The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-06
FARM NOTES.
From the Farmers Tribune. }

The hog and the cow make a good team
when properly hitched together and driven
with careful hand.
statistics show that dairy products have
held up in prices better than grain and
other farm products in the last 10 years.
Pleasure, profit and power are most hap
ply combined in the work of the grange
w nat more can farmers ask of an Organi-
cation.
farmer boys and girls to speak their IDEAS
Ihey are encouraged to talk freely as if
they were at home, and not to be frighten-
ed If they hear their own voice.
A township given over to dairying is a
township noted for good society, good
schools, scarcity of mortgages, cheap mon
ey and good living.
The man who puts the worst construction
on his neighbours conduct should be watch
ed and avoided. He has in him all the ell
ements of an uncommonly bad man.
Every man who milks cows or who makes
butter, or who has anything to do with
milk, should subscribe for a good dairy
paper and read and digest it's contents.
No man is better off because his neighbor
is poor, nor is any man poorer because he
neighbor is honestly rich.
A binder standing in the field 10 months
after harvest is a warning to the banker
not to discount the owners 30-day note.
The cow that is regularly groomed will
eat less feed and give more milk than just
as good a one by her side that has not this
attention.
Where a general plan of farming is car
r1ed out and system of rotation is fol-
lowed, and the various crops are to be
fed out on the farm, from one-third to one
half OF the farm should be in grass, and
especially so if the pasturage is included
in this acreage.
This is poor time to "go out of sheep"
If you don't believe it and do go out Just
make note Of this and recall it hereafter
AS matter of fact there is no good time
to go out of sheets o.
Do not be afrafd toe manure the garden
heavily nor of woakingnt too much, as stir
ring the soil frequsntlytis one of the secrets
of a good garden A.
The qualities ofOanimals are somewhat
modified by climate, food, care and SOIL
Breeding to full7blooded stock should be
enfen4 beeauis their superior pre-
teristics to their progefiy.
good many people fail in their own
business because they spend so much time
in attending to that of other people.
With a good garden there is health and
variety of food; both very desirable not to
speak of the saving in household expenses
You eat too much when you eat that
you have not honestly earned You talk
too much when you begin to talk about
your neighbors.
Onions will stand more fertlizing than
any other crop we know of. They are
rank feeders, and pay well for extra care
They do best on a loose, friable soil that
will not bake after rain, though any land
that will grow corn will produce crop
The best and most promising sign notice
able among our farmers is the growing dis
position to diversity crops. In other words
to get out of the rut.
No man eats all the salt he thinks he
Will need for week, at one time, but a
good many feed their cows salt as if this
were the proper way. Salt is an everyday
necessity to dairy cows as has been proven
by experiment.
To make and care for good garden with
succession of seasonable vegetables sup
plemented by generous supplies of small
fruits, Is duty which every farmer owes
to his wife.
The average Western farmer has be-
come SO accustomed to farming on horse
back and on an extensive scale that any
work that savors so much of manual labor
as growing root crops and summer soiling
crops meets with but little favor, yet 1 do
not know of man who after giving either
of these crops a fair trial has abandoned
them.
Success in farming depends upon the
cost of the product raised and it's price or
market value. When farmers can't con-
troll the price they must control the cost
else their farming is a failure Just here
is where the skill of the farmer is needed
to reduce the cost of production. Skill
comes from knowledge which is gained
by investigation and experience He
must be a dull farmer indeed who cannot
use the grange in some of these ways as
factor to success in farming.
The draft horse does the work on the
farm most satisfactorily, and with less ex-
pense and worry; sells higher and more
readily; costs less to get him ready for
market; the service fee is not high he
costs less time and work to break him and
get him ready for market.
Farmers must have an ideal to which to
work, and not be content to go along
about usual" There is no success
without aim, and this should be high
one, and every energy bent to it at all
times. This is law of success every
where.
When cow will not respond to good
feed in the shape of a fair yield of milk,
her pedigree counts for nothing. Look out
for the cow which gradually declines in
yield while her mates, under the same
management, do not. You have no use for
her in your dairy.
When tells nae that he has a lot
OF cows that are hard to handle 1 only
want to known who trained them when
they first came into milk to know as much
about the trainer as I want to.
Poultry need drink as much as other
farm animals, notwthsta nding that some
persons hold a contrary opinion. 1t makes
wide difference In the results of a flock,
whether or not it is kept supplied with
fresh, pure water.
He who thinksj to get profit from his
cows while they eshiver around a straw
stack or in an open field will find he reck-
oned wrong.
The man who can teach a calf to drink
without thinking unutterable things and
exhausting the vocabulary at his command
in the way of adjectives may be safely
trusted to put ups stove in the presence
OF ladies' His language will be perfectly
correct. Il ai
The COW is made for good or bad when
she first comes into milk. Temper depends
altogether on the treatment, and yield in
large measure on the care bestowed on
her in milking.
Put an extra coat of soil, or what is bet
ter coat of coarse manure, over the po-
tato and turnip pits before more severe
weather comes
Out of 100 prominent dairymen East and
West interviewed by the Wisconsin Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, GA feed each
OF their cows from IS to so pounds of ensi-
lage daily, and they testify that the silage
milk is rich in butter fat. The most valua-
Bile feed for cows is corn fodder next to
the ensilage. In some form-cornmeal and
corn fodder, or corn ensilage-this cereal
enters into the ration of every daily cow
in the country, and there appears to be
nothing better when it is property mixed
with less heating foods.