Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-08-15
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1t is of little use to plant straw /
berry bed any time save in the spring. !
The problem of whether it will pay !.
to feed 40 cent corn will confront feed :,
ers all over the West the coming win
ter.
The man with the wet farm can drain ,
1t much easier than the man on the =
hill lands can keep his fields from, y
washing and losing their fertility. "
It Is the good work which clover =
does underground rather than what it :,
does above ground which makes it of n
such inestimable value to the farmer. p
The habit which cattle have of g
punching up during hot weather to get ii
rid of flies is largely responsible for
the number killed by single discharge
Of electricity. Fl
1t is better to fire the hired man who "
persists in smoking around the barns a
and sheds than it is to have to share r.
a big fire loss with your farmers mu Il
tual insurance company |;
We noticed very unusual sight up "
in northern Minnesota recently 100 t;
acre wheatfield and in the midst of the a
growing crop the stacks containing a
last years crop of wheat still unthrash- V
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We notice that the most pious people
enjoy square meal just as we'll as A
the sinners but that is no reason why IL
a good wife should stay at home all h
day Sunday to get up big Sunday il
dinner p
We saw field of wheat recently Il
which the owner had disked in. the o
flea not having been plowed for six CT
years and each year in wheat at that p
He had just the SOFT of crop one might n
expect. u
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The laws of Wisconsin require the 7"
gasoline can to be painted red and the
word gasoline" to be painted in black
thereon Now. we would like to know h
what color the woman should be paint Ia
ed who will take this can to fill light. o
ed stove. 81
We noticed 40-acre field recently 81
on which poor seed had been used, re- =
sulting in less than one-half of stand y
IA it had been our field, we would have \
plowed it all up and sowed it to millet u
rather than have tried to cultivate d.
what little corn was left.
While corn is semitropical plant by 81
nature. it still has developed such an y
infinite variety of type adapted to
changing latitude that almost any
where where 80 days of semitropical u
summer conditions prevail there may h
be some variety of corn grown. . :,
Conditions are more favorable for -
so cent corn during 1902 than for =
many years past. The cribs of the -
country are empty, ard the crop Of this =
year is bound to be shortened mai5ri- =
ally by the July drouth which prevail >,
ed all over the corn belt !;
A genius now comes forward with q
the claim that he can make tough |,
meats tender by submitting them to an /,
electrical treatment The writer quite G.
often comes across old farrow COW
befsteak which would require a treat
ment of 500 volts to do it any good.
farm in Minnesota containing 300 II
acres of average good land, in which n
the owner has the sum of $4,000 in II
vested and which is operated by ten +,
ant on the share plan as a stock and a
dairy farm, has paid the owner an an !,
nual dividend on the investment for n
the past four years OF 10 per cent and n
will do betser than that this year. n
The cost to build maintain and keen 2
in repair the snow fences along the t,
railway lines in the northwest prairie I,
country is far greater than would be b
involved in the planting OF trees along G.
the cuts where such protection /, nee n
essary Some day the roads will take G
up this matter of tree culture as snow
protection in a practical way. F
We saw large fields OF spetz grow =
ing In the state OF North Dakota re- y
Gently This is cereal imported by 7
the Russians from the sem arid sections 6
of that country. and 4 is p.ovi ~ val /,
liable grain where similar conditions .
exist here Ii is a sort OF ross between =
barley and oats stands drouth well a
and is valuable stock food. Ii yields :
from 80 TO 40 bushels per acre. .
We drove around a half section. farm
recently with the owner and noted that v
he had moved his side OF the public n
I highway for hay. he telling us that the d
/ six acres OF grouno SO moved over v
/ raw, IA ~, aiybt tone " cOOt hay worth In