Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-04-19
Interesting Correspondence.

Interesting Correspondence.
Radium, Minn.,
April Is, 1906.
Editor Sheaf:
Your paper is, to my notion, get.
ting quiet interesting.
I have noticed quite a few pieces
written by farmers this spring which
think are of more interest than a
,, whole page of advertisements, and
shall be so free as to ask you for
space for few remarks.
L can't see why the farmers don't
make more use of their local pa
pers tnan they do. They probably
think we can read all about farming
in farm papers published somewhere
else, but it sticks better in my mind
when I read piece written right at
home.
The first piece 1 noticed was about
the city farmers being so quick to
urge farmers TO plant corn.
I believe that:if the city farmers
ever gave us good advice that time
was one of them.
The first man that advised me to
plant corn for fodder was John
Cheney. That was six years ago,
and 1 shall thank him for it as long
as l live. I have stuck to fodder
corn and l have always had big
crop of it. 1t is surely the best
roughage a farmer can raise for milk
COWS, and all other kinds of stock,
too, SO long as we haven, It got clover,
and, besides, if it lis we'll cultivated,
it will restore the soil better than
bare summer fallow will do.
So much for fodder corn.
The next piece I noticed was writ
ten by Mr.. Munger.
l can assure you my face wore a
broad smile when I read about those
calves that made such nice gain.
Especially those bought from the
keystone Farm, that had been raised
on skim milk. But. l tell you, my
face slipped on me when l read about
those insignificant little things,
bought from the neighbors, that
didn't pay for their feed. Just think
of it! didn't pay for their feed.
The more a man has OF that kind the
worse he is off.
AS the country is pretty we'll filled
up with that kind Of stock the ques-
tion will come up, what to do with
them. . fss
Should we take rife and go out
and shoot them down for the wolves
Skinners are very scarce in thi.
country and selling hides would bt
out of the question.
There is an old saying that there
is more than one way to skin cat
and l hope there is more than one
way to feed calf.
Let US hear from Mr.. Munger agair
on this subject, but don't give US toe
big doses of Galloways and Herefords
and 1900 pound steers lS moths old.
wouldn't even attempt to raise one O.
them. l believe we are in too good {
country to keep COW the whole veal
round for the calf only.
l am a little opposed to Mr.. Beard
more. He says he is not stuck on milk
ing COWS, but will say I am not stucl
on tramping in the mud. | woul(
rather sit down and, milk my goot
clean COWS and get my pay when
am done than to be on my hands ant
knees digging mud for uncertain pay
That much for the COWS.
Now we come to Mr.. Lundquist'|
''yearly round" kicking at tn,
farmers, losing money on them righ
and left, and no gain whatever
Amt that pretty much one-sided?
l am glad, however, to note tha
the loss is getting smaller each year
1 understood about year ago that tn,
loss OH farmers prUduc" was abOu
$500, all this year it is down to $500
Why not give US something about tn,
profits off the farmers? 1t appear
to me, when I visit the stores a
Warren, that there must be a gail
somewhere for they are always full
OF business; each store having to keel
10 or Is clerks, Il don't know jus
how many, as they don't stand still
long enough SO l can count them)
and all setting their own price OF
what they buy or sell. What NOR,
can they wish for?
4 What use is it to kick at those poo
sinners who now and then send off
| fpw dollars tn tho n,oi] orIor 1opcoc,