The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-11-28
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CrOwding Poultry In Market.

SrOWO1m& FOuItfy IN MOfkets
Usually about Thanksgiving and on to
January poultry is sent to market in large
quantities. This is due partly to the advent
of cold weather. which induces farmers to
thin out their focks to minimum and to
avoid feeding those that are Improbable,
but great many ship with a view to Sc
curing higher prices. Prices are really
higher for short time before Thanksgiv-
ing, but there seem to be always a few
days during which the shipments are so
large as to crowd the market which rel
duces prices. This happens every year and
| mas happened for many years, but farmers
40 not appear to have learned anything
from the fact. The reduction of the fiocks
should have been done month or six
weeks ago, as we then urgently advisedi
and those who can do SO should ship in
small lots as to reach the market at
different periods instead of sending all at
one time. 1t is possible that prices will not
rise from now on until after Jan. 49, when
Droliers and old hens will begin to be in
demand and prices will necessarily rise be-
cause the supply will then be limited
Farm Notes.
From the Farmers Tribune)
Prof Sanborn, a highly successful prac-
tlcal FARMER as we'll as an agricultural pro-
fessor and experimenter, made over 100
actual feeding tests with hogs of various
weights, using various foods and employing
a certain amount of food required to
make pound Of gain on pigs weighing
30 pounds; 3.3 per cent more food was re-
CURED to make the same gain on pigs
weighing 20 pounds, IA per cent more on
pigs weighing 125 pounds, 10 per cent more
on pigs weighing 115 pounds, and so on
until Il per cent more feed was required
on hogs weighing 325 pounds. So it APP
pears a hog fed at fair profit until it
reaches 200 pounds would be fed at a loss
Shnrt1 ", a bod -a1
Green bone contains every element found
in the construction of the egg, yelk, white
and SHE'LL it satisfies that healthy craving
for animal food existing in the fowl it in
creases their vitality; it increases the fertil-
ity of the egg, produces stronger chicks,
and in consequence reduces the mortality
among them. Brolers mature more rapid
ly and grow larger. 1t carries the fowl
safely through the moulting period; it pre-
vents egg eating and feather picking, and
in all this by simply complying with natu-
raj law. There is quackery, no undue
stimulation followed by reaction, but SIM
ply a feeding of a perfect food in a solua-
BILE and easily digested form.
Good sweet green cornstalks carefully
preserved in the silo make tempting ra-
ton that stimulates the hens to better
health and productive work. The profess
/ onal poultry man who raises hens by the
hundreds might well consider the advisa-
food. Those who have only few on the
farm should take some of the ensilage pre-
pared for the cattle and give it to the poul-
try every day or two
November with it's chilly nights, finds
many poor cattle with only the blue sky
and stars for shelter. 1T makes em
tOugh,' said a thoughtless farmer, land
when snow gets here they'll stand the cold
just twice as easy But when one mis-
takes what might have been a straight COW
for dromedary in the farther corner of
the barnyard of these cold mornings
he must know that animal is cold.
Why this difference in farmers that we
notice everywhere? Is it the difference in
soils, or in the habits of the farmers? Does
it come from too much politics and too lit
tie work; too much complaining and too
little planning; too much land and too lit
tie help to farm it? Every reader knows
how to answer these questions when ap-
piled to the farms and farmers with whom
he is acquainted.
There is a tide in lifes great sea
Which GIBBS and flows for you and me-
And which. if taken at it's flood
Will surely lead on to good
But if wait till it recedes
Our feet may tangle in the weeds,
Then our weak and trembling hands
May never lift us from the sands''
We advise our readers to investigate
more fully the value of green bone as a
poultry food; to pay moro attention to the
food and shelter of their f1ocks and their
profits will be greatly increased.
Intensive agriculture means smaller
farms, better titled and fertilized: it
means progress in science and prosperity
in the calling of the farmer; it means
less manual labor and more mental and
consequently more general intelligence.
Do not stay in the ruts, because there is
much that is new which is safer and
better.
While work is light on the farm, and
before extreme cold weather sets in, make
arrangements for ice house 1t will not
cost much, either to cut the ice to ar
range for storing it, and this trivial eX-
pense will be saved many times in milk,
cream, butter and meat next summer,
Wnen the hot waves strike us.
How we waste in manure and manuring,
in misdrected labor, in exposeure of farm
stock and farm implements, in pasturing
clover too early, in trampling the fields
when too wet, in seed unwisely or careless
ly sown, in want of foresight, in having
things ready, in unntelligent feeding, in
uncounted ways.
Amid the anxiety abroad in the land OBJ
servable during the past year, it has been
perhaps the grandest year of record for
notably and numerously attended conven-
tons of Christian organizations scientific
congresses and philanthropic and labor con-
VentlOnS. They will make history of the
right kind.
Stop churning when the butter is in kerr
nels about the size of wheat, and pour into
the churn a pail or two of cold water to
prevent the grains from massing together.
The butter can be sailed while in granular
condition, and little pressing will liberate
the brine and put the product in form for
market.
A clean, warm, poultry house saves feed
but many fail to provide it. Health and
egg production largely depend upon clean,
warm, laying houses. The farmer who
always keeps properly, matches early
chicks. also seldom lacks market, eggs,
and poultry throughout the year.
The people adapt their industries to
permanent conditions, though not the
best but they are subject to continual sur
prise, to continual establishments of in
tricate relations on account of the unstable
industrial conditions which result from arti-
fetal changes.
Twould be folly for the soil tiller to be
scared out by one season of depression
and excessively low prices Stand by
your specialties. Produce a superior arti-
Gle. You will find this course safer than
to be always vacllating from one crop to
another
Do not feed by guess work In ascertain
ing whether or not a COW is profitable, not
only is it necessary to know how much
milk and butter she produces, but also how
much it costs to produce it. Every prob
lem in a farmers life is a double one. " 5
Though a pound of bone will give as
good results as four pounds of corn, we
not to infer that nothing but bones
food, but make the green bone a part of
the tiOp