The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-05-10

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Colorado farmers report gross re-
turn of $40 per acre from their beet
crop last season.
March as a month has always had
bad name and well deserves all the
mean things ever said about it.
If sparrows were as brilliant in plum
age as the redbird, there would be
none of them left in five years.
The new style of bug for 1901 has
not yet made its appearance, but will
probably be on hand before long.
In Norway a young lady has to pass
an official examination as to her ability
| to cook before she is allowed to get
married.
And now the butchers complain that
the skimmilk calf makes poor quality
of veal. 1t is quite likely that this
may be so.
Eighteen head of selected carriage
horses We're sold in Chicago lately to
an eastern buyer at an average of ST.
500 per head
The Belgian hare fad has made a
market for jack rabbit meat in the
east, where the jack is palmed off as
Of Belgian ancestry.
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The cut off pine lands of northern
Michigan are going to be in the near
future the best apple growing section
of the United States.
If you give the boy titman pig to
raise, do not foreclose a chattel mort
gage on the pig for it's keep when it is
big enough to market.
Never mind how your neighbours
yard and lawn look. You look after
your own. A good example works
wonders along this line.
The acreage required to pasture
COW for three months will produce
enough food in corn, if made into en-
silage, to keep her year.
This is the time Of year when the
goodwife tears the inside of the house
all to pieces in frantic effort to Sc
cure dustpan full of dirt.
South Dakota has appropriated the
sum of $4,000 for a plant breeding sta
ton, new departure which will be
watched with much interest.
A friend holding some stock in n
corn canning factory told us recently
that his stock paid him dividend OF
100 per cent on last years business
A carload of oats is 1900 bushels, of
corn 900 bushels, of wheat 800 bushels,
of barley 1000 bushels, this rating APP
plying to the car of $4,000 pounds ca
pacity
Many horse will work in patient
misery all through the springs work
for the want of little care on the part
of its owner in giving it a properly fit
ting collar
Wood ashes are one of the best fer
tilizers for the garden especially for
the fruit trees, small fruit and straw
berry bed Coal ashes are entirely
worthless except as mulch
A wise woman will not breach the
subject of a new bonnet just as her
husband comes in from giving the calf
Its first lesson in drinking milk. There
are times and seasons, you see.
Wild creatures-birds and animals
are infinitely more law abiding than
man. They rarely ever fight among
themselves and always recognize a
community Of interest which is unself-
ish
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The orange, no matter how cheaply
sold, will never displace the apple as d
family fruit. We notice that give a
family all the oranges they will eat,
and they very soon get tired of them.
1t is not so with apples.
About once in seven years his ex-
cellency the PolandChina hog has his
Innings and becomes for season or so
the greatest money maker there is to
be found OH corn belt farms. 1t is just
that way at the present time, load OF
hogs bringing about $40.
The advent of spring was not sus-
gested to us this year Ivy a robins
song or bluebmd's sweet note OF by
the hoarse cry of the Canada goose
northwa bound. but by the rattlety
trap racket of flicker as he perched
on dead limb by cur door and sound
Ell a sort of spring reveille.