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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
Growing Potatoes From Sprouts.

In reply to a request for informa-
ton upon this subject, Frederick
Cranefield of the Wisconsin expert
ment station gives the following in the
Rural New Yorker:
In order to obtain the largest posi-
BILE yield of %potaotOes from a given
quantity of seed, the plan of utilizing
all the sprouts is followed. Every
fully developed potato eye is COM
posed of n strong (terminaD bud
surrounded by several smaller (auXil-
laTy) buds. When placed under the
proper conditions of heat and mois-
ture. the main bud pushes UP and
forms the first shoot or stem of the
vine; al the same time, roots are
formed at it's base. If this shooot be
removed, the strongest of the remain
ing buds pushes up in like name
This will continue until all of the
buds have started, or until all of
the food supply contained in the tuber
is exhausted.
Place the tubers in a greenhouse or
hOtbed in sand or very light sandy
soil and cover lightly, barely out of
sight. Give but little water, only
enough to keep the earth moist. After
the sprouts have appeared, give all the
light and air possible, for potato plants
show a tendency to spindle when
grown under glass. When the first
sprouts have reached a height of four
inches, they may be removed by gen
tly pushing the fingers down close to
the ruber and breaking them off. Usu-
ally a perfect mat of roots will be
found developed from the base of each
stem. This is a perfect plant with
roots, stem and leaves, II may be
planted in the oDen ground in the
same way as a cabbage or tomato
plant. and with equal care, is just as
certain to mature a crop. Three or
four crops of sprouts may be taken.
The number of plants may be fur
Their increased by taking slips or cut
tings from the tips of the sprouts
which may be rooted in a greenhouse
or shaded hotbed in the same
as other soft-wood cuttings. To re-
peat, plant in sand or sandy soil so
thai the sprouts may be easily re-
Give but little water, to avoid
danger of rot. Unless extreme earli-
ness be desired. it is not necessary to
use a hotbed or other artificial heat.
A cold frame is sufficient with a cov-
ering of hay or leaves instead of glass,
this to be removed as the sprouts ap-
pear.
FREDERICK CRANEFIELD.
Wisconsin Experiment Station.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
1t is the Man and Not the Business.

IL - l4C 14dlA cs4A0 AeOI liz oIo11ACoos
Not every one who engages in the
poultry business succeeds. 1t would be
a poor business if such was the case.
Bradstreet says that so out of every 100
business men fail, AZ manage to make
a living, and three gain riches. The
qualities which make successful men
in any calling are possessed by few.
The Maine Farmer, in commenting
en- thai line. says hat a man must
have natural gifts for preaching and
mingling with men, in order to be a
successful preacher. a nan must love
mechanics to be more han a bungler
with tools, and a man can not hope to
reap success as a dairyman who does
rot know the right side of a COW with
out special training at an agricultural
college.
How well that applies to the poultry
business. Unless a man is born with
patience, grit and a love for fowls, he
never will make a success with them.
While capital plays an important part,
there is no guarantee of success with
it unless the man has a natural inclin-
alton that way. There is an old say
ing hal poets are born, not made. So
we might say of DOultrymen. They
must be born with the natural re-
quirementS. and then money and eX-
perience will do the rest.
When a man enters the work, even
though he has the capital and require
ments. he must not expect to do much
the first year; he can expect a little
more the second and keep on improving
each year as his experience grows For
that reason it is always best TO start
small. Do o work well as you go,
and then there will be no step back
ward to make. The failures must not
be attributed to the business, for the
business is a substantial one. IF a man
is not fitted for the work he can make
a success of nothing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
Feeding Farm Animals.

