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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18

bring a Teller out O. the kinks? Mike s
hogs were months old and they aver
aged 1872 pounds, and they brought him
1910 right here. By George, but
wouldn't a Teller feel nice if he had
about a hundred like emp
l feel perfectly safe in saying that
if his opportunities were so per cent
better than Mikes ever were, he never
would possess % good hogs. l felt like
telling him so, but instead, l sought
Mike
A big, hearty, business-like German,
with q broad, good-natured smile on
his face, came hustling along the
street
How do you do, Mike?" said 1 ex-
tending my hand
How are you, Fred I'm pretty we'll
at present. How goes it with you?"
and he grasped my hand and shook as
heartily as though he hadn't seen me
in five years.
You sold a lot of hogs today. How
many did you raise this year?'
About 50, I think
when where they farrowed?'
Mostly in April; few a little later
What did you raise them on-that
is, how did you feed them all summer,
and what did you finish off on?"
They ran on grass. mostly clover,
with the sows. They had little corn
along, and after my oats were
thrashed, 1 fed them both oats and
corn, as much of both as they could
eat when the weather got cooler For
drink they had water, plenty of IL all
the time. Those l sold today were some
Of the best ones. If things go all right,
I shall have another lot ready in a
month from now. / would have held
these a little longer. but they were get
ting rather crowded, and then there is
considerable cholera around, and l de-
cided to let them go rather than run
any great risk
This is the keynote of Mr.. C.'s sue
cess as a farmer. He would sell at a
fair price rather than run any great
risks. He is. a good farmer, does all
he undertakes thoroughly, and natural
~ grows first rate crops. He keeps
his stock growing from start to finish,
ard they lose no time while they are
on his hands. When ready for market
they go if the price is reasonably fair.
He received $50 for this lot of hogs,
while others were getting but IS and
$5.05, because they were nice, smooth.
even lot of animals-just the sort of
stock that is wanted. AS he says. far
mers can get a good price for the
things they have to sell, provided they
have sense enough to raise the things
that bring a good price,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
Report on Nut Culture.

The division of pomoTogy of the
United States department of agricul-
ture has isseud a special report on nut
culture which makes a quarto volume
of about $50 pages. Il is a carefully
compiled compendium of information
relating to the various nuts of COM
mercial value which can be grown in
the United States and is fully illus
trated. Information as TO nuts and nut
culture has hitherto been hard to OBJ
tain, and this volume will serve a
very useful purpose, and will be espec-
tally appreciated on account of the
rapidly growing interest in nut culture
in many portions of the country. Under
the new system adopted by the depart
ment of agriculture 80 cents is charged
for this work. The first edition is al
ready exhausted
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
MORTGAGE LETTERS.
Two Resolutions Paid This Mort.
gage.

I was married, says writer in the
Farm and Home, at &c and had about $500
in cash. l was>tired of working out on a
farm by the month and determined to
start in business by myself. 1 bought a
place of so acres for 81 OO0 paving $500
down. With the remaining $500 | bought
four cows cheap team, some very
cheap secondhand farming tools and so
got started. The farm was on hill, two
miles from the railroad station; the build
ingS were somewhat in need of repairs
but we made them go until we had the
farm paid for. The land was fair. about
10 acres being timber and the remainder in
meadow and pasture land with some
stumps and patches of brush.
/ was somewhat cautious about max
ing the purchase. as my father had IN
dertaken that which | now proposed to
do. and had failed, losing all he had
but / finally concluded to make the
venture. Before taking possession of the
farm, l formed two resolutions. which I
strictly adhered TO and successfully car
ried out until | was free from debt. The
first was ] would not buy anything until
l could pay for it. not have even a store
bill the second was that my receipts
must exceed my expenditures by at least
$500. These resolutions were ironclad and
| knew if ! carried them out there would
be no doubt of my success. ! kept an
account of my receipts and expenditures
and al the end of the ear knew just how
| stood. The 5000 difference between re-
pay the interest on my mortgage and 800
on the principal. and so long as / did
this I knew ] would not need to fear.
My way of farming was this l planted
four acres of potatoes each year. A small
patch of land, about one-tenth acre. near
the house was sown to onions, which |
tended at odd times. The cows were well
taken care of. and butter made at home.
The sour milk being kept on the farm
enabled me to fat two pigs with little
corn meal. | also kept about 80 hens.
Usually there We're some apples or hub
bard souashes or other garden truck in
the fall for sale. If a neighbor wished to
hire me for day and 1 could go without
neglecting my work. | invariably went.
/ also found market for some wood dur
ing the winter. At the end of the year
my receipts summarized something as
follows: The four acres of potatoes never
brought less than $780, some years | re-
ceived as much as $500 for the crop. The
four cows were sure to bring in another
$50 besides supplying milk and butter
used in the family. After the second
year the number of COWS was increased to
eight, when the receipts from them were
more satisfactory. The patch of onions
brought about $40 and receipts from hens,
apples, garden truck, etc., easily made
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
How Not to Paw the Mortgage.

