The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-02-27
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The csnt and uncared for lots in the
city of st. Paul grow up with it every |
season. One man has realized as high
as $50 lton for prepared hemp and a
ton anea quarter can be grown on an
acre. 4 mill at Chainpaing, Illinois,
last yea contracted for 5000 acres Of
hemp fom Illinois farmers.
Men,ften idle away time in one way
or anoter that could be most advan-
tageouly employed in the potato field,
the onon patch, and other work COM
monlycalled stinkering, and generally
though too undigniied for men and too
Insignificant for any one. Things can
be engsed in which are not very labori-
GUS In their nature and that will amount
only tapassime, and when market day
comes.saj hon onions, $50 from navy
beans, $50 to 500 from potatoes, $50
from ,ther root crops, 500 or more
from lax fiber, together with respecta-
BILE amounts from other sources, will
make Up quite a snug sum, goodly to
see AMI handy to have.
Always Keep Live Stock in Variety.
Eve,y small farmer can have various
kinds OF stock. Horses, cattle, sheep,
hogs, should all be kept. Good milk cows
are indispensable, and the annual differ
ence between scrub COW and a good
one 500 or more pounds Of butter. Ii
the milk cannot be sold to creamery,
butte may be made by the housewife.
Om state is well adapted to the rails
) ing Of sheep We can make mutton
!; cheaper and better than they can any
WHERE else in the civilized world, and
when we supply home demand there is
, plenty of demand abroad, as ne Euro
J pean can make firSt-class mutton as
easily and cheaply as we can, and NUT
ton Is a favorite meat abroad.
: TIE stock should be cared for and SO
, should the implements. Rust and rot
do more for the implement maker in the
) winter than wear and tear do in the
summer, and rain and sun do more in
summer than wear and tear. Shelter
fer animals as well as implements can
be cheaply and easily made in Mime
sota-if nothing more, poles and straw
can be used.
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+ poultry. Chickens and turkeys can be
ii proftably raised and are always salable,
u and, with the abundance of water in the
lakes and rivers of Minnesota, ducks and
! geese can be made a source of income,
, and something too can be made from
I fish. Eggs can be preserved against the
! day of good prices by methods simple and
, easily practiced. The best grades of
0 poultry should be selected and the
fowls given comfortable quarters and
q other needful attention. The average
price received from two eggs will keep a
+ chicken q week and in good condition.
We bought last year 81, 300,000 worth
: of eggs from Canada, and in all agricul-
! tural products to the value of $19, 500, 900,
: or enough to divide $500 each among
1000 American farmers.
In this land Of flowers every farmer
| can keep bees cheaply and proftably.
: With proper care and attention single
l strong healthy hive of bees will produce
every season at least 100 pounds of good
r honey, worth from 10 to 20 cents a
> pound. A farmer at Alexandria, Mimi,
| 100 miles north of US, gathered 5000
pounds, or three tons, of honey from a
i small apiary.
Look After the Multitude of Details.
By attention to these little things a
man of reasonable industry and intelli-
gence can make farming the occupation
that it should be. The merchant makes
his best profits from his notions. Every
other business man looks closely after
the little things. The small farmer
especially ought not to reject the staple
crop, but he ought not to depend upon
that more for real profit than upon his
flax field, vegetable garden, berry
patches, poultry yard and many other
/ ways and means that can be so easily
| adopted and utilized.
/ Let the editors of Minnesota and the
| Northwest give more attention to the
discussion and development of small in
{ dustries in their towns and speciality and
! variety on their farms, than creating
small politicians and there will be more
} in it for the country.
: Without assuming to tell the editors
what they ought to do, 1 ask if
the papers of the farming districts
should not give the interest upon which
, the prosperity of their community de-
ponds large share of space. How
few papers solicit contributions from
their successful farmers, telling why and
| how one succeeded with his crops, while
| his neighbor failed. If the farmer
feels unable to oit, let the editor write it
: up. A hint or suggestion whereby a
| subscriber is enabled to make an inn
provement, and in anywise increase his
income or better his condition is worth
more than the knowledge of the exist
ence of the greatest pugilist that ever
lived.
Discard the Ideal, Retain the Practical.
1t was the expressed ambition of the
good king Henry LII, of France, that his
subjects would become so prosperous
that every one of them might have a
fowl in his pot whenever he wanted it.
Every one DESTROYS of his country's good,
will heartily wish, not only that every
farmer can have fowl in his pot for his
dinner, but that he may have happy
family in snug home, well-flled
barn, horses in his stables, cattle in his
pasture, sheep in the fold, pigs in the
CIV r,o,,1frx, his worlds uonofo h1ac in