Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-09-14
Farming Notes.

1t 1s claimed tor the HOlStelnS that
they combine milk, cheese, butter ard
beef far more successfully than any other
breed-that they are pre-eminently the
cattle for the NJ illions.
Castor ell plants possess certain disa-
greeable qualities which are concen-
trated in the seed. Until the seeds are
formed the leaves retain the acrid poi
sonous character. It is said that moles
will leave place where castor-oil plants
are grown; chinch bugs will not pass
among them to ravage corn or wheat,
and flies will not stay in room where
they are growing. We cannot personal
ly vouch for any Of these statements.
excepting as regards the oil ofthe seeds.
Colts are subject to weakness Of the
knee or stihe Joint, which is really
the knee-joint and corresponds to that
joint in mankind, Young animals of all
kinds are thus troubled for want of suhi-
Gent nutrition. Usually they grow out
of it in time if we'll treated. The treat
nent is to supply the most nutritious
food. A colt should have oats as much
as it will digest, and a yearling will
take two or three quarts a day after
gradually becoming used to themt Be-
gin with quart daily and increase
gradually quart a week until three
quarts are given.
1t would seem that whatever is good
for astate isgood for the individual farm
err; that on suitable land, the climate
favoring, it is best to raise mixed crops.
But though the rule is good one, still,
II farm will not raise corn, but is suita-
BILE for fruit or grazing, or something
else, then, by all means, follow that in
dustry for which the soil is best adapted
for there are exceptions to all rules.
There is more merit in the common
COWS Of the country than they get credit
for. Give them the same pampering
that the thor oughbreds get, and the
thoroNghbreds the scanty, bare and
hard treatment the common stock get,
and few generations will suffice to
bring them both to the same level. The
thorough breds are what they are from
good food and good treatment.
Farmers Boys and Girls.
The Breeders Gazette says: The care
and training of his young stock is prop
erly recognized as the most important
and difficult part of the breeders work,
and after all the most important "ani-
mails" ..on the farm are the boys and
girls. 1t is not our province to suggest
the Importance of seeing that the chill
dren Of farmers get good training, for
on the intelligence of the next genera.
ton of farmers and breeders will sue
cess depend more largely than on any
other one thing. A few months school
ing in winter was once counted enough.
1t certainly is not now. Thousands IF
farmers boys labor under serious dsad-
vantages in the common and more ad-
vanced schools because the pressure of
work at home has been thought sufh-
Gent reason for not permitting them to
commence attendance at the opening of
the fall sessions. There is moge recog-
milton Of the need of special education
for the farmer than was found a few
years ago. Our agricultural colleges still
have more critics than scholars. They
lack many things; chief of all they lack
students who want to be farmers. There
is not one Of them at which young man
may not obtain a. good education; and
many Of them have admirable facilities
for teaching the branches relating to
agriculture ''-better facilities than would
have been dreamed 5of25 years ago.