Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1878 — AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES.

H PulwrheArtlyireaal ha# • MB fl eet upon MMted animals. ■<,*. «. m 7 Young stook are too often neglected too lone in the fall without shelter. t I< Th* •OardtWicr’ff Monthly recommends whitewashing pear trees during the winter as a preventive for Wight Cattle ana grain raising l , instead of being antagonistic, are complementary to each other. • ' >3One reason of hard f ifties is'that we kwste and throw away w-hat wopld feed »some other Nations. 2Grass makes fat stodk, stock makes fat land, and thus the good grass farm- * is apt tb be a good farmer .in other «BpecU. "Plants do not require nearly so much .watering in the winter as in. the summer. They should never be watered until the surface of the soil is dry. If Watered too much the soil becomes Npur and heavy, and the plant diseased. A pail of milk standing ten minutes rwnere'it is exposed to the scent of a strong-smelling stable, or any other offensive odor, will imbibe a taint that Will never leave it. »" It is more honorable and dignified to be llvThg independently on a farm, making good butter ana cheese, and raising abundant crops and fine stock, than to sit in high places and aid in making bad laws. It is a laudaVlp. ambition which every farmer should possess, to excel as tiller of the soil, a grower of the finest crops; ambition,^.hpeed.thq hnest animals of the best breeds; ambition to have model buildings, fences, hedges, lawns, trees, shrubs and flowers. When men trained to think, and whose thought is, trained to take ex-, pression in action, enter upon the arena of farming life, the possibilities of our soil and location are to become developed to an extent little realized. ’Every day we see nice calves coming to the butcher. This is wrong. With our cheap lands and boundless prairie Matures, eveity calf should be raised— Tne steers for beef, and the heifers to replenish dairy and breeding herds. Spruce butter-tubs are the best; white hemlock makes a sweet tub; acids from the oak colors the butter and inwirtt® ash gives the butter a stpeng flavor, if kept long; and increases ine "liability to mold; maple smells and cracks badly. Soak all tubs four to six days, in brine, before using. - • • A true farmer, of culture and breadth of mind, is a true man, whatever position you may place him in. He is called upon to fill the small but important neighborhood offices. He is Commissioner of Highways, School Director, Justice of the Peace. He fills those offices well. His ability is strengthened. He is sent to legislate for the State. He knows the wants of the people and works for them. A seat in Congress is within his reach. In fact, there need be no office within the gift of the people to which he may not aspire. But such a man will never forget that ha. is a farmer. Being a true man, he thus ennobles his profession. He has no cause to be ashamed of it. To him there is no higher calling. And such men will convince, are oonyineing r the world that thero M no>' vocation higher or njore honorable.