The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-10
FARM BURROWS.

Western Farm Journal: If we anne'
Hawaii il may burst the prospective pee
sugar boom which is in the ascendahc,
just now.
Tire man who nilks a cow with jerky
fidgety motion deserves TO he kicked over
The movement would be more IN keePllt
with the requirements in fighting yeiioN
jackets.
The baby is the best stock on the farm
and it should have the very best of treat
rnent Those who have them and know
how to manage them are truly great nc
product of the farm should nave orece-
dence over the children.
When pigs are about two weeks old
they will require some supplementary feeo
other than their dams milk The very
best way to supply this is in a trough 10
which none but the little pigs can 90
Feed that can be eaten quickly and IS OF
"A heterogeneous nature should De given
DO not work the children too hard
Many of the troubles that arise later IN
life are attribute BILE TO overwork in youth.
it IS right that children on the farm
should work well and judiciously. but
they should not be overworked. The boys
of the farm should be able TO do all kinds
of work. 1t will be good for them
In these times of trusts-and we hear
of many trusts that never are formeo-it
Is said that farmers are attempting TO
form one The American farmer who
cannot make il under the present con-
ditions viii be but very little helped by
n trust 1t is merely an association TO
make fat offices for the officers and good
salaries for agents.
1t has been said. .'of two evils choose
the least" It would be wiser TO choose
neither and look elsewhere. In breeding
horses it viii be we'll to pursue the same
course. If two are close at hand, and
neither of them are good ones. look
around for something that IS good
Breeding horses is something that should
have the greatest of attention Just at
this time. 1t will not pay to breed any
but the best.
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experience in growing barley reports that
he was once forced by his conditions to
NOW his barley and let it lie few days.
He then raked it up and stacked it. The
results were so good that he has since
adopted the plan when circumstances did
not oblige il. The writer never grew
any barley. and it is barely possible that
he never will. but this plan may help some
barley grower.
Don't get so deep in the ruts that you
cannot easily eXtricate yourself. If you
feel that you would like to change your
farming somewhat from lines you have
been pursuing and engage in growing
beets, sweet corn, pop corn or anything
new to you. study well the possibility of
loss or failure as well as the probable
gain. 1t is the gain side that is always
pushed by those who engage in new
ventures. IT is necessary that the farmer
make something for himself as we'll as for
capitalists interested in ventures allied
to agriculture.
Making the very best of ones oppor-
tunities advantages and environments
IS something that is not taught in agri-
tural colleges, nor in text books, and yet
this IS one of the features that farmers
stand most in need of. taking them as
a whole The man who once despised
taking dozen of eggs to market may
now be found carrying them in and he
has ceased to despise the day of small
things Butter, eggs. beeswaX, rags and
a host of similar articles once STABLE on
the farms are again demanding attention
Rags on this farm are seldom ever sold;
they are worn.
In an advance sheet of Bulletin "a of the
Iowa experiment station soon to be is
sued, plat of winter wheat sown broad
cast IS reported to have given better
Nle.ds than Others which had been drilled
with either Il common or press drill The
yield was 41.5 bushels per acre on the
plat put in with a press drill $50 with a
common drill and 1856 on the broadcast
plat This may have a tendency to mis-
lead some beginners in winter wheat pro-
duction who viii broadcast and Justify
II on the strength of this report. At this
writing l know of wheat that has been
broadcast sown and is dead while drilled
wheat is quite lively. and bids fair to
make some money for its owner Because
a darkey found dollar i'm the gutter on
no reason TO believe that the me darkev
can find another in the same gutter on
the same day the next year