Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1876 — Make a Note of It. [ARTICLE]

Make a Note of It.

One of the best practices is to keep a record of such facts concerning farm matters as may have come within the limit of one’s observations. One of the best ways to get at the truth is to meet with one’s neighbors and compare notes. This is the proper season of the year for doing this, and we hope it will not be allowed to pass by unimproved. A neighbor may have grown an unusually fine crop of grass or grain. If so, inasmuch as the soil on which they were grown is similar to that on your own farm, it will pay you to inquire into the causes that have produced so desirable a result. Was it owing to a previous judicious rotation of crops ? Was it the application of barn-yard manure ? or what was the cause ? Perhaps it may have been early fall, late fall or winter plowing the land. If so, what were the conditions of the soil at the time of plowing? % It is a great point gained when one sets himself about the task of observing closely and makes a careful record ot such observations. It is by observation that we learn and that progress is made. We should not only read and observe, but we should take advantage ot what we thus learn, and at once make such knowledge available—for it is in this way that success in farming or any other pursuit is assured.— Coman't Rural World.