The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
FARM NOTES.
From the Farmers Tribune)

to paint it.
In the year that has just dawned the far
mer should endeavor to carry out the pay
as you CO. plan as far possible.
The shepherd who parts with good flock
on the superstition that American woods
will never again find protection at the hands
of fostering legislation is wanting alike in
courage and forecast.
The best cows need rest, and will give
more milk and make more butter in 10
months, after resting two, than If MIXED
continuously This is not so important in
the family COW, but where a number are
kept for dairy profits it will be we'll to try
the experiment.
The COW should be of good breeding and
a good mixer; should be well trained, then
well managed; should be housed and teth-
cred according to her nature as milk
given; and then her feed should be adapted
to the work she has to do. Success is not
all with the COW, neither with the owner.
The reason why SO few farmers can show
a good return is because their business is
not organized on a regular commercial
plan. So much farm labor is executed
which cannot, in the majority of cases, be
made very remunerative. 1t requires
good deal of experience and just as good
judgment to operate a farm employing five
more men to a small shop en-
ploying three times the number.
The advent OF the separator is to work a
y
every one interested should read up on the
matter. This machine not only economies
labor, but the work it does is of far bet
ter nature than it is possible to do by the
old methods.
The day has passed into oblivion when
a farmer is measured by the superior featS
that he can perform, such as how many
acres of grass have fallen before his scythe
today, the field of corn that has received
his attention. the tons Of hay yielding to
his giant like strength. This is day of
brains. The question is What is the
strength of his brains, rather than the
capacity of his muscle?'
The Grange is developing just the kind of
who will be wanted in public affairs
in the near future, and bright young farm
ers cannot afford to stay away from the
oranges and be of that class which was
born to blush unseen and to hide his
talents under bushel Young man, the
world is looking for you today and you
owe it to yourself to get into position
where the world can find you.
When a COW will not respond to good feed
in the shape of fair yield of milk, her
pedigree counts for nothing. Look out for
a COW who gradually declines to yield while
her mates under the same management do
not. You have no use for her in your
dairy.
1t is said that a North Dakota farmer
has fattened 200 hogs on wheat which was
not worth more than 80 cents a bushel to
sell as grain, but which brought him al
most 81 a bushel in the form of pork. This
proves that an indirect method of market
ing crops may be profitable.
Cows may be fed cheaply through the
winter on straw and poorly cured corn fod-
der, but they will not produce much. Feed
literally, and keep in the line of produc
ton. They will pay for their keeping and
leave margin of profit, or you will be
out of the cost of their keep, whatever
that may be.
There are no people in our state who
have worried less over the depression
than our farmers. 1t is very true that
they have felt the low prices Of farm
produce severely, but the depression of
values of real estate effect them but slight
ly, and not at all if they chance to be out
of debt. Their farms are not for sale, and
they care but little whether land is high or
low. They regard their possessions as their
homestead, their heritage to their children
and it's value in the market does not effect
it's productiveness.
Some day we shall all awake to the fact
that education broadens ones scope Of
vision, disciplines ones judgment, enforces
the Importance of investigation into the
relation of things and ultimately completes
it's work in rounding out the life
Although the days are rapidly lengthen-
ing and the sunshine is growing decidedly
warmer on calm days, we nevertheless
agreeable weather in this month, and those
who have the care of cattle and horses and
other live stock will need to remit none OF
their watchfulness in sheltering them from
the inclemency of the weather.
Milking should be done rapidly, and it is
therefore not we'll to have too many
hands employed in the work. With one
mixer to a dozen cows there is more like
lihood of efficiency of work than when half
as many cows make up the tale. The slow
h, 4 x,1;1ly VT ~,
If the farm buildings are not insured a
policy in some good company should be OBJ
tanned at once. If the buildings are burned
the insurance money will be very useful in
replacing them. If they are not burned,
the feeling of security which the insurance
will give will be worth a great deal more
than the insurance COSTS
The Grange is doing a wonderful work
in bringing the farming population up to
a higher average degree of intelligence,
and in this respect it becomes impor-
tant factor in the future prosperity of the
country
No employment upon the farm requires
more method than the dairy. Every part
of the work must be performed every day,
and at the same hour. A man who has not
the gift of punctuality would better stay
out of the business, for his failure will be
certain.
The garden should fit the owner as a
pair of shoes should fit the wearer. Not
all tastes are alike. Some dislike cab
page, others parsnips and carrots. Not
everyone likes peas or asparagus or celery
what ask is that every farmer shall en-
deavor to raise every kind of fruit and
vegetable suited to his soil and climate
that any member of his family likes, and
to raise such an abundance that it shall
count in the cost Of living.
With all kinds of poultry an important
item is to keep the breed that you like
best and that best fills your requirements
and then do not inbred too closely and
carefully select the very best for breeding
each year.
Comfort ought to be the first thing look
ed after in the arrangement of the stable
If you make your horses comfortable they
will stand much more hard work.
1t will need good food and constant care
to enable any animal to reach it's inherited
possibilities, no matter how good it may be
at the start. However well it is cared for
feeding and grooming will not make a
prize winner of a scrub.
Green bOnes gristle, fesh ETC., cut as
fine as sausage met is not only greatly
relished by fowls OF all ages. but is un-
doubtedly powerful stimulant to egg pro-
duction. Great benefit is also derived
from feeding liberal rations of this cut
bone to growing chicks. 1t contributes to
their early maturity, and pullets lay earlier
in the season when they have this ration
along with other feed.
The man who goes on the market with
anything OF a superior quality of excel
lence makes ready sales and a profit. Over