The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-30

boar, making sure that he is a thorough
bred, then selecting out the best sows to
which to breed. With hogs, as with other
stock, the use of a full blooded boar tends
toward full blood, while selecting even a
high grade tends in the other direction.
we must, as representatives of the agri-
cultural industry, fully adopt and utilize
this one word, education, which is the
Key note to our prosperity, and it must
IN line with the other industries of our
day.-COmmittee on education Maine State
Grange.
The farmers business is the most i'm
portant of ALL" Have a purpose in view
and do not rest easy until it is accomplish
ed. If your speciality is dairying, make per-
lection your aim; be a leader among your
class; study your class paper, and then, by
a careful system of bookk eeping by weigh
ing and testing, be able at the end of each
year to know where you and your business
stand
Farmers have already begun speculating
on what they had better sow the coming
season. The majority say they will stick
10 barley as their principal crop, placing
wheat. rye and oats together on the sec
ondary plane. A few will make special
ty of rye, and some will give other crops
their principal attention. But barley will
continue to be- as it has been for a num-
county.-Red Wing Republican
The practical dairyman demands individ-
ual excellence in his animals more than
anything else. Pedigree and ancestry are
nothlng unless they are a guarantee that
the animal possesses marked traits and
characteristics which are to be of value
Better half-breed than a poor mixer.
Next to selecting the cows, the most i'm
portant thing to consider and prepare is
a hal hn
Bile, warm in winter cool and airy in
summer, with proper ventilation and above
all, dry and we'll lighted. The latter is
absolutely necessary would you have
healthy stock, good flow of milk, and
1t is stated by high authority that the
color of cream and butter is controlled
during the winter months considerably by
the amount of light in the COW stables.
Isolation tends to contract the mental
horizon. If men see little of the world
they are inclined to think that their own
orbit is the one in which the most of hui
manity ought to revolve. A good grange
will take this and similar erroneous opin-
ions out of the mind of any farmer and
make him vastly better man.
There is nothing too good for the boar dur
ing the breeding season. He needs and
should have the best of care, a warm, clean
ana comfortable pen, and abundance of
nutritious feed Next years pig crop de-
thrift of the boar during the breeding sea-
son.
Nothing is more important for success
than regularity in the care of the cows.
They should be MIXED at exactly the same
time each day, and near possible at
equal hours between milkings. Five o'clock
in the morning and in the afternoon is a
very good rule. They should be fed wa
tered, turned in the yard, or anything that
may be done for them at precisely the
same time, for they soon learn what they
are to receive and should never be kept
waiting.
Sows carrying pigs need food which pro-
duceS bone and muscle The Egyptians
could not make bricks without straw nor
can the sow give birth to strong, healthy
pigs unless she has had the food necessary
to develop them before birth. Give the SOW
some bran, shorts, oats, or similar foods
Corn can be the main part of her ra tion
but she must have some muscle producing
foods along with it.