The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-07-12
FOR THE FARMERS.
VALUABLE INFORMATION ABOUT
FARM WORK.
An Example of Successful Farming
Fancy Now Means Quality-SOme
Health Rules-Facts for Dairymen.

An Example of Successful Farming
Fancy Now Means Quality-SOme
Health Rules-Facts for Dairymen.
will give an eXar I,le Cf what / re-
gard as successful farming by describ-
Ing how friend of mine, Henry Lem
ucl, manages his affairs, says writer
in the Ohio Farmer. The farmer en-
tered 24O acres here while the country
was new and land cheap. He worked
hard ard the soil yielded fair in
come. After his two sons, George and
Henry, had grown to manhood he de-
cided to give them the field, 120 acres
each. free from debt.
Henry had his idea about "a little
land we'll TILED" and proposed to take
80 acres, and George to take the rest
LEO acres--and pay him the difference
in money. The division was made and
Henry took hold with {; vim that meant
victory. He made every step count al
though he would take day off nov
and. then, for recreation, with his wife
and children.
The chicken coop was cleaned reg
ularly twice a week. You wonder what
that had to do with his success. Be-
sides keeping the fowl healthy, he had
a barrel OF splendid fertilizer every
two or three weeks. He had the chick
en- house made with movable porches,
and with a door large enough for him
to walk upright through it, and with
the aid of Il wheelbarrow the cleaning
MP process was a very short job. He
put the droppings into barrel with
alternate layers of earth to keep the
ammonia from escaping and kept it in
the dry until time to scatter.
His COWS were kept in clean, dry
stables every night, and here was an
other fertilizer saved; no filth allowed
to lie around. His theory and practice
were-warm, dry quarters for every
animal on the farm. He often said, IF
l know that everything around me is
comfortable I can enjoy myself" He
lived up to the Scripture in this: '"rhe
merciful man is merciful to his beast"
His fence-corners We're kept clean;
no burs to catch and cling to every
passing skirt; no unsightly weeds tow
ering higher than the fences; all neat
and in order. Work? OF course; but
he loved it, and that makes labor light.
He made his ground do the best for
the care spent upon it," After the pea
crops came off the ground was prepared
for celery, and being close to a thriv-
ing city he could dispose of all the ex-
ira produce raised. When the early po-
tatoes were harvested he sowed tur-
nip seeds on this ground; so you see,
besides getting double crops, he kept
down the weeds. Weeds kept from
going to seed made the work easier
fOIIOWinr Hn f1<>
help of his wife-and, by the way, she
was his ''right-hand man" in everything
cultivated grapes, strawberries, rasp-
berries and currants; these, with
bearing apple orchard, kept the doctor
out OF many 4 fee that he would have
gotten II the children, yes, and parents,
hadn't had free access 20 fruits, and in
warm weather abStained from eating
meat OF course, his garden for small
fruits wasn't large; he couldn't care for
a large patch and do his other farming;
but plenty to eat in it's season, and.
to can for winter use, was his method.
One day he sat musing with far
away look on his face when his wife
said:
What now, Henry?' Anything gone
wrong at the barn."
"No, nothing, MOTHER he slowly an
swered. "Oh, now 1 have it," he con-
tinued, frightening, why didn't 1
think of that before? You know the
acre that the brook cut off at the north
western corner of the farm? It is so
billy that it cannot be farmed with any
satisfaction; it is grown up in wild
blackberry and raspberry bushes, and
the fruit is little, sour stuff; the patch
has been an eye sore to me for a long
time.
Il thought of keeping it for a calf
pasture but it is too unhandy to reach
Tor anything of that kind, and now I
know what to do with it, I'll plant it
in tame blackberries and raspberries,
and the surplus we can sell or divide
with poorer neighbour
THAT will just be the thing" his
wife answered; but how are we going
growing trash? You will find it an end
less JOB to make it clean enough to
to clean off that muss of bushes and
suit your fastidious taste"
Il have studied that out, too,' he
said. 9TH borrow brother Georges
flock Of sheep for a month and you will
see where your muss will be- And he
did l passed along by his farm last
summer and it did my heart good to
see how neat and prosperous every
thing looked
And Henry isn't one Of your sour,
worked to death beings, either; he loves
his work, and he is happy. His theory
put into practice works charmingly.
A little land well tiled, little wife
well willed."
Cut Hay EARLY.
Considerable difference of opinion ex-
lists as to the best time to cut hay. No
fixed rules can be established for all
grasses and all conditions, but in bener-
al, says the Farm and Dairy, the prac-
tice of cutting early will give the best
results. The desire to get the highest
yield of hay frequently leads to mead
ows becoming over ripe Investigation
has shown that timothy increases in
weight during the latter stages of ripen-
ing and the indications are that it also
has slightly higher value for fatten-
ing purposes but a lower value for milk