Inquiry of a poultry dealer the other
day as to whether he was getting as
many chickens now as formerly. he re-
piled: No, ,sir; | do not get enough TO
supply the home demand Why" said
l. do the town people like chickens so
well as that?' He replied, Il do not sell
very many to the people here in town
Ny best customers are the farmers
have sold high as three dozen to one
man. and chickens are bespoke away
ahead Choice breeds?" l said. Not
much, he replied. they take anything
they can get. Why. l have actually sold
chickens to men from whom l have
bought them earlier in the season" II is
unfortunately too true that among the
farmers as among other classes there are
-reat many men who do not seem TO
have forethought- l have known them
TO sell the corn in the fall so close that
they were compelled to buy at twice the
price IN the spring. | have sold TO SuCn
myself Sometimes they may be a legit-
innate excuse for it, as in the case of
pressing debts that must be met. but this
can hardly apply to chickens. Few farm
ers have enough poultry TO cut much
rgure in the payment of a debt. To sell
in the fall and to buy the same article in
the spring is Il real nuisance and no one
Will prosper who habitually follows such
a vicious practice. Many of them. also.
buy apples at the stores. which is a
burning shame when apple trees are so
easily grown. They should in some way
be compelled TO go without them unless
they raise them Many say that they
have no luck with apples. ST course they
have none Nobody has 1t is a QueS-
and sheep into the orchard. never look
for borers and never manure the tree,
it is vain to look for apples, for the
calves and sheep have skinned the trunks.
the borers have perhaps cut them half
off and of course luck does not attend
such treatment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
THE SALT LAKE HERALD. MONDAY; JANUARY IS. 1897.

combination of each, provided the land
is highly fertilized. well irrigated and
thoroughly cultivated. Early fruits are
usually most desirable. and light SOILS
with southern exposures are pest
adapted for that purpose. Light soils,
however. require heavy fertilizing,
more water in summer. are more sub
ject to injury by drouth and produce
lighter crops. Clay soil must be well
drained, is more difficult TO prepare,
natures later crops and is not SO IA
vorable for winter protection. The ideal
berry ground would be. first, a rich
sandy loan with clay~subsoil. Second.
a dark loan or gravelly loan mixed
slightly with clay, and clay subsoil.
all having a sOutherly or eastern slope.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
The Burden of the Farm Mortgage.

American Agriculturalist: Sad ex-
perience has taught me that a farm
mortgage is a heavy and treacherous
thing 10 handle. \ man buys a farm,
pays half down and gives a mortgage
for the other half. He expects to pay
it all off in a few short years. He does
not know that he has mortgaged his
peace of mind. his leisure hour, his
cheerfulness, the happiness of his fam
ily-mOrtgaged himself. Hired help
and taxes must be paid. Seasons are
unfavOrable, crops are poor, health
may fail. property depreciate. but the
all-devouring interest never fails. He
keeps on struggling year after year for
the mere privilege of existing and pay
ing his hard-earned money into the
bottomless depths. Young man. If you
have money enough to buy 100 acres
of land and want a farm, buy it and
pay for it. If you have only enough
money to buy 10 acres, or even one
acre, with a little log house buy it,
pay for it and be a happy, free man
until you can do better
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
Practical Optimism.

The Scranton Tribune, exercising the
oracular privilege of the guild, gives
utterance to the following announce
ment:
1t is within the power of the people
of this country, without reference to
the past. to make the new year a sue
cess They can do it if they will:
Work hard;
Save money;
Pay their debts
Patronize home industries;
Pay a living wage to labor;
Mind their own business;
Keep up courage in American institu-
tons, and
Behave themselves generally.
Without analyzing closely the differ
ent rules for national prosperity laid
down in this brief schedule, we feel
justified in saying that they combine
to express a truth as forcible as it is
simple. Several of them, reversed,
point 10 some of the constructive rea-
sons for the unpleasant conditions to
which the people of the United States
have been subjected, more or less con-
tinuously, since 1888. The man who
Sights his trade or profession, who
spends all he earns, who acquires debts
that he has no certain means of salts
flying, who concerns himself more with
the affairs of others than with his
own, and who joins the ranks of de-
testable croakerS who profess to believe
that our national character is not
what it was expected to be, is doing
pretty nearly everything in his power
to bring about the latter contingency.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18

