The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-08-09

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when on a range, and the exercise OBJ
tanned in seeking their food keeps them
\ in the best condition for affording
| rofit-Florida sAgriculturist
How to Ship Hay.
This is the most important Of all with
the grower. It includes not alone
proper preparation for market, but also
a thorough knowledge Of markets from
week to week. You must know the
market that wants the class Of hay you
have. This week it may be one city
and next week some other. The only
| way to know is to study the markets
and know from the course prices are
taking where you should sell to secure
the best prices. @
Next is a reliable commission house,
one with which you are perfectly will
ing to trust your goods. Large capital
is not SO necessary as good business
ability coupled with integrity.
Last, perhaps, is confidence in your
self and your commission man. It isn't
well to bill to your own order, but be
satisfied with the firm you are dealing
with and ship direct. If your cars are
billed thus and properly invoiced, the
invoice will be received by the con
signee before the arrival of the goods.
He will, therefore, know the grade Of
goods in transit and can often sell
before arrival or to arrive. If he can
post his customers on what is coming,
vastly vastly he has increasing probable
tiles Of advantageous sale.
If billed to the shippers order there
is always delay. The car arrives for
a stranger and the railroads are Care
less as long as demurrage increases.
The system of banking is such that a
! draft with bill of lading attached is
USUALLY several days making the cir
cult while the car must await it's arrival
/ before presentation can be made and
car charges stopped.
If you want 10 handle hay successful
! ly you must form a combination of
confidence and ability. 1t is almost
impossible to succeed in any other
way.
] .a Cooperative Butter Making
The Maine Farmer gives these two
rules for success in cooperative butter
making: I3i IN s#t
iii. Keep tile expense down to the low
est practicable figure. 2. Make good
butter. Cooperative enterprises are
frequently open to the criticism of not
being particular in the matter Of ex-
Denses. For some reason no person
hardly will pursue the same course in
conducting public business or for a
corporation that they would if conduct
ing the same business for themselves,
and especially is this true in the ex-
penditure Of money for expenses. There
is no good reason why there should be
any difference, but it is rare to find
one who will use the money of others
as carefully as they would if the same
came out Of their own pockets, and
for that reason the advice comes with
4 a good degree of force. The managers
of a butter making establishment
should practice close economy not In
consistent with the interests Of the
establishment And the making of
good butter is one Of the chief elements
of success, for the reason that good but
ter will find a ready sale at fair prices,
while a poor article is a drug in the
market at even a non-paying pr ce
Farm Notes. $@s#
Many a calf is stunted in July and
y August. See that none Of yours are.
Have you a pair Of scales? They
are next in Importance to a pencil
in active service.
One of the greatest leaks in dairying
is the great loss of butter-fat lost by
careless handling.
A young and growing animal requires
a different ration from a mature, fat
! one.
J A dry, shadeless pasture will not
produce much growth in animals these
!. hot days. #
1t will pay you to have a rotation Of
crops, if only corn, oats and grass are
s used.
7. If you must let the manure leach,
draw it out so the Washings may go
into the field.
No success succeeds like success a
soil is best for the crop that grows
/. the best upon it.
Provide shade for all of the COWS;
s and enough so the incoming ones will
4 be sure to get in it if they wish.
Withhold corn meal from the soon
II to-be-fresh cows. "a little oil meal ard
a bran or either will not come amiss
IF the pasture is drying up the cows
will fail in milk and flesh if they do
q not have a supplemental feed of grain,
3ensilage or Todd Ter.
Have you commenced to cut corn
{. fodder for your cows yet? If not,
q what are you giving them to keep up
3 the milk flow these dry, hot days?
We do not believe in watering milk
q after it is taken from the COW, but we
4 do believe in letting the COW have all
i the water she wishes, VIII ether she puts
s it ia the milk or not.
The best way to clean a woods pas
ture or a field Of sprouts is to turn in
{. the sheep. II you do not have flock,
! buy one; perhaps you will find them
useful in other ways; or, having done
. the work, they can be sold rapidly
"a dairy writer says that you had bet
ter begin dairying with two cows and
. q strong desire To fhnrn11 rhlu glna1,n Tho