New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-03-09
to seven and half inches, and
realizes from ffty-three or four
to over sixty bushels To the

realizes from ffty-three or four
to over sixty bushels to the
acre.
These illustrations show the neces-
sity of careful experimenting on the
part of every farmer to determine for
himself such questions of method. He
cannot depend upon the conclusions
OF some experiment station a hun
dred Or thousand miles away, as we
have frequently pointed out, although
we must not be understood as dispar-
aging in any degree the work Of those
generally useful institutions.
The farmer who goes on, year after
year, working his land in the same rut,
and resting satisfied with an aver
age Of eighteen or twenty bushels Of
corn per acre, when, by a change Of
method, he can, with little, if any,
additional labor or expense, secure
fifty or sixty bushels, is doing a very
foolish thing, because, if he only wants
SO much corn, he can get it from a
smaller area, and with actually less
labor than by old-fashioned methods.
AS a rule, we believe that deep plow-
ing will yield the best results, year in
and year out, especially when COM
bined with a thorough system of I'M
der-draining. Such exceptions as the
one above noted serve mainly to
"prove the rule" Bullet every farm
er test the matter for himself, and
thus determine whether his soil is one
OF the exceptions.
Feeding Straw to Cattle.
The philosophers tell us that a good
sized COW must eat 14O pounds OF
straw a day to support life and as a
COW cannot chew up and ruminate
this amount of straw it is easily seen
why COWS are always in such thin
flesh when compelled to live on q
straw stack. Indeed it is about as
much as COWS can do to retain their
flesh in cold weather on q feed OF all
the first-class hay they can eat. This,
however. is not saying that straw has
not it's uses in feeding. The feeding
value OF straw will depend upon the
kind Of straw and the condition I'm
which it was cut. We never thought
much OF oat or rye straw for feeding
pur4oses but wheat and barley straw
make an excellent ration when cut
short say in inch lengths made wet
and mixed with corn meal and bran
This of course is the ration for COWS
in milk, and straw in such q ration is
just about as good as ordinary hay,
especially the straw OF barley that
has to be cut green to prevent the
grain from shattering out. If it was
not for the barbs on this straw that
make it disagreeable to handle and
sometimes dangerous to the eyes of
as the ordinary quality of hay.
Success Depends Upon Little
Success in honey producing always
depends on an infinite number oflittle
successes. If we can imagine that our
apiary OF 100 colonies represents a
great factory of 100 hands, every one
OF them being perfectly drilled and
equipped, and capable OF performing
a certain amount of work, we can see
how it is when one to three or more
colonies become demoralized, right at
the beginning Of a. honey -fow. The
aggregate business suffers in proper
ton to the small failures. If we pre-
pare an apiary OF 100 colonies of the
best strain for the honey harvest, we
will have to manage them with more
than ordinary skill, if more than Is
per cent OF them do not waste their
time and opportunities, sulking in
great clusters on the front OF the hive,
or by INDUCING in excessive swarming,
Or refusing to stay anywhere long
enough to settle down to business.
Perhaps no apiary can be managed
at times SO effectually as to wholly
prevent loss from the causes I have
named, but by the proper knowledge
OF the nature and habits of bees, this
loss can be reduced.-G. H. Kirkpat-
rick, in the Indiana Farmer.
Dairying in Denmark.
Is it true that the Danes have
trebled the yield OF milk in that coun-
try in three years with the same num-
Der OF cows. To be modest in our as
sertions, we simply do not believe it.
They have, however, done wonders in
this direction, but that is not saying
that they have performed miracles,
which they would be doing to treble
the yield in three years with the same
COWS. How low down they were in
the scale when they began to improve
we have no means OF knowing, but to
make an Increase of one hundred per
cent. annually for three years is sim
ply impossible. The fact probably is
that while there has been a consider
able increase in the amount of butter
made, it probably has not been more
than a third or half more than or
iginally, but the quality has been, i'm
proved so as to make it sell for per-
haps three times what it originally
did. What the "three times figures
really mean, in all probabilities, is
that Denmark now exports three
times as much butter in val,1a asit