FARM PARAGRAPHS.

Northern Advocate, 5 October 1889, Page 3

FARM PARAGRAPHS.

Weeds brought together in a big pile will heat, and the seeds mould and loose their vitality. In this way a ilay 's work will save a week's work next year. How many know that a horse gets up before and a cow behind, and a cow eats grass from her, and the horse eats to him ? Take the harness off from farm horses when they come in for the noon rest, for they will more than repay the littlo cost of labor by their freshness in the latter tasks. We are prone to lose sight of the merits of of the old and well known in a chase after the new and novel. Show me a man that has had what he calls bad luck, if 1 don't show him to be a very poor* manager then he is the first one I ever found. An hour of prcpraration may sometimes save several hours of performance. "Farm Stock aid Homo" wishes some agricultural chemist would analyze the food value of warm stables. No virtue pays better than civiltjy. It ib a firstclass personal advertisement, and it does a person good, while it adds to the comfort of those around him

! M> Albion Wetniore, who is er'crlireii with a -ing delivered th« most thoughUtiJful essay ;' -ac-nted at Uib recent annual meeting of the 1 •• liiHcticut Board of Agriculture, suggestively r narked apranos of the contention of ur>an orators, "that there U uo conflict <: i interests between city and country : " There is :io coflict between tho man in the hen-roost a : i the owner in bed, because the latter is asleep." 'here is land enough wasted on many farms to make, if properly used every year, all the diiference between a living profit and an actual loss. The luckiest thing about the horseshoe over the door is that it doesn't drop on your head. -(Puck. Big fields and poor cultivation almost invariably go hand iv hand, and with them is commonly found all manner of weeds in abundance.