Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-29
NEWsY FARM NOTES.

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trees are reported to have yielded 45O
gallons of oil.
| Sheep do we'll on corn fodder.
An egg freezes at about ten degrees
above zero.
, A sugar refining company is about
. to be formed in Japan.
/, Feed the table scraps before they
have become soured.
Cranberries are being successfully
cultivated In Dare county, N. c.
Feeding the fowls too much cayenne
pepper is apt to produce liver trouble.
A large part of the food used on the
farm goes back to the land through
the manure heap.
A warm house, varied diet, plenty
of exercise and very early Matched last
springs pullets are the chief ingre-
dients Of the winter eggs.
The New York horse show cleared
about 100000 for the stockholders
The trotting- bred horses won nearly
all the prizes in driving and carriage
classes.
In feeoing barley to hogs the best
results are obtained by grinding the
grain and soaking 1t for five or SIX
hours before feeding. II given whole
much of the barley will pass undi-
gssted.
While the first cross often unites
the good qualities OF both parents,
any attempt to breed from 1t causes
the blood that the progenitors have
In common to prevail and the of
spring revert back to the original un-
improved type.
The farmer who spends his money
before he gets 1t Is always at a dis
advantage, for as soon as he gets any
money some hand Is reaching for 1t,
and he no sooner has 1t than 1t Is
gone.
There are too many farmers who do
not give the farm credit for Its just
dues. such as the use of house and
everything In the way of meat, butter,
eggs, fruit and in fact almost every
thing the farmer and his family live
upon.
II foods are fed that are rich in
blood-malsing and muscle-forming
character, like bran and oats, the cow
puts the facts OF the food into the
milk, and uses the rest for the support
OF her system, and stronger flow OF
milk Is the result.
10 hn In nf
In farming 1t assists during the pro-
cess of rotation to improve the soil,
and enables more and better stock to
be kept. The farmer who succeeds in
securing good hay crop has won
half the battle.
Autumn Is the time to prepare for
early chickens. Dispose Of all surplus
birds and push the early pullets for
ward. If they lay early they will be-
come broody early. Without early
eggs and early sitters there can be no
early chickens reared In the old way.
1t Is safe to assume that the crops
raised by good majority of those
who have to make Il living at farm
Ing In any community are about the
most profitable that can be handled
there. There may be some exception
to this, but as rule 1t holds good.
Farmers, In tne application Of COM
mercial fertilizers must never forget
that they are entirely unlike barnyard
manure, because Of the fact that they
may be compounded so as to make
great variation In the proportion OF
the three principal elements Of plant
food.
without education. and without
come a good practical farmer by the
force of habit and do his work as per-
fectly as machine, but he thereby
becomes mere machine, or beast OF
burden. with no more bodily comfort
or intellectual enjoyment than his
horse.
Diversified farming requires tina
after, MS producer, the farmer shall
have got the raw material on hand
he must, rs manufacturer convert his
hay. grain, etc, into cattle, hogs,
sheep, poultry. etc Thus his duties
change. Now -" a tiller OF the soil,
then as stock reeder. Today as a
mechanic tomorrow as a physician,
treating an aiIlug animal. Can the
education and training of such one
be too extended and general?