The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-13

who are not even farming the best they
Know how. Every year should be year of
progress.
The profitable medium of feeding in the
dairy lies in giving a-good variety of bulky
1000 that is easily digestible with a good
crease the costs and, especially so in the
summer, when pasturage would be cheap.
man not affSrd in my line of life
to take educatiRnalyor recreation advan-
tages that he does not give his wife. A
mans rise in the world depends largely
upon his wife, and It is narrow minded
policy to leave her at home when it is
possible to take eher along.
The dairy, as With ether lines of business,
we must manage to- please the customer.
While large class prefer butter made
from nicely ripened cream, there is quite
a class that prefer sweet cream butter and
they are willing to pay fair price for it
if the quality is good.
The poultry interest is growing, but there
are too many scrubs raised. Double the
profit comes from good breeds. A hundred
chickens on a large farm are not enough
The Frenchman will have 500 on an acre lot,
and hardly a v1llager but raises enough to
pay his rent, like the Irish philosopher with
his pig.
The low price of grain and live stock has
induced many farmers to go into poultry
too SMALL but like other stock, poultry has
been improved, and systematic breeding and
management bring results quite as profit
atle as any other branch of farming, if cap
1tal and experience are wisely utilized.
The expense of keeping fowls on a farm
can be materially lessened if one has the
Tune TO attend to their needs. There is
scarcely product grown on the farm but
can be utilized to good advantage by cook
ing It, and stirring in meal or bran, and
feeding one ration daily while warm, thus
saving at least one ration daily of grain.
No doubt, it is very true that the most
remunerative system of Matchmaking is
that of manufacturing baby beef, putting
flesh on the young animal while in a state
of growth, and keeping it in perpetual
state OF progress, so as to never lose the
calf flesh nor get into stagnant condition
from first to last.
One of the strongest elements of success
in farming is faith in the soil. AS a class,
farmers seem to feel that money laid aWay
in the soil is dead property They do not
consider that the land reclaimed pays in
single year a better interest than any saw
ings bank.
1t is fact that too many farmers use
immature sires and are too ready to change
them when mature. We are also careless
In the matter of breeding heifers too
young, especially is this the case with
young Jerseys
Do not neglect that which finds a home
market Sending wheat away, while others
are bringing poultry and eggs from another
state is poor plan. Avoid the transporta-
ton rates, and hold your own market
against competition.
To let the sheep roam too much in winter,
even when the ground is bare is not good
policy. The dead and bleached grass they
eat save hay, but it does not support the
flock. Sheep, like all other stock, want
good food regularly to do their best and
return a profit
10 make farming success more depends
upon the man than the industry. He must
be a live, widef awake, earnest man. He
must be abreasEWitfr the times He must
be an independegt man, and not go cring-
ing about, thinking he is the mudsill of So
ciety Jc =,
No other part sef ffhe farm is really so
profitable as a, good garden, and it is
doubly so when One takes into calculation
its effect upon the fAmly health No one
thing will do o.1mach toward Tightening
the cares of the>fhatfon who presides over
the home-nothing else can so effectively
help her in solving the ever-recurring uues-
ton which comes three times a day, what
shall we eat?' ri (
Remove the calf before it has sucked.
and proceed with the milking if there
were no calf in existence. Their maternal
instincts will be satisfied If the mothers
are treated gently and kindly, and the
calves will be no trouble if thus made to
drink from the first. = o-~s' 'ts tsr
Some people, and not a few of them farm
ers, believe that work consists wholly in
muscular exertion, and consequently the
farmer is about the hardest worked man
in the community. But, thanks to the
grange, this thought is more and more
being driven out of mind and brain power
is being recognized as work, and the best
and hardest kind of work for farmers
as well as for men in other occupations
The Philadelphia board of health last
summer required that all mich cows sup
plying milk to that city should undergo the
tuberculin test. in order that consumers
might be defended against disease? The
people of cities have right to ask that the
dairy herds from which the milk sold to
them is obtained shall be free from that
disease which kills one-seventh of the
human race.
A good dairy COW, if properly managed,
represents a source of income to the far
mer, but she must have her feed regularly
and it must be of a suitable kind, and If
given good treatment she will return an in
creased compensation on the capital and
labor invested.
1t seems hard for some farmers to under
stand that 1t is more profitable to keep and
feed small cow that gives a large mess of
milk than a large one that only gives a
small mess of milk. They look at what the
COW will bring eight or ten years hence
when she is sold for beef rather than at the
present profit. And that, too, without
fully considering what the COW beef costs
when it Is ready for the market.
1t is a combination of all the essentials
rather than of any one thing that secures
the best results in the dairy. A failure in
one particular thing will often affect re-
suits so as to cut any possibility of profit.
It is only with close attention to details
and the supplying of everything needful
that the best results are possible
If a common COW has the marks of good
mixer, or, what is better, shown her quail
ties at the milk pail, 1t Is wisdom to breed
from her. Whether or not her calf will in
herit her good qualities, time alone can tell
1t is right here that the value of improved
stock is greatest. It's characteristics are
fixed, and will be reproduced.
1t should be remembered that the first
consideration in the dairy in making the
most profit is to secure good cows and then
feed them well. No plan of dairying will
get more butter out of the milk than the
COW puts in, and good cows and good feed
are necessary to the securing of the largest
quantity of butter fat in the milk.
In general extremes are to be avoided by
the working dairyman. Phenomenal per-
centages of fat, quantities of milk week
ly records of butter. are not usually profit
ably produced The larger cows Of small
breeds and medium sized of the large
breeds are comrhonly more. profitable than
the extremes iii either direction. In the
fertile, not crowded. parts of the United
States, no unusually small breed of ami
mails has been widely popular among farm
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