Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-06

the small farm more work can be done.
the percentage Of waste is less and the
money invested is very much smaller.
by utilizing the silo, and having a good
amount OF some proper soiling crop \
large amoun OF stock can be carried on
IA comparatively small farm. and the
farmer profits increased, too.
Ten acres Of good meadow will give
more profit than twenty of poor, yet four
tifths Of the meadows in the country
might be classed in the twenty acre list
Tree, Il poor meadow ont west here may
yield as mach rs the good one east. but
IT is nevertheless poor if not yielding up
to its full capacity. Go over il after the
ground freezes and spread a thin coating
OF well rotted manure and see what a
transformation next summer will bring.
While going to Durango the other day
we saw an Indian in a field riding on a
sulky plow. and a few miles further on
we saw a Mexican blowing in n field with
a crooked stick. The Indian had a sleek
pair OF horses, well harnessed. while the
Mexican had an OK hitched by its horns.
Inc Indian and bis generations would
not be slaves-had been freemen-wore
now wards Of The government. The
mexican had been Il peon. through all
time, depressed by his religion and his
country. There was the difference
Denver Field and Farm.
If all the fields Of unripe corn in the
mississippi and Missouri valleys this an.
iuinn could bc put into silos what an
enormous saving it would be. The silo
enables the farmer to laugh at danger
from early frost pr late spring. He can
harvest his corn when the ears begin TO
giaze and 10y feeding ii grain and all has
IL In The best condition 10 digest and in
the natural proportions of grain and fod-
DER FOR a perfect ration. With a good
s'lo on every farm the day Of fear and
trembling lest an early frost come and
give a crop OF soft corn will be gone and
more stock AS well as more prosperity
be found among farmers.
A good Jersey COW, when she has any
olher business to attend to, won't get fat.
AZ the end Of her milk flow she will gain
flesh, bat when the new calf arrives she
Will soon work this off. Her normal con
dltlon when most profitably at work, is
%leanness, and her carcass shows an alb
sence OF surplus flesh. Thrift, however,
is always present in the well fed and
properly cared for Jersey. The feed
which IN other breeds is utilized il form
ms flesh and fat, is diverted in the direc-
ton of producing milk. rich milk, loaded
with cream. No single animal can sue
cessfully accomplish both these ends.
The Jersey COW is not popular with the
butcher. Jersey Bulletin.
Between the dogs and the lawmakers
the poor sheep seem TO be having Il hard
time OF it. Very few are seen at the fairs
and they are not noticed very much. This
is not as il should be. Every farmer
would be better off if he Kept a small
nock OF sheep of come mutton breed on
hls farm. Mutton il one of the cheapest
as well as most palatable and wholesome
OF animal foods and Is not used rs much
as 1t should or would be if prime mutton
were more readily obtained. The sheep
are valuable for the farmer fOrthe reason
That The keep OF a small flOck costs scarce
y anything, they acting ia . large mea.
sure as cleaners among other stock, and
II rightly managed giving something for
market at 81 season when tue farm win
yield scarcely anything else marketable.
Keep a small 1ock Of sheep for the good
OF the farm and the farmer.