"Farther" is for distance and "further" is for more of something.
To remember the difference and decide which one to use, imagine someone asking you "Are we there yet?" for the millionth time. After we tell that person to shut up, you would say "It's not far," not "It's not fur." You'd only say the latter to PETA assholes who were about to attack with buckets of red paint.
Rock & Roll media sidebar: Normally we can assume anything that sounds cool in pop music is grammatically incorrect, but "Further On Up The Road" is actually correct; it's a song about the singer hoping his/her ex suffers karmic misfortune in retribution for the pain the ex caused the singer ["you gotta reap just what you sow"], not that the ex is at a different point on the road relative to the singer's location. Regardless, even if he had used the word incorrectly, Lonnie Mack is exempt from all rules of grammar due to awesomeness. [See also: Old Dirty Bastard.] Now, let us rock and swing like meathooks:
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