New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-08-07
HOUSE. FARM. GARDEN.
Farm Notes.

t Farm Notes. 5s$
Desth to weeds is the motto of every
good farmer.
A farmer should try to grow almost
anything put poor.
In the San joaquin valley, California,
there a.e 100000 acres in wheat, aver
aging 30 bushels to the acre.
Every enterprising farmer should make
an experiment station of his farm, him
self being the director.
Your farm is your fixed capital; i'm
provements are your investments: and
your crops over the cost Of your produc-
ton, are your dividends.
Tradition in agriculture is one of the
greatest hindrances in the way of rural
progress. This applies with special force
to stock breeding and feeding. The same
is essentially true in the departure Of veg
etable economy, where pedigree in seed
raising is quite as important as pedigree
in stock breeding.
Samuel D. Hale went from Boston to
the Argentine Republic twenty years ago.
and has become considerable farmer
there. His farm contains $4,000 acres of
rich prairie land, enclosed with heavy
wire fence. He keeps an average Of
10000 sheep, from which the wool, tai.
low, and skins are enormous. He also
has 5000 becves, 500 horses, and 1,4OO
hogs.
Some men never do anything at all on
their farms, becau e they stand like lit
tie urchin in a big watermelon patch,
dazed at the innumerabe chances of
choosing. They have so many good
things to plant, and so many good ways
to plant them, so many pressing things
to do, and no one to begin on, that the
year glides from under their feet and they
have made nothing but a-tallure.-
Southern Planter and Grange.
It is estimated that the flax mills of
Russia give employment 100000 opera
tives and produce $120,OOO,O0O worth of
goods per aunum During the past wear
America imported $34O,O0O,OOO worth of
flax and its manufactures. This, too.
when it IS so we'll settled that we can
produce, if we would, enough flax to sup
ply the world. California and Oregon
alone are capable of producing enough of
the commodity to supply the United States,
but instead of doing 1t we prefer to sell
our wheat in England and buy fix in
Russia with the proceeds.-San Francis
co Chren5cle.
Weeds. are like Banquo's ghost. They
will not "down at your bidding" No
matter how much you mut1late them, and
disturb the soil under them, if you leave
them on the surface in rainy day they
will still persist in growing. They cling
to life like cats and some other animals,
which, strange as it may seem, prefer to
live rather than die. But no tender
hearted sentimentalisl.. must be allowed
to come in to weaken the efforts OF the
agricultural army in its war of extermin-
alton against the weeds. No Topping off
here and there of leaf or sprout will
amount to anything. No halfway work
will answer the purpose; the evil must
be removed root and branch, prohibite. :,
suppressed, obiiterated. If you adopt
the false theory that mild measures are
best, and merely cut off the tops while
the roots are left in the ground, You will
soon find them spring;ng up with more
vigor and power for mischief than before
Radical measures and no others are in
order among June weeds. It is not nee
essary for the Legislature to proclaim a
prohibitory law against them. The law
of nature and self-preservation requires
that they be, exercised, banished, put
down, and this law must be enforced, or
they will get the advantage Of the corn
and potatoes, and when harvest time
comes there will be nothing but weeds
to harvest Vermont Record and Farmer