The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-08
DON'T FORGET THIS
CLEAN UP, FOR SPRING TIME
HAS COME AGAIN.
Brighten Up Things About the Home
and Make Your Place One Of
Which to Be Proud.

and Make Your Place One Of
Which to Be Proud.
One of the things you must not
neglect this spring is the cleaning
up" about the home and yard and
around the barn and other build
ings, says the Progressive Farmer.
OF course, there is cleaning up to
be done all the year round, and it
should be the policy of every farmer
and household in town to keep things
just as neat and orderly at all times
as he possibly can; but even whln
this is done-and there will be a
lot of odd jobs to be done in the
spring-jobs that are all too likely
in the press of work to be neglect
ed, and which yet add much to the
comfort and the charm of farm and
town life.
To begin at the house, there is
likely to be some painting that needs
to be done-there is, we are sorry
to say, about most Southern farm
homes. If your house needs anything
along this line, right now is the best
time to do it, If it doesn't, let us
congratulate you, and then fix up
the surroundings so that they Will
Le in harmoney with the home. OE
many buildings which cannot, for
various reasons, be painted, good
coat of whitewash will answer the
purpose Stables, smoke-houses.
chicken houses, pig pens, and fences
can all be treated to a new white
suit much oftener than they usually
are with great profit all around.
The yard and the garden fences
and the one about the barnyard,
should be carefully looked after, TOD,
al broken places fixed securely right
now, and all the gates put in gooi
working order. There is no use H.
waiting until the chickens get into
the garden and scratch it up or Till
the pigs root up the front yard to do
these things.
You will want, of course, to look
after the grass in the yard, and the
shrubbery and the flower beds, and
the shade trees, to clean up all litter
of any kind, to set out some new
shrubs and perennials, perhaps, TO
nut out some late Towering bulbs;
to cut out and dead branches OF DO
any other pruning that may be need
ed in the shade trees. Let us beg
YOU right here not to whiteWash the
trunks of your shade tres. That
is all right in your orchard If you
wish to kill the oyster shell bark
louise; but on a shade tree in the
ward it is an abomination.
Then about your we'll or spring
or cistern-don't deliberately court
sickness and death by neglecting
these. Clean off the soil about your
we'll or spring, and fix it, so that
there can by no possibility be any
surface drainage into it. Insist that
no kitchen water or other refuse De
thrown out near, or where by any
possibility it can drain into the
we'll or cistern, and do not allow the
niqs or chickens to run about the
source of your water supply. DO
not permit any decaying woodwork
TO remain about or over the well or
cistern, and do not allow any water
to run into the cistern until the ROOT
has been we'll washed off.
All this may seem a great deal OF
trouble; but ordinarily it will not
he so much as it seems; and, IN
any case, it is cheaper than to run
the risk of typhoid and other dis
eases.
There should have been no dead,
dry corn stalks or other litter lett
on the garden last fall; but II there
was. gather it all up and burn 1t
before you do any more garden max
ing. We do not approve of the burn
ing of vegetable matter as fuie'
but this is an extreme case. You
will have insects enough without
providing special harbors for them.
Besides you want the garden Tree
from all distractions of every KIND
so that you can cultivate it with the
least trouble and in the best manner
Around the barn, in the stalls, pig
pens, chicken houses, and from the
barnyard, you want to get all the
manure and other refuse and get
it on the land. You can we'll afford
to delay planting a day or two to
do this; for you do not need this
accumulation about the premises,
and-unless you are very much OIL
an exception to the general rule OF
farmers-you do need it on your
crops. Any old cornstalks or other
such litter should be taken to the
fields, too, unless needed for bed
ding.
A clean barn with we'll KEPT
yard about it is always attractive
speaking, as it does, of thrift and
energy. A clean barn is not an
empty one, but one that is hll1d
only with good seed for the stock,
and not messed up with waste, dirt
=, hot