The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-03-23
OF INTEREST
TO
Some Valuable Hints and In.
formation Taken From
Farm Papers
The Smell of New PlOwed Land

once more plans o gardens and
trees. field crops, and pastures are
being laid.
How hopeful we are again, and
how willing we are to do all in our
power to help nature give us a sea-
son of beautiful returns. While
some things r entirely beyond our
control, and the best laid plans of
mice and men gang aft aglee," there
still is much that we can do to help
nature deliver us an ample harvest.
In the first place we can sort and
test all VI seed carefully. treat
such seed as experience has shown
is benefited by treatment, and if we
plan our work carefully and do not
undertake more than we can do on
time we a get this seed into a
firm fine seed bed, early enough to
get the full advantage of the early
moistu. e, and the yigor that comes
with the first growing weather.
We can be especially careful, too.
not to give way to the temptation of
renting, or running into debt for
more acres than we known we can
put in on time. ripen on time and
harvest on time. In particular with
corn, potatoes and garden, we must
see to it that more acres are not put
in than we are absolutely sure we
shall have time to keep in thrifty
growing condition. 1t is a waste Of
time. money and patience to do
otherwise. Corn does not clean and
benefit land simply because it is corn
but because it is properly cared-for
corn. Corn can be put into land and
leave It IN even worse condition than
the poorest small grain crop can,
and it often does. So if we plant
corn. and we sincerely hope every
farmer will, let us plant only what
we can ARE for.
The same is true with potatoes
and garden, particularly the latter.
1t is truly surprising what an amount
of good things can be taken from a
small, richly fortified and we'll cal ed
for garden, and how little can be
had from a large neglected mass of
rank weeds and stunted plants.
Much can be done to help out the
garden work by putting everything,
yes everything, in long rows far
enough aparC to allow the regular
corr cultivators to pass between
them. This may be done very often
both to keep down weeds and to
keep up moisture and growth. Ten
minutes with a horse cultivator in
the garden will do more real good
than a whole oav's work with a hoe.
After the cultlvator, a little work
with the garden rake and a hoe will
work wonders.
With so small a matter as poultry
even, being on time means much.
If fifty or a hundreds pullets are
Matched out so early that they will
be matured, and begin laying before
winter sets IN, the flock can be made
most profitable, but if Matched late
in the simmer. they may prove un-
profitable.
We belle We that the greatest draw
back TODAY to northwest farming is
trying to cover to- much ground
with too little labor. Farm after
farm shows frost bitten flax, heat
blighted grain, corn and potato
fields smothered in weeds, and corn
late and spindling, if not frozen;
wheat Smelling badly in the fields.
and hay overripe, woody, or spoil
ing in the buudle. just because more
work is cut out than can by any
possibility be done on time.
In planning our summers work,
We cannot be too careful in this re-
spect. There is less Encouragement
and more profit in cutting out only
work that can be done right and on
time.
We often make the mistake of al
lowing for no loss Of time through
bad weather, accidents, sickness,
etc. This in some seasons represents
months, which in otner might be de-
voted to solid work. Better make a
little allowance for these things, es-
pecially the bad weather, while lay
ing out the summers work. We
shorld think twice, too, before
blowing up hay or pasture land that
is making any thing like fair re-
turns without the expense of cult