m 
Montana “is buying hillsides in Douglas 
County on which he proposes to sow the seeds 
of this new wonder. Some one who has tried 
it says that he is convinced by actual trial 
that it will grow on the rankest, barrenest hill¬ 
sides in that Territory.” It was all hilly, bar¬ 
ren land that no one else wanted; but once let 
this forage plant get a good hold there and 
every foot of that land will be in demand. 
So he goes on to praise it. The Rural World 
identifies the grass as Esparsette or Sainfoin 
—botanically Onobrychis sativa. But it neg¬ 
lects to say that it has been tried in many 
parts of this country only to prove of little 
use as compared with other leguminous 
plants. The seed was distributed over the 
country years ago. 
The Specific Dairy Cow. —The editor of 
the Philadelphia Press has many times heard 
breeds noted for the production of milk and 
butter objected to on the ground that they did 
not amount to anything as beef when their 
milking days were over. An old cow that has 
been milked until her horns drop off is of little 
account anyhow and ought to go to a bologna 
factory, where she can be chewed artificially, 
The chances are very much against turning 
her into beef profitably. 
When a farmer sets out to be a dairyman he 
should be a dairyman all over, and there must 
be no half-way business in his cows, either. If 
the selling of milk is the object in view, then 
select the cow that will give the greatest 
amount of a standard quality; or if it is mak¬ 
ing butter, then the cow that will give the 
largest amount of cream or butter fats is the 
profitable one to keep. In other words, the 
milk farmer wants a machine for turning feed 
into quarts of milk. The butter farmer’s ma¬ 
chine is for manufacturing pounds of butter 
from the same feed. The beef raiser wants to 
convert the feed iuto the most pounds of the 
best meat. No one machine can do all three 
kinds of work well. Too many of these ma¬ 
chines, as they run in our dairies, will not do 
the work of any one kind at a profit. 
Bribing the Press. —One of the earliest 
abuses of administration, which still contin¬ 
ues is the appointment of small local newspa¬ 
per proprietors and editors as postmasters, 
says Harper’s Weekly. The public money is 
thus used to subsidize local advocates of the 
Administration, and to furnish headquar¬ 
ters of the dominant party. The postmaster 
becomes the local party boss, and the public 
service, which is peculiarly that of all the 
people, is thus often made exceedingly offens¬ 
ive to citizens of the opposite party. Com¬ 
plaints of this mischief ar e very famliar, and 
the evil has been one of the persuasive practi¬ 
cal arguments for reform. It is a blow at the 
independence of the press to appoint an edi¬ 
tor a postmaster. We do not know that an 
unusual uumber have been appointed under 
this Administration, but the statistics in re¬ 
gard to them would have made an interesting 
paragraph in the otherwise interesting and 
valuable report of the Postmaster General. 
Cracked Oats for Horses.—As every 
horse owner knows, says a writer in the 
Weekly Press, there is a great waste in feed¬ 
ing whole grain, but grain passing through 
a horse’s stomach entire is worse than wasted, 
for it irritates the intestines and decreases the 
value of other food taken with it which may 
be better digested. About a year ago he 
began feeding cracked oats to a mare that 
had been suffering for some time from flatu¬ 
lence and indigestion. The results were so 
satisfactory in her case that he has since fed 
them to all his horses for their noonday meal. 
He has the oats ground as coarse as possible 
and still have all the husks broken. This 
leaves plenty of chewing for the horse to do 
and he feeds them just as he would whole 
oats, without moistening. Morning and night 
his horses get a ground ration of corn, rye, 
wheat and oats, mixed with hay cut two 
inches long and moistened. Having all grain 
fed bruised or ground is certainly a great aid 
to a horse’s digestion, and makes the grain 
go enough farther to pay for the grinding 
twice over. 
SAMPLES. 
The Sibley Squash, Volunteer Tomato, 
Entire leaved Celery, Thorburn’s Japan Red 
Turban Squash, All-seasons Cabbage, Butter¬ 
cup Lettuce are among the comparatively 
new varieties that have been tried and not 
fouud wanting. 
Alluding to the Entire-leaved Celery, 
Thorburn& Co.’s description says that though 
the plant is 14 to 16 inches in diameter, it is 
only six or seven inches high. No earthing 
up is required. To blanch the entire plant 
“cover it with a flower-pot.” The “leaves 
when blanched are useful for salads.” The 
Rural has not tried this novelty.. 
We want more “firm” names and “co-part¬ 
nership” on the farm, more “Jones Brothers” 
and “Smith & Sons,” as there are in other 
vocations, says the N. E. Farmer. "W e never 
saw two brothei*s successfully managing a 
farm together without a little feeling of envy. 
A farm home with two united owners situated 
so that turns can be taken in attending meet¬ 
ings, going on vacations and staying at home 
to keep everything running smoothly, is a 
charming ideal but far too rarely realized... 
The London Mark Lane Express is sure they 
have too many middlemen-traders in England, 
while in America, it says, they are sapping the 
vitals of all native industries. “At present Un¬ 
cle Sam can stand it, but John Bull cannot.’ 
The Farmers’ Call says that it is not the 
size of the farm, but the size of the farmer, 
that determines the profit. The small farm is 
not per se either more or less profitable than a 
large farm: but the small farmer is never 
prosperous. 
If “it’s all in the feed,” as farmers allege, 
why don’t somebody feed the scrub and call 
it the American breed, asks the Iowa Home¬ 
stead. The world is moving very fast now, 
at least so it appears to a man on the shady 
side of 50, and the steer that has to be kept till 
three years old is too slow for this fast world. 
He is not only too slow, but too dear for a 
man who was not born lucky or rich. No 
man can afford him unless he can afford a 
gold headed cane or silver knobs on his barn 
doors. 
