Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-04
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Farm, Orchard and Garden, copyright
1901. by J. S. Trigg, Rockford, Ia
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The common house fly is propagated
mostly in piles of horse manure.
The state of South Dakota is being
transformed in an agricultural sense by
the establishment Of creameries.
A 4O-acre field of popcorn grown last
season In Central Iowa brought us own
er in the handsome return OF $40 per
acre,
Roses like to be sprayed and washed
when the sun shines upon them, III
plants.
The usual number Of men are going
TO heaven this season because they nave
unlimited confidence in the old Dull at
the head Cf the herd.
Barring the cholera, there is nothing
on the farm so easily raised as a hog.
Even the most shftless farmer can
raise a load Of hogs of some sort.
The old Adam is never entirely Grad
icated from the parson who delights IN
owning horse fast enough TO throw
the dust in the eyes of all his parish
toner's
It is much easier TO plant shade
cree too near the house than 1t Is to cut
il down years after, when it becomes
nuisance and a menace to the health OF
the family.
The only sort of road work which
some men will do without pay is to
plow up the side Of the road to scour
the pillow which they have left In the
field all winter
There are some gophers in South Da-
kota, and under the state law the town
ship pays a bounty fof the tails of the
little pests. Just one township had TO
pay the sim Of $500 recently on 1000
gopher tails.
When man puts good money into
a farm he does not have to worry about
calls for margins or fear that some
gang of cutthroats are going to work
up corner and destroy the value of
his land
The sugar beet is the legitimate off
spring of climatic conditions where If
rigation is a necessity. This explains
why beet culture is developing more
rapidly In Utah and California than it
is in Iowa and Minnesota.
A new swindle in the milk business
has cropped out in the state of New
York-the removal of the butter fat
from the milk by a separator and sub
stitutiun Of an oleo combination there
for. This arrangement beats even the
Bab1Ock test.
A man who will cut down lot OF
grass Saturday afternoon will not have
to argue very long with himself as to
whether he should take care of the hay
on Sunday The wrong lay In the cut
ting Saturday more than In the gather
ing on Sunday.
One Of the best uses to make of good
times is to get in good shape to stand
siege of hard times. Lots Of people
never look at the matter this way, but
use present prosperity on the principle
Let us eat, drink and be merry, for to-
morrow we die"
No new crop has become more popu-
lar during the past three years than
the Dwarf Essex rape. 1t is adaptable
70 wide range OF latitude and soil
conditions and everywhere furnishes a
great and most satisfactory forage crop
for the sheep and the hogs.
While it is the usual custom to set
out a young tree and give it one years
growth before it is top grated, we find
that trees may be very successfully
grated just as soon as they are set out,
every tree so grated by us this spring
is now making a fine growth.
miserly sort of an old fellow who
had held big crib of corn for high
price was obliged lately to shell the
corn and market II at 25c bushel be-
cause the rats had taken possession of
dhe crib and had eaten up all the profit
he might have had in his speculation.
Only one tramp has asked for food of
MS this year so far. What are these fell
Vows doing We do not believe they
are working to get an honest living
They probably find it hard nickiug to
Oes their way through prosperous agri-
cultural communities, as they rightly
should,
We notice the case OF maiden lady
In Indiana who has taught country
school for 40 consecutive years. Among
her present pupils are the graudchil-
dren OF the little folks whom she first
taught, and still ssme people think that
woman has no mission in life unless
she marries some old stick of a man.
Mechanic bricklaycr for in
.suuce-who, receiving $3.50 per day
will strike for bigger wages and quit
work cannot command very large
measure of public sympathy. Neither
does he deserve IT,
After You have laid the loss OF your
little chickens 90 the weasel. the mink
and the skunk suppose you watch that
old house cat When she gets on 10 the
trich OF the business. an old tabhy can
clean ont o brood cC voting chickens AS
Slick as any wild animal known.
The wornout au1 abandoned farms
OF the East may be used and made prot
table in 0ither one of three ways-they
may be used as poultry farms. be set
out TO fruit or timber and many are
made homes by the wealthy citizens of
the large cities
The fundamental difficulty in the
way OF securing a more general intro
Cuction Of the farm separator through
the creamery sections of the country is
found in the fact that DO involves q
radical change In existing methods.
The creamery men are generally OPP