The Princeton union., 1902-04-03
CHATS \ ! !
o o o WITH FARMERS

81 have only five cows" said Henry
Shenk, who farms about three miles
out of town, ''Not many, but with wife
and I all alone and an S0-acre farm to
look after this is enough. What kind
of COWS? Well, we keep some of the
Shorthorn-Jersey and Shorthorn-Hol-
stein cows" Mr.. Shenk says that he
raises little of everything on his
farm, of which he has only fifteen acres
cleared. He came here four years
ago, from St. Paul, but has resided in
Minnesota twenty-one years. With
few acres to wheat, oats and corn and
a few potatoes he is kept pretty busy.
my son went to Washington last fall
and has enlisted in the army, and will
sail for the Philippines, I guess, and
wife and have a lively time killing
potato bugs during the busy season."
Andrew Nyberg who lives short
ways out on the Greenbush road, is
regular patron of the creamery. He
brings in the milk from four COWS.
Mr.. Nyberg has been raising consider
able small grain of late, but he says
that he intends to pay more attention
to live stock and will try raising pigs
which he thinks are money makers if
looked after properly. He has been
on his present farm three years, COM
ing to this section from St. Paul. He
has seventy-fve acres of land and has
been following the diversified system
since he located in this section.
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John Boyn who lives north of town,
intends to make a radical change in
his system of farming the coming sea-
son. Heretofore he has been raising
wheat, oats and rye to a considerable
extent, raising forty acres of the latter
crop last year. He intends to raise
more potatoes and corn, and is seeding
down twenty-five acres of his farm to
timothy and clover. He intends to dou-
BILE his pasture area. He wintered
twenty head of cattle, yearlings and
two-year-olds, and proposes to keep
about forty-tive head of cattle and
forty head of hogs on his farm in the
future. Mr.. Boyn has a farm of 100
acres, including a small lake, which
adjoins his pasture land and furnishes
an abundance of water for his stock.
He thinks that with potatoes and corn
and with plenty of pasture land and
hogs and cattle the change will be a
profitable one for him.
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August Schlesner who lives in the
town of Princeton, seven miles from
the primary potato market of the belt,
was loading on a lot of lumber the
other day when a UNION man dis
covered that Mr.. Schlesner intended to
make few improvements on his farm
this spring. He intends to build him
self large machinery shed. This is
an improvement that many farmers
think is wholly unnecessary, and leave
their farm tools and machinery out in
the barn yard and fields. summer and
winter and in due course of time one
can find these farmers sitting on dry
goods box at some cross roads store
talking Populism and blaming the gov
ernment and Providence also for their
i'll luck. A machinery shed does not
cost much money and is simple enough
to build, but it is money saver to a
farmer and soon pays for itself. Mr..
Schlesner believes in taking time by
the forelock and looking out for a
rainy day. He has farm of eighty
acres on which he has lived ten years.
A few acres of potatoes last year netted
him good profit as it did some other
farmers in the belt. Last year he had
seven acres planted to potatoes, and
this year he will plant eight. He in
tends to plant two acres to Early Ohios
believing it pays to have a few potatoes
ready for the early market. Mr..
0S11OouOI udS IdlSou CARLY pOCdGO0S
and does not find that there is any
more work raising the early than the
late varieties.
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Fred Brown, the son of VIM. Brown,
one of the oldest settlers in the town of
Baldwin, was at the creamery the
other morning with several cans of
neighborhood milk. Mr.. Brown SAYS
that at the present time they are
bringing in the milk from only six
COWS, four of which are Shorthorns
and two are Holsteins. ''The Hol-
stems give the most milk, but the
Shorthorns give the richest milk, -
said the farmer. 1--WE keep all our
heifer calves and sell the steers at two
years old to local buyers.
SMUT IN OATS AND WHEAT.
M. Hays and A. Boss of the State Exper-