Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-10-08
SOME GOOD FARM SENSE
Farm Journal Contains Many Per.
tinent Suggestions For Farmers
to Follow

Better have patches on your pant.
than lot of unpaid and threatening
creditors.
How can any man sleep well al
night when he has scolded and whip.
ped his horses all day.
Enough dry wood and chips to
last 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 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 it is clean and fresh. You know
how it is yourself.
1t pays better to be behind every
body else in getting fall grain sowed,
and thus have the ground well stir
red, than to hog over it and have it
half done.
The patrons along a rural route
are apt to expect too much from the
carrier. 1t would be a great help to
the farmer to apply to the govern
ment for copy of the postal laws
in reference to the regulation of rural
carriers.
In an address on the subject OF
corn, Professor Beal remarked that
the topmost ear was the best for
seed; of two fields, one planted with
seed taken at random and the other
selected in the field, the latter yield
ed as much again as the former.
Keeping cabbages: Select a dry
place in the patch, pull up the cab
bages and stand together closely,
heads down. Cover with soil from
five to ten inches, thinly at first so
they 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 appeal
to every farm er as the easiest, quick
est and least expensive plan for stor-
ing all kinds of fruit and vegetables,
from potato to pumpkin: Arrange
the fruit or vegetables in long row,
as high and as wide as would seem
advisable. Spread little hay over
them, and set up fodder on each side
to the desired thickness-say, three
or four feet. This affords excellent
protection 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 valuable to renters
and other who are compelled to move
early in the spring, when it would be
extremely unhandy to chop through
the frozen ground, and fish out"
fruit or vegetables from the old fash
Toned hole" or pit.
A farmer, blowing with three
horses hitched abreast, noticed that
the middle horse became tired and
exhausted long before either of his
mates. AS the animal was the equal
in every way of the other two, he was
puzzled as to the cause of this horse
not being able to stand the same
amount of work. He finally observed
however, that as they drew the pillow
along, the three horses held their
noses close together, with the result
that the middle horse was compelled
to breathe the expired air from its
fellows. The farmer then procured
long Jockey" stick, which he
fastened with straps to the bits of
the outside horses. The device work.
ed perfectly; for, given fresh air, the
middle morse was able to do the
same amount of work, and with no
greater fatigue than his fellows.
Many persons are like the middle
horse; they do not get their right
full share of fresh, pure air, and this
lis why they are not able to perform
as much work.-Farm Journal.