Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-07-20
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
0OU8EHOLD AND AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS DISCUSSED.
20 the Farm, Orchard, Stable kprlors and
Kitchen
THE FARM.
Making Farms Valuable

The FARM
Making Farms Valuable.
To increase the value of his land is
for the great majority of farmers the
readlest and most obvious means of max
ing money. This is commonly attempted
by securing the cooperation of others.
In new country each additional settler
adds to the worth of all the land in his
neighborhood, provided he be honest
and able and willing to work. If rail-
road can be induced to establish a
station on or near the farm, its value ap-
preciates still more. Many a man has
been made wealthy by the increased
value of his original purchase of farm
from the growing up of village or city
near it. These facts have to some ex-
tent diverted the minds of farmers from
their business. 1t has brought many to
consider the buying of land as a sort of
speculation, instead of for the purpose
of working and improving it.
Yet it is in farm Improvement, if
judiciously followed, that good farmers
must look for the greater portion of
their profits. The farm from year to
year is expected to afford them a living
and pay cost of cultivation, wear, and
depreciation of tools. If the farmer
apparently uOEc ludu tulb. IL u6
skins the land, as it is called, to put
money in the bank or in other invest
ments, it is reasonably certain that he is
to that extent depreciating the value of
his land. His so-calIed dividends are
in reality taken from his capital. 1t
may not seem SO at first. We will sup
pose a man to engage in farming with a
certain amount invested in land and an
other certain amount in stock and tools
At the end of the year he has produced
and sold enough to pay handsome in
terest on the Investment. But he finds
after little that there are unreckoned
offsets to this. If he sells all the pro-
duce from his land, he has little or no
manure. and there is depreciation in
fertility. In any event his tools and
farm implements will be deprecated to
some extent by one years use. Unless
he is very careful about sheltering tools
from the weather, then injury from ex-
posure will take large share of his ap-
parent profits.
There is besides reasonable GER
tainty that continuance in this course
will impair the farmers profit, SO that
even the apparent profit must cease.
The land will no longer be worth cult
waiting, and though he still holds his
hSACo pdllCo III CAlcul SAc 1dTuuSIS
capital will be gone. 1t is clear that
the only safe way for farmer is to
think less of present profit, and do his
utmost to improve the fertility of his
land, to underdrain it, clear it OF weeds,
and in every way increase its practical
value by increasing its productiveness.
When he once begins his upward
progress, every atter-step becomes
easier. He has more capital in the same
acreage, has more to do with, and can
make the farm as much better as he
chooses. Let every farmer remember
that the value of land is, except for
speculation, just what it will pay inter-
est on over and above the cost of cult
walton. The best farms are seldom for
sale, because as a rule their owners are
we'll able to hold them, and can desire
no better or safer investment. Yet when
buying it always pays to select the most
productive land, rather than be misled
by extra costly buildings that are often
an expense to keep up not warranted by
the present productiveness of the farm.
Boston Cultirator.
Farm Notes.
NEVER feed hard boiled egg to chicks.
1t causes bowel troubles. A raw egg,
beaten up, and then soaked up with
bread crumbs, generally corrects such
ailments. We have also found boiled
rice, fed cold, to be excellent.
PROF. L. B. ARNOLD said at one time
that the best favored butter that he
found was made from cream that had
been spread out pretty thin in temper
ate air, which is free from foreign odors,
currents, and unusual dampness. Say
sixty degrees and thirty to forty hours
at two and one half inches
deep.
IT takes the same kind of food to re-
sist cold weather as is required to add
fat to the body. AS a consequence, it is
almost impossible to fatten an animal
to the cold blasts of winter. |
This winter being particularly mild, it |
is to be expected that cattle will be well |
when properly cared for.
THE farming of the future must be |
gradually contracted in the number of |
acres. Less hard work over broad fields |
and closer attention to special paying |
crops on the fields that surround the |
house. More pasture. more stock, and |
plenty of ensilage. this insures the pur- |
chase of less commercial fertilizer and |
the very best results from the contents |
Of the BARNARD.
If taken in time, black knot in cherry |
:rees can be cured by an application of |
coal oil, taking pains to see that none
Of the oil is allowed to get on the un-
Affected spots of the trees. When it can
be done, cutting off the deceased limbs
will answer. But either of these cannot
cure, as rule, the quicker the tree is
cut down the better.
THE DAIRY.
Butter and Cheese Factories.
The fo11owino rnle for fha covorn !