Semi-weekly herald., 1909-10-07
suMerion ON THE FARM.

Farm Journal.
II you hoe your own row with dill
gence you win have little leisure to
note how your nelghbor is hoeing his
Better have patches on your pants,
than lot of unpaid bills and threat
ening creditors.
How can any man sleep well at
night when he has scoided and whip
ped his horses all day.
Beginning to think about your wood
pile? That's right. Cold nights make
US creep up about the stove.
Enough dry wood and chips to last
q week ahead is riches; fire out and
The last stick gone is poverty.
II you tell boy. day after day.
that he Isn't earning his salt, he VIII
soon be likely TO work down to that
estimate.
II the soil needs undertaking, now
is an excellent time to lay the tiles.
They should be at least two and half
feet deep.
Don't give the cats and dogs stale,
dirty or soapy water to drink. See
that 1t is clean and fresh. You know
how 1t is yourself
Ii pays better to be behind every
body else In getting fall grain sowed,
and thus have The ground well stirred.
than to hog over 1t and have 1t half
done.
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spent on clothes is vanity, spent on
food is gone. and fooled away is wick
ed; but money spent for seed or
fruit free is wisely invested.
The patrons along rural route are
apt TO expect too much from the
carrier. IL would be a great help to
the farmer to apply to the government
for copy of the postal laws In ref
erence to the regulation Of rural car
riers.
Are you planning TO build new
house this fall? Don't make 1t toe
large. Many houses are so large that
the woman folks are kept scrubbing
good share of the time. Large
enough for all practical purposes. hui
no larger, should be the rule.
In an address on the subject OF
corn. Professor Beal remarked thai
the top-most ear was the best fol
selected III Tie field, tie latter Yielded
as much again as the former.
If rye sowed this fall as a green
manure for potatoes next season,
believe 1t would be better to plow 1t
under next spring after 1t gets good
start and not walt until 1t gets tall,
Then the rye Will rot better before
planting time and you will get more
good from 1t.
Keeping cabbages; Select a dry
place In the patch, pull up the cab
bages and stand close together, heads
down. Cover with soil from five to
ten inches, thinly at first SO they will
not heat, covering only enough to
present freezing as the season ad.
vances. The burying beds may be
made from four to six feet wide.
The following method will appeal to
every farmer as the easiest. quickest
and least expensive plan for storing
all kinds of fruit and vegetables. from
a potato to pumpkin: Arrange the
fruit or vegetables In long row, as
high and as wide as would seem ad.
visable. Spread little hay over them.
and set up fodder on each side to the
desired thickness-say, three or four
feet. This affords excellent protec-
ton from ordinary cold; and In the
case OF pumpkin. turnip or cabbage
storage. or any other article fed to
stock. you have the means at hand
with which to form q most desirable
balance ration as you feed out the
corn and fodder. This method will
prove especially valuable to renters
and others who are compelled to move
early In the spring. when 1t would be
extremely unhandy to chop through
the frozen ground. and fish out" fruit
or vegetables from the old-fashi
hole" or pit.