Sunday, November 5, 2017

Advice to Farmers as They Get Ready for Winter, 1917

“Advice to Farmers,” from the Nov. 1, 1917, issue of The French Broad Hustler. The Hustler, Henderson County’s Leading Newspaper.

Paint the house but don’t use loud colors or combinations of colors. If you can’t paint, you can whitewash!

Determine that no junk shall be left scattered about your farm this winter. Clean up as well as paint up.

Farm machinery is too high to leave out in the weather. If you haven’t a good tool shed, better build one before winter. As farm machines are stored, go over them carefully replacing broken parts and tightening nuts. Then give them a good coat of paint, grease the shares of plows and other parts liable to rust, and you will insure their being in tip-top shape next spring.

Old automobile tires may be cut up and used for half soles. They are a little hard to nail on, but when you get them securely in place, you may almost guarantee 5,000 miles of service from them!

A good way to protect exposed water pipes from the cold is to make a box about them with six-inch boards and pack the box well with cottonseed hulls.

It will pay the average farmer to buy a set of plumber’s tools when installing a heating system or waterworks, for having them on hand will save much trouble.

You may not be able to paint your house and put in lights and waterworks all at once, but you can do that which is needed most and follow with the other improvements as soon as possible. Well painted buildings more than almost anything else suggest to the public that the farm owner is a man of good business sense, judgment and prosperity.

While leather is so high, the almost lost art of tanning ought to be revived on many farms.

If the farmer had to wash and clean the old dirty kerosene lamps, he’d get rid of them mighty quick. It’s all right, however, for mother and the girls to do it!

For seed production in the central South, Mr. David R. Coker says sow Abruzzi rye about November 15. For grazing, October 15 is about the latest date, he said.

Try offering your tenants $5 apiece for each extra bale of cotton or extra 50 bushels of corn they produce next year as compared with this year.

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