Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — AGRICULTURAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Protect the meadows when they are soft. Tramping injures them. Manure of all Sinds should be well protected during bad weather. If it has been carefully kept under cover and properly applied, it will show its effect almost immediately; bnt if it has been leached by heavy rains and exposed to drying winds and the sun’s rays, It Trill riot be so valuable. Give the boy two or three acres of ground to farm this year. Allow him to send to the state agricultural college for some seed corn and assist him in preparing the ground and planting this seed. The work will be good for him, the information obtained will be invaluable and the profits will be ample for him to provide his own clothes for the coming year. As a measure of economy, plan to grow plenty of vegetables for the family table throughout the year—potatoes, peas, beans, beets, sugar corn, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, etc. Study out a good truck patch now, and - work it for all it is worth. Buy seed now if need be. Also grow plenty of roots for the cows, horses, sheep, and poultry, and. save buying bran. It is the buying of food things that keeps some fanners poor.