The True Northerner

What The Farmers Say.

"It would take about 200 bushels of wheat to pay my taxes this year, if I sold at present prices; and if I sow eight bushels of clover-seed in the spring and purchase now, and sell the wheat, it will take another 100 bushels."

"Who has been 'making money by general farming, this year?' Wheat and wool, and live stock are the principal products of the general farmer and all of them come in competition with the western range and ranch farmers, and they make our markets sick."

"If I had the hogs I would grind up all my wheat and feed it; I believe there is more profit that way than any other at present prices; but I haven't the hogs and can't get them."

"I am going to seed my farm to clover and let it set there awhile; I won't pay big wages to grow crops I can't sell; I can work enough myself to support the family and come out even, and that is more than I have done this year."

"I believe we shall yet be able to feed some of those thin western cattle here at a profit. If this thin stock keeps coming to Chicago from the plains at the present rate, it will make such a spread between well fed beef and poor stuff, that there will be a good profit in buying and finishing them off. We can raise the corn or buy it, and all our farms need the manure."

"There are two great differences between the price of stallion service and a piece of colts. Either the one must be lower and the other higher or I shall stop breeding, you can hardly get a bid on a colt or a horse at any figure."

"I shall grow clover seed next year. I will get the start of the clover midge by clipping off the first crop with the mower just about the time it is heading out and it will come on in bloom again between the first and second broods of insects when they are off guard as it were- I believe I can get seed that way and am going to try it."

G.