New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-16
FARM and HOME.
How to Earn Money.

shelter Tor them In winter, says the
Western Rural. It is worse than folly
to feed $500 worth of grain and hay to
keep up a warmth that SO per cent of
that sum invested in sheds and wind
breaks would more than preserve.
Those who are able ought to have good
stock barns. There is nothing so val
liable as a building of this character.
A good barn is an absolute necessi ty
for good farming and successful stock
raising. And there will never be a
better time than now to build a barn.
Prices are low, though they ought to
be lower for lumber, if it were not
for robbing combinations. Labor is
low and a barn can be built now as
cheaply as any time. Build one with
room underneath for the stock, which
can be readily done if there is side
hill to build to, and if there is not,
build an approach to the main floor. If
a barn can be built large enough to
permit a wagon to be turned inside,
such a barn as his last mentioned, can
be built with only one approach, hav-
ing one set of doors for entry and an
other set on the same end of the build
ing for exit. The entire under part of
such barn can be used for the hous-
ing of stock.
But if we can not build barn we
can build a shed. There is not far
mer in the country who cannot do
that. He can set posts in the ground,
make a skeleton roof and cover it with
hay or straw. He can by a very little
ingenuity, make the sides of straw,
and even with such structure he will
save lots of grain and hay next winter
And every farmer can have upon his
farm, if he will, wind breaks without
much trouble or much cost. Wind
breaks do very we'll indeed as a pro-
lection. against the cold, though no
man should be satisfied with this if he
can possibly have anything better.
But those trees which will make good
breaks in winter will not furnish pro-
lection from the storms. They are not
large enough and usually there would
not be enough of them, while the trees
that are large enough, and that may
be sufficiently close together to make
something OF wind break even when
denuded of foliage can furnish no shell
ter because they have no leaves.
Hence a constructed shelter is neces-
sity; and now is the time to begin it's
construction for next winter, if we have
not already done so, and have no
shelter. Stock does not want to be
be cooked alive, and the stables should
be we'll ventilated and kept very clean.
But all stock should be kept from get
ting chilled, for that condition means
the waste of grain and danger to the
the health.
The Demand for Eggs.
Eggs are almost the only article of
food that can be produced in this coun-
try that is imported in large quantities.
In the year 1883 we imported 16,098,-
$50 dozen of eggs, valued at 50, 476. 672.
The number of eggs brought from
foreign countries increases annually.
Most of them come from Canada, but
not few are brought from France,
Belgium, Holland and the Scandin avian
countries. The cities on our Pacific
coast obtain eggs from China and Japan
Farmers in Australia and New Zealand
are now considering the propriety of
raising eggs for expectation. AS a
rule the most eggs are produced in the
countries where the farms are quite
small and the holders of them are
obliged to resort to little things in
order to make money. In this country
more eggs are generally produced on a
farm of forty acres than on one con-
tanning five hundred.
There appears to be no danger of
overriding the production of eggs.
Their consumption increases with the
advance of civilization. Refrigerator
cars, cold storage rooms, preserving
processes and shipping cases that pre-
vent breakage have done much to aid
in the keeping and transportation of
eggs. One hopeful feature in egg pro-
duction is that they retain their value
in the market better than any article
raised on farms. Eggs are nearly as
high now as they were when wheat
sold for 81 per bushel and dressed hogs
brought 10 cents per pound. Still they
are regarded by the people who live in
| cities as the cheapest article of food
/ that can be used in the place of meat.
I Eggs, like milk, are classed among
the perfect foods, or, in other words,
| foods that will by themselves sustain
life and build up every portion Of the
system. Farmers engaged in grain
production would be gamers if they
gave more attention to eggs. They
| have land on which fowls can run and
q, focd ~ .o+;cfxr their anno1ita Money!