Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-27
FARM ITEMS.


Where one Is located MAR cannery
bring in about $50.
One hundred years ago the value of
this country's exports was only IS per
capita; now 1T is SIS. Z
I man should not go into the cattle
business and put u sire at the head of
his herd worth less than 500.
We do not believe that docllity and
lgentleness can be licked into a dairy
COW. "A COW which has to be licked
should be fired from the dairy. herd.
1T is always a difficult matter to un-
dertake to change the food and the re-
Iligion Of men. A scrap may always be
looked for when the attempt 1t made.
While young and tender meats-lamb,
veal, spring chickens and the like-are
probably not SO nutritious is more aged
meats, there is lots more pleasure in
eating them.
more acres, remember that all the land
which You Will ever get a lasting title to
will be the four by six-foot lot In the
cemetery ON the hill.
Look out for the model orchard
fruit tree peddler. We have known lots
Iof these model orchards to be set out,
but never knew of one to be anything
else than a rank hzzle.
Much of thew and push of northern
men may be attributed to the fact that
Iif they do not hustle in the summer
season they will starve and freeze to
ldeathin the winter. In fact. most men
need the terrors of a wrath to come to
make them do their best.
Don't pay some separator shark IS for
1.-THE privilege of dilutins your milk with
|cold water in order to hasten the rails
ling of the cream. The right TO put wa
ter in milk has always been yours. pro-
Nided You did not try TO work off the
|combinat ton as whole milk.
When herds of Polled Angus and
Hereford cattle begin TO show up on the
farms of a community, 1T becomes hard
lines for the creamery of such commu-
nifty right away.
enough for any one and productive on
f. Warfield, Candy, Brandywine, Beder
Wood and Havilland.
When conditions are such that fruit
trees make much new wood. they will
rot the next season make much fruit
Rank ard abundant foliage and good
crops of fruit seldom go together.
The sign Rain Wanted, which for
sso8long has been hung up in the west,
has been taken down.. Not foI. many
years has the earth been so well soaked
during the midsummer days as this
wear.
a Kansas man has flock of 1000
turkeys which he hires out to his
ineighbors at SO per day 10 rid their
farms Of grasshoppers. We seriously
doubt the truth of this story ourselves.
Makeait "A rule 10 be always observed
to sell only The poorest Of the breeding
animals on the farm. The good brood
mare and SOW, the best eve and dairy.
COW are nearly always badly sold, even
at a fancy price.
The canneries are now running full
time. and thru the West they are work
ing on one Of the best crops of sweet
corn ever raised. Three or four tons of
Ears to the acre a 81 to $3.50 per ton
represents the cash ret4lrn To the grow
81 of the crop, besides two tons of the
best fodder III the world, which he gets
from each acre.
1t is safe TO say that a Wealthy apple
Erse will produce. for twenty years
sitter II begins to8bear, an average of
fans barrel af choice apples each year.
This fruit seldom sells for less than 81
on the tree, and IL placed in cold stor-
age and marketed In the spring viii
more often bring 50. One hundred trees
viii grow On one acre. In what manner
could a small farm be more probably
used than 70 plant a Wealthy orchard?
Figure ii ou. and see.