New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-07-14
FARM AND RESIDE.
Faraaors' Miscellany.

Farmers Miscellany.
A. suggestive "reminiscences of a Yer
mont farmer is related by a neighbor
of his, IN The American Cultivation. It
appears that when young man,
twenty years ago, he was on the point
of leaving the old homestead for city
business The father kept an inferior
herd of COWS and it was slow going to
make ends meet: ~ found the boy
took great fancy to sheep, and I
suggested to the father that he allow
him to serve an apprenticeship to
some good Merino breeder, and after
that, buy him a good flock OF pure
bred sheep. He followed my advice,
and to-day that boy has grown to be
one OF the most successful breeders in
Vermont, and is known wherever
-Merlno sheep penetrate.
Anextensive cattiegrower OF Iowa has
been detaorning cattle. Hebegan with
a COW January 5th. In two weeks the
wound healed. March 10Th he de-
horned 1875 CATTLE some COWS in calf,
with no bad results and no loss OF APP
petite. He says the operation is SIM
Dle and can be done in forty seconds.
He claims the gain in security and
protection against loss and damage
from horns is more than S1,OOO,OOO
annually to Iowa alone. He says hui
manity and profit are decidedly on
the side of dehorning. There is no
gJarbariSm about it,
The American Swineherd, an excel
Gent publication at Alexandria, Oak,
devoted to the pork producing inter-
.sests, maintains that the pork raiser
who is n,editating change in his bus
sness because of the low price of the
shog product, will not easily find a
sbsanch Of the farm industry at the
fpresent time that is paying large divi-
-dends- We are weauhering q storm
NOW, but the old pork ship will soon
'right itself, SO take courage.
Feed literally; that is, feed all that
"a COW will eat and thoroughly digest.
Raise all The feed you can and feed all
you raise. That is, do not stint your
COWS in order that you may sell a few
ibushels Of grain or few tons Of hay.
I'm feeding your COWS they in turn will
mot only feed you but your land also.
That which is sold from the farm is
i gone forever; that fed on the farm re-
enains as good manure.-Breeder's
Gazette.
In smother article in these columns,
says the Des Moines register, we rec
ord the pretended discovery o. cheap
&ood for stock, but alfalfa is not one
of these humbugs. 1t is distined to be
one Of the most valuable and extern
sive torage plants. 1t will evidently
yet make q 'Iarge part Of our other
wise desert regions blossom with the
srichest results. Wherever water can
de had by precipitation or by irriga-
8tioD, for even only part Of the year.
$50 prolific in production and so rich
;as food, it will aid materially in max
Rssg taae plains perpetual stock ranches.
rI'he Beaver Field and Farm says at
least fifty thousand acres additional,
Of alfalfa, have been planted this
spring in Colorado. And it is spread
1ug and winning it's way in at least the
south hall OF all the region west OF the
Missouri. In California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, ETC.. it is
productive beyond any conception OF
Nhe citizens OF the more northern and
Older states. 1t will produce five
heavy crops per year, and each crop
Aleavier than any average clover crop
55r this region on rich soil. It is equal
Ely as nutritious as clover for either
>gree,a forage or for dry 1t is destined
TO be 81 great blessing for the rainless
region OF the United States
In one respect it is dangerous. In
cattle, sheep and horses, it causes
bsoat worse than clover Nor does it
appear to produce fat to obesity like
clover OF corn. The hog feeding on it
grows rapidly, and it produces vigor-
= GUS health, except in cases OF bloat,
and choice cheap pork can be made
with, it, with the aid of a little corn to
finish up with. The Field and Farm ad-
vises the citizens OF Colorado to raise
hogs 1t says:
Our Colorado farmers should now
!, be Oh the alert in the matter OF pork
product. The article is bound to 60
higher. The great death loss OF swine
q iii the western states the past year
lhas reduced the stock for feeders and
mas discouraged q great many out Of
tbhe business. This next fall every hog
faJted In Colorado will pay WE'LL Hog
cholera has never made it's appear
:ance here, and we have confidence it
never will, so long as the brutes are
allowed to Craze on ALFALFA and have
clear mountain water to wallow in.
Care of Chickens.
The chickens must be protected
from the sun. Their little hearts beat