The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-02-16

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A bad winter storm always drives yes
| the animals into their holes and the we
| liars out. TOO
| The boy on the farm today must not a
| be satisfied to simply know as much Du'
about agriculture as his father. He Una
has got to know more and will. POI
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There will be a better litter Of pigs 100
and more Of them raised to the period VII
| of weaving If the old sow has nothing
to do with the corncrib before and aft a
er the pigs are born. 12C
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Soil fertility, like money, should be UNI
| kept at home. Raising grain and sell fro
| ing 1t Off the farm is just like patroniz- eve
ing the city department stores-both Sic
| fertility and money leave the communi- SIC
| ty for good.
| The state of Minnesota owns vast hol
tracts of worthless swamp land In the foe
northern part of the state and is very Wi
sensibly appropriating large sums Of ruI
money for the purpose of draining and av'
reclaiming these lands. str
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| Some wise man notes that high priced
corn and healthy hogs almost always Z
| go together, the inference being that IL frc
| the hogs were fed less corn they would oat
not be 80 subject to disease. There a
may be something in this. frc
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We do not think that the average oat
| farmer needs to know how to make gel
| more money 80 much as he does to sec
| know how to make 1t easier and in be.
| more profitable way-make fewer acres
| do the work Of the many now run over.
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| We are getting class Of people in wi
| this country who want the milk lamb, | VIC
| hothouse tomatoes and green stuff in thu
January, frogs legs fresh eggs in win pc
| ter, and such stuff, and, while 1t pays ne
| to feed them, they don't, as a rule, to
amount to very much. plt
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| A pair Of sparrows we saw nest
building in December found themselves
| when the blizzard struck them few me
days later like pair Of young fools tn
who got married on $3.75 and inside Of m,
| week found no fuel, -four or meat in ins
the house and no money to get any fe
/ with. pl,
| Lucky Ia the man who Is 30 situated wi
that he can look upon his big corn ms
crop as simply SO much raw material
| to be, every bushel Of 1t, converted in q
to some form Of finished meat or dairy set
product. The man who sells the corn rip
will get 35 cents a bushel, and the man th,
who feeds 1t will get 80 or 60 cents. thj
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In planting q grove of native timber wi
1t is well to remember that some vari- tw
eties of trees may be planted much Gle
| closer together than others. The soft ne
maple will bear thick planting, as will lin
! the larch, catalpa and many Of the ter
conifers. The cottonwoods, on the con-
trary, will not stand thick planting, but .
will nearly all die by the time they are az
twenty years old. IA
We know Of a farm whose productive ca
power has been fully doubled inside Of an
fifteen years by keeping on it as much be
stock as it would carry and consum- ro
ing all the products of the farm upon th
the farm. The same thing may be done 10
with thousands of other farms, and 1t wi
matters little whether it is stocked an
| with sheep, a dairy of cows or devoted ioI
to the production of beef. 1t cannot be
done SO well with hogs, as the hog is
very poor distributor Of fertility. alb
We are told by a prominent cattle as
man from the range that no attempt is tic
ever made to furnish the stock Of that ia
country with supply of salt. This In
seems quite strange in view of the Ia
trouble which is taken to furnish cat 10
tie supply of salt In all other sections mi
Of the country. 1t Is barely possible Is
that the alkali nature of the soil In that 10
country furnishes through the water ra
and the growing vegetation a sufficient
supply Of salt to meet the needs Of the
animal. to
A friend who had planted bed Of gr
\ strawberries in what had been for tn
years feed yard for cattle and hogs is
complains that he does not get any tn
fruit. The trouble is not because he va
failed to plant the stamtnate and pis- nc
tiate varieties SO as to secure perfect til
!, fertilization, but probably because the ha
soil is too rich. We know from expert III
ence that 1t is entirely possible to get or
land too rich for strawberries. A soil til
| which is fertile enough to produce six
, ty bushels of corn to the acre is plenty
rich enough for the strawberry. to
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: Many men have hobby in the mat ar
ter of the color of their corn, some &C
claiming that white corn is the best tn
and some yellow, while not few will tn
swear by their calico corn. The fact is 30
there is practically no difference at all fiji
in the feeding value Of the different We
colored corn. assuming that 1T is alike to
, matured. There is, however, a very W
marked difference in the types Of corn ar
of any given color In the matter of pro-
ductiveness, and this thing is well so
worth studying. The biggest ear Is W
not by any means the best ear. pr