The COWS and horses are once more
closely confined in the stables. and
being fed on dry food. Again the
problem is before us how to feed prop
erly n economically. The subject
, seems TO be of such vast Importance,
and yet so little understood, ven after
so much has been said for some time
cast about balanced rations" etc,
that a few notes made at the New
York Breeders meeting last year, con-
aiming the sist of DIR. Smead's re-
! marks on feeding farm stock Will be of
special interest to the farmers of Utah.
The following is the substance of the
doctors talk as given in the Farm and
Fireside:
Just this practice of feeding an
balanced rations and ignorance in
bl eeding are what keep the veterinary
surgeon in business. The skillful
breeder often selects his animals, and
mates them with good judgment, and
then ruins all by his ignorance in feed
ing. When a young animal is i'm
properly fed. it's digestive g are
o~vertaXed, and the animal grows up a
dyspeptic. The stomach is ruined, and
all sorts of ailments follow. even to
ringbones and spavins. The veterinary
surgeon reapS the benefit from these
errors by securing business. For the
farmers sake [ am glad that timothy
hay is scarce. The best timothy hay
ever cut (while in bloom) viii starve
a horse or COW if YOU feed il long
enough and. nothing else. This hay,
When most palatable and easily di-
gested, has a nutritiVe ratio of one TO
twelve. while the animal requires one
of one to five n one-half, or when
mere exposed, one to seven or n tc
eight. When You go beyond one tn
nine, you will soon see the evil RESULT,
especially when the animal is kept
closely confined. Five times out of six
a horse has no trouble with his teeth.
sometimes he may nave FORM But
if he is given a balanced ration. and
thus natures laws are complied with,
there would not be worms enough in
him to do any harm.
The veterinary surgeon YES on the
ignorance of the people. He cannot
give every man a lecture, so when
called to cure q timothy-fed horse, he
truthfully tells the owner that the ami
mails digestion is out OF order and its
liver torpid. He puts up a lot of pow
ders Of some bitter stuff (gentidn, etc.
one 10 be given three times a day in
a lot OF bran and perhaps some lin
Seed-oil meal. and enough of that TO
balance the ration. In a few weeks
the bran and oil-meal will have eff
a wonderful cure. But there is
not medicine enough in The world to
offset a bad ration.
Farmers feed anything and every
thing they just happen to have. The
are dried off in December. and
then turned Oft on straw and corn
stalks, with perhaps a little corn
meal. Straw has a nutritive ratio of
one to thirty, corn stalks of one 10
and corn-meal of one TO ten.
The whole combination would mako a
of about to twelve or four
teen. A COW may look reasonably
well on such food, but when she has
calf. bowel and other troubles will
set in. The ratio should be one TO FIVE
or six. She has had TO eat and digest
about two and a half times as much
starch and heat formers as required
for her s~ustenance in order TO get what
albunen she needs. She cannot get
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
Ten Acres.

farm of ten acres can be made to
produce all of most things a large family
needs. and can be run at small expense.
To begin with. a driving horse and We
cows can be kept on il, at small eX-
Dense. and the horse will give a world
of pleasure to the family. while the cows.
if so managed that enc is fresh in the
spring and the other in the fall. Will
furnish milk and cream in abundance,
and ought in addition to furnish all the
butter needed. Then a quarter of an
acre of poultry yard stocked with 40 or
30 hens will give eggs and chickens in
abundance. and a few turkeys for
THANKSGIVING and the holidays. An acre
in garden and small fruit will furnish
vegetables and fruits sufficient for the
family wants, SO that there will be a
constant succession from the time
asparagus comes in April until winter
sets in. and 5hen the cellar will be
stocked with canned fruits and vegetables
TO last through the winter Allowing
two acres of land for pasture. one for
-arden and truck patch. which includes
small fruits. and half an acre for orna-
mental grounds around the house. we
have six and a half acres left to cult
Vate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
Two Acres Enough.

