The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-04
NOTES IN SEASON.


Sub-soiied land washes less than IN
SUBSIDIZED, as it holds water better.
Potatoes boiled, mashed and mixed
with wheat bran make excellent feed
for ducks.
It is well to cultivate the habit of re-
turning to the soil everything possible
grown from it.
The North Carolina station advises
treating stored grain with bisulphite of
carbon to kill weevil, rats. mice, etc.
Shredded corn fodder makes good
feed, good bedding and good manure.
Shred when perfectly dry and store IN
der a rainDroof roof, in not too great
bulk, and it will keep all right.
There is no farm product today that
comes so near paying as good a profit
as 1t ever did as good, choice cream
cry butter. Look at the price of but
ter producing grains today as COM
pared with the years when butter was
higher.
Great Britain has more than 10000
600 sheep on a territory not greatly in
excess of Minnesota and Iowa. France
has 2o,000.000 on a much smaller area.
With their high-priced land they seem
able to make profit out of their sheep.
This country has room for a much
greater number
The common farmer can do we'll by
combining vegetable garden with his
small fruit enterprise. 1t gives him a
little more room in which to work.
lie can make longer rows and have
more turning room. The small fruit
can be more easily kept free from
weeds If planted in the middle of his
garden plot.
The farmer counts himself in a woe
ful state when he must give his inter
est-bearing note for a new gang pillow
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but does he not do worse when he
leaves that implement exposed to all
the inclemencies of the weather, or
does 50 even for a week or two be
cause not convenient to stow it away.
IN England sheep bought and sold
yearly at the proper time are called
the rent payers, and rent is the one
enormous charge that the English ten
ant must meet at a certain time Here
let it be the money crop. for wheat
will never again prove to be So unless
there is some relief from the cost of
production.
Blooded dairy stock is very cheap
now. and the sensible man will put
himself in the way to take advantage
OF the present state Of the market
There is a wonderful virtue in a thor
oughbred COW, only needing the ability
of the owner to bring it out. From
all points they Will bring one-fourth
more profit than a herd of the COM
moner sort.
There is such thing as the cream
getting too sour in hot weather. and
not sour at all in cold; as churning at
a temperature too high or too low and
at no time definite; as not getting out
the buttermilk. sailing by guess, and
working the butter by main strength
instead of with skill and there is such
thing as havoring it with all the
smells of the kitchen.
Cement floors are likely to become
popular for barn flooring on account
OF their durability, cleanliness and the
liquid manures. Moreover, they are
TO be valued for their rat-proOf quail |
ties. Any one about TO build Il new I
barn would do well to consider this !
question in all its phases.
A portable drying rack for bedding |
is desirable thing. Let ii be Slated |
at the sides close enough to keep the !
bedding material confined, and long |
enough and high enough to hold all |
that may be required. Let it be fur |
nished with q set of wheels or rollers, |
that it may he easily pushed to good i
drying place. F-shaDed rack is |
best.
1t is surprising to see that so many |
men who cali themselves good farmers /
do not shelter their tools and imple- |
ments better than they do. 1t almost !
makes one shudder to see the careless
ness, when the majority of the farmers
have old sheds and old lumber
enough to shelter all. Our implement
men would not hold so many notes as
they do, or sell as much machinery if
what was bought would have halfway
decent care, and the owner would have
more money to make his family and
home more comfortable.