The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06


will shrink in milk and fatten III fed
enough to allow IT.. and the result is poor
yield OF milk even when grass comes.
Bran is the favorite feed for this purpose
but Oil meal cottonseed meal, glucose feed,
etc., are also used. 1t is easy to add S
year to the income of each COW by
avoiding the use Of too much timothy hay
and corn. Trading corn or oats for bran
is trading part of the carbonaceous foods
OF the farm for some heterogeneous food to
be fed with carbonaceous food. Milk is
made of both classes ut is itself food,
ana TO produce 1t the COW must have both
classes of food. Let us remember the
value of clover hay for cows, and that bran
is especially good for winter mixers.
Making Beef Mt a Profit.
The prospect favors returning profits in
the business of raising beef cattle in this
section. While sheep and horses no longer
pay, the great consumption of beef gives
assurances that prime cattle will always
be in demand. And an examination of
market statistics for long period of years
shows that the well bred and well fed
steers, weighing from 1900 to 1900 pounds
alive, have always sold at a price that
paid profit to the producers, said w.
w. Taylor at a farmers institute Such
meat is of better grade quality, with
an evener distribution of fat, than animals
grown to two or three years on coarse food
and then made fat on grain. Hence the
important point in making beef at a profit
is to produce the best, which we have
all the facilities and advantages for do
ing successfully. Competition with the
great plains of the West can only be met
by sending to market an article our compet-
itors cannot produce, and that will COM
mand attention and prices they cannot at
tain or obtain. The grade Shorthorn cows
kept on many farms are excellent founda-
Wv fn
perience has been that high grade Short
horn bullocks, everything considered are
better feeders than full blood cattle In
stead of killing the calves for veal, the
males at least should be grown to mature
beeves.
Of any beef breed fancied by the farmer
and that is reasonably fine in the bone
but not extremely distinguished in that
line with an abundance of muscle cover
ing his frame, wide back, straight upper
and under line, clear bright eye Or bet
ter still is 1t to choose a sire that is
known and has proven himself the progen-
ltor OF such stock as we wish to keep and
develop. cross upon this grade COW will
insure progeny suited to keeping and ma
turing to beef age Let the calf be drop
PED at any convenient season. CaStrate
the male at any time from one day to one
week old. If a polled blood has not been
introduced dehorn at any time and by any
process that completes the work. The ben
ef1ts derived by dispensing with the horns
are present from the day cf it's completion
until the animal has been driven into the
slaughter pen.
Raise the calf by hand This keeps it
tame and it will much sooner learn to take
substantial food, than if running with the
COW. Give milk fresh after the cream
has been removed, in such quantities as
appears to be assimiated and healthful,
but avoid over feeding at all times When
quite young, a thrifty calf will begin con-
Stunning some extra food besides the milk
that it receives. Encourage this desire by
mixing wheat bran or ground oats with
the milk; the calf is fed in small quantities
at first, but the grain may be slowly in
creased as the age and wants of the ami
mai require. In summer late spring.
allow the calf the range of a good pasture
lot in connection with milk and such other
iced as will prove groWthful. good dark
house in summer to keep away flies, and
warm clean homes in winter, add much
10 comfort and consequently to growth,
that each demand attention. A very good
plan is to give freedom Of pasture at night
and house during day time in summer or
winter as circumstances indicate. The
grain ration must, however, in the calf
age, be cautiously managed, having in
view our design of future treatment and
the age to which we expect to carry our
stock before we dispose of it.
FOR winter feed clover hay we'll cured
mas perhaps no equal. Any of our tame
or cultivated grasses cut early or green
will be consumed with a relish and in con-
nection with some whole grain would keep
up vigorous and healthy growth if good
quarters are provided and plenty of water
If an early market is sought, the grain ra-
ton can be safely increased but in most
cases growth is better promoted by plenty
of hay. corn fodder, or any other available
provender that the animal relishes Hay-
ing had no experience with enSilage or
roots, I can only commend them upon my
judgment and have no doubt that either
or both, would be valuable and worthy of
more general use. If the animal is to be
matured before the age of two years, grain
ought to be continually used daily after it
was once begun and the nearer we arrive
to market day, the more and the richer the
feed
Talks About Farming.
l want to assert that many farmers are
cultivating more land than they can cult
vate well. The man who only farms the
acres he can cultivate we'll will make more
clear money than the man who skins over
large number of acres only half titled I
heard a merchant say the other day that
farmers had no settled policy in regard to
their business. All farmers with whom 1 am
acquainted have a settled policy, and prac-
tice some kind of rotation of crops but
the settled policy of some is not the best
policy, and their rotation of crops may not
be the most advantageous All of them
make plans, but many of their plans are not
good and result in disaster; their estima ties
are far out of the way. One of the poorest
farmers l ever knew planned his work as
carefully as could be apparently but his
plans were bad, because his Judgment was
weak and his reasoning powers deficient A
farmer can plan his business just as well
when he is blowing, at other work as he
can to sit down and study and PLAN Farm
ers are of two classes, those who work toe
much and those work too little. The second
class is by far the most numerous; this is
the class that should be preached to and
spurred up to more vigorous exertiom. The
men who succeed in farming, as in all pur-
SUITS are the who study and work the
hardest Speculation is not farming. The
speculator may make a fortune today and
lose it the next. The farmer who wants to
get rich by farming must expect to work
hard for number of years. Brains are a
good thing to have and are not to be de.
spised, but the successful farmer finds il
necessary to use all the brains and about
all the bodily strength he has in order tc
succeed. 1 never knew but one man who
worked too hard; he said in his last sick.
ness Some people blamed me for workins
too hard, but | took pleasure in it, NJ
person should work SO hard during the day
that he can't sleep well at night and fee