Grape Belt: What many an American
farmer fails to do on 100 acres. the thrifty
Hollaader in Belgium easily does on two
acres, namely. support Il large family and
lay by something for d rainy day. He
uOes it by making the most of every
inch. by heavy manuring. allowing no
waste places. His two acres is surround
ed by Il ditch of running water. The
typical twO-acre Belgium farm will con-
tain Il patch of wheat or rye and another
of barley; another fair portion grows
potatoes. a row OF cabbage grows all
around on the sloping sides of the bitches
with a row of onions just inside. leaving
bare walking room between them and
the grain.
The shade trees round the house are
pear trees. Every foot of land is made
To produce. He keeps pigs and chickens.
We refer to this as illustrating the pos
sibilities of and production. In Belgium
5000. 900 people, chiefly farmers. live on a
piece of lane the size of the state of
Maryland. They furnish an object lesson
on successful intensive farming.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11

divide the $50 degrees by the 80 slaves,
each of the slaves will need Jour de-
greeS of bevel, OF two degrees on ZACH
side, thus meeting in an exact circle
when set up. 1t is a very easy matter
for any carpenter with his bevel square
to lay off the slope of his bevel, and
even by hand planning to get the right
fit to. set w the silo.
1t may be set UP in this way: Make
a ring of segments of common boards
the desired circumference. for the
bottom, nail the pieces together. and
lay this on the ground, for the founda-
ton; make another like it and set it
up ten feet over the first one, staying
them together and fixing some staging
TO stand upon While fitting the slaves.
Then build up the slaves, mailing them
to the rings temporarily, until the
hoops are fitted OF the outside. In the
building of the silo the openings for
the doors should be left, or cuts made
in the slaves, so as to permit them TO
be cut out afterward where needed,
but they should not be over each
other, or they would weaken the silo.
The hoops may be of half nch rods,
with eyes at the ends so that they may
be drawn tight by screws cut on pieces
of square iron, each pair of screws cut
differently, so that both will draw at
once when turned by a wrench. The
IOuS SHOULD De not over lOuI lGcl dpdl L..
1t Will be necessary to have some scat
folding around the silo to fit these rods,
and the tighter they are drawn the more
solid and firm will be the silo. 1t will
be a good plan to set the SilO right on
the foundation, and then lay the ce-
ment inside and outside; the weak spot
in the silo viii be Just above the ce-
ment, where the wettest part of the
silage will lie. 1t would be desirable
70 nnfnt tho iaet1n Of tho clio with
not tar, and saturate the timber well
with it. If the outside were also paint
ed it would tend much to the dura-
bility of the timber. The roof should
be a high, pointed n with the caves
extending so far hat the drip of the
rain will not injure the structure, u
to have a gutter with cave trough
would be the best to insure the dura-
bilitv of the silo.
In the south there would be no risk
of the silage freezing, and in the north
this would lot happen if a wall of
boards were built outside with a tight
air space of a few inches; the internal
heat of the silo will go q great wav
to insure safety from freezing anyhow.
There should be a dormer window in
the roof to take in the last of the sill
age: and the slaves which go to make
the doors, being numbered, nay be
exactly put in their places against the
frame side and so inclose a. the open
ings as the silo is filed. 1t would be
an easy matter TO wedge these tight
in their places, and SO make them
air proof. 1t would be a convenient
thing to have a staging at each door
TO he reached by a fixed ladder on the
outside of the silo, and the silo should
by all means be built against the wall
of the barn with a chute, through it.
by which the silage may be sent down
to the feeding floor. Doors of course
viii be needed to permit this discharge
of the silage for use.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
FREDERICK CRANEFIELD.
Wisconsin Experiment Station.
The Best Silo.

