The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-25
FARM AND GARDEN.

FARM AND GARDEN.
The time to cut scions is before. the
buds swell in February, when the frost
is not in them.
There is no farm product .you. can buy
as cheaply as you can grow 1t, II you can
grow 1t at all.
It is not wise to use for seed any pota-
toes that have been in the same Din Where
diseased ones have appeared.
1t requires good food to make good beef,
and a varied ration will do better than
enc grain only.
In Colorado the beef cattle are reported
mostly sold, and hay generally too high to
feed profitably.
The farmer VINO succeeds must produce
what the world wants bad enough to pay
a fair price to the producer.
A bushel of corn fed to thrifty three
months old pig will make more gain than
If fed to one twice its age.
To get the best results from your stock,
take time while feeding to learn some
thing of the individuality of each animal
We want to eliminate uncertainties from
agriculture, and one OF the ways 10 90 IL
is to increase the number of good m1lch
COWS.
It is not the man who raises the most
bushels who is the best farmer; 1t is the
ere who raises the most bushels from an
acre.
When breeding to improve, a. standard
or pattern is necessary, and then select
and breed SO as to come to 1t as nearly
as possible.
In Great Britain pedigreed Shorthorns
and polled Angus cattle OF the very pest
class have sold uncOmIQOnly wen IIIouSH-
out the season.
The cost per bushel of grain decreases
almost in direct ratio as the yield per
acre increases. That is the key to profit
able agriculture.
A Kansas farmer says that cracked
wheat soaked, with a quart of fax seed
to a bushel of thick slop. is the best hog
feed In the world.
Good tillage will usually produce fair
crop on a. pretty poor SOIL, out unless
there is plant food available the crop Can
not perfect itself.
1t is hardly possible. to over-feed a hog
With corn, that has at first had a liberal
feed of pumpkins. We never knew one tc
eat too many pumpkins.
A month previous to weaving, the more
grain the calves, pigs, lambs ana COLTS
have the BETTER, They, will not lose SO
mush flesh and viii worry less.
The farmer who attends promptly to his
affairs is always a busy man. The long
winter evenings may be put to very proht-
able use by course of reading.
The west needs more fresh air in It's
homes In shutting out cold we are prone
to shut out the invigorating oxygen Cod
put into the atmosphere TO keep our blood
pure.
Good drainage. is the first essential t, to
good crops; plant food is the next, and the
next is tillage. Circumstances Will die
tate which is the most important of the
three.
In spring. after frost is out, quickly go
ever all fall-planted trees and tramp or
pound the earth solid, for frost will have
| loosened ana qTaWn your trees, and Ii
| left they may die.
| Size and appearance have much more to
do with selling apples than actual quality.
| Iney snouId nave suluC49nt hrmneSS to
! bear shipping long distances, ana should
| be mainly good keepers.
| We can more intelligently see the reason
| for the course we take ito destroy insects
| if we encourage study OF them ana
| learn why apples are scabby ana Wormy
! and potatoes are rough.
| A stable should be so built that a. horse
| would not need to stand blanketed. 1t IS
not wise to make him so tender that he
will be liable to colds and discomfort
when taken out
An experienced berry grower says that
I the yield Of strawberries ranges from
twenty to 800 bushels per acre, according
| to the varieties and culture, including a
favorable or unfavorable season.
Many farms could carry twice the
ity can be increased by the very direct
method of green soiling so far as support
| ing more stock is concerned.
The winter is a, good tirae far hard
| thinking on agricultural topics. one topic
| to consider is how farm operations can be
! carried on with less of the burden falling
to the women.
1t costs less to get water to cow while
| the water is at the natural temperature OF
g. deep we'll than it does to get the cow to
| ice water in the creek and then warm the
| water after it is in the cow
Growers of broom corn are jubilant over
the high price of that crop TINS season.
| Where the soil is suitable for 1T broom
| requires attention at the proper time.
With stock intended for meat the short
est possible time to feed prohtably Tor
market will give the best returns. Early
maturity brought on by breeding TOO
| young is always an injury to the stamina
and long life of the animal.
a stable in which man can work com
fortably with his coat off the coldest DAY
| iii winter is none too warm Tor DAIRY
cows. 1t is easy to keep such a. STAPLE
cool enough on the warmest day IN WIN
ter.
The salvation of American agriculture is
to get more value out of each acre under
cultivation. We can attain. this by better
! ullage, and by substituting crops of more
value on part OF our gram anu nay
lands.
Good stock and low prices will give bet,
ter results than poor stock and good prl-
ces. If you are able TO do 1t, now is your
| opportunity to buy good Dreedlng STOCK.
When 1t is considered that the egg con-
tains all the constituents of the living
chick it will be seen why there must be a
variety of food
Many farmers are finding out that
wheat fed to thrifty hogs under favorable
conditions is now making them directly 70
cents or more per bushel. Indirectly they
are saving a, handsome sum in railroad
fIeights and in wasted fertility of land.
Where sorghum seed is fed to stock it
should be ground or crushed The thin
shelled varieties are to be preferred. For
this season the light colored kinds are
best The feeding value of both sorghum
and broom corn have been underestimate
by stock growers. AS sorghum is very
much better drouth-resisting plant than
corn. it should and will hereafter be used
more extensively.
Oil meal has % per cent. of portein or
muscle-forming food and is excellent
for young growing animals. An excellent
ration for shoats is found in half a pound
of oil meal, two pounds OF wheat bran,
one and one-half pounds of corn meal
in four gallons of sweet whey or skim
med milk. For young growing hogs the
oil meal may be added to the ground
wheat, or wheat screenings with bran
The amount must always depend on the
size or weight of the pigs Or shoats. The
feeder can judge this by noting results