BOB BURDETTE ON FARMING.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 26, 23 September 1893, Page 4

808 BURDETTE ON FARMING.

This month is a good time to pay the interest on your mortgage and renew the notes you gave last year. It is also a pretty good time to take up the notes you unwittingly gave to the peddler last Christmas under the impression that you were only signing a contract. Oats thrive best in an elevator. A farmer who has thirty thousand bushels of oats in an elavator need not trouble about the weather. Raise chickens. If you have a nice little garden by all means raise chickens. Tour neighbor’s hens are the best ones to raise. You will find them, at 5.30 a.m. until 6.20. p.m on your lettuce, onion, radish, and flower beds. You can raise them higher with a shot-gun than anything else. R. B. Always eat the hen you raise. P. S. Cook the hen before eating. P. S.S. Before eating the hen, that is. Crush egg shells and feed them to your own chickens, if your are foolish enough to keep any. If the whites and yolks are removed from the shells first, they will crush more easily. If a good horse shows symptons of going blind and is developing a few first-rate spavins, it is is time to sell him. Sell him out of the county, if possible. Beware of the man who has a little blaze faced “pacingmare” he wants to trade for ‘‘just such a hoss.” Eternal vigilance is the price of the potato crop. About ten hours a day, devoted to crushing potato bugs with hard sticks, will probably save the upper part of the patch for you. By the time you dig the potatoes, you will be so disgusted with everything pertaining to potato culture that you couldn’t look a potato in the face without a feeling of nausea, and as for eating one —But this enables you to sell the whole bushel without a pang. Young hens lay more eggs than old ones. This is because the giddy youncr things have not yet learned their value. In a few years they know just how to stand around on a strike when eggs are $1.75 a dozen, and then rush out and work double time when eggs are so common the tramps Avon’t eat them.