The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02

Good grade draft horses are still in
demand. Raise few.
With your other planning, figure on |
raising colt or two this year.
Farm folks need the smile just as |
much as the crops need the sun
shine.
The stock market is the last place
in the world where the farmer wants
to venture.
Comfortable quarters for the hogs
are essential to proper economy of
the food ration.
3 Look through the vegetable bins
and let the stock clean up all the
small potatoes and the halfrotted ap-
pies.
The pr6s.nerity of the farmer was
honestly earned, which is more than
can be said for the success of some
business enterprises.
The farmer must plan the work
carefully and keep the farm help thor
oughly busy If he is to realize a profit
on the high wages he is obliged to pay
Too small field for the pigs will
result in their soiling the clover result
ing in their not eating II so fast. 1t pays
for the sake of the hogs to have a
large field.
Why not raise few mules? They
mature younger, and can be set to hard
work any time between two and three
years of age, thing you can't do with
the young horse.
A good time to begin with sheep.
Get small flock and start 1t on pas
ture and you will be ready to give
them good care next fall Meanwhile
plan your winter quarters.
The seed corn which was selected
last fall and thoroughly dried will
prove the wisdom of the farmer in the
eyes of his less careful and provident
neighbor when the two stands of corn
of the coming season are compared.
Fruit trees need much potash and
phosphorus. Stable manure has these
elements in a smaller proportion than
some other kinds of fertilizer. Wood
ashes are probably the most perfect
fertilizer known for fruit trees and
plants
This sounds well and we believe it
is true: Farming Is profession re-
quiring more shrewdness than law,
more technical training than medicine,
more uprightness than theology, more
brains and resourcefulness than peda-
gogy. 1t Is it's own reward"
Yes, the COW did kick, but that was
no excuse for you losing your temper
and lamming her numerically with
the milking stool. l overheard farm
er say the other day that it had cost
him the profits on COW for three
days for the beating he had given the
COW.
The first thing to do with the newly
born lamb is to get it full of the ewes
first milk. Many lambs life can be
saved by a little attention at this
time. 1t often occurs that the teat
becomes clogged and will not yield
to the efforts of the lambkin. Lend a
helping hand.
The fall-dropped colt is more con
venient on the average farm than
those born in the spring Some of the
horses on nearly every farm are idle
all winter anyway and the mares
might better be nursing colts and Civ
ing them a good start than to be eat
ing their heads off and giving nothing
in return.
Let the boys on the farm have some
animal or plot of ground which is
really their own, and then let them
realize the profits to be made from
them. In this way they will feel a
personal interest in farm matters and
will learn by practical experience the
ms and outs of stock raising and farm
ing. This will tie them to the farm
as nothing else will
In estimating the amount OF seed
needed for a certain field 1t is quite
essential that you know its dimen-
sions within reasonable accuracy. But |
do you? Is it not largely guess work |
A good cotton cord, the size of plow |
line, should be kept for a measuring |
line. To make one, buy 70 feet of cot |
ton cord. fasten ring at each end |
and make these rings exactly Sc feet |
apart. This is four rods. Tie piece |
of red cloth In the center. One acre
of ground will be the length of four of |
these cords and 21s cords wide, equal |
to 16x10 rods. making 100 square rods