The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-08-10
GETTING AROUND THE LABOR
pR0Er EN-

In nearly all sections OF the country
there is a dearth of farm help and the
prices demanded are SO great that the
farm product must bring a very high price
to warrant paying the high wages. In
many sections of the east farmers who
have contended with uiis Tabor problem
for some time are gradually dividing their
farms and keeping for cropping purposes
the best fields and turning the balance of
the land into meadows. OF course, one
will have to go about THIS change in their
methods very carefully and devote to Gull
tivated crops only such soil as we'll give
the largest return for the time and money
invested and such crops ms are best suited
to the soil that can be given over to them
In other words it would be folly to raise
potatoes III a section where the normal
price for potatoes is extremely low. but
there IS scarcely any place in the country
where there is not one or more crops that
bring a better price than others and these
are the crops that should be specialized.
Even in the portions of the country where
the soil is naturally lisft and inclined to
be sandy 1t is possible, by the Introduction
of sufficient hurnus into the soil, to fit 1t
for the growing of some OF the grasses
that viii make hay which may be sold at
a fair price. The subject Is we'll worth the
consideration of farmers everywhere, for
there are at present no Indications that
farm laborers are likely to be more plenti-
full or that wages will be amy lower.
DON'T FEEL AN ORCHARD is AN
EXPENSE.
In some sections tho. prices orchard fruits
have brought for several seasons IN sue
cassion has discouraged growers and made
them feel that the business is no longer
profitable. Don't get this idea into Your
head for the sale of first class fruit is
quite as BRISK now as it ever has beca. The
trouble With the market is that consumers
will no longer pay high prices for infer
Tor products and just so long as these are
offered. even though at Tow prices, just SO
long will lack of profit prevail. When
growers will realize rflat consumers, and
especially IN cities, are being educated
daily about quality and will begin to give
them they have n right to expect for
their money. then they will tindI fruit
growing as profitable as ever and even
mora so In some sections. Therefore. bear
in mind that only the best care of tihe trees
and the soil in which they grow will en-
able one to produce the fruit which will
yield profit. What to do is obvious and no
reasonable expense should be spared to
put the trees in condition so that they will
give results which will make a g God profit
for time, money and labor expended.
SUMMER SHADE FOR SWINE.
Those who have had experience in
raising swine know beyond doubt that
| good care counts very much in
| the development OF the animals. I'M
questionably the best results come from
a restricted range where the grass is rea-
sonably deep and strong. where there is
plenty Of shade as we'll as suEsi-oe and
where there is opportunity for the swine
to get plenty of drinking water. If this
range is in close proximity to the pens
there is no reason why the pens and the
yard should not be as clean as the barn
floor. Custom to the contrary
standing, there g absolutely no sensible
reason why swine should be allowed to
wallow and become filthy. AS a matter of
fact it retards their growth, which certain
ly is not profitable. Give the swine a re-
stricted range with plenty OF shade, sun
and water, less corn than other grains and
they will take on muscle growth and vigor
and be in perfect condition to take on fat
after they are taken under cover and corn
fed N the fall.
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