Hutchinson gazette., 1901-08-08
what Shall Farmers po7

The editor of this paper has felt some
little delcacy about giving wholesale
advice to the farmer who has been in the
business for years and is in the business
cry day in the years while all we know
about it is what we hear from their lips,
read in the agricultural journals. What
we hear from the farmers we consider
best, and in an exchange of their ideas
there may be much profit. What we
CLEAN from the agricultural reports, and
the professors Of the agricultural col
leges, is probably of some value to some-
body, but 1t is often difficult to locate him
for the reason that their experiments
are made in different soils and under
different climatic conditions from
those existing here.
We notice that the News and in fact
all the other papers have taken a very
great interest in the farmer and have
given large chuncks of advice just what
he should do in the present emergency
that was created without the consent of
the governed Now it is very kind in
these papers to take this absorbing in.
terest in the farmer, but still, we cannot
resist the opinion that the farmer who is
UP against the proposition and has it
looking him right in the eye, will be more
successful in devising ways and means
Ahan us who sit 10 our Offices, and giye
professional advice. Yet out OF the
theorizing and speculation of the pro-
fessors the farmers may get some hints
and new ideas they can work up into
practical fruition,
All the newspapers, the GAZETTE in
cluded, have been giving plenty Of ad-
vice TO hold onto the stock and not sell
at present ruinous prices. But on en-
quirey among farmers and stock men Of
this county we find that they are of the
same opinion and our sage advice is ap-
parently altogether superhuous, So far
as we have been able TO learn there are
only two or three firms that are going TO
place anything on the market now.
These instances all Of them are cases
where the owners have three year old
steers and think they cannot get the
growth and profit out Of them they can
out Of younger stock. The same parties
will hold their other stock. 1t seems TO
be the opinion among the stockmen that
there is feed enough in the country to
winter all the stock that is in it under
the conditions that ordinarily exist from
now on If the weather conditions
should continue 10 remain dry for a con-
siderable time yet over large area of
country the cattle market will of course
be still more badly paralyzed. But if
rains should come so as to start the
green wheat and rye and other late feed
crops that will be put out the present
scare about short feed will pass
away as quickly as it came. The hope
the farmer has now seems to be
pinned largely to wheat, E. L. Meyer
of the First National Bank is great be-
liever in turnips. In grasshopper year
in the early days after everything else
was gone, late crop OF turnips was
grown that saved the country. How
ever we should say that the principle
value Of turnips will be to the dairyman
and the mall holder of stock. In order
to be fed safely they should be cut up
which cannot be done for the large herds
But for milk cows, fed with straw or hay
they should conduce to a good flow of
milk, and to keep The animal in loose
and healthy condition, Should the
rains come, it is not yet too late to grow
large quantities of turnips but if it
rain so they can grow turnips they can
grow rye and wheat for winter pasture
which will be more profitable. 1t oc-
ours TO us that Reno county's loss will
be principally negative one this years