The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-12
A Farm Clean.un Dav.

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Board of Agriculture, raises thu
question, and says:
Town cleanup days have be.
come common and have proved
most effective in promoting
pride and cleanliness. Why moi
then, a cleanup day in the
country? All the empty Tin cans
are not in town-but most OF
them ought to be.
While Missouri farms compare
most favorably in point of clean.
Illness, beauty and order with
those of any state, there are
many farms hat need cleaning
up. 1t may be that the wood
pile has had the 'creeps" and
spread over most of the lot; that
the barnyard is such as to sug-
gest that various old vehicles
and farm implements had iron.
time to time taken sudden fright
and ran into the corners with
others of their kind that some
where not far from the house is
a "morgue" where old shoes and
rags and almost everything else
has been piled Gust to get it out
Of the way" or that there are
ill-smelling, disease-breeding, Ay
brooding outhouses and lots that
need attention.
There are 50 many things we
could do on q farm cleanup dav.
Buggies, wagons and cultivators
are expensive. Soill we would
better, after we have saved all
the old iron that is salable or
disable in discarded stuff of this
kind, use it to stop gullies or for
wood and kindling, rather than
! eep it ust for the sake of its
society, or as a monument, often
to our neglect. If in the spring
r summer, there is always
Nhilewashing to do, or maybe
there is a weed patch which if
eft uncut may seed an acre;
and In the fall prove a menace
10 health. Has the good wife
grown tired of trying to patch
Up a fence around the flowers?
II, attend to this on cleanup
day. 1t may be possible for
her to get more pleasure from
overs that require but a few
work than from anything
than the money that could be
earned during the same time
purchase. If there is a
that needs fixing IN fix it
en- cleanup day. If stable, hen
ouse, pig pen or privy needs
cleaning do it on cleanup day.
now one appropriate way of
observing a farm cleanup dav
Y ould be bv making a start at
cleaning out some empty well,
ristern or pond. In short, do
those things about the place
hat need most to be done-do
whatever what your hand finds
to do. Then see to it that fol-
owing a faithful observance of
cleanup day, your farm name is
on or near the front gate.
your pride in your place
and your profession.
Who would proclaim a farm
'lean-up day? The governor of
he state or the members of the
county court might ask that
such a day be observed. Per-
laps the county farm adviser or
superintendent of schools
night get the farmers of the
interested in such a
Movement. A country school
.eacher might enlist the farm
RS in his district in a farm
dav limited to the one
district, or the pastor of a coun-
ry church might pet such a
movement started among those
Who make up his congregation.
finally, if a concerted move
nent is possible each individual
may have his own clean
Up day. Wherever the move
nent is started it is sure to
.pread. What are some of the
a farm cleanup day
do? Let's see.
1t would promote pride in the
lome place and might result in
thousands of country-born boys
nd girls REMAINING on the farm.
fod intended hat in the coun-
ny there should be cleanliness
nd BEAUTY and in the hearts of
ur children be implanted a de-
Ire for these things.
It would have its influence in
he lives of our children. "Boys
nd girls absorb environment"
,lovenliness is contagious. In
we come to look like the
lace whore Wn live