Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-26
AGRICULTURAL.

nlSh as the result OF high prices OF
farm products during the war. Since
then the decline has been gradual
and natural. First class farms even
now are held at high figure and not
IN the market. Poor farms are cheap,
IN fact there is no sale for them at
any reasonable price. The thrifty,
wide awake farmer makes his bust
ness pay, especially when dairying is
largely his business. The unfortu-
nate farmer, who got in debt when
times were easier, remains in debt
still, and now and then "foreclosure''
is the end of it.
In my opinion the great trouble
with the farming interest today is the
tariff, Or rather the want of it, When
the Mckinley tariff law is reenacted,
which it will be sooner or later, the
farmer and the country will again
prosper.
Cows will give the largest return
| for care and feed of any animal on the
farm.
| Do not leave the COWS or calves
out during cold nights. All chill will
materially check the growth of the
calf and will not be beneficial to the
cows.
| Do not mix sour cream just before
churning. The sweet cream will all
be left in the buttermilk if you do.
We hope you have not neglected to
put in good amount of wheat bran
to mix with roots, corn, etc. 1t makes
strong muscles and healthy bodies,
and helps build up the nerve force.
1t pays to purchase wheat bran to
feed on the farm, as it is one of the
| few materials that can be fed to stock
and yet return nearly it's full value in
| the manure.
This should not be ignored as the
dairyman's success depends upon the
productiveness of the farm as we'll as
the skillful management of his dairy.
If you have not already arranged
the COW stable SO the sunlight can en-
ter, do so at once. Do not oblige the
cows to pass the winter in dark, ILL
ventilated stables this winter.
If COWS are kept in dirty, unven-
tilated stable, and MIXED there strict
ly first-class butter cannot be made
from the milk.
This is why winter made butter is
often so poor and spoils so quickly
With proper care, proper feed and
clean stables as good butter can be
made in winter as in summer, and at
less cost.
Raise your own COWS.
1t takes a brainy man to make a
successful dairyman.
Did you ever think of it.; a heshy
animal winters cheaply because he
eats less.
1t takes brains all along the road
from breeding the COW to making and
marketing the butter.
Dry COWS intented for beef that
have been fattened upon the rowen
feed, turnips, etc., make good beef,
but are better if fed 200 or 800 pounds
Of sweet cornmeal the last thing.
No man can carry on dairying sue
cessfully now as he did twenty years
ago. Dairying is progressive science
and if we keep up with the process
sion and gain our share of the profits
we must read, study and practice bet
ter and better.
Give the horses less heavy feed and
more wheat bran. This feed costs
less and the horses will do better.
Give the colts plenty of wheat bran,
and let them have q run in a paddock
every day, and they will never have
unsound legs unless by accident
Blemishes will not develop from
weakne SIS if properly fed and cared
for.
Weak food makes weak and un-
sound joints. No one can afford to
raise colt in that way.
The market has never been dead
for really good horse.
Nursing goes a long way and so
many men disregard it.
We are already feeling the scarcity
of well-bred young horses. Before