Mr.. Henry Stewart. a recognized
authority on silos, is very much in
favor of the round silo, as being the
best for several reasons, and gives i IN
h Louisville Home and Farm the
following suggestions for building and
operating such a structure:
1t is a mathematical principle that
a circle contains the largest space
within a given length of line. 1t is
also the strongest form of any body.
resisting inside or outside pressure TO
the greatest extent of any form. Con-
sequently a circular silo will hold more
for the length OF wall han a square
or other figure. and it will resist the
pressure of the contents perfectly
without any bulging or giving way so
long as it is sufficiently hoped out
side. Therefore it must be the most
economical form in which a silo can
be built. The trouble with it is that
few persons know how to lay off the
beve of the slaves of which it is buiIc
by any rule, and thus TO get a per-
fectly fitted joint is Troublesome The
edging of the slaves as Soon as the
bevel is known is a simple matter. to
be done either by hand or by a plan
ing machine. The rule for this is as
follows: The round Silo is in a cir
cular form. n in every circle there
are $50 divisions, or degrees. which
are laid off on a p%rotractor. as it is
called. which is a half circle of metal
divided into equal parts. each one de-
gree, thus having $50 Of these marks
or the outer edge of it. There being
$50 degrees in the circle. if a silo
is made of siX-inch slaves, and it is
any stated circumference in feet, there
Will be just twice as many slaves as
there are feet in the circumference.
Suppose we wan a circular silo of Is
feet or Whereabouts in diameter. The
circumference viii be nearly three
times the diameter-it is near enough
to take it so a~nyhow-and the silo IL
in circumference will need 80
six inches wide. Then if we
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11

enough of h muscle and blood form
ing elements. Straw starves a COW
while she apparently may get fat. The
muscles lack tone and vitality. She
may get along all right for awhile, but
after calving her appetite will fail,
and weakness comes
"Ensilage is not a balanced food.
Cows fed on it without anything to
balance the ration may bring forth a
calf that is apparently strong and
healthy. But oon it gets the o
and dies. Usually, when a cow that is
given improper food loses her appe-
tite for it, she is forthwith declared to
have hollow horn or to be '~hidebound'
and all sorts Of absurd remedies are
proposed OF tried, such as boring a hole
through the horn, splitting the tail,
etc. Correct the ration, and the COW
Will set well.
Sheep are often said to have 'nerv-
Gus prostration.' The trouble is mostly
in the food. 1t requires food to de-
velop twin lambs. The eve is given
straw and oats and corn. 1t is not the
right food. The W has no milk and
n lambs die. An animal can be fat,
even very fat, and yet starve to death.
Fattening hogs usually are given corn
or corn-meal and little, if anything,
else. We used to make these hogs
weigh 400 to 500 pounds apiece. These
fat Jumps OF grease ave very little
blood. The small G50 pound hogs
AVE twice as much. The fat ones
lave no nerve or vitalitv-only starch
and fat. If kept a few weeks longer
they would have died, starved for the
lack Of protein-nerve and muscle
food. a hog fed exclusively on corn
will starve to death in just abount 120
days"
Wheat-bran and linseed oil meal
have often been mentioned as two of
the best n cheapest foods with which
to balance a faulty ration. They make
muscle and blood and bone. Even at
SO and So a ton, bran is cheap, es-
pecially when We consider that the
value of the article is not alone in its
properties as direct food, III in the
correction of the faulty ration, thereby
saving waste and preventing injurious
effects of the improper feeding. Lin
seed oil meal at present rates is also a
very cheap food, and useful in the same
direction. We can we'll afford TO be
very liberal in the use of bran and oil
meal. If timothy hay can be sold for
say Sl2- aeton, let it go. and feed the
much cheaper straw, with wheat-bran
and oil-meal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
s5arfn1 and Garden

few heiferS to dispose of because not
coming I'D to the minimum. When
asked what his methods had been, Mr.
Gurler said he began with a mixed
herd, consisting mostly of COWS bought
from farmers in the neighborhood, and
has always used registered bulls. He
CROPPED after success for some time,
for the advantage of dairy knowledge
was not so generally available then as
now. For several years, before the
introduction of the Babcock test, he
used Holstein-Friesian bulls, his object
being TO fill the pail. With the coming
in of the test which afforded an easy
and practical means Of determining
quality, he began to use Jersey bulls,
and his herd is now largely made up
of this cross, a Jersey bull used upon
Holstein-FrieSian grades. He first
placed his standard at 200 pounds, and
has gradually raised it every year IN
til, as has been said, his minimum is
now $50 pounds for mature COWS, those
not attaining it being weeded out.
What Mr.. Gurler has done another
can do, and easier han he, for the
way has been blazed. His cross is
not necessarily to be initiated, but the
principles upon which ii proceeded are
namely, the use of blood along the
lines in which excellence is desired.
Good COWS are found in all breeds, but
milking strains should be used, what
ever breed is employed in raising the
standard, and careful and continuous
testing and weighing of yield, with eff
forts to prolong the milking period,
should be pursued. Good feeding and
good care furnish the environment for
dairy development. and they should be
given. Milk giving is a natural func-
ton, it is true, but not to the degree
of it that profitable dairying requires.
That is an artificial specialization
which must he developed and encour-
aged by every possible means which
the breeder and feeder can devise.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11

