St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-25
FARM TALK.
Some of the Points Made by Farm
ers at the Institute in Brown
County, Wis.

Some Of the Points Made by Farm
ers at the Institute in Brown
County, Wis.
George c. Hall, of Rosendale, read a
paper ON "Grain Growing" In connec-
ton with stock raising he thinks it may
be made profitable to raise some wheat.
If the proposition were to grow wheat
exclusively. he would say No. most en-
phatically. Wheat is too exhaustive
of the soil to be grown extern
sively: yet, moderately practiced,
there is profit and satisfaction in it,
as it may be so cultivated as to produce
good crops and afford abundant straw
for use among cattle. The quality of
spring wheat seems to be improved by
sowing some oats with it. He prefers
to grow winter wheat. During the past
six years he has raised from twenty-five
to forty bushels to the acre. At this
rate it is profitable to grow small fields
of winter wheat. Smut in winter wheatis
avoided by dissolving blue vitrol in water
and wetting the seed with it, letting it
dry before sowing-one ounce of vitriol
to a buShel of wheat. Winter wheat is
one of the best crops with which to SOW
grass seed. The wheat comes off early,
giving the grass a good growth after
ward. Wisconsin farmers will continue
to grow other small grains, oats proba-
bly, taking the preference. At present
the oat crop of the state yields about
thirty-three bushels to the acre. 1t
should not be less than sixty bushels.
This yield can be had with good cultiva-
ton.
The best yield of winter wheat that
Mr.. Hill has raised were grown On blue
cO1 l. Il
Sowed in the first half of September.
BEEF RAISING.
lei. c. Thorn spoke of ''Beef-RalSing,"
giving his views and experiences in
breeding, raising and fattening. One
may begin with such stock as one has
and use only the best pure-blood
sires of the beef breeds. When the
calf is two days old take it from
the cow and feed it new milk
night and morning, SKINNED milk at
noon, two quarts at each feed. Gradual
ly change to skinned milk, so that at
the end of two weeks only skinned
milk is fed. Feed only sweet milk. keep
the feeding dishes clean and sweet, put
dry whole oats in reach and let
them learn to eat them. When
a month old they will be eating
literally of the oats; a teaSpoonful
of Oil meal or flax seed cooked and put
in the milk is profitable; feed the calf
so as to force the greatest possible
growth every day until it is a year old.
or until the spring he is two years old
then when the steers go to grass feed
them all the grain they will eat, and
they will ripen rapidly for the market,
weighing 1900 pounds and over when
twenty-seven months old.
HORSE BREEDING.
George Wylie spoke on "Horse Breed
ing" fitting his remarks to the line of
heavy draft horses, showing the great
growth of the draft horse industry. the
increasing demand for them in the city
markets, where they are always pur-
chased at good prices. Experience and
the increasing demand give assurance
that there is no danger of over
stocking the market for many years
to come. Only the best pure-bred sires
should be used. which, crossed upon
good brood mares, will produce horses
weighing 1900 pounds and over, which
sell readily when they are from three to
five years old, and at good paying prices.
The discussion brought out the fact
that few farmers in the vicinity of
Green Bay are unfortunate in their
efforts to raise colts, and are therefore
inclined to denounee the whole busi-
ness. They evidently need to learn the
art of herse-breeding.