Milford chronicle., 1901-07-12

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A fair sized load Of hogs brings in {
800 today.
That grade bull should go into the /
feed yard. for he will only disappoint ,
you at the head Of the herd. /
We do not see why the ferret might
not be used to destroy the pocket
gopher. Has any one ever tried this
An oil well may spout for a time and
a gold mine pay a few dividends but
well cared for farm is as permanently
a dividend payer as the sun is a pro-
Queer Of heat.
You can put it down as a fixed fact
that if the cows commence to shrink in
their milk yield during the summer
months there is something wrong with
their rations.
There will always be a whole lot to
be learned about raising a crop of corn
so long as the average man can produce /
only 40 bushels per acre, OF about one
third Of a possible crop.
A lady friend told us the other day |
that she was going to set out a straw
berry bed this fall. Don't do it. You
will get a better bed to wait until next
April and then set 1t out.
Could a man invent some process |
whereby the heat and power wasted in
the exhaust Of the locomotive engine
could be utilized it would mean for
tune for him Of six figures.
Financiers are wise enough to see
that farm lands situated within the
corn belt are likely to become, if they
are not so already, the most valuable
agricultural lands in the world.
The wireless corn planter has proved
a failure for general use. On some per-
fectly level fields, free from stone, sods
or clods, it has done good work, but
fails where Ot1rer conditions prevail.
Take It all round, good graham mush
is about as satisfactory a cereal break
fast food as any of the patented wheat
preparations, and for the other cereal
products old fashioned oatmeal still
leads.
To some men a ton Of hay is a ton
of hay; but, all the same, one ton of
bright, we'll cured hay cut at the proper
season is easily worth two tons of late
cut, storm spoiled stuff which is still
called hay.
Economic discoveries have made it
possible for city to get rid Of it's gar
bage by cremation and utilize the heat
so produced to maintain Il steam pres
sure Of 70 pounds on a modern electric
light or pumping station.
We have received the year book
issued by the department of agricul-
ture. 1t is the most valuable work
ever issued by the department and, to
limited number, may be procured
through the congressman Of your dis
trict.
There is nothing a rabbit likes better
/ in the winter time than blackberry
brush. One winter we covered a lot
of blackberry bushes with straw, and
the rabbits got in among them, and in
the spring there was not a vestige of
the bushes left.
Oil bids fair to do more for Califor'
mia than either gold, climate or fruit
has been able to do. A large section of
the state seems to be underlaid with
most valuable oil deposits which when
utilized win greatly promote all manu-
featuring interests.
Every farmer should have a flag, big
enough to be seen from the highway
4 which he can hoist once in awhile, &c
let everybody know that the flag rep
resents his sentiments and that he Gp
preciates the peace, security and pros
peUlty which the flag guarantees him.
Government statistics show that II
1884 1t required hours and "a mlnute
to produce a bushel of corn in man.
labor while in 1895 the time required
had, by the use of modern machinery
been reduced to Al minutes and tn
/ cost of this labor had been reduces
from 359A to 1O}b cents.
The Chinese win neither eat the fes
\ nor drink the milk of the COW. One o
/ their pious queries is, How eau th
: COW raise her calf if man rObs her @
her milk?" while the American heathe
; has developed the COW so that she give
not only milk enough to raise her cal
7 but enough to feed his kids besides.
The best thing that is going on /
, this country today is the agricultur;
and mechanical regeneration of I'll
|, south. Out OF the wreck and waste {
war. the old time animosities well mig
extinct, the beautiful southland is con
ing to its own-to a time when all i
= rare endowment of climate and ma
1t ural resources are combining to nal
b 1t one OF the fairest countries on earth
How Are Your KIdneysf
+ Or. Hobbs Sparugus pills cure all kidney ills sa
pie free Add. Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or n.
p The more hay, particularly Glow
:. hay, can be cured under cover-in Il
Il cock, in the field or in the stack
" mow-without damage by heating. Il
10 sweeter, more nutritious and better W
q it be. Hot suns, dews, winds and rail
- make short work and bad work wi
10 what might be good hay.
80 Twelve hundred registered Her
70 ford cattle have been sold sin
Ii Jan. at an average price of S240 p
~ head. Good cattle have never been
81 greater demand than at the prese
~ time. StOckmen are getting on to t
SO fact that 1t costs no more to keep
~ well bred animal than a scrub.
rs The ignorant. dirty, slOuchy butt
-. maker is fast finding that he is out
W a Job. The man who has taken a ST
cial training at our agricultural scho'
and understands the science of milk
= the man who is wanted to make t
re butter. Good butter may be made
on guess, but mighty little nowadays.
re- At this season of the year, the l.
Of June, house and barn cats are bu
iS- foraglng in the fields and groves. TIL
are after the vOunr birds which fOl