Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-12-07
FIELD AND FARM.
Agricultural Items.

Carlton Holland says there'sa shortage
in the corn crop, and he advises against
selling short.
1t will not do for farmers to proceed
with regard to their stocks as though we
are to have mild winter like the last.
Indeed the muskrats, woodchucks, birds
of passage, corn husks, old settlers and
all the rest predict severe time. Pro-
vide warm stables and expect to use
plenty of feed. t
Oat clubs are the mania among Georgia
farmers, and as an incentive to hard
work and great care In growing their
crops are great success. Every mem.
Der has to pay two bushels of oats to the
member who makes the most oats on a
given number of acres, and one bushel
to the next highest. .@..
BY all odds the cheapest and best way
to eradicate common hard wood stumps,
says the Practical Farmer, is to work the
ground with shovel pillow, sow buck
wheat or plant corn until seeded to
timothy, orchard grass and clover, and
pasture until the stumps so far decay
that they can be pulled out by hitching
chain around the top when the ground
Is wet in the winter or spring.
A Nebraska paper says Edward Blew
cit, of Fremont, is bringing into that
state $4,000 Oregon sheep that in their
present condition will average 1l5 pounds
in weight. A part of the number he
proposes to make fat on Nebraska corn.
Last year he put forty pounds per head
on lot of wethers, and thinks he can
do equally as we'll again. The magni-
tude of his operations is calculated to
make our eastern shepherds start. 1t
has not been many years since Mr.. Blew
EFT was a penniless boy, wandering
through Nebraska in search of some
thing to do, and he evidently found it.
Flowers in American and German
Fairs.
But the most marked difference be-
tween the methods of display in the
German and American fair is seen in the
floral exhibit. The small square of some
three acres, inclosed by the fair build
ings, at Darmstadt, is filed mainly with
flowers so arranged as to gain the effect
of artistic grouping. The flowers them
selves show great individual beauty. /
have never seen finer roses, asters, ger
aniurs or fuchsias. But the feature
that interests me most is the manage
ment or colors in the entire display. 1t
produces all the harmonies of a finished
picture in which each collection plays
its part and contributes to the beauty of
the whole. Aud yet the plan is very
simple one. The groups represent math-
ematical figures which form the borders
of numerous gravelled walks. The
circle. ellipse and parallelogram are the
most CONSPICUOUS, Each group, which
contains flowers of one color only, is sur
rounded by border of dark coleus plants
which increases its brightness. Then
these figures are adjusted with so nice
perception of harmony In colors, that
the display is made exceedingly attrac-
tive az q whole. Of course the plants
are in the pots which are slightly GOV.
cred with soil. It is certain that the
show of flowers in our western state
fairs could be greatly improved by adopt
ing some similar plan. Instead of crowd
ing the pots, in helter-skelter fashion, on
shelves inside of building. let the ex-
hibit be made in the open air, in such
manner as to beautify the grounds and
teach the visitors lesson on the use of
flowers in home adornment.-IPreside
A. S. WEIGH, Iowa AgriculturalsColleg