Hoard's Dairyman says that the evening 
milk of cows contains more solid matter than 
the morning milk. The average of four breeds 
tested at the English dairy show was 13.4 per 
cent of solids in the morning milk and 14.3 in 
the evening... 
According to the journal above quoted, 
some of the farmers of Grant Co., Wisconsin, 
who thrashed their corn, find that their corn 
fodder is spoiling through heat and fermenta¬ 
tion. 
The Homestead (Iowa) says that the ranch¬ 
men in the West and the farmers in the 
prairie States are trying to achieve the impos¬ 
sible, trying to combine in one breed early 
maturity and great hardiness. They want 
the steer with thick hide, a long coat of hair, 
and at the same time great aptitude to fatten 
at an early age. They tried first the Shorthorn, 
then the Hereford, then the Polled Angus, 
then the Galloway, and finally are trying the 
West Highland. They must eventually make 
their choice between a hardy, slow-maturing 
auimal and au early-maturing animal that 
must have shelter aud food and all the other 
conditions under which alone early maturity 
is possible. 
The O. C. Farmer wisely suggests that a 
meeting of the home members be called some 
evening soon, and in committee of the whole, 
talk over the kitchen garden for the coming- 
year. Let the chairman hold in his hand a 
catalogue from some good seedsman and let 
the meeting pass on all the sorts named. The 
head of the family will be surprised when he 
learns how much he aud the boys can do 
to ameliorate the cares of the patient mother 
who presides over the home, aud when the 
good garden has become an accomplished 
fact, will be equally surprised to see what the 
mother can do for all in the way of good liv¬ 
ing and improved health. With such an ac¬ 
cessory to the kitchen the pork barrel may 
take a back seat... 
The new movement, the farm institute, of 
Wisconsin, which Is shaking the average 
farmer iuto an understanding that it doesn’t 
pay to be so everlastingly average as he has been 
proceeds on the theory of reaching his mind 
and demonstrating to him that he has been 
content with too low au average of under¬ 
standing in a thousand ways as to the mean¬ 
ing of the problems he has to deal with. The 
farm institute faced the farmers of Wisconsin 
last winter aud said, “One great reason why 
you are not making more money out of your 
cows is because you are using too costly a ra¬ 
tion. You cannot afford hay as you have been 
feeding it; corn-fodder is cheaper. Raise more 
corn-fodder’. Build silos. Go to reading on 
this subject and see what other men have 
done.” The result was that over 500 silos were 
built in 1887 aud over 50,000 acres of fodder- 
corn planted. The drought came and then 
the farmers saw that it had paid to spend a lit¬ 
tle time to study .. .. 
One correspondent of Hoard’s Dairyman 
(Fort Atkinson, Wis.) says that his cows are 
fond of silage, and that it gives them 10 per 
cent, more milk than dry fodder_Mr. Gil¬ 
bert (Oswego Co., N. Y.) has a silo 38x40, 19 
feet deep and built of stone. It is built inside 
of his barn against a side-hill or bank and 
opens into the stable. This is the seventh 
winter he has operated it. It contains three 
pits; two are 16x17 and one 16x37, and the cost 
was about $700. He is well pleased with it 
and could not make a dairy profitable on his 
farm without it. He filled the silo with the 
Southern horse-tooth corn; planted in drills 
three feet apart. It was cut by hand and 
drawn to the silo, and the silage was cut in¬ 
to half-inch lengths. When the silo is filled 
he covers and weights it about 200 pounds to 
the square foot H. C. Melcher, of Ocono- 
mowoc, Wis., tells Mr. Hoard that he has just 
opened his silo covered with six inches of 
green marsh hay followed by a covering of 
one-inch boards and over this a foot of swamp 
muck, the latter to be used in the trenches be¬ 
hind the cattle, which forms a valuable addi¬ 
tion to the manure pile. By this method of 
covering, the contents were perfectly pre¬ 
served clear to the top. The town has three 
silos within its limits. His silo is 14x18, 12 
feet deep. The lower half is stone, on two 
sides is stone, the rest wood; the whole is plas¬ 
tered with water-lime. It is built wholly in¬ 
side of the barn. There are no divisions in it, 
and the entire cost did not exceed $50. He 
filled it with alternate loads of flint corn mod¬ 
erately well eared,and B.& W.corn. It was all 
cut by hand and laid in small gavels. He plant¬ 
ed 12 quarts of seed to the acre in drills. It was 
cured one day in the field before cutting it iu¬ 
to the silo. 
ENTIRELY NEW. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
Farm Journal: “Successful grog-shops are 
not found in successful farming commu¬ 
nities.”-“The strolling ‘hunters’ have 
no rights and no business on farm prop¬ 
erty. The farmer and the birds have. 
-Puck: “There is something funny 
about a pig’s tail; probably because brevity 
is the soul of wit.”-Boston Courier: 
“Truthfully said—and the only time.—Adam 
(just after getting acquainted with Eve): 
‘Will you go with me to-night to see the ani¬ 
mals?’ Eve: ‘I have nothing to wear.’”- 
Lowell Citizen: “One question answered.— 
Some one asks: ‘Does it pay to be good?’ 
Perhaps our evidence in the matter will not 
be taken, and so we shall not answer the ques¬ 
tion directly, but we will say that it is good to 
be paid.”-London Mark Lane Express: 
“It is curious to see that by a system of tariffs 
on imports the United States Treasury has 
been filled to overflowing, whilst ours, by an 
opposite policy, lias been so depleted that Mr. 
Gos’chen was obliged to take from the Sinking 
Fund in order to make a bogus surplus!”- 
■The farmer is the down-trodden slave who 
grows food for ‘the people’ to eat, and the 
traders scoop in all the profit.”- 
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