The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-01

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Apples raised in the South Australian
orchards sell for 3, 10 and 10 cents each
in the markets of Germany.
We note that farmer in Missouri
lately sold two carloads of hogs fatted
by him on his farm for as much as his
farm was worth.
The year 1901 gave us the biggest
wheat and peach crop on record and
a widespread and savage drought in be-
tween to grown about.
Taking the prevailing price Of farm
produce in the central west today,
the quality of the soil and the average
yield of crops, every acre of good farm
land is worth 500.
A hen will lay, all told, about 400
eggs. If well cared for, she will lay
250 of these by the time she is eighteen
months old. This explains why it does
not pay to keep old hens.
1t is claimed that cut flowers, if
placed in salt water, will keep fresh
much longer time than if the water is
fresh and that faded bouquets can be
restored by placing them in brine.
The Gamma roots may be removed at
any time before the ground freezes up
with good ball of earth and placed
on the cellar floor and covered with
sand, which should be kept moist.
Stock feeders in the beet sugar dis
tricts of Germany are finding valua-
BILE stock food in the molasses by
product of the factories, mixed with
meal from the heterogeneous cereals. In
Louisiana the molasses has been used
for roadmaking and fuel
We find that the purple branching
aster is much better able to resist the
effect of frost than are the other varie-
ties of this flower, the purple asters,
Oct. 10, carrying a lot of handsome
bloom and apparently uninjured by the
frost which killed all the others.
In olden times the husklng bee was a
much priced farm frolic. When the
boys found red ear they were given
the privilege of kissing the girls and SO
1t came about that the boys were more
particular than they are now about
fixing the seed corn in the spring of the
year.
There has been so much corn cut up
for fodder this year and there will be
SO much shredding done that local
surgeons should be prepared to treat
an unusual number of mangled arms
and hands. Or, we will put it this
way-the careless, reckless hand
should not under any circumstances
be allowed to feed the shredder.
If you will put a root of English or
California violet in a five inch pot
half dozen, say-and set them in the
window of the north parlor and dip
them once a week in water of a tenn
perature of 10 degrees, submerging
the whole plant, you may pick these
lovely flowers in abundance all winter.
We know that this may be done, for
we do it.
Minnesota is claiming the right to
be called the "bread and butter state,
and not without good reason for it's
wheatfields and wonderfully develop
ing dairy interests are attracting the
attention of the whole country. When
to these two interests are added those
of its mines and forests, the North
Star State becomes no small part of
the Union.
There is something strangely incon-
sistent about the universal prejudice
against the flesh of the horse as food,
the horse being the most Clearly of
animals and eating only the most
Clearly of food, and the greediness
with which the hog is eaten, common
product Of unspeakable offal and filth.
This is something which we have
never seen explained.
1t viii be recalled that Longfellow in
his delightful romance of 1.-THE Court
ship of Miles Standish" has Priscilla
ride snow white bull in the bridal
procession when she is married to John
Alden, and it is worthy of remark that
the poet very wisely puts ring in that
white bulls nose, by which he is led,
proving that bulls, whether snow white
or coal black, have not changed in dis
position very much in 200 or 300 years.
Some people are worried because the
United States has no official national
flower. While England has the rose,
Scotland the thistle, Ireland the sham
rock, France the lily and Holland the
tulip, there seems to be no unity of
opinion as to what flower should con-
stitute Americas floral insignia One
of our western congressman once
undertook to get the pansy SO named
but he only succeeded in getting
'pansy' hitched on to his name in
stead of the country, The -four which
has made America more famous than
any other Is made at Minneapolis