The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-30
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
USEFUL INFORMATION CON-
CORNING FARMING TOPICS.
Good Farming---ReducinR the Cash
----HoW to Cheaper Feeds--
Some Beef---For the Sake
OF the Bees--Some USE
full Hints,
Good Farming.

The first requisite in good farming
Is the determination to have the best
In every department of farm life. Ii
the farmer desires to have the very
best OF everything he will make the
attempt to have them and the at
tendant condition will soon follow.
But to be content with the ordinary,
the common, the Indifferent, the in
terlor, is a cure road to their posses
sion. 1t would cost no more to have
the best, in a general way, than it
does to have the poorest, and the
best is always worth about double
that OF the poorest.
Aim high and you are sure to shoot
high, and the reverse of this is as
true. II the farmer aims to have
good crops he will endeavor to have
the best methods OF obtaining them.
But if he is content with the average
yield and quality OF crops, he will
move along in the same rut with
corresponding results, while his
boys will take no interest because
there is nothing to interest them, and
sooner or later they will leave the
farm for more inviting fields. If the
aim is to have the best horses for farm
use it will be found that they are as
readily obtained as "plugs." Fine,
large, active, stylish horses will please
the boys and they will take to the
farm almost universally.
Good farming is attended with the
best OF stock of all kinds-cattle,
swine, sheppard poultry. The best is
in the country, and every farmer may
aim to possess it, and he will in q
short time succeed in his commenda-
BILE aspirations, and just in proper
ton as farmers rise up and demand
the best OF everything will they be re-
spected, esteemed and honored by all
other classes, and by every member of
their own class. :.
II you look at the market quota
tions you will see distinction be-
tween the inferior and the best in the
price of all grains, vegetables, fruits
04N ANC oOOCA. LILO OSSt IIOIScS Will
sell for 5000 to $3.50 while the ''plugs"
are run off at $40 to SIS. The best
beef cattle bring double the price of
poor scrubs. The same principle
holds good throughout the entire
range of marketable farm products. =
The drudgery OF farm life,' which is
proverbial, will soon disappear if
farmers will determine to have the
best in every line. The work itself
will be rendered more pleasurable and
interesting, while the ability to take
leisure will be afforded by the in
creased profits and advantages of
having the best. Drudgery is accom-
panied with want of intelligence, to
some extent. 1t is a low object to
live to work, while it is honorable to
labor, having the object of obtaining
that which is useful and necessary in
life.
Good farming ends in having all the
good things possible. A good farm, a
good house. good farmer, good
crops, and good stock will make the
farmer and his family and all con-
nected with them not only enjoy good,
but be good. The goods go together
and the bads together.
Let the farmer step up higher and
enjoy purer atmosphere. Let him
'turn a new leaf" in agricultural
work. The world is filled with the
new, the wonderful, the progressive,
the aggressive. Let the farmer take
his place and perform his est.-Farm,
Field and Fireside.