The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
FOR THE FARMER.
Short Notes for Busy Readers.

sure to take the wrong one.
Dakota has no mercy on the man
who allows foul weeds to grow on
his premises. He is promptly fined
ny a supervisor, who in turn is fined
if he fails to do his duty.
When we do not like neighbor,
and cannot tell exactly why, it is
very apt to be the case that the
neighbor is better than we are and
our dislike is plain clear, cut envy.
There is no use in planting a dozen
varieties of potatoes when one may
select two or three to meet every re-
qulrement, and 50 avoid extra labor
in providing more places for storage.
q E2bit of.saving must be formed
a5outh, or waste and penury will be
1kely to embitter life. The small
savings of the young grow into the
fine estates of later years.
1t is suggested that in those sec-
tons where potatoes can be made
special crops, starch factories should
be operated on the co. operative plan,
as is done by dairymen with cream
cries.
Next in Importance to the divine
profusion of water. light and air
those three physical facts which rem
der existance possible, may be reck-
oned the universal benefcence of
grass.
1t is the hungry pig that is always
squealing, and it is the non-progrcss-
i've, unintelligent, lazy farmers who
insist that farming don'tpay"-Dr.
Hoskins.
The results of using frosted wheat
for seed last spring were generally
satisfactory. Where adverse reports
are made, it is probably that other
causes for light crops existed.
We believe in good fences, good
barns, good farm houses, good
stock, good orchards, and children
enough to gather the fulfill. w.
Beecher.
A large farmer in California is very
liberal to his hired hands, asking
them for only nine hours work per
day. But he demands that every
one of them shall be in bed by nine
o'clock.
1t is a good rule to demand bills
for all goods you may buy, whether
paid for at the time or not. When
the goods are paid for, have the
bills receipted and file them away for
reference.
We raised the point that COWS
would not like the fodder from fields
that had been to heavily MANFRED,
and instanced their refusal to eat the
tall grass that grows from their
droppings in the pasture, our notion
being that they do not like the taste
of such grass. Cows will not eat
grass grown in the shade when it is
long and rank, if they can find any
growing out in the sunlight. This
item of rank growth we found to be
the lion iu our path; when we tried
soiling milch COWS they would not
eat enough of it.-American Dairy
man.
Rye straw is less porus than most
others, and therefore most priced for
bedding for horses. AS it does not
absorb urine it can be used repeated
~ before becoming soiled so as to be
Objectionable. Yet the price of rye
straw is so high that it makes expen-
sive bedding. When threshed by
hand and bound it sometimes brings
as much as$15 to $18 per ton.
The old Wilson strawberry has still
many friends, and, in spite of all
that is said against it, is much
grown. For fall planting for the
expection of q crop the ensuing year,
it has no equal. When dead ripe,
even, in flavor it is hard to beat. 1t
colors early, and is marketed half
ripe, which accounts for it's acidity.-
Prairie Farmer.
A Maine farmer, vowing death to
foxes, placed a carcass near his barn
and then connected it by wire under
the SNOW with a. bell in his hedroom