New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-10-11
Gumption on the Farm.


Perhaps some 4 * g your croysc ha1s
disappointed you this ySSr. but II you
sowsd : few seeds 81 kindness. s. We
advised last spring, That crop did not
disappolnt you. Another thing: II
you didn't plant then its not yet too
lste-this is one of the best .'catch"
crops known. Try it.
Scarcely any farmers in Congress;
we don't like it.
There are few things in life more
despicable than the man who olames
it on his wife.
Looking at the sun through q
whiskey glass shows the picture of the
poorhouse and thin soup.
In these days of undertaking, the
farmer who is able to rake up a good
compost heap stands to win.
Somebody has said that dog with
no teeth has soft snap. We'd rather
think. that he has no snap at all.
Corn in the crib is just in the right
spot, but is the spot right? Or will
the rats get more than their share of
it?
. Most horses can hear we'll, and yet
you would think from the sound of
some men's voices when at work that
the animals we're deafer than posts.
Don't forget to save out corn for
seed while you ore husking it. Just
because an ear of corn is large, does
not necessarily make it the best for
seed. See that the rows are straight
from tip to butt, and that the kernels
are I'll we'll formed and plump.
If potatoes are inclined to rot, don't
be in q hurry to dig yours. Leave
them in the ground as long as you can
before digging. There will be far less
waste. I have seen some lots of
potatoes all 60 to mush after they
we're dug; whereas, If they had been
left in the earth till cold weather came
on, most of them might have been
saved.
In the large producing sections
cabbages are stored in specially pre-
pared frostproof houses. But they
are often stored in cellars, barns or
caves. Some growers store ia pits
and there is no better way to keep the
heads crisp and fresh. The main
thing is to keep out frost and provide
for ventilation. Whatever the plan
OF storing, don't wait for freezing,
weather before harvesting. I
Many a good man is in such haste
to let the world know where he stands
on the tariff, reciprocity, and the direct
election of Senate that his patient
wife can not find out where he stands
on the important domestic questions
of water in the house and new carpet
for the parlor. Save the country,
brethren; that's right; but don't forge
to save the wife, for after all what is
the country to you when you have lost
a good helpmeet?
Keeping cabbages: Select a dry
place in the patch, pull up the
cabbages and stand them close to-
gether, heads down. Cover with soil
from five to ten inches deep, thinly at
first so they will not heat, covering
only enough to prevent freezing as the
season advances. The burying beds
may be made from four to six feet
wide. A few cabbages for present use
can be stored, heads down, in barrel
in the cellar; but the bulk of the crop
should be left outdoors.
Storing vegetables. Onions: Store
in q loft rather than in the cellar. In
the latter they will sprout, to their
injury. A few parsnips for winter use
may be lifted and stored in sand in
the cellar; but, as freezing sweetens
them, it is best to leave many of them
outdoors for later use. Potatoes:
Store in bins one foot or eighteen
inches deep, raised somewhat from the
floor. Do not bruise or they will be
likely to rot. Roots in the nature of
satisfy and horseradish, freezing does
not hurt, 90 the main lot may stay out
where grown; but some should be dug
and put In earth in the cellar for
winter use. - From October Farm
Journal.
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