The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-18

The best sign of Thrift is the contented
sigh and chewing the cud. In feeding
steers one must make haste slowly.
Like a race horse in a two-mile stretch.
To keep them well in hand hay Isl es-
sential as grain, and is cheaper.
1t pays to remove the mud from
wagons and implements. repaint and
properly house them. Harness may be
cleaned. oiled. and repaired. and much
work done that will facilitate other
work later on.
While a good deal OF emphasis is laid
on January 1St, as the beginning OF the
New Year and a suitable time for good
resolutions, a rational man will reflect
that each day is the beginning of new
year.
Poultry need drink as much as other
farm animals, notwithstanding that
some persons hold a contrary opinion.
1t makes a wide difference in the re-
suits from a flock. whether or not IL
is kept supplied with fresh, pure water,
The yield of butter per cow for the
whole year is a record that every
dairyman ought to Keep. We would
like to print lot of such reliable fig
ures, backed up by brief statements as
to breed, feed and care. Facts talk
and teach real lessons.
The normal condition of life is perfect
we inherit disease or violate laws of ma
tUre. In either case our first duty to the
race is to live up to the natural laws of
health.
A writer truly states that tree plant
ers must avail themselves of the helps
of times, such as horticultural reading
and the experience of others; they
must take the time to not only expert
ment but look up the conditions of sue
cess and of failure in their respective
neighborhoods.
The greatest danger of damage to
young fruit trees from mice and rab-
bits is yet to come. The body of the
young trees should be wrapped with
newspapers, broom straw or some
other article that will protect them to
the height of eighteen or twenty
inches. Trap and shoot the rabbits and
thus lessen sthe danger.
Prof. Bailey says that potash is the
chief fertilizer to be applied to fruit
trees, particularly after they come into
bearing. 1t may be had in wood ashes
and muriate of potash. 1t is most COM
monty used in the latter form. He
thinks that an annual application of
potash should be made upon bearing
orchards.
Cows should be fed up to near their
full capacity. 1t is poor economy to
allow a dairy COW, capable of making
two pounds or more of butter per day,
to yield only a pound or a pound and a
half, as it is to feed a fattening pig
only half or twO-thirdS of the food it
can assimilate. Feed dairy cows up to
nearly their full capacity except for
two months before calving.
On very large farm there is more or
less land than its owner would be better
off without. Sometimes it is said that
on a few acres. and let the rest lie in
pasture, and produce what it will, with
little or no expense Only market gar
deners and small fruit growers have any
adequate idea of the amount of money
that can be made from a small place.
AS much as half a ton of fertilizer to
the acre has been applied to potatoes
right in the. drill, without injury. It
is found by many growers profitable to
use a larger amount but the excess
should either be sown broadcast or
have come up.
Many. farmers who purchase pigs in
the fall, would do much better to wait
until spring, unless they will change
their methods OF caring for the animals
during winter a spring pig that is well
cared for will be much more profitable
than will a fall pig that suffers from
cold, or is kept upon scanty food. The
moral of this paragraph is that if
they are to make anything like salts
Great care should be exercised by
those who are entrusted with the re-
sponsibility of buying seed to see that
only fresh, pure seed is obtained. A
large amount of common warehouse
grain will be offered and sold for seed,
and it will be insisted upon by some
that it is as good as the high priced
seed sold by scotsman, yet this is far
from true. We can not afford TO make
mistakes by planting poor seed that
will not grow. Better get half the
amount of seed and be sure it is of
first quality, that it will grow with
proper cultivation, and it is better to
cultivate ten acres well than half way
cultivate forty acres.