The Delta independent., 1894-10-03
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How Farmers May Save . Large Amount II
Money.

Money.
One inflexible rule upon the irrigated
farm should be: Send to market in its
most condensed and valuable form
everything you have to sell. Don't
as rule. sell hay. Feed hay to stock
and sell horses. mules, cattle and
! sheep. Don't as n rule, sell grain.
Convert your oats, your barley, and
also your wheat, into pork, beef, NUT
ton, eggs, poultry, butter and cheese.
There is an added profit in manufac
turing hay and grain into these things
and you should do the manufacturing
on your own land and thus reap the
profit.
In fact there are two substantial
profits derived from thus condensing
| the raw material of the farm. There
Is the larger return in cash received
for the product and there is the fer
tility saved to the land in the way of
manures, and both are most apprecia-
| bic profits and will amount to a "pret-
ty penny" in the course of time. Just
look around you, and recall in mind
also, taking note OF the farmers who
get on and make money, and ysu will
find that they nre those who make 1t a
rule to send their grass and grain to
| market on the hoof, and in the butter
tup ana eSS-Dasket.
Condensation is the "rule Of faith
and practice" at the desk Of every
''able editor" 1t should be as faith
fully and persistently applied by every
| practical irrigator. Practiced along
the lines suggested, it will be found to
| affect in n most practical and indi-
vidual way the silver question, the
price Of wheat, the per capita circula-
| ton, etc. "Condcnse," says the edi-
tor. "Condensc all along the line"
How people do run in ruts, like IN
| old wagon. A few seasons ago, when
corn was very cheap and farmers, In
some instances, used II for fuel, many
people considered 1t little less than
wicked to do SO. They did not grasp
the utilitarian fact that corn is n bet
ter and cleaner fuel than coal, and
that circumstances may be such as to
make 1t economical TO burn the form
er instead OF the latter. But the sim
pie idea OF burning up something or
dinarily used for food. and not COM
monty used for food, is naturally
repugnant to most people and doubt
less many a man has shoveled n ton
of corn into his wagon. taken the time
and labor OF himself and his team TO
draw IL ten miles and shovel IL out
again. received less than $3.50 for IL
and drawn back n ton Of coal which
cost 80. or more. without observing
that he had lost days labor and the
price of another days labor in cash in
the operation, because IL did not oc-
cur to him to use the corn for fuel.
In disposing OF wheat people are as
much inclined to follow custom.
Wheat is ordinarily exchanged for
flour at the most convenient mill. OF
sold TO the grain dealer. and hun
drcdss OF men have sold thousands
OF bushels OF it at 80 cents per bushel.
or thereabouts when II might have
been used rs feed and netted the
grower dollar n bushel or there
abouts. Made into chop, wheat can
scarcely be cxcclled as food for
hogs and cattle, or horses, and, either
whole or ground, II is n food par ex-
cellencc for poultry. Utilized in this
way, It can be made to yield remun-
cr'ativc price when shippers figures
are down in the neiGhborhood Of the
cost OF production. Hence. we sug-
cest TO those who grow wheat, when
the price is low, try taking at least n
part OF II to mill to your pigs, poul-
try and cows. A cheap chop mill and
windmill or horsepower are first
class assistants in such case. This
| course will both benefit the grower
who intclligcntly follows it by giving
him fair return for his product and
aid In reducing ..thc visible supply" to
proper limits.-lrrigation Age.