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Show i WINTER JOBS FOR FARMERS Splendid Opportunity Offered for Clearing Fields of Old Stump Other Odds and Ends. Oti many farms this is considered a beiwet.'ii-seasons period, with little demanding de-manding immediate attention. However, How-ever, the successful farmer is coming com-ing t see that if his plant Is t pay j dividends there must be no period i of idleness, but that there must be employment em-ployment every working day in the year l'or men, horses, machinery and capital. Ilight now we would call attention to the stump-ridden fields that can never be farmed satisfactorily and most profitably until the stumps are removed. True, stumping large fields is no small-sized job, and calls for the expenditure of both energy and cash; but it is a job that can only be done by going about it persistently and determinedly, and the present winter days offer a splendid opportunity opportu-nity for prosecuting this sort of work. Another job that we may well tackle at this season is that of reclaiming the waste, nonproductive spots about the place. These are mainly the galled, gullied areas that have come as a result of our not properly looking look-ing alter our hillside lands; and the wet spots that now refuse to grow crops but which, by the use of a few open ditches or some rain tile, may be made the most productive areas on the farm. Look your place over, and if you fail to find such waste spots as these, then you are entitled to place your farm in the blue-ribbon class. Other jobs that may claim our attention at-tention are looking after the farm manure and seeing that none of it is allowed to go to waste; housing and repairing the farm implements; providing pro-viding plenty of good dry wood for mother; breaking lands that are not occupied by cover crops; and arranging arrang-ing for our fertilizer purchases for 1915. Compared with the North, the South, by reason of its mild winter climate, possesses a tremendouB economic eco-nomic advantage. Let's make this advantage ad-vantage count by filling the winter days with work that will make our farms more sightly, productive and profitable. Progressive Farmer. |