Evening journal., 1909-09-28
GUMPTION ON
THE FARM

Better have patches on your pants.
than lot of unpaid bills and threat
lening cerditors.
How can any man sleep well at night
when he has scolded and whipped his
horses all day.
Beginning to think about your wood
lpile? That's right. Cold nights make
us creep up about the stove.
Enough dry wod and chips 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, no will soon
be likely to work down to that osti-
mate.
! II the soil needs understanding, now
/ is an excellent time TO lay tho 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.
Il pays better TO be behind every
body else In getting fall grain sowod.
and thus have the ground well stirred,
than 70 hog over it and have il half
done.
Money spent on booze is wasted,
spent on clothes Is vanity. spent on
food is gone. and fooled away IS wick
ed; but money spent for seed or a
fruit tree is wisely invested.
/ Tho patrons along a rural route are
APT TO expect too much from the car
rier. II would be great help TO the
farmer to apply TO the government for
a copy Of the postal laws in reference
to the regulation OF rural carriers.
Are you planning TO build a 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 tho time. Large enough
for all practical purposes, but no larg-
er. should be tho rule.
In an address on the subject of corn.
Professor Beal remarked that the top
most 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 yielded as much again
as the former.
II rye is sowed this fall as a green
manure for potatoes next season. be-
lieve IL would be better 20 plow Il
under next spring after Il gets a good
start and not wait till It gets tall. Then
tho rye win rot better before planting
time and you will get more good from
liz.
Keeping oabbages: Select dry
place in the patch, pull up the cabbages
and stand closely together heads down.
Cover with soil from five to ten inches.
thinly at first so they win not heat,
covering only enough 10 prevent freez-
ing as the season advances. The bury
ing beds may be made from four to
six feet wide.
Tho 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 a pumpkin: Arrange the
fruit or vegetables in a long row, as
high and as wide as would seem ad-
lvisable. Spread a little hay over them.
and set up fodder on each side TO the
desired thickness-ssy. three or four
feet This affords excellent protection
from ordinary cold; and in the case
Of pumpkin, turnip or cabbage stor-
age, OF any other article fed to stock.
YOU have the means at hand with which
TO form a most desirable balanced ra-
tion as you feed out the corn and fod-
der This method viii prove especially
valuable TO renters and others who are
compelled to move early I'm the spring,
when Il would be extremely unhandy 10
chop through tho frozen ground. and
FISH out" fruit or vegetables from the
oid-fashioned hole" or pit.
From October Farm Journal.