Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

Nebraska has made the following
standard Of quality for milk and cream /,
which are sold TO the public: Milk
must test not less than 3 per cent but
ter fat and cream not less than Is Uer
cent. By the way. per cent milk is
pretty thin stuff, and fat babies will |
not be found on the route Of the milk
man who sells it.
What may be done with a small |
piece Of land is well illustrated by a
uian whom We know who the past sea-
son has sold the produce raised on two !
town lots containing just siXty-four
square rods of ground for 1928, or at |
the rate of over $500 per acre. The
produce raised was mostly common
garden vegetables.
When you have sown the clover in
the spring with a nurse crop, pastured
ii in the fall after the crop has been
removed, cut the field for hay the fol
owing June and taken a crop of seed !
from it in September. that clover field
has fulfilled its mission and is done
for unless enough seed is left on the
ground to reseed the field.
A man who would kick up quite a
fuss should some relation of his wife's
come to his home and hang around IN
willing to work for his board will still
keep In his COW barn and milk twice a
day one or more cows who are just as
big beats as any relative which his
wife may have, and do it all compla-
Gently just because of his ignorance.
What seems to be a perfect remedy
for scours in young calves. a trouble
with which nearly every dairyman is
familiar, is found in the use of dried
blood as prepared for market at the
large packing house concerns. A table
spoonful Of this blood powder fed with
the milk ration to the calf works a cure
in every case in a short time. This is
worth remembering.
The American people have cheaper
coffee and sugar in plain sight The
production of coffee has been enormous
ly increased. and that IN many coun-
tries, while the production of beet sugar
bids fair to become one of the leading
agricultural Industries Of this country.
Inasmuch as the American people use
more coffee and sugar than any other
people, this is not a bad prospect.
Persistent advertising viii create a
demand for any fairly good article,
but a superlatively good article will
find a market anyway There is a GER
tain cereal breakfast food being made
today which. so far as we have no
ticed, has never been advertised at all.
/ yet because of It's excellence the de-
mand is so great that the manufacture
ers cannot fill the orders sent them.
We have a friend who owns a good
farm, and he rents this farm right
! along for 20 cents an acre less than he
could get just for the reason that he
/ has a tenant who takes good care of
the place. This tenant keeps the fences
! up the barn doors in place, the manure
hauled out, the trees trimmed, the
weeds on the highway moved, and our
friend thinks all these things are worth
about 70 cents an acre to him when he
goes out to see the place.
The man with a productive apple or
chard located in the northwest. while
he has plenty of encouragement, al
ways has this advantage over his
brother Orchardist in the more favored
regions Of the far east or the far west
he IS always close to good market
in a territory where the production Of
apples will be far below the normal
demand. And this question Of a good
market for fruit is one of the main ele-
,nents of attaining success in the bust
ness.
In the city of Vienna last year there
were 25.64O horses and donkeys
slaughtered for food, the meat being
sold in 1856 meat shops specially H.
censed by the municipal authorities for
that purpose All this meat was care
fully inspected by government officials
before being sold. The fore quarters
of these animals sell for from 5 to s
cents per pound and the hind quarters
at 6 to 8 cents. choice cuts retailing at
10 cents, or less than one-half the price
of similar cuts of beef.
The past season has been a bad one
for the farmers in England and Scot
land. The competition of the low Dric-
ed grains and meats Of this country
has about ruined the agricultural in
terests Of those countries Each year
shows a fewer number of acres titled
and a lesser amount Of stock kept,
while my lord who lives in the castle
on the hill mournfully regards his ever
decreasing rent roll and has to resolve
himself into a committee of ways and
means to make both ends meet.
The time will come all through the
central west when a four rod highway
will be considered a wanton waste of
good land--just exactly what it is, in
fact. today. When the highways are
properly graded and graveled, as they
will be in the near future. a width of
three rods for a public road is all that
is necessary. This will restore one acre
of land to each quarter section farm
having a road on one side of it. and the
grand total of such reclamations in q
county means not a small thing.
: Some overparticular people do no
? like to have the leaves newly faller
blowing and drifting about the lawn il
the fall days and so they rake them VI
, and hurn them. This is a mistake
Let them lie where the wind drift.