Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-10-01
GUMPTION ON THE FARM.

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to note how your neighbor is hoe
ing his.
Better have patches on your
pants than a lot of unpaid bills and
threatening creditors.
How can any man sleep we'll at
night when he has scolded and
whipped 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 chips and wood to
last a week ahead is riches; fire out
and the last stick gone is poverty.
If you tell boy, day after day,
that he isn't earning his salt, he
will soon be likely to work down to
that estimate.
If the soil needs understanding,
now is an excellent time to lay the
tiles. They should be &C least two
and a half feet deep.
Don't give the cats and dogs
stale. dirty or soapy water to
drin!:. Sec that it is clean and
ircs You know how it is your
self.
Il pays better to be behind eve-
ryhody e,se in getting fall grain
sowed, and thus have the ground
well stirred, than to hog overit and
have it half done.
Money spent on booze is wasted,
spent on clothes is vanity, spent on
food is gone, and fooled away Is
wicked; but money spent for seed
or fruit tree is wisely invested.
The patrons along rural route
are apt to expect too much from
the carrier. 1t would be a great
help to the farmer to apply to the
government for a copy of the post
al laws in reference to the regula-
ton of rural carriers.
Are you planning to build new
house this fall? Don't make it too
large. Many houses are so large
that the women folks are kept
scrubbing a good share of the time.
Large enough for all practical pur-
poses, but no larger, should be the
rule.
In an address on the subject of
corn, Professor Beal remarked that
the top-mcst ear was best for seed;
of two fields, one planted with seed
taken at random and the other Sc
lected in the field, the latter yield
I ed as much again as the former.
If rye is sowed this fall for
green manure for potatoes next
season, l believe it would be better
to pillow it under next spring after
it gets good start and not wait
till it gets tall. Then the rye will
rot better before planting time, and
you will get more good from it.
Keeping cabbages: Select dry
place in the patch, pull up the cab
.bages and stand closely together,
heads down. Cover with soil from
five to ten inches, thinly at first so
thep will not heat, covering only
enough to prevent freezing as the
season advances. The burying
beds may be made from four to six
| feet wide.
The following method will appt al
to every farmer as the easiest,
quickest and least expensive plan
for storing all kinds of fruits and
vegetables, from a potato to a
pumpkin: Arrange the fruit or veg
etable in a long row, as high and as
wide as would seem advisable.
Spread little hay over them, and
set up fodder on each side 10 the
desired thickness say three or four
feet. This affords excellent pro-
lection from ordinary cold, and in
the case of pumpkin, turnip or cab
! bage storage, or any other article
| fed to stock, you have the means
at hand with which to form a most
desirable balanced ration as. you
| feed out the corn and fodder. This
method will prove especially valu-
able to renters and others who are
compelled to move early in the
spring, when it would be extremely
unhandy to chop through the froz-
en- ground and "fish out" fruit or
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