The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-31

fattening animal, and nothing
that will quite fill the bill for
working horses, colts, calves, pigs
or lambs. All other mixtures are
simply apologies for substitutes
and we use them when we are
compelled to do so.
In growing farm products it is
useless to raise such as cannot be
readily sold in the nearest market,
useless they are raised in car
load lots, in which case they can
be shipped to a convenient market.
1t is also unwise to try to grow
products for which land and
locality are not we'll adapted.
1t is plain that a man with a
small farm should engage in
intensive farming. Extensive farm
ing on a small farm will never
pay. By extensive farming we
mean on the extensive plan, which
is also expensive. When large
crops are put in they are
necessarily given light tillage and
much help is employed. Intensive
means to farm with energy and to
do things we'll and in season.
When a calf a dav old will not
drink, the teacher is very prone to
say, such a stubborn calf" and if
the calf could talk it would say the
very same thing of the man. 1t is
II wrong impression that because
skim milk is not very rich, a calf
should de fed a great deal of it.
When this is done, there is soon
a " plot bellied" calf on hands and
the wonder is what has made it so?
Overlooking, irregular feeding,
feeding cold milk and feeding sour
milk are conducive to troubles and
should be avoided.
The man who is not able TO give
a reason for the" hope that Is in
him" has denied the faith. The
farmer who gives as a reason why
he is a farmer, because he can do
nothing else, is as far from the true
path as it is possible for him to get.
He needs to know many things and
know them we'll. He needs to know
that he Is not a slave to his occupa-
ton but that he needs to employ
diligence, activity and intelligence
in his management of farm affairs.
We need to know u sphere, and
then lose no time in attaining it.
There r three very good
excuses for not husking corn
fodder iE season where it is done
by hand. One excuse may be
when it is to dry and another is
when it is to wet, and the third
reason is when one has "that tired
feeling" A long stretch of fine
weather will cause more delay in
this business than any other one
thing. These are days of rapid
movements and close calculations
and the profits in any business do
not stand around waiting for wet
or dry conditions, or the con-
venience or leisure of the operator.
Where there is room for reform
alton, let it come.
l have wondered sometimes who
it is that starts so many ~nonsensic.
al ideas that people are wont to be-
lieve. Evidently some person tells
them as a joke or draws on his
imagination, and soon there are
scores who 7 willing to repeat il
to others a having come under
their own observation. The latest
is that ensilage is ruinous TO COWS
teeth and that it should not be
fed on that account. Next thing
we know some person will be rec
ommending baking powders fol
feeding bacon hogs, or that a pump
can be kept from freezing by drop
ping a hot tomale in it in cole
weather. Some people were borl
in the wrong time of the moon, ant
on Friday at that, and they !are al
WAYS pradiptinp trnubla tO onn,