The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-08-16

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Social functions will substitute john
nycake for angels food this season.
There will be no corn for export this
year Every buShel will be needed for
home consumption.
Ii is estimated that this country will
have 375,0OoooO bushels of wheat to
spare this year for hungry folk in for
cign countries.
Reports come TO us of the comb in
the bcehiveS being melted down by the
extreme heat of July when the hives
We're in specially exposed places.
We note that recently ~ bushels of
wheat have been given for one bushel
of corn in Kansas. This is a poor
trade for the man who got the corn.
The state of New York will have not
more than 10 per cent Of an average
crop of apples this year Few if any
other growing sections will do any
better.
The condition of the egg business
during the heated term of July was
simply horrible. \ man never knew
until lie opened n case whether he had
eggs or chickens.
1t is expected that potatoes will be
served rs a dessert this year and will
rank with soft shcled crabs, porter
house steak and tcrrapin as a high
priced deicacy on bills of fare
The same day that the lard or Pc
laud-Chua hog Of the corn belt sold
for $50 his relative, the bacon hog,
tile product of clover, barley. peas and
roots was worth $3.50 per hundred
weight
We have put in a fail garden this
wcek-tAe first, Of ACCUSTOMED rad
isles, turnips, onions, and planted
string beans and cucumberS. VIII re-
port later on. Drought used up early
planted gardens with us.
Nothing save an up to date camera
could faithfully portray the express
sion on the faces Of some old fellows
whom we know when corn jumped TO
80 cents and they with two or three
years crops Of old corn on hand.
Breed IS not everything, as is evil
denced by the fact that carload of
fatted Arkansas raZorback hogs sold
IN Chicago the last week in July at
$3.50 per hundredweight Whether
the feeder finished them at a profit is
not known.
The shortest crop of potatoes for
years IS in sight for the coming year.
From a common, everyday necessity
the tuber will become a luxury, and
for the first time we are likely to
realize what an important element in
the food Of the common people the
potato has been.
Foreigners will demand more of our
breadstuffs the coming season than for
many years, and America has the food
with which to supply them, the crop
of wheat in this country this year be-
ing the largest ever produced. Any
ration has a graft when the whole
world comes to it for bread to eat.
We note that the manager of farm
ers' cooperative elevator has gone
wrong by dabbling in board of trade
options losing all his own money and
a lot Of his company money also. The
temptation for men in such positions to
take aier on some cereal is very
great, and they need not only to DE
securely bonded, but also watched.
Nature has been very generous with
the North Dakota and Manitoba coun-
try this year, and the farmers there are
now harvesting one of the finest
crops of No. ! hard wheat they ever
raised. The price is likely to be good
also. Our northern ueighbors are Justly
entitled to this year of plenty and
prosperity, for last year was a very
lean one.
The dairymen will concede to Pro
fessor Koch Of Berlin, the eminent bac-
teriologist, the title of Koch of the
walk as n result of his recent an
nouncement that tuberculosis cannot
be transmitted from the COW to the
human being through the medium of
the milk. This theory, if sustained,
will remove great incubus from the
dairy interests of the country.
One reader writes that he carried out
the suggestion made in these notes by
us last May of planting a few acres of