it is. not an easy matter to get rid of
such adhering materials. but it would
be well 10 always endeavor to secure
bones with lean meat adhering. Avoi
fat as much as possible, as the fat is
not only undesirable, but often injuri-
when the hens are in high condi-
ton. Bones are intended as nitrogen
and not carbonaceouS. Grain, will
supply all the carbonaceous matter
needed, and bones should contain as
little as possible. Bones supply min
eral matter and are digestible. They
are largely composed of lime (being
phosphate of lilne), and are far super
Tor to oyster-shells. because the bone
serves as food, which is not the case
with shells. one pound of cut green
bone for 16 hens nee a day viii be
sufficient, and the more ear meat on
them the better will be the results OBJ
tanned
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
Advantages of Bran.

One of the main advantages in feed
ing bran is hat it contains more min
eral matter than ordinary ground
grain, and supplies that which may not
be abundant in the ration. 1t is Gus
tomary to add n pint OF linseed meal
to two quarts of bran. mixing this with
four quarts of ground grain. Bran
need not be fed more than once a day,
and it is excellent when gwen with
clover hay or cooked potatoes. For
duckIings a mess of cooked turniDs
thickened with bran and ground oats
makes a meal to which they are very
partial.
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Browning Bros,
LES Main street. Salt Lake City. Utah.
As1 Washington Avenu Ogden. Utah
STOCKHOLDERS, MEETING.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
the @LAua1 meetus OF the stockholders
of the Mountain Stone company will be
held at = u. IN. on Tuesday. February Q.
1897. at the Office Of the company. 4 and ,
Culmer block. for the election of officers
and the transaction OF such other bust
ness as may properly come before il.
At this meeting il will be proposed TO
the shareholders that they order sold
all the property OF the company. real
and personal, or so much thereof as may
be necessary. to pay the present debts of
the
MOUNTAIN STONE COMPANY.
H. L. A. CULMER. Secretary.
Salt Lake City. Utah. January s. 1891.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
Avoid Bones with Fat Adhering.

While cut greer bone is perhaps the
best food that can be used Tor LAYING
ems and also the cheapest, yet there
is a wav to feed it. There are differ
ent kinds of bone, some being better
adapted to the use of poultry than
others. 1t is n mistake to use fat and
marrow with the bone. 1t is true that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
Grading UP a Dairy Herd.

logically affords the best example for
imitation to those who seek to be sue
cessful. Among the successful ones
Mr.. II. 3. Gurler of Illinois stands
high. He has a herd in which $50
pounds of butter per yea is the mini
mum for mature COWS, and they range
from that amount up TO sos pounds, the
minimum for ~2-vear-olds being 200
pounds. last spring, which gave him a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
Keeping Apples.

I have never found a better way to
preserve apples for long keeping. in
an ordinary family cellar (Which
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-27
The Laurfun Fair.

Our twelfth annual sale will be in great
bargains-455 pieces of mems fieeced-
lined underwear worth $125 each, at
this sale only 36 cents; $50 pairs OF mems
kid gloves worsh $1.50 per pair at this
sale only AZ cents; 600 par of children's
rubbers. from No. 6 to IL and from IL
to No. 2, worth 30 cents per pair, at this
sale 10 cents. Call at once as it is to
your interest. The Laurium Fair, next
TO the postoffice, I. Feinberg & Co.. pro-
prietOre.
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Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs no more,
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Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and l say so
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