Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1869 — Farm Proverbs. [ARTICLE]

Farm Proverbs.

Do not keep more live stock on yonr farm than you can keep well. -Ilonse all things ns much ns possible—animals, utensils and crops. Sell when you can get a fair price, and do not store for rats and speculators. The more comfortable you keep your animals,-the more they will thrive. A good cow is a valuable machine—the more food she properly digests, the greater the profit. A few roots daily to all the slock are as welcome as apples to boys and gil ls. Iron shoes on sleds last a lifetime. They are really cheaper in the end than wooden ones. Replace all the bars where you pass often by strong gates, Itnd then wonder you didn’t do so before. Although, in draining land thoroughly, your purse may be drained, yet the full crops that follow will soon fill it again. Always give the soil the first meal. If it is well fed with manure, it will feed all else—plants, animal and men. A borrowed tool, if broken I should be replaced by a new one. A nice sense of honor in such matters is much to be commended. It seems strange that housekeepers don’t buy pails and tubs with brass hoops and trimmings. They cost a little more at first, but last wonderful ly. _______ Cutting Timber to Last. — Mr. Skinner an experienced farmer of Herkimer county, New York, recently stated before the Little Falls Farmers’ Club that he always cut timber when it was frozen, in order that it might last a long time without decay. He was aware that other seasons of the year were, recommended. He had tried all seasons and with a number of varieties of wood, and no timber lasted so well as that cut in winter when the timber was frozen. He said a hemlock stick used as a stringer for bridges would last longer when the bark was left on. He had observed it often, and gave as a reason that the bark kept the wood moist. He thought the best timber for sills, or for building purposes, was red elm; next in order was oak, white elm and red beech. For pins, the raves of wood sleds, and bolsters to wagons, there is no ti mber to be preferred to red elm. - ——