Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — FARM AND HOME. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOME.

ilbst crops are still booming'. Milk cautiously in fly time. Sharp tools save time and-labor. Avoid waste in garnering grain. Lead and direct your field force. Straighten up the sagging gates. Go for all sheep-killing canines. ‘Keep working, off the poor animals. The potato sorter is a clever device. Harvest good crops and good deeds. Ensilage is increasing in popularity. No time now to gossip at the store. A good season for the industrious bee. Good head work saves much hand work. A successful breeder must be a good feeder. Assort well and pack neatly all fruit for marketing. Shallow culture of hoed crops. Ho not let any weeds go to seed around your house or barn. Fix your, watering place so that the animals cannot foul it. The medium weight animal usually returns the most profit. Examine your lambs. If infested with ticks give them a dip. A budding machine is announced as one of the new inventions. It is poor business to grow sheep that do not shear a paying fleece. Do the best you. can in the way of shade and water for pastured stock. Do not imagine that exercise is the best thing to be found in a pasture* The shorthorn improves for beef every animal on which it is crossed. Both breeding and feeding are necessary to the perfection of the animal. Hoe your currant bushes as you do the rest of the plants in the garden. The strawberry contains 90.52 per cent, water and 9.48 per cent, dry matter. The best stock raisers are now try* ing to grow meat instead of to accumulate fat. . Whoever depends upon the public for a market must consult the wants of the public. Don’t let the rays of the hot sun fall directly on your bee-hives. Provide some sort of shade. It is against the dignity of the cow and the profit of her owner for her to go faster than a walk. The Jersey eow appears to be a favorite with the ladies and several ladies own herds of them. Let no man be able to say that he excels you as a farmer. Use your brain as well as your hands. During the hot weather all hides an ,* . sk , ms sllould be sprinkled with salt before they are folded. Anything you do to improve your farm improves yourself and helps to 101 l on the wheels of progress generany. A board hung over the face of a vicious buil will do a good deal to check the exercise of his ferocious propensities. Every wire fence ought to have a top board or some other signal besides the posts especially where horses run. . A , £ 00(J remedy for unruliness is to eed well. Then there is not so much incentive to leap and break down fences. Do not remain an obstruction in the path of progress, but try to keep abreast of the times. Then you will not get left, and farming will pay. It requires more nerve than most dairymen have to weed out their poor cows because in very many oases they are the best looking cows in the herd. The wide-awake farmer visits other farms than his own. When he finds conveniences methods and crops bets ter than at home it inspires him to greater effort. Statistician Lodge estimates the ™' the , ex Ports for 1889 at SSBO, s uuu.uoo at the seaports and $400,000,t)JO on the farms. In other words, it costs one-quarter of their entire value to market them. Give boys and girls practical knowledge in the dairy, and let them take their handsome saipples of butter and cheese to our fairs, where they will md something to interest more than horse trots. 1 A, n ®w industry in Germany is the utilization of the young leaves of the stra vberry plant as a beverage. Having been carefully dried they are used instead of Chinese tea, which they olosely approach in taste. Frying to cultivate more land than can be properly attended to is like a greedy boy trying to hold half a dozen apples in one hand or the hen trying -o cover twice .as many eggs as she can possibly keep warm. You cannot afford to let the cows shrink their mess because the pasture eives out, any more than you can af--ord to go without fire ihwinter bscause the fuel is exhausted. There is no profit in the one and no coihfort in the other.