Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-22
FARM AND GARDEN,
An 0hiOL Editors Plea for
Systematic Farming.
A JERSEY BREEDERS VIEWS
Drop the Little-BOy Manner of DOING
Things and Work With Some
Aim in View.

along with the current; dropping int
the ruts; slipping into the paths pointed
out by existing circumstances! This i
as | see the great mass OF farmers NOV.
ing; this is the cause of SO many failures
of Strengthened circumstances" Of
mediocre results and almost fruitless Ia.
Dor. This it is that makes farm life the
"humdrum existence so many realize
barren OF satisfactory results, fruitless
in much that helps to render life pleas.
ant and attractive. Many farmer il
there who never dreams of planning for
more than the single season, while there
are others who permit conditions as they
find them to dictate their course of ac.
ton. One will go out over his fields in
the spring, select little spot of an acre
or two where the grass is failing and
"guess l will put little corn here,n
Some other spot for like reason will be
selected for potatoes, and so it goes in a
series of patchwork" all over the farm
and all through the season. The plow.
ing, narrowing, cultivating, ETC., are all
performed at cost augmented because
of the small scale upon which the work
is done. A little corn is produced and
fed to the hogs small crop OF oats for
the horses; little wheat and a few
bushels of potatoes for family use, and
nothing to put into market to be con.
verted into cash. Now to those farmers
who are always "hard up" who never
have any money W spend ior the pleasure
that makes life attractive, let me urge
you to give up your aimless life and learn
to do something, to accomplish results.
Give up "playing at farming;" drop the
little-boy manner OF doing things, and
work with some aim in view and some
system as guide.
Ii you own farm Of fifty or 100 acres
or more, and it is fenced off into small
fields, the first step necessary will be to
make good, substantial fence around
your pasture land and (if you can do no
better) between your own and Your
, neighbors' and stack your other fences
out OF the way. You cannot afford to
spend your time with short burrows,
hacking weeds in fence corners, etc. So
arrange your work as to reduce useless
expenditure of strength. The outside
OF field always costs the most (propor-
tionately) to keep clean. The larger the
field under cultivation the greater the
economy in producing the crops. Decide
what proportion of your land you desire
to plow each year. If one-fourth, then
take it all up in one piece. Crops will
not quarrel. You can Just as well put
your potatoes the whole length by the
side OF the corn or upon the end of the
corn rows, and your garden truck upon
the end OF the potato rows, as to make
a separate patch OF each variety.
| have lost much time for want Of
proper system in arrangement OF crops.
l now find 1t great convenience to put
them all together as far as practicable.
II am cultlyatlng my potatoes and wish
to work in the garden truck an hour, the
tools, horses and crops are all together.
l don't have to load up my tools and fool
away time going to some other part Of
the farm before | can begin to convert
my labor into money. 1t is well to bear
in mind in all your operations upon the
farm that time is money; that you can.
not afford to do any work that can as
well be avoided, and that carefully ar
ranged system of work to be followed out
year after year will trim off the useless
or worse than useless work that cuts off
the profits wherever the work of the
farm has not been carefully mapped out.
Ohio Farmer.
JERSEY BREEDERS VIEW.
Ii butter cows are desired and we have
only native cows to begin with, the best
sire is Jersey bull. For best results
select cows with large stomachs and Civ
ing good flow OF milk. Let the sire be
years old and one whose heifers have
proved him good butter bull; feed the
calves well, and at any time after the
heifers are months old breed them to
mature Jersey proved like the first one.
l would keep this up. A milk cows busi-
ness is to give good milk; and, like the
trotting horse, the earlier in life she gets
at it, if properly fed and cared for, the
better.
A COW consumes about 3 per cent OF
her live weight daily to support life and
repair waste. If large COW will, when
not used for the dairy, make enough
more beef than small one that makes
the same amount of butter to paw for
the great amount of fodder during the
years she is kept as a dairy COW, She is
just as good. But this is not usually the
case; q small Jersey that produces lust
as much or more butter fat than larger
COW is by far the most economical.
Breed your heifers so as to have them
come into milking when IS or 20 months
oil and when the pastures are fresh and
green.
SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING.
During the dry season of midsumer
the tires of the farmers wagons become
loose, and are the cause OF much delay
and vexation. A writer in the Ohio
Farmer suggests remedy that avoids
taking the wagons to the blacksmith's
shop to have the tires cut. His remedy
consists in making trough little wider
and deeper than the felloes of the wheel.
Then heat linseed oil to boiling point,
and pour it in the trough. Have every.
thing so arranged that you can immedi-
ately turn the wheel slowly through the
boiling oils. Two or three revolutions Of
each wheel in the boiling oil is sufficient
II the business is quickly done, one heat
ing OF the oil is ample for four wheels,
out usually a little boiling oil is added
after treating the second wheel. The
important point in this process is that
enough boiling oil is in the trough to cover
the felloe as the wheel revolves-when
there is better job performed than the
one done by the blacksmith. The whole
cost will be few cents worth of oil and
few minutes work. The oil can be re-
turned back into the can to be retained
Tor future occasion.
wELL-FED STOCK
VIII give less trouble from rowing and
VIII make better returns for feed given
IMAM those which are forced TO rustic.