The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-18
Gumptf0n ON the Farm.

Feed the birds. You'll need EN-
next bug time
Don't let the apples or potatoes
freeze. Sort out the rotten ones.
Don't speculate. Calculate, regu-
late, hesitate, migrate. if you think you
must, but never speculate.
Is the harness tied up with strings
anywhere ? Take them off and do the
best job of repairing you ever did.
Get out some stuff for whiff1etrees.
Keep little on hand all the time, for
you may need them beforeEou know it.
Have a bottle of rubber cement on
hand and some good glue. Fix things,
and do it while the other work is not
pressing.
Time is saved by doing now much
Of the work usually done in the busy
spring, such as hauling stones, clean
ing away trees and brush, fixing the
grape arbor, etc.
Leave the job of climbing the wind
mill to some one who liz level-headed
and strong in limb. Many serious
accident has happened from not living
up to this rule.
Be thankful every day; don't pile
your gratitude all on one day. The
man who is thankful only when the
Governor says he must, never liz
thankful any day.
With the present prices Of beef,
which all authorities agree can be
lowered, the production OF fat cattle
on farms where the work has long
been forgotten will be found profit
able.
Are the tools, from screw-driver to
the winter They should be, but II
not it is not too late to bring them in
yet. Better do il now.
One of the best tools farmer can
have is a good riveter for mending
leather straps of all kinds. One OF
these will save a good many trips to
town and maybe more than one runa-
way.
Look after the pits where potatoes
and the like are stored, and make
sure that there is enough earth or
litter on them to protect the contents
from the coolest weather. Neglect
may cause serious loss.
You've been working around that
one solitary big rock in a field for
years. Now, split it up, blast 1t or
get rid of it some way. A days work
or perhaps less, makes the field per-
1ectly clean and smooth.
A tank heater for heating drinking
water for live stock will pay for itself
time and again, in one winter, in the
saving Of extra feed required to re
store the animal heat lost through
taking in the drafts of icy water.
Bringing home unexpected guests
right at dinner or supper-time is often
very trying to the good wife. Polite
ness and hospitality are all right in
their places, but you owe a duty first
10 your wife and daughters.
Provide stout sled, warm clothes
and let the children slide; but keeL
them off the roads. 1t is fun, and yoJ
know it, or ought to; and far more
healthful for mind and body than q
dime novel in the barn loft
1t takes a smart man to wait pa
tiently for dinner when the hour
comes. His wife can wait for him q
month of Sundays, but if she is not
right on the tick when he comes in
there will be trouble right along
Most things have two sides to them
Isn't this one of them ?
Give the cats and dogs warm
strawlined, covered box i'm shed
where proving ours can not get tc
them. These bitter nights are cruel
to our dumb friends; and never
could lie I'm my warm bed, knowine
that anything was shivering with cold
Some men Cd and women can; but
can not. From November Farm Jour
nal. a#r MA INN