The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-27
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
From the Farmers Tribune)
The farm where sheep are not is not
the ideal farm.
The time to go in is when many are go
ing out of the sheep business Il.
A mixed ration of wheat and corn ground
makes a desirable feed for milk cows.
Dress poultry with great care and send
it to market in better and more tempting
form than your neighbor; it pays.
Change the blood in the flock by introduce
ing new cocks. In-breeding is very demon
alizing to feathered bipeds.
Level culture is best for almost every
crop. Killing up is often disastrous in a
dry season, where level culture would have
succeeded.
Making hot bed is not very great task
and it advances the season weeks some
times, when the spring happens to be
late
The sheep is a meat as we'll as a wool
producer, and the meat is the best in the
world, and brings the highest price, when
sheep rearing and feeding are of the right
sort.
The COW that does not make money for
her owner is manfestly damage to him.
How many who read this know whether
any given COW in his herd pays him or
not? Please answer one at a time
A COW is not, as a rule, a very intellectual
animal, but she has way of getting even
for bad treatment that is just as effectual
as it would be if conceived and carried out
by deliberate course of reasoning.
No higher tribute to woman's power as
a force in politics has been paid than in
that admission of Gov. Waite when he
said, 'They beat me-"
In no one direction is the average farmer
more remiss than in the matter of provid-
%.o11 1-S%o Pow 1o
of the family.
This is a good winter for the farm insti-
tutes, and reports from all directions con-
vey the good news of unparalleled attend
ance and vastly increased interest. The
spirit of progress is abroad in the land.
The man who caresses his cow with the
milking stool every time he loses his tenn
per, or the COW makes a move that does not
meet with his approval, is about as wise as
he who throws his money to the winds
No employment upon the farm requires
more method than the dairy. Every part
Of the work must be performed every day
and at almost the same hour. man who
has not the gift of punctuality had better
stay out of the business, for his failure will
be certain.
Butter Of fine flavor can not be made from
| filthy stables, nor from. milk set in cook
room, nor from cream churned 20 points too
sour, nor when worked over in buttermilk
| and sailed with fine lime salt. And yet
! three-fourths Of that which is made is thus
| made. poor price is the penalty.
Compared with pork, poultry meat costs
| less and is more nourishng and healthful
If too far from market to make the bus
| mess pay, the farmer should find no excuse
| for not raising enough for his own table
| and that right literally
| Thoroughbred male sres of prepotent
! qualities should be selected for use, as the
xr,S1 Io ~
will be more capable of transmitting good
qualities to their offspring than will grade
or native sires.
A we'll kept garden is an ornament to any
| farm and tells the passing stranger thai
! the owner is proud of his profession, anc
one who believes in having the comforts Of
| life when they can be gotten as easily az
| supply Of garden stuff can.
| The COW that drinks ice cold water
| through hole that has been chopped
| through the ice in the water trough, is go
| ing to wait till that water is warmed t.
| blood heat before she begins to secrett
milk, and she will not make up for los
| time, either.
Farm poultry saves from waste much O
the shattered grain, and destroys myriad
| of injurious insects and weed seed but d.
| not let them scratch wholly for living
One thousand pounds of poultry will cos
less to make than 1000 pounds of beef, ant
|
The usual idea of education implies tina
children are empty and want filling, blu
| they are no more empty than the seed tina
| is put into the ground. Education does no
consist in giving people knowledge, blu
| in drawing out the full and complet
| man.
Pure bred chickens bring the best results
but, as they breed so fast, pure bred male
will soon crate up the flock. Like in tn
dairy business, the improved appliance
bring success-the incubator, the war;
poultry house, proper food and the care an
attention of modern poultry breeding.
See that the house are frequently cleaned
and give special attention to the vessels /
which the drinking water is kept, the feed
ing places and the nests This is importan
In cold weather as well as warm, thong
neglect now may not have quite such ser
Gus consequences.
The business of the dairyman does nc
begin and end with the care OF the cow:
but reaches into every detail of farm mar
agement. He runs dairy with most prof
who gives most attention to making tn
farm produce large crops of grass an
grain to be fed to the cows; there is not S
much profit when the feed is bought ou
side.
Visiting among those who live in tn
country is rendered nearly impossible wher
there are bad roads, and 1t Is no WOnde
that young people become tired of countr
life and long for the towns, where they ca
have a better chance of seeing other peopl
| There is a social side to the road question
An argument against large farms is thu
the owners do not always have sufficier
capital to give them thorough cultivation
, and they would live better upon a smalle
1t is bad principle to spend all ones cal
, ital for land and trust to fortune for tt
rest, or think that the land will take cal
of itself.
Cooperative creameries are proving s
successful and satisfactory, where properl
managed, that it inspires the hope ths
they may be the means of extending the G,
: operative system in other departments ,
farming. The creamery is school in G.
f operation, teaches farmers not only how
combine, but the advantages Of combin;