Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1883 — For Fanners. [ARTICLE]

For Fanners.

General hints: Care and economy are the farmer’s best friends, except hard cider and credit at the grocery store, The small details of management should never be neglected If your harrow is in bad condition, send it to a dentist and have new teeth put in. If the boys run away with your plowshares to" “shy” at vagrant dogs, send to Mi\ Jay Qpuld and get new shares. Be careful to avoid setting liens on all china eggs. When you find' you* 1 vines running all over vour neighbor’s property, tie them up and try to get'them to stay at home nights by providing them with business recreation. On the morning liefore sending your chickens to mntket feed them buckshot painted yellow. The chickens take it for corn, and it is both cheaper and heavier. If there is any dye left over after you hare colored your Easter eggs and your flannel underclothing, spill it upon your wife’s dahlias and sell them to the city seedman for anew variety. If yon keep bee-luves you will find it , advisable to extract the stings of the bees. This may be easily done by sending the hired man out to stir up toe bees with a short stick. He will b*ing most of the stings back with him.— Vw'k.