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Show READING ON WINTER NIGHTS Farmers Can Take Advantage of Sea-eon Sea-eon for Planning Their Work and Storing Up Knowledge. During the bad weather of winter, when it Is almost Impossible to work outdoors and when there is little work to be done in the fields in comparison with other seasons, farmers have an opportunity to give some of their time to two things that many of them neglect neg-lect almost entirely. One of these things is to plan carefully for the next season, the other Is to absorb knowledge knowl-edge from the printed matter that Is now to be had in such abundance. Most business men would shortly be bankrupt If they planned their affairs as little as the average farmer does. It Is reasonable to believe that fore-handedness fore-handedness and prudence will be as profitable in farming as In merchandising merchandis-ing or banking. Certain it is that the farmer will lose nothing by giving some of his spare time this winter to looking ahead. For example, if he has not been carrying car-rying out a crop rotation, now is a good time for him to decide upon one that is well suited to his conditions and to work out the details of it. He should be looking Into the fertilizer situation to see what his purchases should be and where he can make them. He should be preparing to save all the trash on his place, as well as the wood ashes, for humus and for potash. He should be interesting himself him-self in the question of honiemixing fertilizers. There are numerous other things that might profitably occupy the average farmer's attention at this time. There is almost no subject on agriculture agri-culture on which he cannot get free literature either from Clemson college or from the United States department depart-ment of agriculture at Washington. For example, bulletins that may be secured se-cured from Clemson college on some of the subjects mentioned above are as follows: Farmers' Reading Course Bulletin No. 17, Buying and Using Fertilizers. Circular No. 10, Homemixing of Fertilizers. Fer-tilizers. Experiment Station Bulletin No. 182, Potash. For the first two, address the extension ex-tension division; lor the other, write to the experiment station. |