Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1910-04-27
GumptlOn on the Farm

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king.
A field is not fenced when the
bars are down.
Don put away steel tools wet;
dry them first, then oil them.
Lift up your eyes occasionally.
All good things aren't in the
burrows.
If you think nobody cares for
YOU, have a carbuncle on the back
Of your neck.
The boys smoke cigarettes be-
hind the barn because dad smokes
cigars in the open.
Never lead 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 CON
cerned.
Wood ashes or lime should not
Toe applied mixed with, or in direct
contact with, stable or hen manure.
Don't throw out apples, potatoes
or turnipS where the 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 In it.
and he will stick to the old farm
like a sand-bur to a sleeps tail.
Don't let the back step be un-
slightly with swill pals, cat dishes
and hen food, thus strew food and
attracting 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
1t where the plow-point strikes
hard-pan; no use 10 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 il.
Here is the most approved
method of treating seed potatoes
To prevent a scabby crop: Soak
the whole seed for two hours in a
mixture of one-half pint of formalin
(often called formaldehyde) and
fifteen gallons of cold water; dry
the seed, cut. and plant in ground
that has not been recently grown
potatoes.
Must the horse gol is the anxious
query of the Illinois Farmer. To
be sure he must go, and the faster
the better. Who wants a horse
that does not go! In these auto
mobile speed days the faster the
horse can go the better we like
him, and soon nobody will be sat
isied with less than a two-minute
clip.
Probably not one farmer in a
thousand ever took his mowering
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.
Earring corn: In coating seed
corn with coal-tar as 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 a peck,
and stir we'll. Throw the corn
out on a sieve or in a basket to
drain, and then stir in 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, is to keep
calm and 90 straight ahead, doing
all the little things that lie in one
part of the farm when you are in
that locality, and then go on to
something else. Finish what you
have on hand. Time brings all
out right to the man who works
this way-May Farm Journal.
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