The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-04
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pr!ses.
In planting an orchard do not hope to
include all the kinds you ever heard of.
Make such selection Of the best as will
give you a succession of fruit. and DO
content If there are but dozen varie-
ties.
A good investment on farm is .
five-gallon can of boiled linseed oil,
twenty pounds of venetian red and two
or three paint brushes of different sizes.
With these the sleds, the running gears
of the wagon, the plows and harrows
may be kept painted as soon as the
paint; begins to wear off. This Will not
be pretty, but 1t will save the imple-
ments.
The farmer who economies by using
scrub or inferior grade bull Is on a par
with the Irishman who knocked hole
in the bottom of his leaky boat to let the
water out.
Wherever water stands more than
twenty-four hours there is need of
drain. Mark these spots this winter and
dig drains in the spring. Money invested
in drain tiles brings the largest kind OF
interest
Poultry is VIGOROUSLY the most profita-
BILE farm industry in the aggregate OF
yearly product, and without doubt this
is due to the fact that poultry is the one
INDUSTRY IndHdBeu ny TIE WOuicils
There Is always place open for
farm hand who has a reputation for hon.
esty and efficiency. 1t is fact that the
idlers about the country town will not
develop into good farm hands, though
they may work on a farm for short
time as last resort to keep from starv-
ing.
The legislature of New Jersey passed
an act in May last providing q method
for the requirement by the public of all
turnpike or toll roads, as free and pub
lie roads, on a petition to the state COM
missioner of public roads, signed by the
owners of at least two-thirds of the lands
bordering on the road affected.
Where wood is the ordinary fuel late
winter is the best time to prepare the
supply for the year. The timber works
better and the weather is better adapted
to cutting wood than at any other time.
The man who burns green wood has not
yet learned the first lesson in economy.
The timber wealth of the United States
gives yearly product of twice the value
of the yearly output of all its mines of
whatever kind This is a resource worth
keeping, and yet we are expanding the
capital with wonderful recklessness, and
very little of the timber cut is represented
by new growth.
The Walter A. Wood Harvester COM
pany, which had made a very heavy in
VeStment IN new branch at st. Paul,
Mimi, just before the panic of 1898, and
therefore were financially embarrassed
and obliged to go into a receivers's hands.
have just been restored to the liberty of
self-management. When the company
became involved it's indebtedness was
S170O,O00. This Indebtedness has been re-
duced to $350000, and is so comparatively
small for this enormous plant that the
company is regarded as starting out
anew on a firm financial foundation.
There is nothing that is acting so pow
erfully to drive our youth from the
country to the city as the inattention
paid by majority of our farmers to the
little home comforts and enjoyments
which, while costing but a trifle, would
invest the country with a charm which
all the glnring Vaccinations of a life in
the city could not break. The study of
agriculture as a science, a knowledge of
the nature of soils. and the adaptation of
the various fruits and flowers and field
crops to different qualities of soil appeal
sufficiently strong to the intellectual
nature but in the arrangements that sur
round our country places but little atten-
ton is paid to the idea of beauty or
pleasure.