Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-06-12
FARM, FIELD And FIRTSIDE.
Farming Paragraphs.

| "i' Ne Ne iiuibcit, btillH, mlcus,
sold SlOS worth of sage last year and
raised 800 bushels of popcorn.
Hog" is defined by The Cedar Rap
ids Republican as "only an Authorization
for condensed corn"
Ii is estimated that 900 900 tons of
beet sugar will be consumed in this
country during the coming year.
They have found one place in Oregon
whore the snow is only seven feet deep,
and the people are pointing to it and
calling: "Come West, if you want
eternal summer Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. John Gould remarks that it is
better to buy good animal with q poor
pedigree than poor animal with u good
pedigree.
In counting railroad freights, the
charge is generally 10y the ton. Thirty
three and ono-third bushels Of wheat,
or 30 2-3 bushels of corn, mako ton.
"Too much style" is said by tho
Lansing Republican to have cost a
schoolmistress her position at Yankee
Springs, Mich. "She was dismissed
because she would not eat fat pork"
The discontinue and helplessnoss of
the Washburn g. Moen barbed wire
sharks shows what the people can do
with monopoly if they set about it
Western Rural.
A Dakota correspondent says fax is a
paying crop there; that farmers must
give more attention TO stock aud less to
wheat; and, "hard times have caused
stay in the advancing prices of lands"
Pray look TO the cellars. Decaying
apples, pumpkins, potatoes, cabbages,
turnips and the like ore thought to be
the causes of malignant fevers, diph-
liberia and the like.
The Saginaw Courier is confident
that the era Of wholes ale land robbery
has nearly ended" Good reason
why" comments the Philadelphia Rec
ord, "tho wholesale land has nearly
ended too"
The barbed wire monopoly is APP
preaching its end through the lapsing
OF patents.
1t is generally best to cut all the
wood wanted for each years fuel from
one division of the woodlot, cutting
everything close, and protecting the
sprouts from cattle. All will then grow
up together, thickly, trim and straight.
The less valuable can be checked by
sprouting off in August. In about fif-
teen years there will be a strong growth
again, fit for many uses.
There is nothing that farming so
much needs as more brains and BRAIN
work in studying the necessities and
capabilities of the farm, and in sys-
tematically planning its work, and then
tenacity in intelligently working out
these plans. Thought, system and per-
sistency are the foundation pillars of
successful farmingl
We quote the following remedy for
chapped hands from The Boston Jour.
nal of Chemistry for J. H.: Eight
ounces glycerine, two ounces water, one
OF starch, one OF arnica tlncture. Heat
the glycerine water and starch until il
becomes n transparent mass. When
nearly cool add the tincture of arnica,
and perfume with oil of rose. If desired,
it can DO colored with tincture of
alkanet.
At a meeting in Canada a speaker
asked what crop the farmers of the
country considered to be the hardest on
the land, whereupon the Toronto Globe
says, "there were cries of Oats from all
parts of the house" Mr.. Mills asked
fit was not fact that farmers genor-
ally sowed oats at the end OF a rotation
on land that would not produce other
cereal crops; and if it were not true
that oats would thrive where most 9TH
er crops would not. He said it was
porhapa true that oats were harder on
land than wheat, but not so much so as
was generally supposed"