Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota . s command agood price which helps to offset the cost of feed. Where haycan be marketed at from $ to $ per ton there isoften more money in it than to feed it to stock, The settlercan best determine for himself how much and what class ofcattle it will pay him to raise. Hogs.—Swine raising on a large scale is not apt to proveprofitable, except where some local condition provides asource of feed, as in the vicinity of large towns. It will alwayspay to have pigs to eat the slops and waste from the house.
Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota . s command agood price which helps to offset the cost of feed. Where haycan be marketed at from $ to $ per ton there isoften more money in it than to feed it to stock, The settlercan best determine for himself how much and what class ofcattle it will pay him to raise. Hogs.—Swine raising on a large scale is not apt to proveprofitable, except where some local condition provides asource of feed, as in the vicinity of large towns. It will alwayspay to have pigs to eat the slops and waste from the camps raise good pork by letting the pigs run wildin the summer and feeding in the winter from the makes the best feed to raise for pigs, as corn is uncer-tain. Probably the best plan is to raise spring litters, pro-vide range for them during the summer and finish off as soonas possible in the fall and early winter, carrying over onlythe brood sows. Garden Vegetables.—Garden vegetables prefer a lightsandy soil well manured. The excellent growth of vegetables. (rarden and Field looking east from Barn. FRUIT. 245 is often taken as an index of the agricultural possibilities of aregion. Vegetables depend for their quality not necessarilyon the strength of the soil but on its quickness, warmth, andfertilization with manure. The production of grain, grass andother staple crops is a better standard of general merit thanthe size of a cabbage. The vegetable garden should alwaysbe manured no matter what soil it is on, as the results willbe increased in proportion. Nearly every kind of vegetablehas annually been raised at the farm and of very goodquality and size. The season is short for watermelons andmuskmelons and only the earliest varieties should be varieties of watermelons which have ripened are Hun-garian Honey and Fordhook. Tomatoes should also bestarted as early as possible in the spring, in the house inorder to ripen a crop before frost. They sho
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