The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-04-29
GumptiOn on the Farm.
Be prompt at meals.

Be prompt at meals.
Is the mower ready ?
Cold wet May-barn full of hay.
Don't slight the corn-corn is King.
A field is not fenced when the bars
are down.
Don't put away steel tools wet; dry
them first, then oil them.
Lift up your eyes occasionally. All
good things aren't i'm the burrows.
If you think nobody cares for you,
have a carbunc1e on the back of your
neck.
The boy smokes cigarettes behind
the barn because dad smokes cigars in
the open.
Never lead a colt at the end of a
long strap. Men have been killed in
this way.
Cut your clover while it is in the
bloom. Dead-ripe clover is just about
spoiled so far as feed is concerned.
Wood ashes or lime should not be
applied mixed with, or in direct con-
tact with, stable or hen manure.
Don't throw out apples, potatoes or
turnips where stock can get them, and
choke. Either bury or slice them.
After all it is the producing power
of the farm that determines the boy in
his going or staying. Show him that
there's money i'm it, and he will stick
to the old farm like a sand-bur to a
sleeps tail.
Don't let the back step be unsightly
with swill pals, cat dishes and hen
food, thus strewing food and attract
ing flies and disease. Cart away all
the old cans, broken dishes, old coats
and boots, from back places and yards.
On some soils it does not pay to
pillow too deep. For instance, take it
where the plowpoint strikes hard-pan;
no use to pull the horses to death and
tire ourselves all out to bring that to
the surface. 1t is not worth while
after we have done it.
Here is the most approved method
of treating seed potatoes to prevent a
scabby crop: Soak the whole seed
for two hours i'm mixture of one-half
pint of formalin Gotten called formal
dehyde) and fifteen gallons of cold
water; dry the seed, cut, and plant in
ground that has not recently grown
potatoes.
Must the horse go is the anxious
query of the Illinois Farmer. To be
sure he must 60, and the faster the
better. Who wants horse that does
not go? In these automobile speed
days the faster the horse can 60 the
better we like him, and soon nobody
will be satisfied with less than two
minute clip.
Probably not one farmer in a thou
sand ever took his moving machine
guards out and ground them on the
cutting edge. Look at them and see
how dull they are. Some day before
haying, when you have a little time,
just take them all out and sharpen
them. You have no idea how much
better they will work. The machine
will cut almost like new one.
Tarring corn. In coating seed corn
with coal-tar as a protection against
crows and blackbirds, put the grain
into a pail and pour on enough warm
water to cover it. Add teaspoonful
Of tar to peck, and stir well. Throw
the corn out on a sieve or in a basket
to drain, and then stir in a few hand
fuls Of land plaster (gypsum). Do not
pour the tar on the dry seed.
Sometimes folks get good many
irons in the fire at the same time in
spite Of themselves. Jobs come thick
and fast, some days. The best way to
do then, il to keep calm and 90
straight ahead,-doing all the little
things that lie in one part OF the farm
when you are i'm that locality, and then
90 on to something else. Finish what
you have on hand. Time brings all
out right to the man who works this
way.
From May Farm Journal.