Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-01-21
Farm, Garden and Home

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more money, to buy more land
To raise more corn, to feed NOR,
hogs, to make more money. I,
buy more land. etc. But it i.
not for this class write. NJ,
idea is the best home possible
our means will allow. We sllal
go this way but once.
There is no class OF people 50
we'll situated to have those
things necessary to make a good
home as the farmer. But
must say we sadly neglect our
opportunities. We get to send
ing milk TO the creamerieS, and
that is IA good thing. but we are
so anxious to draw every dollar
possible from the bank that we
forget that the wife and mother
needs about one cows milk and
cream ut home (nOt To make but.
teri to make those things better
which are the principles Of Il
good home-what we cat. Bak.
ing powder can never till the
place of good cream in our bis.
cults. Therefore, there is one
point in favor of the farm in pref
ercncc to town. And the idea
that we have to work harder on
the farm than at other pursuits
is not true. There is no use ON
the dairy farm of milking all
times of night. The most sue
cesSful farmers | know of work
in the fields only 10 hours per
I day, and in that way there is no
ISL being until after 3 o'clock at
night doing the milking, and
there is no uSe chOring much
after q O'Clock in winter, but 5
o'clock is the most perfect time
to get up in the morning the
year round.
The next luxury after good
things to eat is Il good warm
house all night, and the whole
family will be more willing to
get up and start business these
cold mornings il they know
there is a good warm fire await.
ing them IN the sitting room.
And if you have two boys from
the age of & to II years old, the
best plan | have seen to have
them get up in the morning is to
Civ" ii penny to the one that is
up and dressed first. And as
soon as they have "nceced the
old man" out of enough to buy
some article of clothing let them
use the money.
Veterinary science. backed by
a slliilful practitioner, is IL good
thing in every neighborhojd, hut
a veterinary without tools is just
like Il Skillful carpenter and
trying to build a good
house with his jack knife. Any
boy that had seen one house
built could toll you that he was
a lunatic or at least void
of good sense. | hope to help
others through some of my les
sons, therefore | give an txpe
ricncn | had when in Iowa.
| lost one of the best, and |
believe the best, COW and her
calf in our neighborhood, for
lack Of, tools it WAS IL cascOf
the calf having its head turned
back over it's shoulder and I
could not get its head in posi-.
ton. Then | went for a gradu
ate from Ames, Iowa. had
perfect confidence in him, but
he was in the same condition aS
myself without tools. So he
sent me to a Chicago graduate in
Of getting tools, but, 10.
and behold. he had but one little
and he was an advertised
veterinary practicing in this
knife carpenter way for a
livelihood. After he had recon.
n0itered all the afternoon he
said there could be nothing
lone and she must die. The
next morning | got one of my !
leighborS, IA successful farmer |
md stockman, to help Inc skin
her, and the COW looked so ,
and smart he said lie ,
would not kill her, and in one ,
lour less time than the vpterin.
had been there he had the d,
,alf delivered. But it was one
lay too late If he had been one g.,