New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-06-04

Csaeernils Farming.
There ID no denying that there q q
strong prejudice among young men
against farming. Young men raised
on the farm look forward with bright
anticipations to the time when they
shall leave the farm and 20 TO the city
to live. They look upon farming as .
work Of the hands and not Of the
brains. II is manual labor and ASSOC.
ciated with ignorance. They believe.
It requires little education and no study
to be . farmer. So they say to Them
selves that they win leave this drudgery
to ignorant persons, go TO the city and
study profession. Even old farmers
often wish for some occupation for
their sons which they think more de-
sirable. They would have the brightest
OF their sons become lawyers, doctors
or preachers. Now, this is . great
mistake. There is a. much field for
the exercise Of intelligence and for
study in the cultivation Of the soil as in
any Of the professions. The man who
thinks he can successfully operate a
farm on the traditional methods and
theories Of his ancestors alone, will
find he is as much mistaken as il he
were to attempt to practice law on the
Justinian code. A young man will
find use for the highest education our
colleges can give him in the operation
Of farm. Even the classics, which
are looked upon as the frills Of educa-
ton, may do him good service. Tho
reau got his recipe for making bread
from Marcus Porcius Cato. We would
encourage young men choosing q
profession to not look lightly upon
farming. We know of no profession
that promises as large returns IN
wealth. health and fame. An exam
pie Of the value of education and
study on the farm is John Allen,
Of Michigan, the author of "The
Blessed Bees He was studying at
the Agricultural College at Lam
sing when his father died, leaving
to his family q well-stocked farm
of sixty acres. He went home to take
care of it. He found there several
hives of bees, which his father had kept
as pleasant companions and to produce
honey enough for the family. He
studied the nature and habits Of bees
and the most approved methods of bee
culture. He studied hard and worked
diligently, and by his intelligent and
careful industry cleared $3,776.72 on
his bees alone. He found well-kept
orchard Of ten acres, which had been
his fathers pride. He read all he
could find on the cultivation of fruits,
and mastered the art so completely
that this was source of great profit to
him also. He has set an example of
what brains aud hard study can do on
farm. The Drainage and Farm Jour
nal furnishes another example of the
advantages of what it calls "giltedge
farming:" Mr.. Aaron Jones owns q
farm near South Bend, Ind. He culti-
Yates part of it and the rest is culti-
waited by renters. This season he and
two renters planted from the same
seed-corn, and there is little difference
in the soil of the three fields. At
gathering time Mr.. Jones had pur-
chaser for 1000 bushels of corn. He
showed him the three fields of corn.
The field of his own cultivation he
priced the corn at thirty-three and one
third cents bushel, the next best at
thirty cents, tho next at twenty-five
cents, remarking that it was inmate
rial to him which field he chose at the
prices named. The choice of the
thirty three and one-third cent corn was
readily made. This is not all. The
field of his own cultivation yielded
seventy-five bushels to tho acre, the
next best f0rty-five bushels, and the
poorest thirty-five bushels. Mr.. Jones
says that his success was largely, if
not wholly, owing to the condition of
his land, it being thoroughly pull
verified before planting, and the corn
carefully cultivated, continuing the
cultivation through the harvesting of
wheat" One of the blessings of the
present hard times will be that it will
send men back from the cities to the
farms to earn their living. Men will
soon see that they can make q living by
farming, if they make nothing more.
Some time ago, the writer met Young
man who had been clerking IN q hard
ware store in this city, and asked him
what he was doing now. He replied
that he was farming the land of WE'LL
known citizen, which lies some miles
from the city. He had been getting
forty dollars per month at the store,
which was small living in the city.
He now had good living, and worked
no harder than he had worked in the
store. Beside, he expected to have
something laid by at the end of the
year. 1t does not require much capi-
tai to 20 farming, and land is cheap in
this country. We wish to call the at.
tention of young men to this subject.
The salvation of this country lies in its
soil, and every earnest man can find
there solution to the problem Of how
to get . living. We would advise farm
ers, young or old, to read more. Take
newspaper, and take all the agricul-
tural papers and publications. Read
during the long winter evenings. Read
during the wet summer days. Road at
all times and seasons. Money thus
spent will bring large returns. Indian
apolis Journal.
Remedy for Dogs that XIII Sheep.
Docs kill sheep by tearing open tho
large veins Of the neck and sucking the
blood. When once they taste the blood
they never can be broken Of this trick.
A single dog will sometimes kill sheep,
but generally there are two-often .
large and q small dog. A sheep-kill-
ing dog will teach others. The first
time dog kills sheep he will suck
the blood, and then eat some and be
satisfied. He will soon learn to kill
several, sucking the blood until he il
full, eating no flesh the first night.
Living on 3 good-sized farm close to .
large German settlement, where they
kept more dogs than sheep, generally
having two or three hundred sheep on
my farm, I was much exposed. For