The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-10-18
FRAGMENTS FOR FARMERS.

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/. CARCASS milking has ruined many On
0therwise valuable cow.
Youxa fruit trees should be cultivated %
carefully - any other crop on the farm, if
they are expected to pay as well
A MAN who feeds correctly and intellf.
gently viii ssve from ten to twenty per cent.
over man who follows only haphazard
method.
WHEN tho feed In tho pastures IL dried
up 20 tho cows can not easily get all they
want resort should be had to green and even
dry fodder morning and night, to be fed out
1t the barn.
sTocx farming must be the foundation Of
oil long continued, successful farming. Any
other system is one Of slow exhaustion and
ultimate sterility. Ignore the sheep, tho hog
and the cow, and the Land will grow poor
inevitably. "
TIE progress toward making quality the
standard Of value in milk and cream, both
for the factory and retail dealer, proves
that it viii not be long till the best COW will
not be the one giving most pounds Of milk,
but the one giving best milk.
Fathers are apt to give the boys the
poorest team and the poorest tools on the
place to work with, but it is bad policy if
the boys are to be encouraged to become
good farmers. II once they become disgust
ed with farm work, the chances are that the
dislike will always stick to them.
In the vicinity Of cities and large towns
where land command high prices, it often
pays better to feed mich cows at the barn
than to pasture them; but when pasture
can be had at moderate prices, it is less
work and better for tho health Of the cows
a. ~ ~ hO1f ~ $ho;, <ooI -.
the pasture.
Do NOT purchase moro than two colonies
Of bees to start with. If tho owner can
manage these successfully he will have in
tho fall provided it be good SEASON. four
good strong colonies and between four and
! five hun dred pounds of gooG honey If he
should succeed his knowledge must increase
| in the same ratio a. his bees.
farm horse are first sufficient size and
weight to give the necessary strength to
perform the heavy work required Of him
| and second good bottom and endurance.
| The best farm horse is close built and
| sinewy, with feet Of medium size, short
back well coupled, chest wide and deep,
limbs clean and bony, and with docile and
reliable disposition.
In Kidding his farm Of the wild mustard pes,
says he did it by turning in second-croE
clover in August, fitting the ground thor
| ouRhly, fertilizing literally, and sowing
with Q strong and early crop of winter
wheat. Frost kills oil tho mustard germi-
mating in the fall In case the wheat kills
out in exposed spots and tho mustard ap
! pears, every stock of mustard must be
pulled and none allowed to 60 to seed.
TEE growing Of clover is equal to deer
blowing, because it, long roots penetrate
deeply In search Of food for the stems anc
leaves, which, if plowed into the land, will
undergo decomposition and leave, near the
surface, elements taken from the subsoll
It's leaves take oarbonic acid largely from
the atmosphere, and the blowing in of thi.
crop auRments the carbon of the soil very
materially, which changes its color and give!
It q greater capacity to absorb solar hea
and to retain manures and ammonia, whcth
| or resulting from their decomposition o.
absorbed from the atmosphere.