New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-23
FOR THE FARMER.
Short Notes for Busy Readers

traveller on unfNquented roads,
who, left to his OWN devices is pretty
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
by supervisor, who in turn is fined
ii he fails to do his duty.
When We'do not like a neighbor,
and cannot tell exactly why, it is
very apt to be the case that the
neighbor Use better than we are and
our dislike is plain clear, cut envy.
Ilaerei is no use in planting a dozen
varieties OF potatoes when one may
select two or three to meet every re-
quarement, and SO avoid extra labor
in providing more places forstorage.
s AAbit of saving must be formed
q youth, or waste and perjury will be
hkely to embitter life. The small
savings OF the young grow into the
zine estates of later years.
1t is suggested that in those ssy-
lions 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 whioh rem
der existance possible, may be reck-
Oned the universal benefcence of
grass.
1t is the hungry pig, Hhatlis always
squealing, and it is thenon-progrcss-
i've, unintelligent, lazy farmers who
insist that farming don t,pay''-Dr.
HOskins.
The results of using ifrested wheat
for seed last spring were generally
satisfactory. Where adverse reports
are made, it is probably that other
causes for light >cropss existed.
We believe IN good .fBnces, good
barns, good farm iheuses, good
stock, good orchards, :and children
enough to gather the .fa1it.-H. w.
Beecher.
A large farmer in California is very
liberal to his hired Islands, asking
them for only mine ,hosms work per
day. But he demands that every
one of them shall be lin lbed by nine
O'Clock.
1t is a good rule ito sSemand bills
tor all goods yau may ;haly, whether
paid for at the time .ortnot. When
the goods are paid fer, have the
bills receipted and file ,tham away for
reference.
We raised THE point what COWS
would not like the fodder from fields
that had been to heavily MANFRED,
and instanced their refusal to eat the
tall grass that groMs from their
drOppings in the pasture. sour notion
being that they do mot like the taste
of such grass. Cows will not eat
grass grown in the shade ,Mhen 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 i'll our path; when we tried
soiling mich COWS they ,Would not
eat enough of it.-Anaerican Dairy
man.
Rye'straw is less porals than most
Others, and therefore mast priced for
bedding for horses. AS it does not
absorb urine it can be used repeated-
, ly before becoming soiled SO as to be
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 SIS per ton.
The old Wilson strawberry has still
many friends, and, in spite of al
THAT is said against it, is mudh
grown. For fall planting for the
expedition of a crop the ensuing year,
it has sno equal. When dead ripe,
even, in flavor it is hard to beat. It
colors. early, and is marketed half
ripe, which accounts for it's acid niY.
Prairie Farmer.
A Maine farmer, vowing death ITO
foxes, placed a carcass near his barn
and then aannected it by wire under
the snow with bell in his bedroom.
A fox COULD not do vigorous work
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