Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-10
Our HOUSEHOLD
| fON>i IcTFD az LIZZIE O THOMAS
JUST FOR THRIFTY FOLKS

1 heard the first hooking bird
the other morning, it was the last
day of February, and I wondered If
it meant that the cold days had
gone. 1 had told the farmer that the
bird did it to encourage the ones
that weer counting the days before
spring could be counted on. And
sure enough, there has been some
the early gardens are now sick, the
ground is cold and the sunshine
does not seem very encouraging.
The fourteenth day of February
we had our first crocus, and since
then we have had some of our cold
harbingers" do not always bring re-
suits. But we are always glad to
have them whether spring is in
sight or not.
1t was absolutely necessary for
me to go to Tuscumbia yesterday, I
do not get very far away from home
when the incubators and hens are
on their jobs, and it had been five
weeks since I have had an outing.
The farmers seem to be getting
ready for feed and food" This
farmer was with me and said that
he does not remember so many oats
planted as this year. 1 do hope
that the people who have to go in
debt this year will resolve to do
without all but the necessities of
life. One year of rigid economy will
set many on their feet and then
there will be something to live for:
To me, it seems that this way of
working all the year and at the
end have nothing but some receipts
for things almost forgotten is bad
way to enjoy ones labor. When
money was cheap was the time to
get it. however the reverse seemed
to be the genral habit. 1 was talk
ing to a man who handles lot of
money, we were talking of the
pessimists and he said he had told
some of them that if they would go
to work instead of talking hard
times they could have money in
stead of debts. For a year or two
there was an orgy of spending in
the years to come some, of them
will be working to pay debts that
common sense would nave kept them
from making, they danced and sang
and now must pay the piper.
However, as the deots are made
it is nothing but honest to pay them.
There is fine thought in Long
fellows advice Look not mourn
tully into the past, it comes not
back again. Go forth to meet the
future, without fear and with
manly heart"
There has never been within my
money as now, and the thrifty ones
are planting something that will
bring in cash as it is needed, not
buying on a credit with the whole
year to pay It. These reverses have
made many one-crop farmer di-
verslty, a pig in the pen, chickens
all sizes, and early vegetables are
all money-makers. l told some OF
you OF our registered Durocs, that
red mother is one of our helpers.
She gave us eight healthy pigs just
year ago, then in the last days of
september she gave us eight more
and promises us another litter in
three weeks. Crude petroleum, or
crude oil as it is generally called,
is always on hand to keep her free
from mango or cermtn. Times are
too hard TO feed vermin on chick
when we got her and cost one
hundred and sixty-five dollars, her
pigs selling at four months old at
ten dollars each, justifies her to
the title that the Durocs have, "the
mortgage LITTER" and l think that
care and the right animal of any of
the other standard breeds will do
the same thing. One cannot have
chickens nor hogs and not provide
feed for them and make anything
out of them. Right now is the time
to plant rape, give it good ground,
in the garden, and cultivated just
as carefully as you do your cab
bages, will furnish an abundance of
feed for poultry and hogs. My
chickens have a rye patch to run
on and 1 am getting an abundance
of eggs, set two hens this week and
shipped fifty eggs to fill orders. The
rape that we planted last September
was eaten so closely that | had no
idea that it would come out, but it
is as green and pretty as the mus
tard. 1t is in the garden and 1 can
soon be gathering it for the penned
fowls
A lady with a god run for her
poultry wants to know If they need
oyster shell. 1 find that mine go
to the box every day and get piece
or two, six years ago this place
was plowed from the front gate to
the four corners and grain scattered
over it, the summer before that cape
worms were everywhere, but I have
not seen a dozen since them. It
is not reasonable to keep poultry
for years and years and not get the
soil infected. This is a busy season
but it is the time to clean up, and
if you put it off you will suffer for
it all the year. A garden can be
fortified from the henhouse if you
have kept the droppings in boxes
and barrels all winter.