The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-08
NOTES IN SEASON.

When evergreen seedlings can be had
for 81 a hundred, why not grow a
few?
Ounce cuttings grow fairly well in
almost all common soils and climates.
Rural New Yorker: The r. N--Y's.
first estimate of the Loudon red rasp-
berry has been more than corrobor-
ated. 1t is today accepted as the best
late red. Our first estimate Of the Co
lumbar purple was conservative, but
in no wise misleading. 1t is. in fact,
an improved Shaffer-improved in that
the cane is harder. the bush more
prolific, and in that, finally, the berries
cling to the stems more firmly.
In an Arizona bulletin a writer says:
In feeding 30 or so cows, 1 used sugar
beetS and added a certain quantity of
oornmeal. I increased the quantity of
milk from FIVE to eight gallons day,
and also the quantity of cream.
An exchange divides the 100000
COWS in the United States thus: The
milk of 100000 is made into butter;
that of 5000, 900 is consumed fresh or
condensed; that of 100000 is made
into cheese.
The Iowa experiment station made
q test of pasturing COWS on the best
blue grass, and soiling on green peas
and oats, green oats and clover and
clover and green corn fodder. The
COWS gave more milk on the soiling
feed than from the pasture, made more
gain in live weight, and were less an
noved bv flies.
Tame, confident animals thrive better
and return a better price for food con-
sumed than wild, suspicious ones.
The saying, there's room at the top,
is true of nothing more than Of butter
making. The hideous appearance and
quality of much country butter has al
ways had a demoralizing effect upon
the market.
If the cattle have been allowed to
roam the fields during winter, they
should be confined as soon as the
ground becomes soft. Tramping when
wet ruins not only the pasture, but
the land as well.
Butter flavor is a thing largely de-
termined by the feeding of the COW.
While, owing to bad management, good
feed often produces poor butter. it is
impossible to produce fine flavor from
Door feed
Other things being equal. small
dairy animal will pay for board and
profit besides rather than larger one.
The larger animal will require food to
sustain her large carcas and that costs
money every time.
A light grain ration should be fed the
weaned colts daily. Give this, even if
they have good paSturage. Procure
good development OF bone and muscle,
and the proper ration and opportunity
for exercise are important factors.
EEalf the milk COWS of the country
are continually cheating their owners,
snd these owners are none the wiser.
because the cows are MIXED into one
common pail, and the composite prod
uct is all that the owner has for de-
te-mining the worth of his herd. 1t is
not possible to locate defects, doing
thus.
An active interest in the columns of
an agricultural journal has been the
turning point to many mans real
success on the farm. Almost before
he knows it he finds it so full of prac-
tical suggestions that he would not
think of being without it
We have heard farmers object to the
adoption of measures for increasing the
yield of crops on the ground that a
general increase in production would
bring still lower the prices. Never fear.
Correct methods gain ground but
slowly. People are so set in their
way that the great majority will fol-
low the ruts. As their fathers did, so
do they. Meanwhile the progressive
ones will pick the plums.
The greatest possible regularity
should be observed in caring for the
live stock Let the feeding, watering,
grooming. etc, be reduced to sys-
tenn, each part of the work be at
tended to in its order and at about
the same time each dav. This will be
more pleasant for the animals, and
they will do better in .ieir respective
lines It will also be more pleasant
ard save steps for the owner. Takes
some thought to arrange things to best
possible advantage.