St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-11-09
FOR THE FARMERS.
SORTING.

This word brings to mind cheap" of
things as the native Suckers would say
1t takes us back in memory to by gone
years when in these shortening November
days, in an eastern State, We gathered,
lather and brothers, in the old-fa ,hioned
corn house for two or three evenings in
each week and by the light of an oil burn
ing lantern suspended upon horizontally
placed fork handle escorted" the corn that
all hands had husked in the intervening
days, and which now paved the floor some
feet in derth, with golden precious pave
meht. The nuhbins and the .ssoft" ears
went into the small bin upon the left, to te
fed to the hogs in early stages Of fxtteniug,
while the long, heavy, bright ears, thor
oughly stripped of silk and husk rapidly
filled up the big bin at the right. There
are many 'grown up boys" among our
readers that can recall similar scenes of
their boy lie.
There, ten acres Of corn was marvel of
crop: There was time enough for such
things and it paid. Here, where acres are
counted by the hundreds or thousands the
best corn. nubbins, (not very plenty, true,
as a gener Il thing) silks and many stray
husk are tumbled into the enormous crib
together. We will not argue that like care
would pay here. for there are many things
to be taken into account, before thus de.
Gliding. But it will pay to sort the white
corn from the yellow; unmixed corn will
bring cent or more per bushel in market
than the mixed. A very trile on each
bushel, but forming an immense aggregate
Sorting is good word hcre.
Sorting potatoes pays. Before taking q
load to market, ssrt out all the small pots-
toes that serve only to fill up the '.chinks"
between the large ones, and count how
many bushels you will thus gain on your
entire crop, and see il YOU do not agree
that sorting is agair q good word.
Wool Grower has told you all about
carefully sorting over your fcck Of sheep,
and disposing o. ten per cent or more of
them, leaving you better and more prof.
table flock than you had before At any
rate, it you don't sell them it will pay to
sort them over ana keep the weaker ones
by themselves.
Thus willit be with your fattening hogs.
Sort out those great, strong, pushing, hog
gish fellows that get all the food. and let
them have . lot together, where they can
crowd each other to their hearts content
and let the smaller, weaker and more mod,
est porkers eat and fatten in comfort You
will get more pork from your feed, and
more money from your pork by sorting.
So do with your. herd of store or stall
feeding cattle. Those diminutive year
lings, or two year old, have no business to
be left to pick up precarious living
among those mammoth, stiff-necked stays
and oxen. Bysorting you will give them
= chance for their lives. aud you will get
more beef. Better sort out and give away
. dozen head this fall. than to tamper with,
and feed, orshalf feed too many through the
winter. and have dozen hides to sell just
% grass begins to come in spring. .
Among your hoes, spades, shovels, forks,
rakes, hsrrows, oultivators, plows, plant
ers, 7etc., you have many implements that
you have just been able to get through the
season with. There are, others that need
An hours or days repairing done upon
them! Sorting. is needed here. Let it be
done that you may know y here to find the
defective = when repairing ii time arrives
You put an away In some good place, safe
from the weather. OF course yc,t ido-all
you have to do othen is'to have q, little care
in storing for convenience sake, ...,.,.
g You keep bees, perhaps. Then you very
I'likelyi have weak fswarms that viii need
feeding before winter il over. Sorting out
these and placing them together may save
you some Il ouble and possibly the lives of
several colonies. 90 y, zi@4sSjbas'1 &. .,s1F
Thus We might enumerats almost in
defitely. There is an immense amount Of
sorting that ehould be attended to At this
season Of the year Reducing thing, t.
ordor win always pay. - Prairie Farmer:
! "A learned and enthusiastic orator recent.
y startled Ills audience by tho following
| stuaning sentence: .sSir, let those beware
who would tribe with the popular will. Ii
the language Of the poet, 'Fac;les aecsnss.
aUsrni. The t;voicss OF the people 10 Til