Willmar tribune., 1895-04-23
Agricultural Department,

Agricultural Department,
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Z NELS GUAM, Norway Lake, Mimi
The farmer that never makes q
mistake never makes anything.
1T costs as much to restore fer.
tlllty to a farm as it did to clear
and break it originally.
Now is the time to clean up
the yard, house and cellar. Ii
Will look more pleasant, besides
1t might save a doctor bill.
Look sharp at the trees around
your house that you might dis
cover insect eggs on twigs and
bark. They are easily DESTROYED
before they hatch.
Radish seeds germinate quickly
and a few may be sown along
with beets, onions, carrots or
any other seed that is slow to
germinate. 1t will mark the
rows so that the ground can be
worked before the other plants
make their appearance.
Ii you are apatron to a cream
cry do not neglect the patch OF
sweet corn to cut up for the COWS
when the drought cones, for it
surel y will come.
Keep in mind that the greatest
profit from hogs comes from
crowding them from birth until
they are seven months old. Al
ter this age profit decreases.
II you have any beet, carrot.
cabbage, roots, etc., OF good
quality set them out for seed.
Why spend four to five dollars
for garden seeds when you might
Just as we'll raise it yourself and
save your money and probably
have better seeds.
Plant or SOW an extra half acre
OF corn or peas and oats besides
the hog lot for swine. In case
pasturage will be short next
summer, it will be handy to cut
and throw over the fence.
You can still hear the same old
dreary twaddle, 1.-THE low prices
for farm products is caused by
over-production; the only thing
that ails the farmers is that they
don't do better farming, don't
produce more" What sense is
there in such talk? If over-pro-
duction is the matter why not
tell the farmers to take a 'lay-
off, and be consistent for once.
If you have a good we'll and
windmill but can't afford to buy
a tank, a few Kerosene barrels
set up on a platform in the tower
and connected at the bottom by
short gas pipe nipples * inch
with right and left hand threads)
will do good service. Connect as
many barrels as possible to the
one from which the water is
drawn and tie a wire around the
group to prevent the wind from
blowing them off the platform.
The advantage OF the separator
creamery over the cream-gather-
ing system does not all lay in
what it directly saves the pa
irons, but it presents an indirect
benefit in the opportunity it fur
nishes the dalryInen for personal
contact and competition as well
as comparison of methods which
will lead to an increased income
per COW. A small sized institute
is thus enacted daily. Each mar
knows what he feeds and how
and the creamery weigh-can anC
Babcock test tell the result week
ly. Is he long going. to c0ntinu.
Improbable feeding under sucl
precept? II AS check for mill
from fifteen COWS is as big as 81
with twenty, B. is going to d.
some hard thinking and acting
to get even with A. Right her
is also where the advantage c
having a good dairy man 70
butter maker comes into play
While he runs the creamery b
can at the same time teach hi
patrons the science Of dairyine
IAN ABLE LETTER" IN THE ARGU'
HAw1cK, Mimi, April 10, 199;
Editor Willmar Tribune:
Birch heads an article in tt
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