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Show Keep 'Books on the Tarm WE HAVE kept farm records since can show In any year during that time the number of bushels of grain, head of live stock, pounds of butter, number of fowls, de-reus of eggs, etc., sold or bought, to whom sold, and the date; also expenses of various kinds, such as groceries, clothing, hired help, taxes, interest, Insurance and all sundry Items. Our method is simple. A pencil and memorandum book will keep tho transactions. transac-tions. We then transfer them to a farmers' farm-ers' account book designed for that purpose We also keep a hank check book for convenience con-venience and safety. At the end of each year we take- an Inventory showing our resources re-sources and liabilities V. A. Thomas A Ifalfa Solvn on Sod 1 E VEN under dry land renditions a stand of alfalfa may In -ccured on some kinds of prairie s.n. by simply disking the ground thoroughly, sowing the seed and covering ft with a harrow. Tho disking must be tlmr-ou;-,h Tlils will only answer well in In-I In-I Malices where Ihe prairie or bench land sod. I is not very thick or dense, and where the j soil conditions nnlurally favor the growth ol alfalfa. Fair stands of alfalfa have thus I been obtained. I |