Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-28
A Successful Farmer Makes His
Plans Long in Advance.
INTERESTING FARM BREyITIES.
Save the Liquid Manure by Using
Some Absorbent Material for
Bedding-HOw to Feed.


pact, vigorous tree will give better re.
suits than tall, slender one.
Many insects will be killed if land in
fected with plant lice, cut worms, ETC.,
is plowed before freezing weather sets in.
There cannot be thoroughly good
farm unless there is good water supply.
If your farm is wanting in this, spare no
effort to correct it.
The 1890 butter product in this coun.
try would require 1000 freight trains of
thirty cars each and each car CARVING
twenty tons to transport it.
The money expended for pure-bred
male animals is one OF the best invest
ments that can be made, and gains COM
pound interest in short time.
Sow some clover seed in autumn on
winter grain. This may do south OF the
latitude of Southern Kansas, but north
of that line better wait until April.
The modern fruit grower must con-
stantly use insecticides. Get all the in
formation possible this winter SO as to
intelligently combat fruit pests next sea-
son.
One thousand Virginia farmers within
IL vi INCHlN VI 4NOIlOlh are
said to have shipped S5,000,0C0 worth of
early fruit and vegetables to Northern
cities last spring.
Ii you have AN old lot OF abandoned
road which is to be cropped next season,
plow it this fall SO the frosts will have an
opportunity to mellow the ground. Plow
again in the spring.
Save the liquid manure by using some
absorbent material for bedding which
can be spread over the fields. Straw,
sawdust, old hay, leaves, etc, are good
and most of them obtainable in all places.
When green crdrs p are slowed under
for the purpose of enriching the soil an
application of lime will often be OF the
greatest benefit. 1t helps to correct the
acidity of the soil that often results from
the too rapid fermentation of the green
stuff
The fence law which works the great
est good to the greatest number is that
which compels man to fence his own
cattle in rather than to fence other peo-
ple's out. Where this is once tried it is
not easy to persuade people to go back
to the old way.
A heavy clay soil will hold water like
basin, and no crop can do its best if
the plants have wet feet. A subsoil plow
that will break deeply without lifting
the under soil will make the cropping Of
such land much more profitable than it
has been before.
In order to be wholly successful a
farmer should make his plans a long
time in advance OF the day when they
must be put in operation. The bestwa
is to mature plan of operations that
will require some years for fully carrying
out. This brings better results than the
changeable way that some have of try
ing one way this year and another the
next.
RESTORING LAND.
A Western writer gives his experience
in restoring land as iollows Four years
ago bought piece of land that had
just raised its third crop OF tobacco in
line, which had just killed the soil.
When | told old farmers what | was 60
ing to do they laughed at me; so gave
the soil light coat of manure and sowed
it to wheat. The next harvest | shocked
it in rows, turned the stubble under with
three horses on July 2, rolled and dragged
the soil, and put on a light coat OF ma
nure again. On the 4th planted from
five to seven grains of corn in hills two
feet apart in rows four feet wide; plowed
three times, and the horse could not get
through any more. l cut it just at frost,
laid it in punches for two days, and then
put it in shocks. Resolved the land to
wheat. Last harvest l cut my wheat as
high as could. Had big yield. Put
on some more manure; planted in corn
the same way; only drilled the grain one
loot apart. This year is still better and
several farmers that laughed at me now
say it was the largest crop they ever saw
grow out OF the earth, and one OF them
has rented the ground for tobacco next
year. | cut the roasting ears and fodder
both together in fodder cutter. Nv
horses and cows won't eat anything else
while 1T lasts, and it Just pours the mix
and butter. My motto is this:
plow deep while sluggards sleep; (
lou VIII have corn to sell and plenty to keep.
WHAT AND HOW TO FEED.
The daily feeding standard for milch
cows OF 1000 pounds weight should con-
tam two and a half pounds OF protein,
four pounds OF fats, twelve and half
pounds OF sugar and starch and twenty
four pounds OF dry matter. Following
are the the rations properly made of the
required quantities by the Wisconsin ex-
pertinent station:
Corn siage forty pounds, clover hav
eight pounds, wheat bran six pounds.
cornmeal three pounds.
Fodder corn twenty pounds, hav six
pounds, oats four pounds, shorts four
pounds, oilmeal two pounds.
Corn silage fifty pounds, corn stover
SIX pounds, oats six pounds, malt sprouts
four pounds, co nmeal two pounds.
HAY eleven pounds, corn fodder eleven
pounds, cornmeal four pounds, cotton
seed meal four pounds, gluten meal one
and a half pounds.
Sllage thirty pounds. hay ten pounds.
cornmeal three pounds, cotton-se meal
three pounds, gluten meal two pounds.
The bulletin says it cannot assert too
emphatically that heavy feeding paws,
other conditions being given. A COW
producing a full flow of milk should re-
ceive over 20 per cent more food than is
requl' ed for the maintenance of her
body; 1t is the excess over maintenance
that brings profit to the dairyman. Keep
only cows that respond to good feeding.
Feed literally, but not to waste. Select
such feed as will supply fair quantity
OF protein. Raise moe ensilage and
clover; use bran. shorts and oilmeal
whenever needed and when obtainable
at a reasonable price.
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