The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-15
NOTES IN SEASON.

tors sharpened up ready for business
when spring opens.
Where there is a near market there
are few crops that are as profitable TO
grow as is the asparagus crop.
Nothing will add so much to the in
come of a farm as a good garden, be-
cause nothing else will stop so much
outgo.
Farmers do not half appreciate the
worth of windbreaks as a means OF pre-
venting the distribution of weeds over
the farms
The man who would be successful in
any business must study its require
ments and undertake it with energy and
intelligence. The farmer is no excep-
ton.
The cattle business will not be so
overdone in the next five years that the
man who breeds good beef animals and
feeds them by right methods will not
get fair market price for his crops.
Keep stalls well bedded if the best
yield of milk is desired. Bedding is not
necessary to keep cows clean in well
constructed stall, but a soft, warm bed
is a great promoter of milk secretion
At the time of Napoleon the percent
age of sugar in the root was about g
per cent. But by careful selection and
good breeding the beets have been i'm
proved so that now the percentage has
even to 20 per cent.
Every boy who lives on farm should
acquaint himself with the good and
bad traits of all birds with which he
comes in contact When he has done
this he will recognize many of them
as his friends and will be disposed to
treat them accordingly.
1t is the steady, even-going farmer
who comes out best in the end. 1t is
pot best to rush out of pig raising be-
cause of the low market, and then
rush in again when il comes up; yet
there are a great many who do just
this sort of thing.
Two parts of wheat, one of corn, one
of oats and one of middling or shorts
are a good feed mixture. To fatten
mature hogs for market, mix the wheat
and corn in equal proportions. with
little oil meal. 1t is better to have the
wheat and corn ground than to feed it
whole, dry or soaked.
Save labor, save heat. save food,
save money. The cared-for machine or
vehicle will last ten times longer than
the one exposed. The well housed an
imal or fowl will do better and eat
less than one not cared for. 1t is es-
sential to do in the best manner as
ii is to do the best thing.
There is no longer any stated mar
ket season for slaughtered pork, but it
is in demand all the time. When the
porker is fat enough kill him. After he
has passed $50 pounds it is doubtful if
the average farmer can put another
ounce on him with profit. 1t is the
profit we are after.
Most farmers now believe in thor
ough preparation of the ground for
cultivation. if good crops are to be OBJ
tanned. If the majority would now
and then subsoii their fields, not only
for corn, but for other crops. it would
produce happy results. Prosperity
would be assured with better crops at
a less proportionate expense.
Thought and study are harder work
for some men than manual labor, out
it pays to think and plan. If farm
ers would study management more
they would not need to economic so
much; if they would be more liberal
in improving their stock and farms
they would make dollars where rigid
economy often results in positive loss.
The men in cities who are the centers
of energy. the driving wheels of trade,
political or practical arts, and the wo-
men of beauty and genius are the chill
dren and grandchildren of farmers, and
are spending the energies which their
fathers hardy. silent life accumulated
in frosty burrows, in poverty, necessity
and darkness. But slight investigation
will show this to be the fact.-Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
Now is the time to resolve to have a
good garden on the farm for next
spring AS a rule the farm garden is a
mere make-shift affair, but what eX-
cuse is there for it being so? For the
time and expense put upon the garden
spot it will pay several times over
that applied to any known field crop.
The chief points in making a success
of the garden is to make a good fine
seed bed. secure good seed, give fire.
quent attention to wedding and culti-
waiting.
There is scarcely one year in 20 when
intelligent farming does not pay a
handsome premium over sliD-shod
methods as applied TO the farmers bus
mess. It pays to know how to be right,
and then to be right at every step on
the farm. Attend your farmers insti- !
tute this winter and compare notes
with your neighbors. It viii help both
you and. them. One day thus spent is
sure to be worth many dollars to any
begin with. We are all students in the
great school Of agriculture.
The condensed milk factories are
obliged to insist upon the proper /
handling of milk and feeding of the /
COWS that produce il. They forbid the |
feeding of turnips. barley sprouts |
brewery or distillery grains. glucose |
rancid Oh tdht VI SluAtn Iltdl- cue NO
cows milk is received within so days /
before or after calving. All utensils /
strainers. etc must he thoroughly I
cleaned ard then scalded twice a day
and milk must be strained through /
wire cloth not less than 100 meshes to I
the inch. These details convey some 1
idea OF what is required to produce /
strictly clean milk
A great deal of bother and confusion !
can be avoided by preserving the |
names of all fruits planted. This can |
be done in many ways. The best !
method we have found with the fruit /
trees is TO cut narrow strips of tin /
three or four inches long from an old /
oyster can or something similar and /
with a dull chisel indent a number in /
Il. and write a corresponding number (
in book with the name of the fruit. !
Coil the label around a limb or the /
stem If small As the tree grows the (
label viii give 1t Will last for years /
with no injury to the tree. The small 1
fruits can be numbered by driving /
stakes at the head of each row. AS /
they fruit sooner they are sooner fixed /
in memory
If you have more land than you can
farm in the most thorough manner, il |
will pay You to let part of it rest or
lease il TO some one who viii make |
good use of it. If you keep it in your
own hands sow it thinly with oats and |
fhickly with clover as early in the
spring as it can be worked Then turn