hay, l pound bran, l pound meat and
bone "a bone) and Il pound linseed.
Vary quantity more or less as hens
seem voracious or the reverse. Feed
this in the morning and at night. Feed
wheat and corn, but be sure to feed
the grain in litter of straw to make
the hens scratch for it, which they
will do as long as they are hungry. If
not hungry they won't eat, as the
grain is out of sight in the straw. This
is a good plan TO keep hens from
getting too fat.
Experience alone must teach you
how much TO feed a flock, as no two
eat alike. When hens refuse a certain
food they need change of diet. as it
is evidence theT require different ele-
ments. But the above food will be
found to be the best TO supply the
shell. white and yolk of eggs, and the
necessary warmth for the body. Yet
change for few days is beneficial
Vegetables of all kinds, cooked and
mixed with bran or middlings, are
good. OF this feed too much can't be
fed at a time to laying hens, as an egg
every second day is a heavy drain on
her system. heterogeneous food is what
laying hen requires. Always keep
supply of pure, fresh water where the
hens can get at it, and keep out of II
with their feet.
The secret of feeding is to feed lots,
and keep hens from getting fat. Feed
right Keep hens dry and warm. Keep
the houses clean and free from lice.
Keep hens free from lice. Give plenty
of straw to scratch in. Keep layers
and non-layers separate, as growing
pullets need more grain than laying
hens. Hatch either with hens or incu-
bators. Take q reliable poultry jour
nal. Keen only the best stock. Select
your breeding hens from your best
laying hens and raise the quality I'M
til you have hens that will lay 200 eggs
each per year. 1t can be done. Then
advertise in your local papers and in
prominent poultry journals, and you
can't fail WILLIE GREY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
Small Rich Farms.

n. J. Shepherd in Nebraska Farmer:
1 am becoming more convinced that
there is more profit in a small farm
made rich and then well titled than
with a larger acreage less carefully
looked after With a larger acreage
IT becomes more difficult 10 maintain
the fertility and it is more difficult
10 secure the best conditions for seed
ing and planting: to cultivate as thor
oughly and in as good season as to
harvest al the best stage. All of
these items are important in not only
growing the best crops, hut in secur-
ing them in the best condition and
thereby realizing the best profit.
We sowed five acres of oats this
spring on land t at had been in corn
last year and yielded IS bushels to the
acre. We rented i acres from a neigh
Dor, just over the fence. As our land
was rather the lowest, the rented land
was Sowed first, following our usual
plan of sowing broadcast and then
cultivating in and then narrowing well.
Then our own land was seeded down.
The worst storm ever known in this
section came on the 18th of May, and
for four or five hours the oats on our
land was under water.
We finished harvesting them this
week cutting with a mower. curing.
we got l. loads of oats. from the five
acres Is. No more seed was soWn per
5cre on the one than the other, and
there was no more work per acre in
cultivating or narrowing. 1t took a
little more time to cut With a mower
and to haul in. In the one case, after
We have paid the money rent and
counted the expense Of seed sowing
and harvesting. we will have TO accept
low wages for our work and that OF
the bows 10 come out even, While on
our own land we can count a little
more expense and still get a good
1,rofit
We have ten acres of corn planted
on clover sod on our own farm and Il
acres on rented land. Both are tas-
seized out ard in silk both have had the
same cultivation, and 50 far have cost
the same TO grow in every way, and
while the outcome is, o. course. Stlll a
little uncertain. yet / would not give
any five acres on my own land Tor the
other u. The difference is in the soil.
our land has been built up in the last
eight years by manuring and turning
under clover: the other land has been
grouped continuously and no manure
annlied. This neighbor has too much
land to manure-only a small part
and is perhaps a little careless about
working and sowing. We have had
nearly the same results several times
in the last eight years, as we have
rented more or less land each year for
corn and oats and fed out the product
on orr own land paying money rent,
and in that way getting the whole
crop. and am satisfied that it pays
\. J. SHEPHERD.
F,ldon. Mo.-Nebraska Farmer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
The Love of Work.

Ohio Farm News: Man is said to be a
lazy animal. Some of these lazy phil
osophers have concluded that no man
works when he is not necessitated to
do so.
If this were the rule we would have
very many poor farmers for we believe
that no man can succeed as a farmer
unless he is in love with the work he
has to do. He may love it for its re-
suits or profits. but he is not fitted to
be successful unless he loves the work
for it's own sake.
No man can be a successful dairyman
who does not love his COWS; nor can a
man be a successful breeder of horses
or cattle unless he becomes so attached
To them as individuals or in the mass
that he takes delight in feeding and
caring for them, and has real pleasure
in. seeing them enjoying themselves.
Never undertake to do anything
about cattle, horses, sheep or even hogs
unless you have some concern for their
welfare and comfort. apart from the
profit you expect to realize.
If you do not in some sense love
your work you viii never succeed in
anything you undertake. Such indiffer-
ence and laziness must always result in
failure
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
Good Grating Wax.

