The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-21


hog.
Farm Notes.
The high price of corn must improve
the price OF beef AS the armies of the
unemployed in all parts of the country find
work they will buy more literally than
they have in the past year or two. The
industry is improving also from the scare
ity Of the best grades Of beef, for which
there IS an active foreign demand.
1t is preferable to sell the corn and feed
wheat when they are equal in price. Wheat
weighs per cent a bushel heavier than
corn; it is an equally good grain for fat
tening animals, and better for the growing
ones, and there is much less value in the
fertilizing clements removed from the farm
in corn than in wheat.
People generally do not realize the i'm
mense size OF some of our Western and
Southwestern states. Edward Atkinson
says there is enough first-class wheat land,
at present unoccuped, in the single state
of Texas. to produce ali the wheat now
grown in this country. Some one else figur-
ing on area and population says that with
the same number in proportion to area that
New Jersey counts, Texas would be sup
porting 90. 100000. or more than all counted
in the last census for the United States.
Many keep their young stock alive dur
ing the winter rough fodder for the
sake of the growth they will make next
summer 1t is a mistaken policy to stint a
young animal in feed with the expectation
of making it up later. The summers growth
can be added better and cheaper if the
animals are kept growing all winter.
Don't forget that it is time to cover black
berry and raspberry plants. If not already
attended to, sec that it is done before the
ground freezes. Work now will insure you
a crop another season.
Some farmers wives are almost slaves,
over worked women, to whom life does not
1>,..,. 1.n 1Jto CHI Il oinGf
Many farmer has died and left property,
quite a large amount of it, that was
curse to his children. That would have
been an untold blessing if half of it had
been spent they Went along from year
to year in giving wife and family more
comforts ana pleasures and less burdens.
Abuse of the stomach at dinner will be
repaid sooner or later by that punishment
which comes to the sutton.
The experiment stations have done more
than all things else to furnish a trust
worthy standard of value for all milk, by
demonstrating that all milk is valuable for
drinking, for Dreaming, for butter making
ard for cheese making in proportion to
the per cent of butter fat that it contains
Improve the mind and the SOIL should
be the motto of every farmer in the land.
Let him read good papers and books, and
thus become we'll informed and prosperous.
| love good books. They are a good COM
panon and a blessing in the home The
farm home is 4 bless d place and we ought
to do all can for its advancement.
Give partly green dist ana good oppor-
tunity for exercise to the hogs; there is no
| way in which pork can be produced SO
cheaply and quickly. The silo comes in
! here. also
| The depression of the wool industry will
| tend to change, for time at least, the gen
| cral sh ep hlsbandry of the country. Nut
| hOmely but utterly true proverb-"A stitch
OinpD
fail to put a nail or screw here and there,
tit in a piece Of board supply broken parts
and this applies we'll to farm buildings
as TO farm implements.
Edward Atkinson, after figuring up the
Yield of eggs in the United States and their
value, asks if the poultry product is worth
! rs much. Assuming that it Is, or nearly so,
! he says the product Of the hen mines is
| greater in value than the product of the
| iron furnaces-about twice the value of the
| wool product, and three or four times the
| value of the silver MINIS. The silver mines,
| he adds, own several senator's. Who
| crows for the domestic hen in the halls OF
| congress?
| There is nothing like clover pasture for
| mich COWS and bsef cattle. The old proverb
! about being lin clover" is a true one. 1t
| is an excellent soiling CROP and, fed green
| to cows, keeps up the flow of milk ad-
| mirably in dry time when the pastures
! ara scant.
| One of the best rations for the brood SOW
| is middlines made into a slop with skim
| milk or wheat bran, linseed meal and
| milk; to make a variety. give oats and bar
+, ley ground together This is a desirable
change.
! A novel label for trees is made from a
| strip of zinc tapering to point at one end
! This pointed end is bent around a small
| branch of the tree. The name of the variety
is punched out in small holes made with ar
| lot ma ha oh Oh =
| acid
Opportunities DO not make the man. Mar
makes the opportunities. Many men were