The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-05-13

When a dollars worth of farm pro-
ducts will buy only thirty to fifty
cents worth of many of his products
after thev are manufactured, it is more
essential that the farmer live off the
farm. instead of out of the stores. On
tbe farms of many of our fathers and
all of our grandfathers, the living was
crown on the farm, and most success
full farmers practice it today. We can
not afford to hire someone to put up
condensed milk, butter or olemargar--
inc. kill and cure our meat, grow and
can our vegetables and fruits, etc.
These things must be done on the
farm-save freight and expense and
get all the profit others make on these
things.
Have a Cow.
There are thousands of families
many of them on farms-who do not
have a COW. "What is a home without
a cow" The COW produces the most
and best feed at the least cost, of any
animal on the farm. We believe that
growing feed and caring for n or
more cows is the first essential to
the success of a farmer with a family
on any farm. If feed cannot be grown
for the cows, the land is not fit for
farming purposes.
Any kind of a cow is better than
none, but a good cow is worth more
than several poor ones. For begin
ming get the best COW possible. In
the summer it is an easy matter to
care for a COW, even if she must be
lariatted out. We have heard men
a they would quit farming before
they would drag a cow around on a
rope all summer. Many have quit
busted-because they wouldn't. Have
a pasture if possible and see to ia that
there is feed in the pasture-not sim
DIV a place for the COW to exercise.
Sow a sweet clover, alfalfa, bronze
grass and wheat grass mixture. A
Young farmer near Choteau, Montana,
said he would have lost his farm if it
had not been for five acres of sweet
clover which pastured four COWS, and
the cream sold paid his living expen-
Ses.
Have Some Pigs
The pig is the greatest rustler on
the farm, and will root up a living
where any other animal would starve.
They cannot do this in a four by four
pen. Plant pasture for the pigs. Bar
ley makes good pasture if properly
managed, from early spring until snow
flies. An acre of barley pastured off
by pigs, shows more profit than an
acre harvested, threshed and fed. The
pigs do all this for nothing. Hulless
barley is best for hogging off-the
pigs like it best. Flint corn can be
grown successfully and hogged off
almost anywhere that it is advisable
to attempting farming, and will make
a bigger return hogged off than in
any other way. Sow barley early for
pasture, and sow clover with it. By
July LIST to 18th the barley is ripe, and
enough should be sown to pasture the
hogs until the Flint corn is ready,
August 18th to 3Oth. Have a success
sion of pasture.
We have ten brood sows on each
half section farm, and by fall have
seventy-five pigs, working for US, har-
vesting barley and corn. We sold a
thousand dollars worth of pigs from
each farm, besides keeping over the
brood sows. We have the pigs far
rowed as early as we can care for
them. An accidental litter vas far
rowed January list. We kept them in
a stall in the horse barn and have
nine strong, thirty pigs that will mean
a more certain income to the farm
than twenty acres of grain, and they
will not interfere with growing just as
much grain and we have the hogs be-
sides.
How to Get a Cow and Brood Sow.
A banker in southwestern North
Dakota announced hal he had a num-
Der of we'll bred young brood sows that
he would let out to farmers on any
terms, if the farmer would simply
show that he would plant Flint corn
and arrange to feed and care for these
brood sows. At Reed Point and Round
UP, Montana arrangements are under
way to see that any farmer wanting
one or more milk COWS car have them.
They also propose to arrange for a
competent mar to visit such farmers
as are supplied with cows and assist
them in caring for these cows and see
ing that they make a success with
them.
There is no question but that any
deserving, honest farmer, who will
show the disposition and willingness
to try to grow feed for some cows
and hogs, can get assistance, if nee
essary, in getting a start.
Have Some Poultry.
There is no farm project hat shows
more net returns than poultry. If
none are sold, the eggs and meat may
be made to supply a family with half
of their requirements for this kind
of food. A poultry house of some
kind is needed, but need not cost much.
The house should be dry, and tight
on three sides to prevent drafts. Large
windows, one of which is covered with
muslin, are a help. The average poul-
try house is not nearly what it should
be, and usually the main requirements
for improving them is just a little
work by someone who is interested
and has some knowledge of what a
poultry house should be.
Any farmer who does not set half a
dozen or more hens, or an incubator,
certainly fails to appreciate the taste
of fried chicken. Women often could
complain that the men will not help
put the hen house in shape so they
can raise chickens, but they do not
have any trouble getting these men to
eat the fried chicken, or even a fat
hen boiled with pot pie.
Fix up a poultry house, if only some
dry goods boxes, for half a dozen hens
Keep one breed, and keep these pure
A veal old hen lays twice as many
eggs as a two year old, and a tw'
year old twice as many as a three yea
old. The four year old is fit only 70.
a hrooder. Have some fried chicken