The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1909-11-18

gently.
The farmers wife's social life is |
UNNECESSARILY more attractive than it |
used to be.
Intensive farming of small areas |
makes closer neighbors, concentrates |
wealth and social convenience.
Neatness in all departments of the |
farm life ought to be the farmers |
motto, but especially in the dairy.
In any part of the country the more
we use our crops to produce some
thing of greater value, the more we
will have.
Get the best appliances you can for
the dairy, but remember that the best
machinery ever made requires gump-
ton behind it.
The new agriculture is one Of the
important occupations open 20 youth
and early experience on a farm is a
good foundation for later professional
training in it.
Feed is too expensive to use spar
ingly You get no real returns from a
mere subsistence ration. 1t is what
you feed above that that really makes
money for you.
The business of the strawberry
grower is to supply favorable condi-
tons and to direct the energies of the
plant in such directions as will best
serve his purpose.
A large number of farmers from
Finland. in the northern part of the
Russian empire, are going into New
England and taking up the abandoned
farms in that section.
The Wisconsin dairyman who has
been experimenting with molasses as
food for his dairy cows declares that
it increases the milk flow and inl-
proves the quality of butter.
So in a womans kitchen or sewing
room the utensils or materials should
be near at hand and always kept in
the same place, that no time or steps
will be lost in looking for them.
A tremendous experiment in sewage
farming will soon be undertaken on
the sandy wastes of Long Island. The
sewage from Greater New York will
be applied by the irrigation process.
A newly stirred soil admits the air
| to the roots, conserves moisture and
prevents the growth of weeds. Every
shower tends to seal up the surface
and exclude the air So we aim to stir
| the soil after every rain.
The Rhode Island State Grange de-
mands law which will recompense
farmers for losses sustained by the
enforcement of the state laws regard
ing tuberculosis and other animal dis
eases.
The largest alligator farm in the
country is near Hot Springs, Ark. 1t
contains about 500 gators, the largest
of which is Is feet long, and whose
age is estimated at 200 years. The
crop is sold to northern tourists.
Those who work out of doors, next
to the ground" in pure air, suffer
none of the ills experienced by those
who toll in factories and sweatshops.
and the country boy who follows the
pillow finds health and strength in the
furrow.
When animals get sick on the farm,
the first question usually is, what
medicine is wanted? Now, medicine
has its own part, but no medicine will
effect a cure without proper attend
ance and nursing, while good nursing
will often bring patient around with
out any medicine.
A shelf back of the kitchen table
on which to place cups, spoons and
small vessels that are used frequently, |
the wash basin within reach of the
roller towel, a drinking cup near the |
water pail, all save needless eXertion |
and time that may be utilized for
something else or rest.
Farmers have a better way of doing |
their work than in former years. They |
live up in style since they are making |
lots of money. There is another view, |
however. Better living, better cloth |
ing and better lodging, and children |
better educated This seems to pre-
pare them for leaving the farm, rather |
than staying on it.
Sometimes one is convinced during |
the strawberry season that his soil is |
not rich enough Some complete fer |
tilizer or a thin coating of decomposed |
manure may be scattered between the
plants to increase the growth 1t is |
we'll to see that the roots of auy rank |