The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-09

one harvest, and leave it standing on the
open prairie, exposed and unprotected
from the elements, until the succeeding
harvest. How many thousand dollars
worth of reapers, rakes, seeders. plOws,
harrows and wagons have you passed, my
friend, on your way to this fair. which will
stand out of doors all winter! The seed
er and drill, stand in the field where you
left off seeding last spring. and next
spring you will go down to the side of
the slough, and resurrect it from among
the tall weeds and grass, which have
thrown their protecting mantle Of chart
ty over it, and then you will curse the
the Buckeye Seeder Co., because their
machines draw hard. and do not work
good. Where is your pillow! standing out of
doors, with the rust eating up the mould
board, and the dampness rotting the
wood work, and next spring you will
grOwl because it does not ScOur, and will
pay the wagon maker from to dollars
for repairs ON 1t. Is it good economy to
pay from $S5. to $50. for u wagon, which
with proper care will last you ten years,
and let it rot in five, for want of T6. or
y. worth of lumber and e days work, to
shelter it from the stOrmsy Can you at
ford to pay $lUO. year for reaper,
when with proper care a harvester which
costs $500. would last you 10 years? 1
do not say that all farmers are thus
thOughtless and careless, but there is an
appalling amount of reckless waste going
on, in regard to farm machinery, in this
and other states in the northwest which
the condition of the country can not at
ford. ask your candid attention to
this matter, for your own good, and for
the sake of the future prosperity of the
farmers of this country.
The subject of stock rasiug, is worthy
the most careful consideration of the
farmers of Minnesota and especially of
this county. Notwithstanding our
severe winters, the state is peculiarly
adapted to this enterprise. With an
abundance of good hay, which can be put
in the stack at a cost of 81. per ton, with
oats ut 15cts per bushel and corn at ten,
farmers still continue to depend on the
raising of grain, and totally neglect the
best paying enterprise open for them.
There are lots of farmers who raise cat
tie, but they put them into the herd in
the spring, give them the benefit of the
summer feed, sell them to the butchers
ut low figure as grass fed beef, or
worse vet, to drOvers who take them to
Iowa, feed them through the winter on
corn purchased at the price of 20 or 25cts
per bushel, and realize handsome profit
from the speculation, while you sell your
corn and oats at ten and fifteen cents per
bushel, and lie lille all winter, for want
of some paying occupation. l tell you
gentlemen, that it not only pays to raise
stock, but it will pay you to feed them
through the winter. 1t is something
which will always bring you ready cash, !
and if others can afford to buy your cat
tie in the fall, and buy your corn.
and hire hay cut to feed them and then
hire them fed through the winter, it will
certainly pay you to feed them, when
you can raise your stock, raise your own
corn, put up your own hay and do all the
work of feeding them yourself, and that,
at time of year, when you have nothing
else to do There is not state in the
union in which pork can be raised so
cheap, and in which hogs are so free
from disease, as in the state of Mime
sofa. Sheep pay four fold better than
wheat, and the raising of good blooded
stock of all kinds especially good, heavy,
draft horses, constitutes the best paying
branch of the industry of husbandry in
the State. desire also to call the atten- !
ton of the farmer, to the wisdom of rails
ing greater variety of crops. A season
which is bad for one crop, may be favor
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