The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-13
HINTS TO FARMERS.

The following notes are culled for the
benefit of our agricultural friends who
will find in them hints that may he
profitable if not new. They are intended
to refresh their memory, if nothing
more, and lead to improved methods
in all their work:
! After the best is once obtained it is
as easy to keep up the best as it is to
plod along with that which is inferior.
If the best horses give the best sue
cess on the farm. why not apply to all
other departments on the farm the same
reasoning, the same logic?
The reasoning that applies to all farm
crops is as readily and as properly APP
piled to all farm stock Who does not
know that the farmer who keeps the
hest horses and the best teams is
always sure to be the most prosperous
farmer?
The most careful observers of the
live stock situation argue that the
low prices prevailing for cattle for the
past five years will not rule from now
on. The hard times have glutted the
market with stock that had to be sold
to gain ready money.
Never maket your cattle into NOV
ing manure piles. They don't look
pretty in this fix And if you long
persist in this practice, some of your
good neighbors will almost know you
are a thoughtless, lazy farmer and
very likely they will tell of it.
] There are many farmers who think
that as the busy season is near at hand
reading must be abandoned In this
they err, for a short time each day spent
/ in reading the timely views and eX-
pelIences of others will often save much
hard and fruitless labor.
! Stock breeders should not overlook
/ the fact that while each animal may
( possess good qualities in equal degree,
i the full blooded one has a far greater
power than has the grade to transmit
/ its character to it's offspring. The
/ grade represents only itself. The full
blooded animal represents not ony it
self but also the breed to which it
! belongs. The grade inherited certain
qualities from its parents but also
! from long line Of their predecessors.
Subsoil blowing is a feature of sue
/ cessful farm work. The subsoil plow
/ need not turn the soil out, but should
simply loosen it up. When farmers be
] gin to practice deep and thorough plow-
ing and narrowing until the soil is made
I perfectly fine, they will soon see that
another important item can be added to
/ the work Of thoroughly preparing the
soil by subsoil blowing. Until then let
an effort be made to plow deeper and
/ fine the soil much better than is usually
/ done. TIL the ground not thin sur
face OF it.
! grade may be an excellent animal
! to keep. 1t may be worthy of as much
care and as high feeding as a full
DlOoded one. There are grades which
Tor most purposes are as good as any
animals. But when it comes to breed
! ing, the grades are deficient. They
must now, and this will be true for
! a long time to come, be used to a con-
| siderable extent because a sufficient
number of full blooded animals can
not be obtained. But they should be
! used only as matter of necessity
/ Just as soon as possible their places
/ should be taken by animals of better
breeding. This is especially important
in the case of males.
The use of the best seed for all farm
crops is absolutely indispensable to the
greatest success in the production of
crops for it is strictly true that "as We
sow so shall We reap" If inferior seed
of poor varieties is used an inferior crop,
both in yield and quality must be the
result Some varieties Of wheat, oats
rye, corn, potatoes and other seed will
produce double the yield of others. This
is known particularly in regard to corn
]
one farmer grows corn of small ears,
while a near neighbor grows corn almost
double the size in ears and, of course
the yield must be nearly double that of
the small ear variety.
Dairy products, poultry and fruit
can be produced anywhere, and if in
diligently marketed direct to consum-
ers bring immediate profits much in
excess of those obtained by the city
6. Co.. l.;
has some marked advantages over
other kinds of farming in that the soil
is enriched, the cost of transportation,
proportionate to value, less than other
products, while the revenue is a sure
and constant one every week in the
year. Payment for grain or fruit is
delayed until the crop is harvested
and then with failure in quantit5 or
price expected, the disheartened farm
er must wait a twelve month before
| getting even chance in the lottery
of crop raising. This is not small
matter, for no man can make a real
success of business he does not love.
Don't let your neighbors mix in their
butter with yours; go it alone every
ter; weigh and salt each churning as
YOU make it one ounce to the pound
of butter Pack it in the tub as soon
as made and if 1t requires two or
three churnings to fill the tub. place
a cloth wet in brine water over the
butter each time, as you fill the tub.
never let 1t be exposed to air. Then
remove it when the next churning
comes; be systematic about it and have
every churning alike. When the but
| ter goes to market the commission
merchant will open your tub and run
down into it long butter fryer clear
| to the bottom and turn it around
once and then draw out long tryer
| full of the butter; if it smells alike,
/ tastes alike, and is colored alike, he
Isays good enough" and you get the
very top price of the butter market
every time Commission men do love
to encourage good work. perfect work
such butter as is wanted.
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