Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
HOUSE, FARM. GARDEN.
Rarrna Notes.

Death to weeds is the motto of every
good farmer.
A farmer should try to grow almost
anything put poor.
In the San Joaquin valley, California,
there a4e 100000 acres in wheat, aver
aging 90 bushels to the acre.
Every enterprising farmer should make
an experiment station of his farm, him.
self being the director.
Your farm is your fixed capital i'm
provements are your investments: and
your crops over the cost of your produc-
ton, are your dividends.
Tradition in agriculture is one of the
greatest hindrances in the way of rural
progress. This applies with special force
to stock breeding and feeding. The same
is essentially true in the departure ofveg-
etable economy, where pedigree in seed
raising is quite as important as pedigree
in stock breeding.
Samuel D. Hale went from Boston to
the Argentine Republic twenty years ago.
and has become considerable farmer
there. His farm contains $4,000 acres of
rich prairie land, enclosed with heavy
wire fence. He keeps an average IF
10000 sheep, from which the wool, tai.
low, and skins are enormous. He also
has 1900 beeves, 500 horses, and / 400
hogs.
/ Some men never do anything at all on
| their farms, becau ;e they stand like lit
tie urchin in big watermelon patch,
daZed at the innumerable chances of
/ rhOncfnn Thav
things to plant, land SO many good ways
to plant them, so many pressing things
to do, and no one to begin on, that the
year glides from under their feet and they
have made nothing but stature
Southern Planter and Grange.
1t is estimated that the flax mills of
Russia give employment 100000 opera
tiyes and produce $l20,0OO,O00 worth of
goods per aunum. During the past year
America imported $4,000 900 worth of
| flax and its manufactures. This, too,
when it Is so well settled that we can
produce, if we would, enough fax to sup
ply the world. California and Oregon
alone are capable of producing enough of
the commodity to supply the United States,
Irbut instead of doing 1t we prefer TO sell
our wheat in England and buy fix. in
Russia with the proceeds.--San Francis
co Chronicle.
Weeds are like Banquo's ghost. They
will not down at your bidding" No
matter how much you mutllate them. and
disturb the soil under them, if you leave
| them on the surface in rainy day they
will still persist in growing. They cling
| to life like cats and some other animals.
which, strange as it may seem, prefer TO
live rather than die. But no tender
hearted sentimentalisl. must be allowed
to come in to weaken the efforts O. the
agricultural army in its war of extermin-
alton against the weeds. No looping off
here and there of leaf or sprout will
amount to anything. No halfway work
will answer the purpose; the evil must
be removed root and branch, pIohibite
suppressed, obiiterated. If you adopt
the false theory that mild measures are
best, and merely cut off the tops while
the roots are left in The ground, You will
soon find them springing up with more
vigor and power for mischief than before.
Radical measures and no others are in
order among June weeds. 1t is not nec-
essary for the Legislature to proclaim a
prohibitory law against them. The law
of nature and self.preservation requires
that they be exercised, banished, put
down, and this law must be enforced, OF
they will get the advantage of the corn
and potatoes, and when harvest time
comes there will be nothing but weeds
to harvest Vermont Record and Farmer