Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1898 — ALL AROUND TEE FARM. [ARTICLE]

ALL AROUND TEE FARM.

The best crop raised on the farm are the boys and girls. When they mature grandly they are worth millions a pound. It is idle for a slovenly farmer to attempt to tell how a farm should be conducted. His neighbors know him and his style of farming. It was noticeable that during the continuous heavy rains in June, the only bad results to corn on tiled land was the growth of weeds. It was recently said to us by a farmer that corn of one variety would mature at the same time, even if planted ten days apart. Can that be true? The young man who can have the use of his father’s farm, as a rule, had better stay on the farm. But if he does not like farming, better go into what he has a fancy for. In a paper recently read at a farmer’s meeting the author said that he planted potatoes eight inches deep. It seems to us that there would be several objections to that method. Grow plenty of what you like for the table. A farmer friend of ours says that when he was a boy he coukfnever pet as many radishes as he wanted. Now he grows them to a point of waste. —Western Plowman.