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

give @ne stock more attention. Improve
them.
You cannot afford to get the impression
tnat you know all about farming, and you
cannot afford to farm at all unless you do
know good deal about it.
Beans are a crop that will keep for sew
efal years. They are said to possess a good
germlnative power at six years old.
Fail and winter calves are good to raise
Inc FARMER has more time to attend to
them then and they get good start before
fly time.
Most farmers may congratulate them
selves upon one fact, at any rate. They
won't have to put up for the income
tax.
Where successful creameries are started
in a neighborhood and patronized by the
farmers, changed appearance is soon ap-
parent in the farm surroundings
How can you expect to know whether it
pays to feed stock. unless you know the
cost of the feed they eat?
When you have an opportunity this fall
or winter get a years supply of fire wood
together in convenient and dry place.
You cannot afford to buy all your home
supplies no matter how big crops you grow
to SELL
The winter is a good time for hard think
ing en- agricultural topics. One topic to
consider is how farm operations can be car
rled on with less of the burden falling to
the women.
1t costs less to get water to a COW while
the water is at the natural temperature of
deep well than it does to get the COW to
Ice water in the creek and then warm the
water after it is in the cow
In planting strawberries for field culture
or large beds l usually put plants from II
to IS inches in the rows, and rows four feet
apart. Plants can be set much closer for
garden culture when not allowed to become
too thick.
Are you saving all the wood ashes in
dry place? They are source of potash
ard phcsphoric acid. so are valuable. They
are especially valuable for fruit trees and
plants.
Don't compel the fowls to drink of the
dark colored and offensive water COM
mon IN barnyards. How can their flesh
and eggs be wholesome when they do? I'm
possible.
When a young lad becomes interested in
agricultural literature, he is not likely to
leave the farm. His love for the calling
will increase and his interest will deepen
until it moors him. rock like, to the calling
of his fathers.
This winter of all others the hogs should
have warm quarters. In years when corn
is plenty a II to 90 cents per bushel it may
possibly be used to advantage in place of
warm pens, but the folly of doing so this
year is evident.
Large quantities of oil meal will be fed
between now and the time another crop can
be raised, but care is needed in feeding it
to pregnant sows. The writer learned this
by sad experience few years ago.
The intelligent farmer is fast learning
that the pig must grow continuously from
the narrowing pen to the altar of his sac
rifice if he is to yield the maximum profit
any profit al ALL
Milk is the most delicate Of all articles of
food From the moment it is drawn from
the udder of the COW it must receive care
and attention, for the neglect of it even for
an hour will result in loss and disappoint-
ment.
1t is stated that upon an average a dress
ed hog will weigh % per cent less than his
live weight If exceedingly we'll fattened
and fed only upon solid food for some time
before Strengthening, the shrinkage may not
be more than 20 per cent.
A milk room is necessity and it should
be handy to the stable. In this all the arti-
cles used for milk may be kept after they
have been thoroughly cleaned, but in which
no washing or leaving dirty cans or pals
should be allowed.
The question which every dairyman
should ask himself is, how many cows in
his herd are paying a profit and how many
are not paying their board? The record
book and the tester will answer the ques-
ton.
1t is generally recognized as fact that
the farmers who made the most money the
past year put their wheat into pork and
drove it to market on four legs
The experience of every farmer and breed
err is valuable to others We are always
glad to give the experience of others in
feeding and breeding to get the best re-
suits or to avoid loss.
Some has aptly said. You must
share your joy to keep it," If farmers
would be happy they must meet together
to share the sunshnes of life and keep it
bright.
The profit of an animal fed for market
does not always lie in the heavy weight
but rather in what it has cost to procure
that weight. Other things being equal the
animal which is fed up to a good, full
standard is the most profitable.
During the past few years the educational
fea lures of the grange have been steadily
coming to the front, and in some portions
of the country the grange is regarded 6
the greatest educational movement IF mod
times.
Dairy farming is the highest type of agri-
culture. A farmer of this class must look
for success in the maximum productiveness
of few acres. The successful operation of
such farmer pre-supposes concentration
of effort and acreage
A good butter COW should produce not
less than one pound of butter per day. Hun
dreds of cows produce two or more pounds
a day. but where a farmer has herd he
can just as easily as not procure pound
of butter daily from each COW, if he will
raise his calves and breed for butter-pro-
ducing qualities.
The best kind of government is self
government, but this only be obtained
through an intelligent understanding of
what government means. hence the neces-
IeStv- ~fc ton, no
a nations prosperity
Don't try to winter 90 fowls if you only
have room for 10. This may seem to be an
unnecessary warning, but observation has
proved that OvercrOWding is one of the
common errors of farmers who are interest
ed in poultry. 1t is also fault of MANY
who make the poultry business a money
making specially.
Cleanliness is important in cold weather
as well in summer, though neglect may
not involve quite serious immediate
consequences it would have done ear
lier in the season. See that the house are
frequently cleaned, and give special atten-
ton to the vessels in which the drinking
water is kept, the feeding places and the
nests.
A good COW may often be found among anv
or all of the different breeds The COW to
be selected is the one that will not only
pay her keeping but show good profit at
the end of the year, and with a record book
and scales in the stable, and Babcock
tester in the milk room, each cow makes to
her owner monthly statement of the part
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