New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-20
Blue grass will bear pasturing
lightly earlier than almost any other

Blue grass will bear pasturina
lightly earlier than almost any othel
grass. It's roots lie near the surface
and are quickly started into growth
in the Spring if the land is rich
enough. For this season too they
are more easily reached by LIGHT
showers. Latter in the season it NAV
suffer from drought, but hardl y more
so than other grasses and cloyers
thaJstrike into the subsoil and thor.
oughly exhaust its moisture long be.
fore the Summer drought has come
Name and breed alone are not the
passports to high prices, but indi.
vidual merits cuts the figures now
that it's Importance deserves. This
prom ises well for future excellence,
for when all breeders begin to dis
criminate in the quality Of their ami
mails, begin to realize that it is pos
sible for them to be purely bred vet
be without particular excellence or
value, we will begin to see more
rapid improvement all along the
line. Farm and Home.
Whether farming pays can be
answered in a variety of ways. I was
recently talking to a farmer who was
narrowing by the roadside, using an
old-fashioned A harrow, with wooden
teeth twelve inches long and two
inches in diameter. His wagon stood
near, with one odd wheel. This man
remarked, with a groan, that farm
ing didn't pay. When spoken to
about better implements, he replied
that he wasn't going to have any 81
those new-fangled things on his place.
Afarmer who rears extra fine calves
never turns them out into pasture
for the first year. They are kept in
a stable and fed clover hay, wheat
bran, oil meal and perhaps some
oats. They grow finely and do not
nave the adverse circumstances OF
the hot sun, flies and transforms. Il
takes less time to feed them than
when in afield and they do not waste
as much. They get well broken and
gentle, besides making a fine lot OF
manure. We stfeed more to make
manure. The soil needs IL.
The managers of Central Park in
New York city, are finding out what
most farmers boys could have told
them. that the squirrels which they
have introduced as companions Of
the birds are destroying their eggs,
and young, and driving away all ex.
cept the persistent English sparrow.
The TACT that in new settlements
birds leave the woods, and cluster
around human residences, is not from
their love for man, but rather from
their fear of the squirrel. In the do.
nestle cat, however, most farmers
harbor an enemy of birds that if not
fed more than squirrels usually
must prove quite as destructive as
they.
Colman's Rural World accounts
or the deprecated value of cattle as
follows: One would think there was
10 market for western cattle but
Chicago, to see the manner in which
hey are crowded to it's stock yards.
When years ago every country town
lad it's own slaughter houses and
very city was a market, men met
With competition among buyers,
'ut nowadays when everything is
collected together and shipped to
he great central stock yards they
ind but few buyers and these able
10 hold the market and control
prices. This system has nearly
uined the producers business and
We are assured that the end is nearer
han most people imagine