The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-07-07

out each vessel. See that the water CIV
en- fowls is absolutely clean and that 1t
is given fresh three or -four times during
the day in summer A small lump of char
coal in the bottom of each vessel will as
sist in keeping the water pure but yet
there is nothing which will take the place
of scalding water with the rays of the sun
to assist In publication.
TO STUDENTS IN AGRlCUk URAl
COLLEGES.
Each year the agricultural colleges *
the country turn out a number OF gradu-
ates VINO eagerly seek positions as farm
managers or an opening IN some other
college as instructor. In many cases these
graduates have spent years on the farm in
actual practice before going to college,
and in such cases are well equipped to
take the management of large farms ana
make them profitable. In many other
cases, however, the graduates have had no
actual farm practice beyond the limited
amount they had at college and to such
young men the advice is earnestly given
to hire out to some farmers where, under
his guidance, your college instruction may
be worked out. You are not fitted to man
age a large farm until you have worked on
such a farm and understand its practical
| workings. If your inclination is along the
line of any special crop get a position, II
possible, with some one who makes a spe-
-ttAh v SioN 'fS Ni'N wy
| you work for your board the first season.
The practical knowledge thus obtained
added to your college training Will enable
you to do wonders the following season
which would be impossible with the col
lcge training alone. The late Lawson Val
entine, who conducted a private expert
ment farm, was fond of looking up gradu-
ates from the dairy course in Agricultural
colleges and Offering them positions on his
farm at farm hand wages. Very few or
them accepted, but those who did came
under the tutorship of Major Alvord, one
of the best dairymen this country has ever
known, and a year under his care gave
them a great start in their chosen work.
WHY SOME FARMERS FAIL AS $
POULTRYMEN.
No one will question the advantage the
farmer has over the man in town when IT
comes to poultry raising. Chief among
these advantages is his ability to raise the
bulk of the food needed by the poultry and
htus obtain it at the lowest possible cost.
Notwithstanding this there are many
cases where farmers fail to make a sue
cess of the work, while, perhaps, in a near
by town some one or more men are max
ing a success of the work and rave to pay
market prices for all the food the poultry
consume. While one of the causes of fail
ure on the part of the farmer is frequently
carelessness in handling his poultry or iE-
norance of their needs, the main trouble is
that he will not study the wants of the
consumer. The eggs he takes to his Gus
toners are picked up in all sorts of places
and he Is not certain whether they have
been lain a day or a month. When he de-
cides to market some carcasses he looks
over the flock carefully and selects those
that are the oldest and of the least value
to him. Oftent:mes he Is not strictly truth
full In his statements regarding these
fowls, considering himself slick" If he
makes a sale, forgetting that he has prob
ably made his last sale to that particular
person. The town poultryman knows that
the eggs he markets are fresh, Is prepared
to guarantee them as such. and in conse>
quence, demand and receives the highest
market price. When he markets poultry
he selects those which he has repaired for
that purpose and he never markets 4 and
5-year-old fowls because he never lets
them reach that age. These are a few of
the reasons why farmers fail as poultry
men. The remedy is easy to apply if one
has the will to do so,
THE ONE MAN FARM.
; There are many farms throughout the
country that are being operated with
much labor and with but little profit. In
some cases this IS because help cannot be
obtained to properly handle it or because
one man is spreading his energy and ma
terial in the fertilizing line over too great
an area. In all rather thickly settled sec
ions the small farm is the profitable one
On such a farm one can raise the bulk OF
the living for the family for one horse AND
one COW with a few swine and p.enty OF
: poultry and still have enough left to grow
Z small fruits and some vegetables fol
: money crops. Moreover, this is possible
2 for one man to handle with fairly gooG
| results except perhaps at berry picking
( time and at blowing time. During ploWine