Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
WHO SHOULD GROW BERRIES?

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First Of all, farmers everywhere, for
family use. The farmer must grow
berries or do without. No one can grow
them so cheaply as he.
They may be produced ready for
picking ut two cents per quart.
The farmer saves cost of picking,
packing, boxing, Grating, freight, ex-
press, and profits of grower.
He gets lem at first cost, fresh from
the vines and to the extent of his own
family has the best market in the
world-a home market.
He can select the best land and loca-
ton on his own farm and is sure of n
profit with half crop.
Farmers can never have ideal homes
without the fruit garden. 1t teaches the
lessons of intensified farming, and re-
suits in better tillage, larger crops, bet
ter stock, and improved methods in
every way.
Good gardens and poor farms never
keep company long.
The growing OF berries for family
Use is easily done. The growing of the
berries largely, and selling them in
good market, requires considerable
skill and a special business tact.
Only those who have good lOca tiG..,
good market, and taste for the bust
ness should attempt it. Many small
farmers so situated are making a sue
cess by commencing moderately and
increasing acreage fror- season to sea
son as experience warrants.
Berries should be grown by owners
of all village homes, and acreage prop
erty in city and village may be profit
ably used for that purpose.
The market gardener selling his own
product can often make an acre or two
Of Derives very profitable.
The business or professional man al
most broken with care may recover
health and strength in the pleasant
walk of horticulture. 1t is restfui to
both mind and body.
Many women dependent on their own
efforts are securing substantial aid
from their gardens; berries and flowers
thrive best under the gentle touch Of
women.
Many a bright boy may receive his
first incentive to business and earn his
first money by growing berries or veg
etables. Give him n patch of ground
and encourage him in this work.
The amateur growing berries for
pleasure also gets close to the heart of
nature, and In common with every
worker Of the soil may receive her
smile-American Farmer.
ESTIMATING WEIGHT OF STOCK.
The following rules may be applied
10 estimate the weight OF live animals.
In measuring beef steer take a string
says Montana Stockman, put 1t
around TIE animal, standing square,
just behind the shoulder blade. Meas
ure on a foot rule the feet and inches
tine animal is I'm circumference. This
is called the girth. Then with the
string measure from the bones OF the
tail which plumbs the line with the
hinder part of the bullock; direct the
line along the back to the fore part Of
the shoulder blade. Take the dimen.
sions on the foot rule as before, which
Is the length.
Work the figures in tine following
manner: Girth of the bullock, six feet
four inches; length, five feet three
inches, which multiplied together make
thirty-one square superficial feet, that
multiplied by twenty three-the num-
Der of pounds allowed to each super
fetal foot Of cattle measuring less than
seven and more than five feet in girth
makes 713 pounds. Where the AMI
NAL measures less than nine and more
than seven feet In girth, thirty-one
pounds is the number to each superb
cial foot