Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-05-06

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Is the mower ready?
Cold wet May-barn full OF hay.
Don't slight the corn-corn IL king.
A field is not fenced when this bars
are down.
Don't put away steel tools wet; ory
them first then oil them.
Lift up your eyes occasionally. All
good things aren't in the farrows.
If you think nobody cares for you,
have a carbuncle on the back of your
neck.
The Boys smoke cigaretts behind the
barn because dad smokes cigars in the
open.
Never lead colt at the end Of long
strap. Men have been killed in this
way.
Cut your clover while 1t is in the
bloom Desd-ripe clever is just about
spoled so far as feed is concerned.
Wood ashes or lime should net be
applied mixed with, or in direct con-
tact with, stable or hen manure.
Don't throw cut apples, potatoes or
turnips where the stock can ger 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 sand-bur to a
sleeps tail.
Don't let the back step be unsightly
with swillspalls, 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 come soils it does not pay to
pillow too deep. For instance, take 1t
where the pillow point strikes hard pan
no use to pull the horses to death and
tire ourselves all out to bring them ia
the surface. 1t is not worth while after
we have done 1t.
Here is the most approved method
of treating seed potatoes to prevent
scabby crop: Soak the whole seed fol-
two hours in mixture of one-hali
pint of formalin often called formal
dehyde) and fifteen gallons of cold
water; dry the seed, cut, and plant in
ground that, has not been recently
grown potatoes.
Must the horse 60? Is the anxious
query of the Illinois Farmer. To be
sure he mast go, and the faster the
| better Who wants horse that does
net go? In these automobile speed days
the faster the horse can go the better
we like him, and soon nobody will be
aatisfied with less than a two minute
clip.
Probably not one farmer in thous
and ever took his mowering machine
guards out and ground them oh the
cutting edge Look at them and see
how dull they are. Some day before
haying, when yon have 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 enc.
Tsrring corn: In coating seed corn
with coal-tar as a protection against
crows and black birds, put the grain
into pail and pour on enogh warm &c
cover 1t. Add teaspoonful of tar to .
peck, and stir well. Throw the corr
out on a sieve or in basket to drain
and then stir in few handfuls Of laaC
plaster Gypsum. Do net pour The
tar on the dry seed.
| Sometimes folks get good many
! irons in the fire at the same time il
spite of themselves Jobs como thicf
and fast, some days. the best way t.
de, then, IS to keep calm and e
straight ahead, doing all the LITTLE
thing that lie in one part Of the far II
when you are in that locality, anC
then go on to something else, Finisl
what yen have on hand. Time bring
all out right to the man whe work
this way:-May Farm Journal.