The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1913-03-28
Farm Topics.
WHAT BEST TO DO.


Four things man must learn
to do
If hee would make his record true:
To think without confusion clear
ly;
To love his fellowmen sincerely;
To act with honest motives
purely;
To trust in God and Heaven Sc
curely.-Henry Van Dyke.
SAVING THE HOG MANURE.
An important consideration that is
too often overlooked is the econom-
ical utilization of manure produced
by swine. Drylot feeding in summer
is often associated with heavy
waste of manure on account of the
large part of the manure that
is leached or blown away when de-
posted in bare lots. Feeding on the
pasture or in cultivated fields will
do much to obviate this loss, since
large proportion of the droppings
and urine will then be deposited in
the field, where the fertilizing con-
stituents may be uutilized.-Star
Farmer.
WHERE THE FARMER STANDS.
Sometimes farmers think of them
selves as simply cogs in the wheel.
They are far more than that. The
farmer is the worlds greatest pro-
wider. His hand feeds the world. His
farm is the source of supply for
every man, woman and child on the
face of the earth. He is the main
spring of society. He is the nations
balance wheel. He furnishes the mo-
tive power for the worlds work.
When he keeps the standard high,
the life of the nation is strong,
clean and full of power. To realize
and to live up to this would make
US all better farmerss.-The Star
Farmer.
SOME OF MY BELIEFS.
/ believe in abundant exercise and
nutritious feed for cows and young
stock.
/ believe that a heifer bred for
milk production can not be ruined
for that purpose by too good feed
ing previous to her first calving.
l believe that the most Important
time 70 practice good feeding with
a dairy COW is when she Is dry.
/ believe that soft, comfortable
bed to lie on will be reciprocated
by the COW in an increasing milk
flow. Likewise by absorbing the
LIQUID manure we double the fertil-
izing value of the animal excre-
ment.-Cowboy, IN Farm and Diary.
BEDOUIN MAXIMS,
When, after long journey in the
horse, study him carefully and give
him barley more and more every day
until thou hast asceriained the guam
tity demanded by his appetite. A
good horsemaa ought to know the
measure of barley suited to his horse.
When, after a ding journey in the
winter, through rain and cold, you
at length regain your tent cover
your horse well and give him parch-
ed barley and warm milk, but do
not let him have any water that
day.
The prophet. has said: Every
grain of barley given to your horse
shall secure you an indulgence in
the other world. "-Exchange.
COST OF DIRT ROADS.
Some time ago Prof. w. G. Hoad
of the State University collected
statistics concerning the cost OF
maintaining country roads without
the use of the road drag in several
counties and the results are some
what surprising.
These figures are taken from the
official records and show the cost
per mile each year: Crawford, $52;
Douglass, S3S; Franklin, $34; John
son. $4S; Neosho. $40; Saline, SAB.
The cost of maintaining dirt roads
with the use of the drag varied from
$3.50 to Sc, with an average of $2.4O
in one locality and of So in another
In no case was the cost of dragging
more than So per mile per year, and
the roads were infinitely better than
uunder the old method.
1t is surely worth SO cents per
month per mile of road to any COM
munity to keep its public roads in
good shape and in view of the fact
that the average cost of all the drag
gde roads was only SO per mile, or