St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-26
FARM HINTS.


ion on Tin Cup" records, John SDlan
writes: II cannot see what harm it
will do the breeding or trotting interest.
The only people that are liable to be de-
ceived about the value of such records,
are the gentlemen who own animals
that have obtained their honors in that
way. / hardly think that any prac-
teal horseman would ever be
deceived into breeding or buying
horse without giving him some greater
test to prove that he had the character
isticS necessary to be race horse him
self, or to produce race horses, than
single dash over a kite-shaped track,
with the wind his only opponent. A
tin cup and the applause of owner and
friends the only reward if he succeeds
in beating $50. On the other hand,
after man has given his animal every
opportunity in the world, by furnishing
him with good driver and all the me-
chanical devices known to the profess
sion, sends him thousands of miles that
he may have the benefit of the kite
shaped track, and last, but not least,
gets the best timer he can to time him,
and it is death struggle for him to
beat 2:3O. The public find out just how
bad a horse he is.
AT late meeting of the New York
DOllJ dooOCldliOu IL. L VlILOu Sdlu.
"The paying COW of today must give
milk ten months in the year. She must
have good, comfortable quarters and
plenty of temperate water. Some of
my cows drink 800 pounds per day. The
average dairyman feeds one pound of
albuminoidS to ten pounds of carbohy-
drates and asks the cow to give him
product compounded of one pound of
albuminoids to A pounds of carbohy-
drates. She will have to eat an excess
of eleven pounds OF carbohydrates to
get the albuminoids. This is dead
loss"
Scotch snuff, thrown into rat holes,
Will prove too disagreeable for them,
and the rodents will leave If tile snuff is
frequently applied. The remedy is ex-
pensive, however. Labor on the farm
is said to be constant, beginning early
and late. The same may be said of
many other occupations. There are pc
RODS of the year when the farmer is
very busy, but when the loss of time
during the winter is considered, and
the number of hours actual employ
ment is aggregated for the whole year,
1T is doubtful if farmers exceed the aver.
age number of hours of labor for an en-
tire year.
DR.. L. Fl. Hoskins says, in the Garden
and Forest, that he does not want to
put himself OH record as entirely disbe-
heving the possibility of deterioration
OF varieties under even favorable condi-
tons. But he aSks:I it not probable
that what we are asked to call the run
ming OUT of varieties is simply a local
yielding to unfavorabIe conditions of
soil, temperature. or certain atmos-
pheric conditions? May 1t not some
times be justly attributed to erroneous
methods of culture, or even to neglect?
Farmers Club reports from expert
ments in feeding ground feed to hogs
as follows: Three and seven-eighJhs
pounds of ground corn and cob meal
produced 1 pound dressed pork, 50
pounds corn meal without cob produced
l pound dressed pork. and it took over
6 pounds of grain corn to produce 1
pound of pork. Thus the cora at the
then prices, fed whole, brought SO cents
per bushel, 66 cents when shelled and
ground and II cents when ground with
the cob.
Prof. Robertson made statement at
the New York dairy convention, as an
illustration of the value of good feeding,
that he knew man IN the Province of
Quebec who had four cows. In 1888 they
gave 70 pounds of butter each. He COM
menced feeding little corn and bran,
and in 1889 they gave I31 pounds of but
ter each. He kept increasing the ration
and good care and in 1890 it was 2041z
and this year it will be $50 pounds.
This shows what men can do with the
common cow.
A man., to successfully run a farm,
should have some sort of qualification
for the business. as well as in the case
of any other business. A man with a
love for fine animals has one eualifica-
tion for successful farming. and man
who loves rural life better than town
life has another. The art oil creating a
fine landscape is greater than the art of
painting one. Good farming creates
good landscapes.
The first duty of farmer is to supply
his home with all the various luxuries
that can be grown on farm. With the
many varieties of fruits and vegetables
that can be produced on farm the
farmer should be able to have nearly all
his wants supplied, so far as his table
is concerned. In estimating the re-
ceipts for the year the farmer should
always include those articles supplied
by him to his family.
We are told that Laramie (Wyo.)
sheep man has purchased 1000 acres
of land IN the Laramie plains, which he
proposes to irrigate and grow crops of
Swedish turnips on, with which to win
ter his sheep. He claims to be able to
raise six tons of turnips to the acre,
and says he can winter 1900 haed on one
ton of turnips each. without hay. This
strikes us as pretty strong of turnips.
aIt is often the case with flock of
hens that a few of them lay while the
others produce nothing. 1t will pay to
select the layers and get rid of the IN
profitable hens. 1t does not pay to per-
NIT two or three prolific hens to support
dozen that are idle.
Broom corn should be a profitable
crop. Not only is the seed valuable as
food for poultry, but the brush COM
mands ready sale. At the present
time the supply is short, and prices well
up. 1t is crop that is as easily grown
as corn.
sometimes discussed, and there are
corn is not a profitable crop. 1t is esti-
mated that buShel of corn can be pro-
duced at cost of 20 cents for all ex-
penses. BY increasing the yield per
acre the expense is leSsened, hence the
object should be to secure as many
bushels per acre as possible.
A cross of the Dorking male and
Brahma hen produces fine capOns, and
they are in great demand at the present
time. The production of capons should
be made leading business on all poul-
try farms.
1t is the small things that demand the
closest attention. A leak will empty