The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1901-11-08

We would not plant the Wallbridge
apple. 1t is very slow in coming into
bearing, and when it does white tur-
nips are more easily raised.
Strange as it may seem. the state of
Mississippi is taking as a state more
active measures in the line of road re-
form than any other state in the Union.
= The Wealthy apple is today the lead
ing standard apple for Minnesota, the
north half of Iowa anC such parts of
the Dakotas as are adapted to fruit
culture.
Broom corn market is freaky this
year the price of the brush having
jumped up from $55 10 $40 per ton,
with a probability of a still further adj
vance.
Quality is often sacrificed for size in
the breeding of our domestic animals,
but this does not apply to pug dogs, for
the smaller they are the meaner they
are
At the prevailing price of pork it will
pay to take extra care of the fall pigs
this coming winter. The September
pig can easily be made worth $12 by
next April if decently cared for.
Any dog over the age of 10 years is
best humanely chloroformed and bur-
led, for there is no bigger nuisance or
more distressing animal to have around
than an old and used up dog.
oonnDt bo x-aru c,onnccfu1 in
bringing up a boy unlesss the hoy at
least respects him, and if a boy loves
and respects his father it is not much of
q trick to turn out a good boy.
The native wire grass of the Florida
low lands will fatten cattle for two
months in the year. enable them to hold
their own for four months and half
starve them the remaining six months.
Give a horse what water he will
drink. and he will live % days without
food; he will live II days without either
food or drink and only five days with
food and deprived of water.
Eight hundred thousand bushels of
cranberries are produced this year in
thto t'''iitt We Wv " hIlo" nv"
many turkeys are raised to go with
these cranberries. but not less than ten
to the bushel.
Continuous cultivation of orchard
trees during June. July and August
will make a success of fruit growing in
many a dry belt Of country where the
man who plants fruit trees is called the
community fool.
Missouri held it's first state fair this
year, and If the hog which carried off
the sweepstakes premium was correctly
photographed there is oor for mission
airy work in that state along the line of
improved breeds of hogs.
It is the difference in the breed.
While q good horse is worth $3.50 al
most anywhere, the stock men of
Wyoming are going to have a grand
round up hunt soon and shoot all the
wild horses they can to be rid OF them.
We ote a late price list quotation of
flowers In n of our large cities-vio-
lets, SO cents a bunch; carnations. so
cents a dozen, and American Beauty
roses from 50 to SIS per dozen. 1t costs
something to court a girl in orthodox
style in that city.
From faroff Manitoba comes the
report this year of a good crop of the
following varieties of apples: Wealthy,
Hibernal, Patterns Greening, Annisett
end Blushed Calyi'le. There was a fine
crop of plums on Cheney, Wyant, Roll
lingstone, Biyby and Manitoba.
And now comes a genius who claims
he can extract oxygen from the air in
the shape of a gas at a cost of a fourth
of a cent psr cubic foot. when the ques-
ton of heating and lighting will be so
solved that Standard Oil stock will not
be worth 10 cents on the dollar.
I'VE do not blame a woman for scold-
ing her husband when he makes her
6urn green wood in the kitchen stove
pwhen, IL he had not worked so hard to
save the country on dry goods boxes or
1T the corner grocery she might just as
well have had dry God instead.
We arc asked whether sheep may be
TO run in an orchard pasture
without injury to the trees. If they
were simply allowed to have a run in
such n pasture for a short time once a
. day 10 pick up windfllls and weeds. it
would be beneficial to the trees, but
ii kept there continuously they would