The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1894-10-06
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How Farns,s May Save Large Amount Il
Money.
enc lhfi0fkle rule upen the irrigated

Money.
enc lnf0lbls rule upon the irrigated
farm should be: Send to market In its
most condensed and valuable form
everything you have to SELL Don't
as rule, sell hay. Feed hay to stock
and sell horses, mules, cattle and
sheep. Don't, as a rule, sell grain.
Convert your oats, your barley, and
also your wheat, into pork, beef, NUT
ton, eggs, poultry, butter and cheese.
There is an added profit in manufac-
turing hay and grain into these things
and you should do the manufacturing
on your own land and thus reap the
profit.
In fact, there are two substantial
profits derived from thus condensing
the raw material Of the farm. There
Is the larger return in cash received
for the product and there is the fer
tility saved to the land in the way of
manures, and both are most apprecia-
BILE profits and will amount to ''pret-
ty penny" in the course of time. Just
look around you, and recall in mind
also, taking note of the farmer who
get on and make money, and you will
find that they are those who make 1t a
rule to send their grass and grain to
market on the hoof, and in the butter
tub and egg-basket.
Condensation is the rule OF faith
and practice" at the desk of every
liable editor" 1t should be as faith
fully and persistently applied by every
practical irrigator. Practiced along
the lines suggested, 1t will be found to
affect in most practical and indi-
vidual way the silver question, the
price of wheat the per capita circula-
ton, etc. "Condense," says the edi-
tor. "Condense all along the line"
How people do run in ruts, like an
old wagon. A few seasons ago, when
corn was very cheap and farmers, in
some instances, used it for fuel, many
people considered it little less than
wicked to do so. They did not grasp
the utilitarian fact that corn is a bet
ter and cleaner fuel than coal, and
that circumstances may be such as to
make it economical to burn the form
er instead of the latter But the sim
pie idea of burning up something Or
dinarily used for food, and not COM
monty used for food, Is naturally
repugnant to most people and doubt
less many Il man has shoyeled ton
Of corn into his wagon, taken the time
and labor of himself and his team to
draw it ten miles and shovel it out
again, received less than $3.50 for it
and drawn back ton of coal which
cost $3.50, or more, without observing
that he had lost days labor and the
price of another days labor in cash in
the operation, because 1T did not oc-
cur to him to use the corn for fuel.
In disposing of wheat people are as
much inclined to follow custom.
Wheat is ordinarily exchanged for
-four at the most convenient mill, or
sold to the grain dealer, and hun
dredss OF men have sold thousands
OF bushels of it at so cents per bushcl,
or whereabouts when it might have
been used as feed and netted the
grower dollar bushel or there
abouts Made into chop, wheat can
scarcely be excellcd as n food for
hogs and cattle, or horses, and, either
whole or ground, 1t is n food par ex-
cellence for poultry. Utilized In this
way, 1t can be made to yield remun-
erative price when shippers figures
are down in the ncighborhOod of the
cost of production. Hence, we sug-
gest to those who grow wheat, when
the price is low, try taking at least
part OF 1t to mill to your pigs, poul-
try aud cows. A cheap chop mill and
windmill or horsepower are first
class assistants in such case. This
course viii both benefit the grower
who intelligcntly follows 1T by giving
him n fair return for his product and
aid in reducing "thc visible supply to
proper limits-Irrigatio Age.
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