The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-11-18
AGRICULTURAL.
Wheat Gone Abroad In Fairly
Liberal Quantities.
TINE TO PUT IN TILE DRAINS.
Patch Up the Cracks In the Chicken
House, the Cow Barn, Sheep
Shed, Etc.-Notes.

Shed. Etc.-Notes.
Haul ont manure ~ it accumulates,
and spread it on the fields. Do not let
it pile and fre-fsng.
A large quantity Of the butter pro-
duced in this country 10 spoiled by too
much churning and working.
Clean up rubbish about the farm. Bits
| of rails, limbs Of trees, ends Of boards,
etc., will soon be covered with snow.
In building Temporary corncribs have
| the floor at least . foot above the ground,
30 rats and mice cannot harbof under it.
Patch up the cracks in the chicken
house, COW barn, sheep shed, etc. Cold
winds are detrimental TO stock-raising.
Get the potatoes in the cellar or pit,
rs the time 10 nearly here when cold
nights will injure them. See that the
storing place is we'll ventilated.
When the machinery used in putting
| in the wheat crop II needed no longer
carefully clean, grease bright metal sur
faces and put away in dry place.
In selecting seed corn remember that
| the varieties will crose-fertilize at long
distances. Select seed from corn which
has grown apart from other varieties.
The best method of keeping roots
where one has no regular root cellar 10
to bury on dry ground. Cover with two
feet of earth. and see that all water that
falls on the pit can get of readily.
LAYING out and putting in tile drains
il now ia order where the ground is not
too hard. Better have all the main lines
surveyed and the tile leveled before COW
ering. Imperfectly laid drains are use
less.
During the winter, when there is not
60 very much that one can do in the way
of practical work, is q good time to ac-
auire the theory of agriculture. Get it
from books and from your farm papers.
and have it at your fingers ends, 50 that
you can verify it by practice as soon as
you get into the field next spring.
Some of our friends OF the press make
q mistake when they take the position
that good roads are Of importance only
to the farmers, and that in consequence
the whole expense of building and main
tenance should be borne by them. They
) are of value to the entire community,
and the expense should be shared by all
classes.
The business Of manufacturing starch
, | from potatoes has been confined to COM
! parativelv few localities. Where it has
been carried on il has proven profitable
!: industry, and has increased the value OF
farm lands devoted to growing the crop.
:. The combination of agricultural produce
! ton and manufacturing is usually sats-
factory to all concerned.
/. thorough tillage will partially take
: the place of manure by making more
: valuable whatever plant food may be in
4 the soil. But the natural inference is
that shfa he tho Snit still
rapidly, % that, if continuous cropping
is to be practiced, the manure must not
be withheld, however good the tillage-
: will make big crops right along.
4 Some men eeem to pride themselves
]; farmers, and know nothing about agri-
q culture except that which they have
!. learned by hard knocks. But this is
4. hardly as much credit to them as they
y seem to think, because the very best
i, farmers in these latter days are the onea
i who combine theory with practice.
}; Wheat has gone abroad in fairly lib
.. eral quantities. This ought to make
s, better prices, and will if it continue.
9 long enough. Anyway, it brings good
9 deal Of money into the country, and thi,
will help to make times better. Tn,
g, panic ie over At any rate, and farmer
., ness will continue next year just as il
0. has in the past.
SUCCESSFUL FARMERS.
The Practical Farmer SAYS: We
4; should ask what qualities do these mel
c; have made them 60? Are they not mer
i; Of great energy, wide-awake and alert
men who always keep abreast OF thu
times? Are they not men of an unflinch
h. ing determination. who trample upol
et difficulties, and who ever pass onwsr,
a. and upward7 Are they not frugal ant
G: eoberr Do they not read and think
Al Do they not love their calling? l an
eli acquainted with . farmer. who abou
H. eight yeap ago bought farm. He has
\ nothing to begin with but energy, char
acter and ability, and to day he is slmos
out of debt. His money is all mad
from his farm products, and he evel
Iir sells corn, oats and hay-crope which
&c take of much plant food but this plan
q food is always returning by copious ma
nuring. He follows general farming. bu
0; it 10 intensive farming. He does n
0; more than he can do well. And RICH
Y. here is where 80 many farmers make
e. mistake. They undertake entirely to
q, much. A good farmer once wrote that h
never plowed more ground than he coul
completely cover with manure. That
q good plan. l can imagine that tina
farmer was successful. BY blowing n
IL more than what can be completely GOV
81 cred with manure one is not likely 3
%. pillow more than what can be thoroughly
ne titled. An able writer on agricultur
wrote some time ago that prodigy seed
s; prodigy fertilixing and prodigy tillag
will bring prodigy results. Now, it seem
to me that any farmer who has reason
ably good land can obtain sstonishingl
er good results by using the beet seed, b
s; copious fertililing and by thorough till
" age. All that is needed is enterprise
&c constant planning and push. The troubl
with a great many farmers 10 they ar
N, satisfied too soon. When they raise
crop that is slightly above the averag
or somewhat better than that OF thei
neighbors they think they ars doing We
'uI enough. This should not be. The
, should strive each year to surpass IN
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