Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1915 — PICKED UP ABOUT THE FARM [ARTICLE]

PICKED UP ABOUT THE FARM

When There Is Any Driving to Be Done Farmer Bhould Do It-^-Pna-ture the Sore-Footed Horse. (By E. L. VINCENT.) Sometimes we hear farmers say they are driven by their work. If there is any driving done on the farm the farmer should be the one to do it. Drive, not be driven. Just as easy, and a great deal more satisfaction In it I had an old horse a few years ago that was quite flat footed. His feet got real sore and tender when on the road.” After haying and harvesting one year I took his shoes off and turned him out in the pasture. It was better than medicine for him. He really renewed his youth. Try it with your horses troubled that way. Hold on! Don’t you know that pouring potatoes into a bin, letting them drop several feet, will bruise them so that they will be far more apt to decay? Pour them in carefully. It hard work to grow the crop. Don’t waste it by carelessness at the last end. Clean out the well before the winter rains come. Do it thoroughly, too. The harness looks like sixty, somehow. When did you clean it? Take some rainy day and get at that You will feel a great deal better about it than you do now, I am sure. Every fanner ought to have an honest pride about his appearance, not only away from home but when about his work from day to day. How about that note? Going to pay it off this fall? Hope you can. It was Benjamin Franklin who said, “Ruin rides on debt’s back.” Some of us need to keep in the saddle ourselves to keep the Old Fellow off. Pay off as fast as you can. Round up the season by doing a little more than you planned last spring toward making the farm better.