The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-14
MANKATO FREE Press.
FRIDAY. OCTOBER II. 1851.
farm and 4iuusehula.
a Right Start.

There Is strong temptation for 4
Young farmer. whose msans aye limit.
al ana Who must oi necessity run ill.,
Ia debt more or less in making "A
start. Ia begin wrong. and think that
cheapest which costs the least money.
by 50 doing he not only often pays
dear for what he gets. but he is III
danger of getting into the way of
being satisfied with second-rate stock
ANA fixtures. and thus renders all hi,
future farming Improbable. II is
well 10 fear debt. hut there is such "A
thing as being penny wise and pound
foolish. For example, we know Il
young farmer who some years since
was buying his implements to start
On the farm. and concluded that he
could not afford new wagon, and SO
brought 1T Il sale. for S2l an old, run.
down one. He spent several dollars
on il ut once, and congratulated him.
sell on having 4 cheap wagon, but us
he WAS going 10 the barn with Il load
al wheat. the next harvest, Il wheel
broke down. causing waste and troil-
blc III Il time when every moment WAS
precious. In two wears every wheel
had smashed, and one the second time
from the old hub being used-and
his wagon had cost him $40 in cash,
besides the NeNatiou and lost time,
ami is IN old, patched, conglomerate
affair still. Another young farmer
wanted 10 make u start with sheen.
and WAS offered thirty common ewes,
that would shear five pounds of wool
each. for s6o. He thought them Il
bargain. and bought them. but the
winter was severe and several of the
old ones died, and after i've years of
sheep-raising he quit the business as
unproiitablo. Another young man
with $50 to invest bought with it six
yeaIling Cutswold ewes. already bred
10 III imported buck. From these he
raised ten lanbs-six bucks and -four
ewes. The bucks he sold for SIS and
kept the ewes. His wool clip from
the ten wis lis pounds. In the fall
he bought IA thoroughbred buck for
sac and used him one season and sold
him for The same. This year he raised
sixteen lamhs-nine backs and seven
ewes. The bucks sold toi Sis, two
of the eve lambs Tor $50. and two fit
ewes for Sll. The next season he
bought buck lamb for SO. which
died after serving the ewes. His
lambs this Year were thirteen ewes
and five bucks. The latter were sold
for 500. Al the end Of -four Years he
could show a lock of twenty ewes
that sheared twelve pounds ana half
of wool each. and he had sold @2Q4
worth of sheep, not Including the
bucks bought, which. with the cNcep.
tlon of the one that died. brought
cost. The man To whom the SiU buck
WAS sold used him on eight ewes. and
aiterward stated that he WAS worth
5000 Ia him
We have referred 10 the above in.
stances Ia show the importance of 4
right start. The chances TO make
money from good stock to-day are As
good or better than ever before. The
young man who has got Sluo To invest
in stock is wise 10 buy one or two
good short horn heifcrs with il rather
than eight scrubs. lie is certainly
wise Ia pay - or S3 for the service of
short horn bull. rather than use Il
scrub free. All the profit in farming
comes from the yields of crops that
are above the average, and from stock
more or less improved. The means
OF improvement are At hand. and COS,
small 10 what they did generation ago
IL Is Us hnwise for the young farmer
to start with scrub stock ~ 1t would
be Ia plant u Seeding apple orchard
or 10 continue Ia SOM one variety of
wheat, or plant potatoes that had run
out ana long since ceased To be pro-
ductive. y start with Il little thor
oughhred stock, and Il few years pa
thence. will see him on the road To
profit, while the chances are that a
wrong start will keep him wrong all
his life, and poor i'll the harsain.-Odio
Farmer.