Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-28
oUMPTIoN ON THE FARM.

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 in the burrows.
II you think nobody cares for you,
have carbuncle on the back of your
neck
The boy smokes cigarettes behind
the barn because dad smokes cigars
in the open.
Never lead n colt at the end OF
long strap Men have been killed in
this way.
Cut your clover while 1t 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 menure.
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 in 1t. and he will
stick to the old farm like sand.
bur to a sleeps tail.
Don't let the back step be unslghtly
with swill pals, cut 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 ii does not pay to
plow too deep. For instance. take 1t
where the plowpoint strikes hardpan:
no use to pull the horses 10 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
scabby crop: Soak the whole seed
for two hours In n mixture OF one.half
pint of formalin toften 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 go, and he faster the
better. Who wants a horse that does
not go? In these automobile speed
days the faster the horse can go the
better we like him, and soon nobody
will be satisfied with less than two.
minute clip.
Probably not one farmer in 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 a new one.
Tarring 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 10 peck and stir well, Throw
he corn out on a sieve or in a basket
To drain, and then stir in few hand.
fuls of land plaster tgypsum). DO
not pour the tar on the dry seed.
Sometimes folks get a 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 10 keep calm and go
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 10 something else. Finish what
you have on hand Time brings all
out right 10 the man who works this
way
From May Farm Journal