The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23

friend, just as long as you patiently let
them. Use your brains more, and look out
for yourself. Let them keep their bran
when you can grow 1t cheaper than you
can buy it,
Thayer's berry Bulletin for January,
1896.
With the new year, resolutions should
be made and plans formed for a berry
garden in the spring.
Every enterprising farmer every owner
of village home should make this resO-
luton
Every ambitious boy or girl should be
encouraged In fruit growing, and have
a little garden, with the profits thereof
all their own.
Business men, professional men or teach
ers, almost broken with care, may regain
falling health, add years of pleasure to
life and put money in their purses, by
growing small fruits.
The demand for good fruit has never
yet been supplied.
Many shrewd farmers realize this and
are making more money from few acres
| of berries than all the rest of the farm.
| The greatest pleasure in fruit growing
| or farming comes from an understanding
| OF the simple natural laws that underlie
and enter into all products of the soil.
The greatest success comes from the
! correct application of these principles.
|. Soils are good or poor according to the
! fertility they contain.
They are valuable, only, as that fertility
| is made available for plant food.
| The application of this knowledge con-
stitutes common sense farming and brings
success
! fruit plant is kind of machine, capa-
| BILE of doing much little work, depending
| on food. moisture, care and environment. s
| The work consists in converting the ref
| use animal and vegetable matter into
| forms of health the most wholesome and
| G2JlciO1S m m inf n
| sunshine, ministering to all our senses
! and drawing us ever upward, ever nearer
| the soul of nature and the great Divine.
| The first essential in growing berries is
! to subscribe for one. two or more best
| farm or horticultural papers
They are faithful messengers directing
| us to success
! In other way can the principles of
| rural pursuits the knowledge of how best
| to grow fruits, flowers, grains, grasses
| and domestic animals, be so easily OBJ
| tanned.
They give us best advice, most approved
| methods the experience of successful men
| and the important events of this busy
| world.
| Verify a good newspaper is worth more
| to the average farmer than the best horse
| on the farm.
Why Green Bone Makes Bone and
| Eggs.
| E. W. Backus Franklin county, Virgin
| ia. in a recent Farm and Home, said: A
| great deal has been said of late about
| the great value of fresh market bones,
! properly cut up, for poultry food. While
| looking about for some reason why this
| food should be valuable. l came upon
| Dalton's Physiology, which is standar d au-
| thorty, and from this learned that the
| different parts of ordinary market bones
| contain in abundance the ingredients which
| make up the growing chicken, also almost
l thn ,1cfo c,,l
close proportion to the different parts of
| the complete egg, the shell, the yolk and
| the white.
Further than this, and very important
| fact which Dalton brings forth, is that
| the meat grstle, fat, blood and bone, all
| of which go to make up the gree~ bone as
| obtained from the market, in the best
| possible form to be easily digested by the
| fowl. This fact must be thought over by
| each reader
1t is not enough that given food con-
tains certain per cent of lime or GER
tain per cent of phospha ties; it must also
| be decided whether these different chemi-
Gals can be assimilated by the hen Dali
ton, who is indisputahle authority, SAYS
1T is we'll known that inorganic sub
| stances, although they furnish the neces-
sary material for vegetation, are not
sufficient for the nourshment of animals
| which depend for their support upon ele-
| ments already combined in the organic
| form, by the action OF the suns rays and
plant life
That market bones produce wonderful
results when fed to poultry is indisputa BILE
| The lean meat and gristle form the white
of the egg and about 16 per cent of the
yolk. The marrow and other fat on tho
| bones supply the remainder of the yolk
The lime phosphates in the bone YIELD
| all the necessary lime salts for the shell
and the necessary phosphates for the in
terror of the egg. When it is considered
| that all the above substances found il
| green bone are in specially digestible
condition. far more SO than any food sup
piled by dry meat. corn or wheat. is i
surprising that such glowing reports are
so often heard about this new food 70,
poultry?
With modern machinery obtainable or
easy terms, poultry men should feed moro
literally OF green cut BONE especially tc
pullets and ccckerels during the cold win
ter months, when other lime food is hare
to fipd.