Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1892 — Improve Your Farm. [ARTICLE]

Improve Your Farm.

Farm imp o eroen ts should be made wherever necessary during the autumn. In many cases it will pay to build new roads; the iow land can be ditched out and may be thoroughly drained; old stumps pulled out and the land leveled and then seeded down to grass. Every farmer who has much low land covered with wood should clear a small DeiceJ each year and thus extend his mowing lands. An old swamp well drained, cleared ud and seeded to grass makes a very desirable- addition to a farm. The compost heap should receive attention now from farmers and also from villagers who have gardens. There are many things about a farm and a village lot that are frequently wasted which, if gathered in a heap and allowed to rot, might be made into useful fertizers. Where muck can be obtained it will prove a valuable addition to the compost heap. Kill thistles, bushes, etc., during the hot days of early September. Canada thistles and other briars that ought to have been cut out or dug in August should now be destroyed, root and branch, wherev@r4hev cumber the ground. Cut them during hc4 sunshiny days, andl they will either die or be greatly checked. Clean out the fence corners and roadsides. Cutting up and burning the rubbish is the best way to get rid of the nuisance. " * 7.-L"- 4 '

Nine steamships sailed for European ports last Saturday, but did not carry many passengers. The Saale carried so few people that the company did not even print a passenger list, and the Pennland sailed without a passenger. -