The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-09

borhood often conduces to more profit In
stock keeping. Besides affOrding a mar
ket for the dairy products, it not infre-
quently is a means Of education up to bet
ter methods of feeding and caring for the
products
The saloon is growing more and more I'M
popular as the years go by. and 1t Is but
matter of a few years when 1t will have
hidden itself in the remote corners of the
larger cities.
We all know to be successful in poultry
raising we must work; in fact we can
make anything pay unless we work, but II
we go to work right we can make any kind
vi poultry pay.
Select ard mate your animals with an
eye to an end. Determine just what you
want before you make start to breed
stock Of any sort. Choose the exact type
you would reproduce as nearly as you pos
sibly can. Wavering methods land you no
where in particular, and you nave labOred
to no real purpose.
dairy COW Should himself be promptly
kicked from the barn A man who allows
himself to strike a dairy COW will, under
sufficient provocation. strike his own wife;
no gentleman will do either.
When the great bonanza farms of Min
nesota and the DakOtas are cut up into
small farms, which think will be done
| in time, then we will see every farmer with
hogs, sheep and cattle around him; in fact,
they Will have to keep stock in order to
rsplenish the worn-out soil caused by con-
| tinuOus grain growing.
To make a good dairy COW she must not
| only be good to begin with, but she must
| be properly trained and managed, or she
| will not do her best a butter maker
! The dairyman should be intimately ac-
| quainted with the peculiarities of every
| COW he owns.
If the husbandman of the good old
| times was more content, it was because II
required less to make him SO. There was
less debt, less worry, anxiety and Jealousy,
| less temptation to spend or to have. Coun-
! try life today is higher social and edu-
| cational plane. 1t is not all srubbing.
A poor COW, poor pig or poor speci-
| men of a horse would better be dispensed
| with at any price than fed through the
| winter. If ever it was incumbent upon
| the farmer to weed out the poor stock on
| his hands, it is now. If not actually worth
| his feed give him away or kill him.
The hog is seldom spoken of in giving the
| reasons in favor of winter dairying, yet he
| is one of the best reasons. The by-products
| of the dairy are very valuable to the breed
| ing SOW and growing shote. The best use to
| which to put these products is to tone III
our cheap grains for as many hogs as they
will reach over rather than stuff a few
| hogs with them.
| The short days and long evenings of this
| sea son of the year give the farmer more
| opportunity to cultivate social and literary
| tastes than he can get during the warmer
| seasons Of the year 1t is one of the hard
] ships of farm life that less social inter
| course IS possible than in the town and cit
| les, and. therefore. it behooves him to make
| the best of his opportunities at this season
| of the year.
The university extension work. or regular
classes in country towns conducted by some
of the agricultural colleges, is on the right
line. 1t shows how the farmers institute
| service is likely to develop into system OF
| travelling schools that shall bring the latest
| and best knowledge within the reach of
every farmer and his family.
Cows should be fed up to near their full
| capacity. 1t is as poor economy to allow
a dairy COW, capable of making two
pounds or more OF butter per day, to yield
| only a pound or pound and a half, as it
is to feed 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.
Upon many farms there is a good deal
| Of coarse hay and straw which is not very
palatable, but which can be made very
| useful for feeding if it is cut and mixed
with good hay and meal. The man who
wants to feed such material and get as
| large return from 1T as possible will, if
| WISE take pains to get it into good con-
| ditiOn for use before he offers 1t to his
| animals
| Feed as large variety of food posi-.
| bic. The dairy COW loves liberal bill OF
| fare. If possible, feed ensilage, if not, in
| its place hay should be cut and moistenet
and the grain ation thoroughly miXet
| Herewith. Grain mixed with ensilage OIL
| moistened hay is of more value than fec
| dry, and withal Is much safer, and ean be
| fed in larger quantities.
| Fodder can be truly wasted when put
| in the stomach as when trodden under foot
| J-nhoused cattle have continuous battle
| for comfort, and all their stuffing of food
! shows no result, for the reason that it is
used wholly in keeping life. Moreover
they are stunted by their stay at this un-
! thrifty stage. and will never show as 5000
| results afterWard.
| The creamery manager must be reliable
| honest industrious and Well-infOrmed il
! the manifold details of which the outside
| world knows nothing. He must have q
| good eye, quick ear, a trained nose, and
| tact to handle patrons we'll as engines
| machinery and milk, but he must not think
| he knows it all, he must be alert tC
| learn his business better.