The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-05-20
ALONG THE RURAL ROUTE.

Inc best metnOd OF paying IOr tnt
farm is to make it productive.
Electric roads, it has been proven
greatly increase the value of farms.
Be friendly with your neighbors, you
do not know when you might need
them.
The st. Louis fair covers / ,240 acres
of land in comparison to 633 acres COW
cred by the Chicago fair.
Texas onion growers have so success
fully initiated the Bermuda product that
even experts can detect no difference.
The farmer should not be taxed fol
any part of his farm not free from
mortgage. Why should he be? Yet he
is in some of the states.
Keep up your grit; but let it be the
right kind of grit. Grit that makes a
man hard and stubborn is miserable
thing to deal with. Such grit makes a
lot of trouble in the world,
No farmer ought to work more land
than he can care for WELL To do so is
to load ones self down till the wheels
slip and the tendency is to 60 backward
instead of ahead. 1t does not pay.
1t is not always economy to go with
out things. A man might better buy
stockings and keep his feet dry than tc
60 barefooted and take his death of cold
The same way with lots of other things
When it looks like all was up,
Keep agoin'!
Drain the sweetness from the cup,
Keep a-goin'!
See the wild birds on the wing,
Hear the bells that sweetly ring!
When you feel like singin,-sing!
Keep agoin'!
The stock raisers of Iowa are organ
ling to prevent heavy shipments OF
stock at one time, and thereby prevent
flooding the market and forcing down
prices. This movement is right. 1t is
the exact plan of the American Society
of Equity. When stock raisers in other
States join forces the thing will as surely
be accomplished as that day follows
night. controlled marketing" compels
the price.
A nervous, impatient or cowardly man
had better let the colt breaking job out
to some quiet, courageous fellow who is
not bit afraid, and who, withal, has
had some experience along that line. The
colt will nearly always partake of the
handles him. If you want to see nerv-
Gus, rattle Drained horse, put the colt
into the hands of that kind of a man
to break Good horse sense in the man
is one of the essentials in training colts
to make good, reliable, safe horses.
The horse produces about So to &C
pounds of manure daily, the cow 65 to
20 pounds, sheep to 4 pounds, and pigs
7 to pounds. The amount varies ac-
cording to the feed used and the age and
condition of the animal. Rating nitro
gen at Is cents; phosphoric acid at
cents, and potash at 5 cents, horse ma
nure is worth 1925 per ton, cow manure
$3.50, sheep $500 and pig $500. The
droppings liquid and solid) for one year
from horse would amount to $25, from
cow $50, sheep 1925, pig $500. Figure
little and see how many dollars you
are wasting each year.
One of the marked changes in progress
among the American people is the leaning
toward the farm, the desire to own
niece of land and to know how to cult
vate it. At a prominent agricultural
college in the west twenty years age
there was in an enrolment of 600 stu
dents but just one that was taking the
straight agricultural course. The rest
were fitting themselves to be doctors
lawyers, parsons, teachers and mechanics
At the same college this winter a short
course in agriculture has drawn there
1000 young men who want to learn no"
to grow corn, judge stock and all about
soil culture, and every one of them goes
back to some farm to put into practice
that which he may learn.
Here is what Secretary James Wilson
says: Reviewing the magnitude OF ag
ricultural productions, after giving the
figures of the most important crops, MIR
Wilson states that the value of all farm
products not fed to live stock for 100;
considerably exceeds their value in thu
census year when it was given S3,742,
600 900, according to the department.
inventory of farm animals for Jan.
1908. The value of horses was over 81
600. 600 900, and of mules nearly $500,
100000. The value of cattle of all kinds
considerably exceeds $l,200,00O,OOO, o
| sheep Sl6O,0O0,000 and of hogs 1865, 1000,
600. 1t is almost impossible to compre
| bend these figures. 1t is the farmer VIII
has paid the foreign bond holders. AM
YOU. who have never visited one OF thos
fat stock shows which are held in Chi
cago, are missing something that yo'
cannot afford to miss if you are intend
ing making farming and stock raising
business; it is educating and when yo
oct home YOU will come to the conclusion
that farming is great business.
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