YOU CAN’T.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2013, 27 February 1890, Page 4

YOU CAN’T.

You can’t find gold nuggets scattered over your farm. You can’t dig them up either; but you can raise corn and feed it to cattle, Hogs, sheep a^d.^chickenß;.and get the gold jusi the same.

That is horse sense, if you please. You can get. the gold from your farm, as well as it can ;be had from the mine, ■ : ■

You can’t expect a get of fine, round, plump pigs from a razor-back sire. •- You can’t raise hogs at a profit so long as you kill off your best sow pigs anchkeep the runty one for a breeder. You can’t feed all corn to your begs and be,sure to escape the cholera germ. ;

A hog is a hog, dead or alive, but— You can’t make nice pork when the pig has access to all manner of filth. Give the pigs green grass (clover hay in winter), clean water, your swill, if you please, made from oats and rye chop and mill feed, that will make you a frame with good bones and strong mnscels, then round him up with plenty of yellow corn. You can’t make much money raising corn and selling it for twenty to thirty cents per bushel. ■ You can’t expect to raise a fine eighteen-hundred horse from a scrub site and a ten-hundred dam.

You can’t expect your colts to make gentle horses if you let them run at large till they are three years old, and then “break them” with a club, a whip, and a long string of high-toned oaths. Treat your colts as you would be treated yourself.

You can’t expect cows to keep up a full flow of milk when they are! compelled to fight flies. A cow can’t eat grass, knock, kick and switch flies, and make milk at the same time. If a threshing machine is not properly fed it will not turn out the amount.of grain as when fed to its full capacity, or properly fed; so a cow is just a machine on the same principle, only the cow is animate and the machine inanimate.

You can’t afford to waste your time on cows that will never make more than four or five pounds of butter a week; you might just as . well,raise corn and sell it for twenty-five cents a bushel. You can’t get out of the ruts until you put up a shed and keep your waggons, farm machines and implements out of the sun.

When you see plough, harrow andcorn planter in the field where last used, put it down that that man is in the ruts and can’t get out so long as he lets his tools stands out iii the weather.

You can’t invest a little money to a better advantage than to buy some tools, such 1 as brace and bits, saws, files, hammers, planes and Hard wood and lumber, bolts, nails,' leather, thread, wax, awls, copper rivets, etc. Such an investment, with a little labour added, will pay a couple of hundred per cent, on the dollar,