The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
Farm Notes.

Economy in feeding does not mean stint
ing.
change of food will be appreciated be
1t ever so small.
Feed cautiously. Over feeding is just as
bad as under feeding.
Bad days can be utilized to a good pur-
pose by fixing the stables.
Keep the stalls cleaned Of the manure If
you would avoid many of the diseases
which horses are heir to.
There is no best breed of chickens. They
are all good, bad or Indifferent according
to circumstances.
The grange sentiment Of greater interest
in public affairs is permeating all other
classes, and better laws with more equal
justice to all will surely be the result.
Some men make money their God, spelling
1t with big G, but the large majority are
working for home and family. A nation OF
perfect homes must mean something very
near to a perfect nation.
No man is fit for the ownership and care
of flock who is wanting either in human
ity or studious attention to the thousand
and one little details upon which the sue
cess Of the flock depends.
Most children easily learn to like what
ever kind Of food their mothers give them.
But not many children have to be taught
to like good ripe fruit, and in it's absence
even that which is green sour and some
times bitter seems to fill natural want.
Two kinds of land are constantly getting
richer; that of the market gardener and
that of the milk farmer. The one buys
fertility from the waste of the Cities the
other buys the rich western prairies in the
form of grain.
OF this country ever having too much
sheep there is but slight possibility; the
Danger lies rather in more attention being
given to number than the quality of the
animals making the increase.
Better be happy now than to live to be
at ease In the distant future. The man
with small farm is really the prosperous
man, rather than the one possessing more
acres for which he must go heavily in
debt. Debt robs of peace and often of
hope.
Too often parents satisfied in simply
sending the child to school, but their duty
does not end here. 1t is safe to say that
not one in ten ever visits the school, The
boys and girls of today are the men and
women Of tomorrow.
There is no easy road to wealth. even
with poultry, and they require hard work
and close attention. With these they paw
better than most farm opera TONS Begin
on small scale, that your lessons may be
at as little cost as possible and climb up
as you gain courage.
1Here IS no FARMER who cannot afford to
use improved methods in his work or keen
good stock. He who thinks differently is
mistaken. He will not deal with the
merchant or mechanic who is behind the
times, and the same rules of prosperity ap-
ply to himself Do less, but do it right.
When farmers consider the sowing of
oats OF more Importance than planting peas
in the garden, their wives will be sorely
tried in June for material for appetizing
Or 1occ
ed to the production of fruits and vegeta-
bles for the home table is easily made
question which enters largely into the
profit of a crop is the cost of getting it
into market. Good roads help toward a
solution of this problem, does the feed
ing OF the crops to good stock, that they
may be sent to the buyer upon the hoof.
Home manufacture is the best
One of the principal advantages in rails
ing poultry on the farm is that they can so
readily be given a full range. This with
the lessened cost of feeding ought to make
poultry on the farm very profitable OF
course in many cases it is very necessary
to keep poultry confined, but when it can
be done it is always best to give them as
full range as possible.
If butterine is as good and healthful as
butter, as the manufacturers claim whv
are they not content to let it stand upon
it's own merits instead of making it as
near as possible the semblance of butter?
what right have they to appropriate the
STYLE color, package and name of butter
anyhow?
Kenyon farmers are agitating the oues-
ton Of building a farmers elevator in the
village, and they have called a meeting to
consider the project. The success so far Of
the farmers elevator at Zumbrota is no
doubt the cause of their action, although
they have themselves a creamery owned
and operated by the farmers which is one
of the best managed in the county
Society is the school in which the
thoughtful, perceptive mind is freed from
irregularities and decisions, and the work
shop in which, by intercourse with men of
all classes and opinions, the character is
FURNISHED, the intellect expanded and the
faculties of the mind wrought to the high
est state of cultivation blossom forth
making the society in which it moves redo
lent with the incense Of judgment, refine