The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-11-18
FARM AND GARDEN.

If you are breeding light horses.
breed for speed; if heavy horses, breed
for strength.
Those who have practiced soiling
sufficiently to test it know it to be
most valuable aid in the economy of
dairying.
Extra feeding should not consist so
much in increasing the quantity as in
lettering the quality of the food, if
such thing can be done.
As soon as the ears have been taken
from the sweet corn the stalks should
be cut up and fed to the COWS in as
green condition as possible.
Every dairyman should be prepared
to feed green grass or green fodder IN
the stable night and morning as soon
as the pasture begins to fail.
One of the greatest drawbacks that
new beginners in poultry raising have
is the desire to crowd fifty fowls into
the space that half that number should
occupy.
Make cuttings of currants and
groosberries now; six inches long will
answer. Mellow the soil. insert them
vertically, and press the soil firmly
about them.
Keep all the suckers that start from
the roots of trees removed. They not
only make the tree unsightly, but will
injure it's growth. Remove them early
and often.
1t is a poor acre of corn that will not
keep cow from grass in autumn to
grass in spring. and the COW that will
not pay pound profit on the product
is too poor to keep.
1t is now generally believed that
solution of copperas is the best remedy
known for grape rot. 1t is sprinkled
freely on the ground around the vines
and on the leaves.
Two or three cats kept in the barn
summer and winter may keep it free
from rats, but they will not trouble the
rodents much if pampered and petted
about the kitchen stove.
Only knowledge of bees, faithful at
tention to the apiary and thorough
and timely preparation for the honey
flow, swarming and wintering will make
successful beekeeper.
More service can be obtained from
one good horse than from several poor
ones, while it costs as much to keep an
ordinary or inferior horse as it does a
good one. The difference is always in
favor of the good horse.
Large yields per animal mean less
cost in making them. If a man can
get 400 pounds of butter from one cow
in year it will certainly cost less than
it would to get that amount from two
cows in the same time. The food from
which the butter is directly derived may
be the same in both cases, though prob
ably it is not; but while that food is
being converted into butter, we have in
one case to support the body of one
cow, and in the other the bodies of two
COWS. Then there is the extra invest
ment and the extra labor of milking
and caring for two instead of one, all
of which makes quite an increase in
the cost of producing milk.
Many farmers who use seed drills to
plant wheat SOW the timothy seed at
the same time by the grass seed attach
ment. If the seed bed is in the right
condition this method is advisable. But
many prefer to SOW the timothy seed by
hand, or by machines made on pur-
pose, and under ordinary circumstances
this method is probably the best. To
insure an even seeding it is best to SOW
both ways across the field, using half
the seed at each sowing. An expert
sower can distribute the seed evenly
and we'll by sowing only one way, but
many experienced men sow both ways.
and never begrudge the time it takes
to do this way when sowing both tim
othy and clover seed.
Cara of an Ann1o Orchard