The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-14
FARM NOTES.

When hen receives food consisting Of grain
! mostly, any excess OF carbon is stored on the
| frame Of her body fat This fat accumulates
| until she is clogged with it as to render the
passage @ an egg very difficult, while all the
| reproductive organs disorganized. Fatty de-
generacy of the liver and heart, apoplexy and
indigestion result She has been fed literally
and we'll cared for, but she has not been fed
properly for eggs Her should have fed
her on variety, noting her condition, and with
Held any food that caused predominance OF
Fat, thus feeding her in manner to have her
| at all times in good laying condition.
Mixed husbandry is the best insurance policy
the farmer can possibly carry against failure of
crops and low prices. The crops will not all
1ail in any one year, and something will surely
be salable at good price. Even the poultry will
help wonderfully to bridge close times.
Whenever money is slow the hens keep at work
daily bringing in the cash. One must wait a
whole year To secure crop, and it takes a calf
or colt several years to reach the market, but
the old hen pays up her dues every day, and
does not keep you waiting.
We have seen great many poultry houses
that We're constructed for wealthy men, which
were cherries and cold, being the most insult
able structures that could be devised for poul-
try. The main point is comfort which includes
plenty of scratching room the floor, warmth
IN winter and cool air in summer The object,
poultry house this should always be kept in
view if the hens are kept for profit as we'll as
for pleasure.
Farmers often careless concerning i'm
provements which do not offer chances of early
compensation. Farm buildings too often
entire strangers to paint. The matter of grad
ing and seeding down a nice lawn the planting
Of ornamental and fruit trees, the removal of
unsightly litter to the back yard-these things,
N her 1Se1y ITO
generally neglected.
The agricultural school has done much and
will do infinitely more to bring farming up to
It's proper plane vocation worthy Of the best
and most intelligent effort of scientific minds.
The teachings of these schools carefully applied
Will do much toward enabling agriculture to
Withstand, if not eventually triumph over, the
depression it is staggering under
Let us always try to look on the bright side Of
everything, think more of blessings and not
so much of our troubles. This searching for
happiness meets with many mistakes and trials
We should understand that it is much better
TO meet the trials and sorrows Of life with a
cheerful face than to fret and worry for tn ~
will come just the same.
The natural color of butter is supposed to be
yellow, and if by circumstances and conditions
1t becomes white that is not the natural color,
and it is only "assisting nature to color it
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to the eye than white or light colored butter.
The crimes of carelessness and Indifference in
forestry affairs have riot quite long enough
and a tragic assurance of the fact has now
been given that ought TO stimulate endeavor
that will never sleep until the repetition of such
disasters is made impossible
Had YOU better not figure the cost of winter
ing some of the unthrifty scrubs On your place :?
Compare it with their probable value the LIST Of
next May, and see if It will not pay YOU to send
their hide to the merchant and their carcass to
the chicken yard.
To cut the rough feed and sprinkle it with
water, then mix the ground feed into it, is a
saving of feed all the way round none of it
is wasted and the assimilates it more thor
oughly when fed in this manner
Have the strawberry beds clean; cultivate
we'll that good vigorous growth may be made
before the ground freazes. Then be ready to
cover lightly with marsh hay other litter
free from weed seeds
There is danger that more head of cattle will
be kept tl;an be we'll fed. Only the farmer
who has outside range or lands in excess of his
needs for tiliage should endeavor raise all his
calves.
There is not hen in the United States that
cannot be made to per cent interest on
S25 in one year Then why invest money
where it will be active and kept in circulation?
The more compact the farm product is put
upon the market the less the expense of hauling
and freight How big load of hay does a 60
pound tub of butter represent?
a month previous to weaving the more grain
the calves, pigs. lambs and colts have the bet
ter. They will not lose much flesh and will
worry less.
When there is scarcity of feed it surely
does not pay to feed cows who pay for
their feed,