The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
SEASoNABLE NOTES.

Sixty dollars a ton is being paid for
broom corn in western Kansas.
Damage by the army worm this
season has been estimated at $3.50 900
in New York state alone, and in Mas
sachusetts at 100000.
Poorly handled milk never yet made
good butter; poorly fed cows and cows
lacking the dairy quality never yet
made profitable butter.
The relative cost of raising steers and
horses is the subject that is being dis
cussed by writers in some of the agri-
cultural papers. and it seems to be
agreed upon that there is not a great
deal of difference. When it comes to
selling, it is poor specimen of a we'll
bred 3-year-old mare or gelding that
will not sell for more than a 3-year-old
steer.
We who in these days may have
potatoes on our tables three times a.
day If we wish would do we'll to re-
member that couple of hundred years
ago they sold for so cents pound in
England and it was not until the close
of the eighteenth century that they be-
came plentiful and cheap enough to be
within reach of people with limited
means.
While the average COW of the coun-
try is only good for about lbs pounds
produce twice that amount is not prof
liable, and a really profitable herd
should be composed of cows that aver
age not less than 800 pounds. This
emphasizes the necessity for breeding,
selection and development in dairying.
The best substitute for grass in dairy
feeding is probably silage. 1t is sue
Culent and oalatable when well made,
and therefore furnishes one of the best
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lent summer feed, especially for those
sections of the west where three years
out of five the pastures are pretty we'll
burned out in midsummer.
Some Kansas farmers are having a
practical experience OF the coStlinesS
of settling disputes in the law courts.
The trouble began over a SIS COW and
the cow has gone from one man to the
other as the case has been decided first
one way and then another by the var
ious courts. The costs have elready
exceeded $500, and the sum threatens
being much larger before q final de-
cision is reached.
1t is folly to grow and sell a crop
without considering it's cost; TO winter
any stock which cannot pay for its
feed; TO feed so sparinSly that you
merely sustain life. instead of making a
gain: TO throw manure under the
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ter: to keep account of the income and
pay no attention to the expenses, says
an exchange, and we commend the re-
marks TO the attention of our read
erS.
Experts in all lines are in demand.
First-class butter and cheese makers,
male or female, command much higher
wages than the average of workers
The farmers wife who possesses the
ability to put the right flavor and quail
ity into her butter viii sell at the top
of the market. And in all lines skill
and ability bring the best there is go
ing. Here is something for boys and
girls TO think about. The world is
full in the lower grades; there's always
room at the top.
The cooperative system pays those
engaged in it when all make it mat
ter OF pride to keep up their end"
If a community of farmers were to
organize a threshing gang on the CO.
operative principle of an exchange of
work theE would soon drop out those
members who showed a disposition TO
shirk and kill time. A cooperative
creamery to be fair must do the same
thing and get rid of all those who do
not hoe their row in management,
feeding, care, cleanliness and adj other
details that affect production.
Don't fail TO read Success on the
Farm" printed in another column