Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-22

The greatest value there is connected
with salt applied to the hay or fodder
when put in the NOW of the barn is
not in its preservative quality, but in
making such feed more palatable when
fed out.
Nearly all farmers In the northwest
keep more or less hogs, but not one in
ten Of them realize the value Of rape
field as a summer feed for their pigs.
Nothing grown on the farm will make
cheaper hog feed.
We note that the production of rice
in this country has more than caught
up with the home demand, and this,
too, with only very limited area de-
voted to it's culture. We are not a
great rice eating nation and never will
be-.
AS an evidence of our willingness to
encourage a spirit Of reciprocity with
Canada we gave that country almost
the whole of our foreign cheese trade,
and we did it by palming off on the
Britishers filed and skinned cheese
for full creams.
The value of a man fixed as we
value a horse, just on his physical
ability, is about $4,000. When to this
muscle is added some gray matter, he
rises in value just as a horse does
when he possesses more or less of
standard blood and intelligence.
The sum of 500 per year in cash and
what eggs and chickens the family can
use are easily obtained from what poul-
try may be kept upon the average farm
homestead given ordinary care and at
tention. This sum may be increased to
5000 where more fowls are kept and
more attention is given them.
We are asked if there are any birds
at all which will eat the Colorado po-
tato bug. While there are none which
seem to be very fond of potato bug
diet, we have seen turkeys, ducks and
the rose breasted grosbeak eat them.
AS to any bird being a check upon
these bugs, there is none, so far as we
know.
The gospel Of grass is good gospel
to study. There can be no erosion Of
the soil or depletion of soil fertility
where grass grows. The growing Of
grass means the feeding of it, and this
means butter, cheese, milk, meats, and
these mean profitable agriculture. Gall
flesh is grass" is the text Of this gospel,
and wherever it is preached and prac-
ticed there will be found good farming
and prosperity.
A farm hand in Iowa had some diff
Guilty with his employer and was dis
charged. He then turned round and
sued his employer for over time, claim
ing some $50 for work done after what
are called regulation working hours.
The case Is now pending, and for the
first time we are likely to get legal
are any legal limits to the number of
hours work which may be extOrted
from the farm hand.
Cooperative effort never finds bet
ter work than where all the land own
ers work harmoniously together to Sc
cure the proper drainage of their land.
But, strange as it may seem, this happy
result is far more difficult of accom-
plishment than one would think There
Is almost always some measly, selfish
old hog of farmer in the crowd who
will make every effort to not only hold
up his neighbors, but to hold up such
an improvement, and the whole com
munity has to suffer for his meanness
We know of more than one case where,
if only the right man was in a box to-
head the procession, there would be a
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