The Elbert County tribune., 1908-02-06

VIII "hich TO run out wild oats.
DO 1t now is a good watchword to
keep before you during this new year.
Lgnt soils and southern exposure
provide the ideal conditions for early
fruits.
The straw from the pig pen is satu-
rated with liquid manure and is fine
for the land.
Keep 1he cows just on the verge of
hunger and they will put no surplus
in the milk pail.
GOOD stock cannot be raised from
scrubs any more than good fruit can
be grown on poor plants.
some one suggests n rule OF three
as follows by which to run the home:
Father' mother and forbearance.
triple extraction Of goodness
which VIII affect the milk pail favor
ably: Good care. good feed, good
shelter.
Don't have the manure trench be-
hind the cows too shallow, or they will
stand in It. Eight to ten inches is
none too deep.
A share of the profits of the farm
belong to the wife, whose faithful
labors has made 1t possible for you to
do as we'll as you have done. Divy up.
More and more farmers boys are
taking the agricultural courses at the
dinerent state colleges, which is one
OF the most encouraging signs for the
future Of agriculture.
Wont be long now before you will
be mead over heels in the spring work.
Too late then to spend time reading
and studying and planning out the
seasons work. Do it now.
Yes, 1t is Just as dishonest to buy
short measure bottles and deliver
them to customers as full measure as
1t would be to fail to fill the measure
up full and claim you had given full
quart.
Let the hogs out on the sunshiny
days. Nothing like warm bit of sun.
shine on their backs to inyigorate
them and make the feed count for
more. It's the contented stock which
make the most rapid gains.
Where observations have been
made 1t has been proved that orchards
cultivated faithfully gave abundant
yields of apples while those sown In
grass and not cultivated have not
yielded at all satisfactorily.
How about those accounts you were
going to start with the new year? Not
too late to begin now. You ought to
keep track of the outgo and the In
come. Otherwise how can you know
whether you are getting ahead or run.
ming behind?
He that putteth farm before wife is
small souled and shirt-sighted. Let
not the burdens of the farm press too
heavily upon her shoulders. 1t is
needless drudgery which takes the
joy out of life and makes the farm the
prison from which the soul longs to be
set free.
nrYN ta fIA
the arrangements are such as to make
work therein easy Have you such a
barn? Have you put in that stairway
to the loft. or are you still content to
expend time and effort in swinging
from rafter to rafter in gaining access
to the upper story?
The reason why poultry on the
farm pay is because all grain food can
be grown on the farm, as well as po.
tatoes, turnips, beets, mangels, cab.
bages. clover, etc, for which the city
breeders, or those les fortunately sit
uated, have to pay big price, and
which represents a big item on the
expense side of the annual account.
A COW standing in barn or in a
fence corner shivering with the cold
with great balls Of manure hanging
to her thighs. with her tail loaded
down with the same, is not comfort
able. and will take nearly all the food
she Will eat, under the above condi
tons. to sustain life; and the owner
will have to think pretty hard, II he
thinks at all-which is doubtful-if he
is able to figure out where the profit
comes in.
You will reap from your ewes Just
such a crop of lambs as you have
worked for. If the care OF the ewes
has been matter of small thought
and convenience. and the feeding has