The Indiana State sentinel., 1894-06-20

in the year. which we assumed was
worth sS5, being about an average price
paid for cows in Ohio making an in
come Of about s35 per year.
My fellow dairymen, did you ever
think of this? Are you satisfied with
the net profits of the $50 scrub cow.
when you can get much better cows at
trife higher price and pay for them
out Of their own product?
Farm Notes.
One has said that storage rooms out
of doors for farm tools are cheap in the
first instance. but most costly in the
final reckoning.
There is a larger profit in growing lit
tie things and in fine products than in
the larger staples, but it requires a diff
ferent system of management.
All lines Of business have their ups
and downs. and it is only those who
stick to what they have undertaken. and
follow it intellisently, who are success
full.
If you are not getting the top prices
for stock look around for the cause.
There is no good reason why one man
should not raise as good stock as an
other.
There is often a considerable loss of
value in barnyard manure. caused by
teaching. The best place for manure TO
leach is on the ground where the crops
are to grow.
At the Wisconsin experiment station
careful feeding trials showed that whey
was worth to s cents a hundred for
mixing with cOrnmeal and shorts for
pigs when hogs bring the prices they
now command.
An exchange says that if a cow gets
chOked with an apple or potato, holding
up its head and breaking an egg in its
, mouth is a sure cure. The same remedy
I-T
circumstances.
The butter fat that is lost by careless
setting Of milk in private dairies is
enormous. Paying 10 per cent. Interest
on borrowed capital is nothing TO It.
This Is one Of the leaks in dairying that
cuts down the net profits.
Hogs will eat the spoiled corn. wheat,
oats or potatoes. Nothing else will.
/ Herein is the hog the best of farm
animals. When feeding inferior grain or
vegetables be sure TO feed plenty and
some sound food al the same time.
Beans as a staple crop will find favor
with farmers this season who are reduc-
ing acreage in wheat. Prices are not
liable to fall much for several years.
/ In Michigan, where great attention is
given this crop. they seldom net as low
/ as 81 per bushel.
Good butter can be spoiled with poor
salt, as we'll as by poor handling. There
are plenty of good grades of dairy salt,
ana IL Is a great mistake TO use a poor
salt because it is cheap. Many creamery
men have found this out TO their sorrow.
A medium grain is more desirable than a
salt In which the grain is very fine.
\ writer recommends the following as
good lawn grass mixture: Forty
pounds 10 the acre of timothy orchard
blue grass. red top. perennial rye grass
( and red clover Timothy does we'll on
well-drained land; red top on moist land;
| orchard grass is a good all-around sort
blue grass on limestone. and it is a good
pasturage and lawn grass.
Quitting field work enough earlier so
as 10 get the milking done by the usual
time for quitting work on a farm is the
best and about the only way, says a
writer to keep good help on a dairy farm.
! Hired help cannot be blamed for not want
ing to put in a full days work in the field
and then put in an hour or more after
dark milking and doing chores.
Most farmers have learned the value Of
persistent labor; many more have yet To-
grasp the Importance of systematic work
/ These latter often wonder why the CITY
man, who takes to farming, frequently
make a financial success, backed by no
practical experience. Usually it is be-
cause his school. college or business train
ing has taught him discipline of mind.
Dr. Allen. assistant director of the
Office of experiment stations, discussing
! in a recent bulletin the value Of legu-
minOus plants for green manurfng saws:
| Grow more leguminous crops. They fur
! nish the cheapest food for stock and the
cheapest manure for the soil. They do
this because they obtain from the air a
substance necessary for plants and ami
mails alike. which costs i'm the form of
fertilizers and feeding stuffs from Is TO
20 cents a pound.
@. w. Demaree, writing in the Ameri-
can Bee-Keeper concerning the outlook
in bee culture, says: The business is
settling down in more permanent FORM
| agricultural goods and supplies are be-
| coming more uniform and staple In char
acter, and less excited by doubtful and
worthless invention. And fitness uf
person is taking the highest rank i'm the
bee business. in place of honey-producing
| hives and fixtures. This is the most
| hopeful feature Of our times pertaining
| To the future bee business"
An Ohio farmer says: Last Septem-
/ Der had twelve fine shOats which had
| been on clover all summer and were in
/ fine condition. weighing 1,S00 pounds
/ when put in the pen. 1 fed those hogs
| fifty bushels Of wheat, soaked twelve
| hours before feeding. | sold those hogs
| at $3.50 per hundred, and they weighed
/ 5000 pounds. n gain of 200 pounds at
| $500 per hundred would give me SCI 20
| for fifty bushels Of wheat, which l would
have sold at 50 cents per bushel, S26.
| TO feed wheat?"
There is some disposition TO laugh at
| men who go into agriculture late in life.
/ This is all wrong, it is a tribute u
/ the attractions OF the occupation. 1t
may be that they do not go to work I'm
/ a practical manner but most of them
/ have some good ideas. Often these mon
| have money enough to indulge in fancy
| farming. and then, by bringing in i'm
proved stock, etc, they prove themselves
! "A valuable addition to the community.
| Do not discourage any man who wants
/ TO try farming, but give him all the aid
who come, in some branch Of the in
! dustry.
| 1t Will be unfortunate if the low price
| Of wool shall oblige farmers generally to
| give UP keeping sheep. There is no
| farm animal which can be so easily and
| quickly dressed when fresh meat is
wanted. A whole sheep will furnish
| palatable variety in food for three or
/ four farmers families while it keeps
/ fresh. and If there are several in the
neighborhoOd who keep sheep the inter-
| change of fresh mutton when one or the
other kills a sheep gives the farmer the
] advantage of a city butcher shop and
/ his supplies Of fresh mutton much
/ cheaper than the butcher can afford to
supply it to him.
For those who wish to keep land in
/ clover only a single year the alsike vari-
| ETY. is probably best. 1t bears its seed
/ in the first croD of the second wears