The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-19
NOTES IN SEASON.

mot for profit in cash but the larger
profit of making the farm attractive
A $40 COW is often great deal cheap
er than a $40 COW, and it is a very poor
rule for farmer to sell the best out
of his herd.
The patrons of a creamery can afford
to cooperate to employ an honest ex-
pert to test their COWS and milk once
a month with a BabcocA fat test
If the farmer has shallow well. dc
not neglect to clean it out at the nrsl
opportunity which presents itself 1t Is
large factor in the health of the fam
lily to have pure water.
Not the least of the benefits which
come from establishing beet sugar rae
! tories is the doubling and even quad
rupling of the value of farms within
hauling distance of the factory
Increase the yield without increasing
the acreage and the cost of production
and this will be one way to solve the
present pressing situation. Grow diver
sified crops and you will hit it.
Cultivating the soil to keep down
weeds is not all that results from so
doing. The loose soil not only pre-
vents loss of moisture, but gains more
from rains than when the surface is
hard and compact.
In pig-feeding tests at the Vermont
station 81 per cent of the value of the
| food fed to the pigs was recovered IN
| the manure. Buttermilk had four-hfths
! the value of skim milk. Berkshires out
stripped Yorkshires, but just equalled
the Poland Chinas.
Mixed potato seed should not be
planted, as the habits of each are likely
to be quite different, and unsatisfac-
tory results sure to follow. a f1ch,
fertile soil will grow a fair crop from
a single eye, but in thin SOIL the cut
tings should be larger.
However low the prices may be, it
will always pay to do the best we can.
If the profit from a good crop OF wheat
/ or corn, or from a good beef animal,
I is small, remember that it would have
been much smaller still If the crop or
the animal had been poor one
1t is not the land, but the man, usual
" at fault when the crops are poor,
and the man is to be credited when
they are large and profitable. II IS
very certain that the success ut a
mans work depends upon the amount
| of intelligence possessed by the man
| himself.
Many who have good orchards suffer
loss by allowing a few trees OF worth
less fruit to remain year after year.
There is yearly resolve to change the
!
| the time comes around the resolution
is too often forgotten. and the tree re-
mains.
! Potatoes are not much injured by the
! shade and are a good crop to grow in
a young orchard; and the potash,
which is a good fertilizer for this crop,
/ is also good for the trees. Corn is also
a good crop TO grow there, and it can
be grown two or three years in success
J sion.
/ Kerosene oil should never be applied
/ to animals or fowls until mixed with
linseed or fish oil in the proportion of
one part kerosene to two parts of other
oil. This is a good remedy for mites.
which infest the legs of fowls. causing
what is known as scaly Legs. H.
w. Waupaca Co. Wis.
| The utmost care should be taken to
scald out all milk vessels every day.
The aIbumen of milk adhering TO cor
ners and creases of such vessels FUR
nishes ideal nesting places for the v
phoid disease germs which are suCn l
periodical scourge TO many agrIcuieu-
raj districts.
Work a little more by plan and sys-
tenn this spring. 1t is the only way out
of trouble. The conditions which con-
front the farmer of today make dis
cretion careful calculation and keen
sense of business management anso-
iutely essential to any marked degree
of success. The sooner we come to
realizing sense of this, the better
The remark that d man who could
not farm was not fit for anything,
which was formerly so common. has
got to be entirely out of date. That
saying was all right when all that vas
known about agriculture was sowing
and reaping; but ii has suddenly been
discovered that it takes a man or more
than ordinary intelligence TO make
success of farming, and II mas TURNER
been discovered that there is something
more TO farming than holding d piow
or running a reaper.
The coming year promises closer
competition in the butter market than
we have seen for some time. Prices
may rule very low. In some clrcum-
stances the bad COW makes an increAS-
ingly heavy load for the rest Of the
dairy to carry, and the dairyman Woo
comes through the season with profit
will pretty surely be the one who
weeds the bad cows out most carefully.
In many places il is now customary
for the milkman to deliver milk to his
patrons in one-quart glass jars, vhi,h
are left at the door in the morning, and
the empty one of the day before taken
away The jars are filled at the dairy
and the delivery is easy and much
more satisfactory TO the patrons. II
is a good plan.
The real cost of that produced on d
farm, other than the value OF labor
and interest on investment, is the plant
| food removed from the soil. If large
quantities of material are fed TO stock
it remains on the farm unless sold in
the form of meat, milk, butter, eggs or
WOOL and there can be no loss or waste
as long as the farmer can realize such
materials for producing more crops.
Professor Roberts, of the New York
station, cites many experiences that go
to show that in 80 cases out of 100. the
failure of plants or trees to give max
imum yield IS due to want of suffici-
ent moisture rather than of sufficient
plant-focd in the soil. This is a strong
point in favor of irrigation, even in
humid climates.
Good seed potatoes that are free from
disease bring prices that pay those who
have been careful with such crops.
Farmers who grow large crops of po-
tat0es should have facilities for taking
care of those intended for seed. AS it
is at present. the best customers for
potatoes early in the spring are the
farmers who buy their seed 1t is well
to procure seed from elsewhere some
years. but it is not necessary to do so
every season.
There are farms of only ten acres
that pay because every acre receives
manure or fertilizer year after year,
while large farms give no profit be-
cause the soil is poor. The remedy for
low prices is larger yields per acre.
and not more land. There is always
greater expense the larger the area
worked, and when the average yield