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for their produce. When a man is work¬ 
ing as an individual he has his freight to 
stand on shipments and receipts of small 
lots. There is no reason whatever why 
all the first-crop hay should not be sold 
and the second-crop fed at home. In this 
section last year I dug new potatoes on 
July 10 and sold at $1 a bushel, and 
sowed the field to oats and cut a very fine 
crop of oat hay. On good-hearted land 
Canada peas can be sown early, cut 
for hay and millet sown and cut before 
frost. There are endless opportunities 
for the farmer who has large stocks of 
manure and plenty of lime, and I wish 
the United States Government would see 
its way to make small loans through the 
banks to farmers of good standing for the 
purchase of best beef blood to be got, and 
let us here in the East, return to beef 
production and soil improvement. 
Maine. E. anderson. 
BEEF MAKING IN THE EAST. 
Working Away from Milk. 
Part III. 
Raising Feeders. —The other way of 
obtaining the best beef stock is to purchase 
a few good beef cows and a well-bred bull, 
and raise the calves, but no doubt the 
farmer wishes to get rid of his milk stock 
and turn l'ight on to beef, in which case 
it would be necessary to buy feeders for 
two years at least while your calves were 
maturing. It would be necessary to go 
in for intensive farming, but this would 
be quite possible with the tremendous 
amount of the best manure available. If 
you raise your own calves let them suck 
their mothers, and one of the secrets of 
beef young stock is never to let the calf 
lose his calf fat. Keep your animal in 
good condition and it will fatten doubly 
well. Some people try to buy all the fat 
calves they can ’round the neighborhood, 
and raise into beef, with the result that 
you have a carload of cattle of every col¬ 
or imaginable. A good farmer ought to 
be able to have a feeding bunch at all 
times the whole year round. I know 
of many of our best milk-makers who 
have good herds and splendid farms and 
good bank credit, and it will be found 
for these men a simple matter to get 
a cattle loan for six or eight months at 
good rates. To me one of the best in¬ 
dications of increased beef prices is that 
the European farmers have in the past 
been able to borrow money at very low 
rates, but it will be many years before 
they are able to do the same again at 
low rates. This will tend to make them 
importers of beef for a long time. 
Practical Points.—I have found it a 
great labor saver at thrashing time to 
have the straw elevated or blown into the 
haymow above the cattle, even if one has 
to stack some of the hay outside. Al¬ 
ways keep on hand a long-necked bottle, 
some molasses, linseed oil, and animal 
salts, and at the first sign of an animal 
going off feed make a warm drink of one- 
half molasses and one-half linseed oil, or a 
handful of salts in place of linseed oil. and 
give it to the sick one and put him in a 
pen alone and starve for 24 hours. Then 
when he begins to eat hay you can use 
your own judgment on grain again: a 
very little at a time until he is well again. 
Decadence In Live Stock. —I will 
try to give the reader a picture of a trip 
from my home to a city of 50,000 in¬ 
habitants, just 20 miles away. For over 
10 miles on each side of the road there 
is good bottom land, slightly clayey with 
gentle rolling land for three miles back 
on either side of valley. In the whole 
distance there are only two large farms 
keeping big herds; all the rest keep from 
one to 10 cows, sell the milk for a mere 
song, raise a little hay, a few potatoes, 
and work out for some one else as much 
as possible, with the result that the once 
beautiful houses (and where will you 
find better farm homes than in the East?) 
and fine barns with stalls for 40 cows, 
are in pitiful condition for lack of re¬ 
pairs, and the hay land in June looks like 
a grazed pasture. These are called run¬ 
out farm lands, and it would take money, 
hard work, and time to renew them, but 
there they lie within a stone’s throw of 
a city, and 50 per cent, of the fields not 
paying the labor put on them at present. 
I hear the old tale on every side that 
over-production lowers prices. Be that 
as it may, there is always a good demand 
for a good article, but when a huge ma¬ 
jority are milk makers and do not know 
how many pounds of milk or butterfat 
their individual cows are giving, can you 
be surprised that the complaint goes up 
about losing money? 
Co-operation Needed. —There seems 
to me to be no class of men more in need 
of cooperation than the farmers. Just 
one instance; if 12 good neighbors would 
form a cooperative society and buy all 
their grain, fertilizers, machinery, home 
food, and clothing at wholesale, in a few 
years there would be a good surplus for 
the shareholders, and then it would be 
found that the banks would be willing to 
advance money to help these go-aheads, 
and also combine with the railroads to 
find them the best markets and customers 
Feb. 3. Milk 414c a quart. Veal 11 
to 13 on foot, beeves vary and but few 
are fattened here. Eggs 30 here, 35 in 
Walden, seven miles away. Potatoes 70. 
Pine Bush, N. Y. n. d. s. 
A special effort is being made by the 
Executive Committee of the Interstate 
Farmers’ Association to get the beef 
growers in Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska 
and Northern Colorado to pool their acre¬ 
age and place it in the hands of the com¬ 
mittee. 
Two thousand eight hundred and ten 
farmers, farmers’ wives, boys and girls 
attended the recent Farmers’ Week held 
by the University of Missouri at Colum¬ 
bia. Not only were prizes awarded in 
the corn show, the ham and bacon show, 
in canning and darning, in judging, but 
to good healthy prize winning babies. 
Formerly the meeting was made up of re¬ 
tired farmers and city people with farm 
ambitions. “This time,” Dean Mum- 
ford says, “real farmers who are mak¬ 
ing money out of the soil attended.” 
If rinderpest, a disease which in some 
places has destroyed half the cattle in the 
Philippines, is controlled, it will mean 
half a million dollars annually to the 
Islands. It is extremely difficult to con¬ 
trol and exterminate the disease by 
quarantine, particularly in sections where 
people are unfamiliar with such regula¬ 
tions. Dean Henry Jackson Waters of 
the Kansas Agricultural College, has 
recently recommended immunization of 
the animals, and his suggestions have 
been inaugurated. He urges a compre¬ 
hensive program of agricultural improve¬ 
ment for the Islands, the cultivation of 
seven million acres still untouched by 
the plow, and increased acre yields. 
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