The Wahpeton times., 1888-11-29
'AG'RElI]|ClU 4 D D NOTES


'AGRICUL / lJRAL NOTES!
This tendency toward less fcncing
Is gaining ground every year, and
farmers are certainly gaining ground
BY it.
There will hereafter be no profit on
inferior stock, and it must be pruned
>0ut. The earlier the better.
"A thrifty farmer invigorates a
heighborhood. A lazy one demor-
allies it.
There is said to be a great increase
In the practice Of threshing corn this
year. Weneed a machine to perform
this special operation.
\ There have been 1000 bulls and
~, 900 cows enrolled in the herd
Register Of the American Jersey Cat
tie Club. Probably two-thirds of
these, or more, are still alive.
> Whenever @ farmer appreciates
that his team is one of the heaviest
items in his expenses, and must be
kept at work every day when work
is possible, he has a fair chance of
success.
With proper provision of warmth
and shelter, and a good store. of en-
silage and hay, winter dairying can
frequently be made more profitable
than summer: labor is then cheaper
and butter higher.
Three rules for improving dairy
cattle: Select and keep only the best
and most promising calves, study
and practice the best methods of
Needing and keeping stock, secure the
>best blooded stock possible.
The remedy for q ''hide-bound"
horse is o simple tonic, nutritious
food and the use of the curry-comb
and brush freely. By this means the
hide will soon become supple and the
coat sleek and glossy.
Iffire. breaks were a dollar apiece q
few would have them; if they were
$25 each quite number would be
used; if it required the giving of O
chattle mortgage to get them nearly
everybody would have one. But they
are free-that's why they are so
scarce.-Journal, Redfield.
{; There will be a change in the sys-
tenn of breeding and feeding swine in
a few years, says an exchange. Peo.
. pie are firing of fat pork. They are
calling for more lean and less tat,
and corn will not answer the call.
Other foods will need be fed, foods
that'will give growth and lean meat.
At an anagriculturalfair held in a Con-
necticut town a children's depart
ment has been established, which is
said to have proved very successful.
Competitor between the youthful ex-
hibitors is sharp, and parents take
much pleasure in the result. A good
way to interest the farmers boys
and girls in farm work.
! Sheep and lambs will run out and
2 take care of themselves later than
any other stock. Now is the time to
Gull out the flock, and fatten for the
butcher those sheep which failed at
shearing time to yield q profitable
fleece. Lambs that are intended to
turn off should be given generous
feed. There is more money in rear
ing lambs, this year, than in any
other class of butchers stock.
For fattening cattle especially to
increase the production of milk in
; cows, it is asserted that the pressed
cake from cotton-seed gives the best
results. The next in good results is
the pressed cake from peanuts. No
other kind of food seems to equal
the two mentioned for milch cows,
the milk results being greater in
amount and richer in quality. The
above-named foods, like ali other
concentrated materials, are to he
used in conjunction with the usual
rations for good results.
"A farmer must compound and
use the feed that he has at hand, or
is most easily produced. A COM
pound may be made of bran, oats
and rye, bran and rye, or bran and
corn meal; and these compounds can
Often be made in such q way as to
cheaper the cost of feed-when all
has to be bought on the market. On
the majority of farms oats are grown
only for the horses and colts. The
pigs should always be thought of as
sharers in this important muscle
forming food.
There is no use says the Breeders
Gazette, in shutting our eyes to the
fact that the majority of our home
grown woods are slovenly handled,
when compared with foreign woods
gfeing us the severest competition.
In this fact Of condition, quite as
much as in quality, lies the popular
ity of Australian woods. Most of
our woods are sheared and marketed
in seeming disregard of the prefer