ac-
complishes more than to hurry and
worry for short time and then quit.
One gets less tired for the same work
accomplished.
If there are any vacancies in the
corn field, fill them with beans or
something that can be turned to &C
count. Keep every foot of your farm
growing something that will keep.
Now don't find fault with your wife
because she doesn't keep pies baked
all the time. Anyway too much pie is
not healthful. An Indiana man died
after eating seven pies.
Stir the earth. Remember that as
agitation is the death of all political
wrongs, so is it death to weeds. Man
never devised more useful implement
than the hoe in it's various forms.
Your greatest aid in the harvest is
your faithful team. See to it that
your horses are not pestered by flies,
and that they are properly fed and
watered. They have we'll earned hu-
man. treatment.
Don't be afraid of OVERRIDING the Gull
tivation Of the corn crop. When there
is lull in your 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 bright hay that the cat
tie 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 sum-
mer's work unless you have cut out
the brush and stuff from the corners
OF the fence. Perhaps you have some
that will cut little grass. Save it all,
you will need it before 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. After this time the
hay shrinks 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 after.
harvest outings that you and your gooc
wife and your boys and girls are going
to have. Remember that love sweetens
labor
If farmer is not better than othe!
men,it is his own fault, for he live!
closer to the heart of nature. He hears
the voice of God every day in swee
) communion with the trees, the brooks
the sky. He beholds the glory Go,
+ has painted; he shifts fragrance from
, heaven. How can he help being good
: 1T is an i'll wind that blows nobod
good, and the hard times have ease
! the demand on the labor market, S
that it is now possible to get workers
e and the farmer and his wife may b
able to find some one to help if it
only long enough to tide over the extr
work the harvest makes in field an
house.
ThoseVho work afeld requiring thei
early rising enjoy the beautiful part {
n the day. The picture of daybreak i
e lumining the eastern sky and the su
st breaking through the mists of dawr
=, is one never to be forgotten. and it
n one SO Elusive that painters have trie
q IN vain adequately to put it on canva:
II A tub or a barrel often drops dow
81 for want of a hoop. II everybod
re knew how easy it is to make a hoe
h from wire. -perhaps piece of vast
n telegraph wire often seen by the roa,
st side, the work would not wait. Sin
u ply bend the wire around the tub |
or measure it, remove it and twist it fas
d, Then drive it on like hoop drive
e. fast. It will not break, and being ga
ID vanized will last indefnitely.-Fro
ne July Farm Journal.
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