The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-11-20
AGRICULTURAL.

| GENEVA, Nov 3.-Having noticed in
your paper request for nuy one having
used salt, lime, ETC., on wheat sown the
past season, will give what little ex-
perience 1 have had in the matter. Last
spring I broke up three acres of timothy
sod, on which I sowed about twelve
bushels of ashes and ten bushels air
Stacked lime. This was sown before the
wheat. After the wheat was up little
I sowed on a barrel of salt. The wheat
was the Lost Nation, and when threshed
yielded sixty bushels Of good plump
wheat, weighing from the machine sixty
two lbs to the bushel. Another piece on
the same farm, without salt, etc., yield
ed ten bushels to the acre, otter wheat
in the neighborhocd not doing as well as
that. Whether or not the lime and salt
did apy good must be decided by the
readers. 7 am satisfied that it did at
least. D. Brewster, Geneva, Wis.-Mil.
Sentinel.
FEEDING DAIRY STOCK.
Western Farmer: Creamery butter
has gone to 80 cents per pound whole.
sale, and may go higher, Cheese has
jumped to 10l cents per pound. The
reason undoubtedly is the continued
drought, which has kept pastures as bare
and sere almost as in winter. Good
dairy men commenced feeding in season
and thus kept their stock up to toler-
able flow OF milk, what was lost in guam
tity being made up in QUALIFY. That is
the grain fed made the milk rich in the
constituents that go to make up butter
and cheese. Those who have neglected
to feed will suffer, for, once COW shrinks
in her milk from lack of feed and water,
it is impossible thereafter to bring her
back to full flow. Those who have
suffered most are those who do not be-
lieye there is any good in agricultural
papers, and those who read them super
ficially. The good dairYman never al
lows his stock to suffer even during the
summer for want of food. The stock
breeder who keeps pace with improved
agriculture never allows his stock to
cease growing from the time it is fit for
market until ready for the butcher. The
progressive farmer never loses crop for
want of feeding to the soil. How to do
all these in the most economical manner,
is the problem that each must solve for
himself according to the special require
ments in the case.
There is one point in dairy farming
not generally considered and that is, that
the farm should be getting richer every
year. The products are hay, grass and
corn, fed on the farm, and the products
sold are simply the condensed product
in the shape of butter and cheese, and
the hogs fed upon the buttermilk and
whey, while the manure made may all be
applied to the land to keep up the fertili-
ty. Thus when necessity requires,
maximum crops of grain may be raised
at minimum cost. Thus, although the
dairyman may think he is getting light
profits, and that they have been light for
the last two years is acknowledged,
everything now points to good prices the
coming winter. 1t is true, only those
will reap the full benefit of this, who
keep well posted as to the ways and
means, through the reading OF carefully
edited agricultural papers, and their own
correct judgement founded thereon. It
must of course be satisfactory to those
who have not done this that they have
nobody to blame but themselves.