Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-05-19
HOUSE AND FARM.
Farm Brevities,

Late sales of shorthorns show the follow
ing results, viz: At Kellogg, Iowa, SO fe-
males, SIS 1856, average SOL, and IS males,
81, $40, average $3.50. Highest price 1886,
lowest $50. At Des Moines Iowa, 80 head,
So, 1870, average $1O2; or females. $96.7O
each, and males $l06.50. The stock of A.
G. Jennings & Co., and j. F. Miller, of In
dianapolis, recently, sold at fair prices, 81
head of all sorts produced about $1,000,
including some calves; highest price 1850,
lowest $40.
A daily ration of green food is actually
necessary for laying hens. Vegetables,
either cooked or raw, are much relished
also, and serve, in q great measure, to sup
ply the place of green diet. Onions, chop
ped finely and mixed in their food. are ex-
ceedingly wholesome, and if not a cure, are
certainly preventive of disease in many
instances. Growing chickens are even
more anxious for green food than laying
hens. They crave it; and when necessary
to be housed from it on account of in
clement weather, it should be provided for
them. There is no green food so whole
some for them as onion tops cut finely.
Finney, of Bucks county, Pa, obtained
470 bushels of Fultz wheat, last year, off IL
acres of land Neatly 43 bushels per acre
will do very WELL at least as contrast with
those who are contented with from - to 90.
Professor w. O. Atwater. of the Wes-
leyan University, Middletown, Conn is car
rying forward important investigations as
| to the food properties Of fish Exhaustive
analyses of So kinds show that, taking beef
at 100, they vary in nutritive value from 63
| to 1853. Continued tests chow made is not
reported) confirm the statement that fish
are no richer in phosphorus, and nourish
the brain no more, than other animal food.
A young farmer asks whether it is profit
able to raise lambs for market? That de-
ponds partly on the methods used by the
grower. When shipping facilities are good,
or if one is near large town, the lambs,
sold in spring to the butcher, should pay
as large per cent. of profit as any other
livestock department, perhaps more. But
the lambs must be ready as nearly as posi-
BILE when the demand is greatest, and this
can soon be ascertained by studying the To-
cal markets.
A writer in the Country Gentleman, in
showing the uniform profits of farming to
| be fully 10 per cent on the investment Of
land and stock, for the last fifty years, con-
cludes: Farming is confessed to be SLOW
way VI uldAlllS u 1O1tuhCS DoV ehO AS oAOo
which we have been looking at prove thai
the capital in farming is good Investment
When we want to set our business in con-
trast with the money making occupations
we make another issue and plead for the
safety and permanence of the business
and we try to show how family can be
rich without money, and how they can have
the best thing which money can get
home"
Planting potatoes, sowing oats, and pre-
pairing for corn planting all come at once
this spring. 1t is safe to say that more
work of these sorts has been precipitated into
the fortnight last past than was ever done
before, in two weeks, in this country, Oh
the better kind of new potatoes there will
be vast quantities planted, and with favor
able season and due culture there will be
large returns. We notice little faintheart-
edness on the part CT many farmers in re-
gard to oats seeding, but our advice has
been, put in your usual area and trust tc
the Lord of the harvest. There is YET
abundance of time and opportunity to plant
more corn than ever, and it is more thar
probable the warm weather may be protract.
ed into the fall fully as long as it was de-
layed this spring in its coming.