If grating wax for spring use in
working over old trees is found to
crack badly or to run from the heat of
the sun, it has been improperly made.
a wax made of the following proper
tons win not be affected by the
weather:
RoSin $500. ............4 pounds
BeeswaX ....... -. IL pound
Pure raw linseed OIL ...... ~ pint
These ingredients should all be melted
together and poured into d bucket of
cold water 10 stiffen, and then with
creased hands pulled until white and
tough When required for use, if too
hard, put lump into warm water for
a few minutes and it can soon be
worked with the hands Some prefer
to put the wax on in liquid form, but
the other makes a much heater job,
and is less prodigal of material.-LeOn-
ard Coates in California Fruit Grower.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18

sufficient light and sunshine on their,
leaves, but the branches that have
borne a crop, but have made no new
wood. and are covered with fruit spurs
should be cut back to make room for
new, healthy shoots. Especially should
this be attended to during the winter
Immediately following a. heavy crop
of fruits, as the next year will be Il
year of preparation for the next Seal
up all large cuts with paint or tar.
and cut off no healthy young wood
that can be braced or propDed or tied
into a position where it can have full.
open light without depriving any other
better shoot or branch of its necessary
share. The rule applies to all pruning
from berry plants TO apple and pear
trees
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
Dairy Hints.

It is better to have a COW that viii
give you 800 pounds of butter a year
for five years and then die on your
hands, than to have one that will give
90 pounds q year for ten years and
then make you 1.500 pounds of old cow
beef.
It is better TO have a heifer calf grow
lank and pot-beliied. but thrifty, than
one that keeps as fat as seal
1t is better to have a COW that knows
how to attend to one branch of her
business thoroughly than to have one
ambitious TO excel in everything.
1t is better to feed COW every ounce
of food she has the ability to take care
of than TO try TO gain profit by saving
feed.
L is better to fill up the water trough
before il is quite empty than to let the
cows get very thirsty and drink 50
much they won't care to eat for two
hours.
It is better to teach the cows gentle
ness than to saw off their horns.
1t is better to think twice before yen
strike a COW than to think twice to
find out why you struck her.
1t is better to pay $50 for a registered
bull calf than to have a grade bull
given you.
1t is better to buy your wife a good
creamery than to have her worn out
by handling heavy milk crooks.
1t is better to make granular butter,
and salt il with brine. than to gather
it in the churn and dry salt it.
It is better to consult the tastes OF
your butter customers than to try to
make them eat what they don't like.
1t is better to make box stalls for
your COWS than 10 dehorn them so that
you can pack them closer in a shed.
1t is better to give the COWS plenty Of
bedding than to abuse them because
they lie in the manure.
1t is better to feed extra grain little
before the pastures fail than to wait
til them ilk shrinkS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
Stick to Good Horses.

All farmers will not completely aban-
don horse raising, but if there is to be
any profit in the business it will come
from the production of horses with
good action and compact build. 1t is
worse than folly not to use the best
breeding stock. Choice animals, both
male and female, can be had at reason
able figures. The offspring of these
parents, carefully fed and properly
trained. will always be in demand.
Competent horsemen look for a grad
ual improvement in prices, but larger
amounts will not be paid for inferior
stock. The animals must have merit,
and that kind can be raised almost as
cheaply as scrubs, after foundation
stock is secured
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
One Point in PRUNING.

W., Blair county. Pa: Pruning, like
most other practical operations in field
work, cannot be completely taught
from printed pages, because so many
varying conditions occur, requiring
varying modes of attack and opera
ton. Some general rules, however, hold
good in all cases, and one of these
is the cutting out of old, dried and ex-
hausted parts, and encouraging new
wood wherever there is open room and
full light for its leaves, where they
can nourish and develop good, sound.
fruit buds. To help these in their
growth, not only should all young
shoots be suppressed that cannot have
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-05

wedding last night, when Miss Mildred
VI. Kingsley. daughter OF John \. and
Alta Kingsley OF Los Fngeles, Cal,
was married 10 Z. Z. Mossman, clerk
in the employ OF Z. o. Hall & Son.
There were no invited guests, and i'm
mediately after the ceremony the brid-
al couple went TO their new home. the
on Beretania street, formerly
occupied by Theo. Hoffman.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-05

An alarm OF fire early last night took
the fire department 10 the Vida resi-
dence on Queen street, but their serv-
ices were not required, as the fire was
extinguished without loss almost as
soon as the alarm was sent in.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-05
oxford defeat Cambridge.

LONDON, Feb. 2O.-The inter-univer-
sity game Of football between the Ok
ford and Cambridge teams was played
today and won by Oxford by score
Of one goal to nothing.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-05
Quiet Wedding.

The residence of Rev. Douglas P
Birnie was the scene of very quiet
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-04


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Of Egypt. Two hundred years ago its
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United States. The most enlightened
minds of the century are giving 1t
special study, and its popularity Is
again in the ascendant.
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