The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-03-08
KNOWS HOW TO FARM
ssHopefuI Harry" Describes Method of
Farming Persued by Jacob Ru-
disille of haywood.
Mr.. Rudisille Keeps No Scrub Stock
and Permits No Weeds to
Overrun His Fields.

the farm of Jacob Rudisille in the
town of haywood, Benton county,
and what we saw interested us so
much that we returned home and have
set ourself to the task of telling the
readers of the U n O II about it. Mr..
Rudisille's farm consists of 200 acres
of land and is situated near the center
of the eastern border of the town of
haywood. It is in splendid condi-
ton and has the largest number of
acres under cultivation of any farm
that it has been our pleasure to visit
since our residence in Mile Laos
county. Mr.. Rudisille has an apple
orchard of about sixty trees of both
the standard and crab varieties.
Some of them have borne apples for
several years from which he has sold
many dollars worth of fruit. Estes
Brook flows through nearly the en-
tire length of the farm from north to
south, and the meadows on the banks
of the brook furnish an abundance of
hay for his stock. Mr.. Rudisille has
the best herd of cattle that we have
seen in this section. There are sixty
head, and they are of the Shorthorn
breed. About one-third of the herd
are thoroughbred and the balance are
high grade. We found at this farm
the kind of dairy COWS that we have
spoken of in previous articles, such
as those who patronize creameries, in
fact, such as every farmer, ought to
keep. 1t does not cost any more to
feed such stock than it does to feed
such as we usually find on the farm,
and Mr.. Rudisille says it does not
cost as much as it does to feed the
raw-boned slabsided stock that most
farmers keep. He says that there is
another advantage in keeping thor
oughbred stock, viz, he never has to
hunt for men to buy, for there are al
ways plenty of men that are anxious
to buy his stock, while those farmers
that keep scrub stock have to hunt for
men to buy their cattle, and then they
have to sell at low fguress. But he
gets the top price, as for instance, he
recently sold a thoroughbred bull calf
for 500, and, if our memory is cor
rect, the calf was only one year old.
1t a man wants to buy from Mr.. Rud-
isille he does not tell him that he will
give him so much, but he will ask him
what he will take. Mr.. Rudisille has
two very valuable teams, and a few
days ago a man asked him what his
price was for one of those teams. He
told him $500, and then he inquired
the price of the other team and he re-
piled that if any man thought that
those two teams were worth more to
him than 81, 1000 he could have them,
at the price which he stipulated,
and, if not, there was no need of any
more talk about them. Now, brother
farmers, it is common saying that
we, the producers, are being swindled,
and there is much truth in this saying,
but there is remedy for this trouble,
and if it does not entirely remove the
difficulty it will be great help toward
overcoming present methods. That
remedy is to have the best of every
thing that the farm produces. Keep
the best stock, whether it be hogs,
sheep, cattle or horses. By so doing
we will be in a position to demand
reasonable price for the products
of the farm, and supply and demand
will govern the market, which will be
an improvement over our present
methods. But this is a depression
from the object we had in view when
we commenced this article. Our OBJ
ject was to show farmers the advant-
age of keeping what is usually called
blooded stock, more properly called
thoroughbred, and we have gone some
what into detail to prove that our
views on the stock question are cor
rect. We not only admired the stock
on the above named farm, but we
found the farm itself in condition to
make its owner feel proud. The
buildings are on little elevation,
from which can be seen all of the 200
acres; the fields are free from weeds
and nearly free from stumps. From
such large stock the farm is kept
we'll fertilized, consequently it is very
productive, and it will be a pleasure
and an advantage for any farmer to
visit Mr.. Rudisille's farm and then
pattern after his methods in farming
and raising stock.
Grows, robins and sparrows, har-
bingers of spring, have arrived, but
the weather man says their arrival is
premature and that spring will not
come for many weeks. We will wait
and see.
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