Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-12-26

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1901. by j. S. Trigg, Rockford, Ia
correspondence Solicited.
The blight is destroying the fine pear
orchards Of Texas.
The hen which has to stratch for a
living Is the one VIII ich will fill the egg
basket.
Kansas comes TO the front this year
NTH an apple crop Of over 10000, 000
tushels. worth over sl2,000,000
Wanted-Some sort of an animal
which will clean up the 80 per cent
Vastage on corn fodder fed from the
bundle.
Twenty-six thousand cars of oranges
are in sight in California, and they will
be much cheaper than apples the COM
ing winter
Climatic CONDITIONS are little out of
Joint in Minnesota when man gets
killed by lightning in November while
husking corn.
Ii is claimed by scientists that the
value Of an acre of ocean harvest may
he made greater than any acre OF land
harvest product.
The state OF Nebraska could produce
cherries enough to supply all America
If il were only possible to ship and dis
tribute the fruit.
Scratches from barb wire seem to
be singularly productive of blood poi
soniug, and wounds of this character
should never be neglected.
An Illinois man walked off with first
prize on butter at the late Iowa state
dairy meeting. His butter was made
scientifically and not by guess
A friend of ours had a 500 straw
stack tumble over the other day and
kin $50 cow A $50 COW should never
be allowed TO run to straw pile.
Missouri and Kansas orchards. have
brought their owners this season a net
return of from $50 to Sl25 per acre.
which is a real easy, lazy way TO get
a living out of the land.
We see that some writers are advis-
Ing the trimming OF the feet of the bull
As we observe it, this is trimming on
the wrong end, his horns needing
trimming far more than his feet
Where there is found poor stick oe
hoy there will almost always be
found q poor stick of a man who has
something to do with the boy either
as pyOgenitor or tutor and guide
This country has become so large
and its interests so diversified that spe-
clal legislation intended to favor any
particular interest or locality is almost
sUle TO do just as much harm as it does
good.
There were 2,755, 6S3 bushels of fax
imported into This country the past
year while the state of North Dakota
could easily supply every bushel if
men would only break up cheap land
ana grow this crop.
The difference between some men
and dogs is that some dogs are so
mean and worthless that they ought to
be killed and are, and some men are so
mean that while they ought to be kill
ed We sel-d them TO the legislature.
A learned astronomer has lately
made a discovery which he claims fully
S0StaIns the theory of the nebular hy-
P"NrSls, To the great mass of human
i' inls Is of secondary Importance
compared with the price of potatoes.
~ mas peen no uncommon thing for
corn belt farmers to have sold duriG =
we past year from their 160-acre farms
.ogs 10 the value of 81 900 and over
W. nave known this to be done on an
N-aore farm.
W." sometimes think It rs easier to
Ahe proof of the theory OF evolution
on advanced by Darwin. Spencer Hulk
ana others in the decadence and re-
'E.rSsion of things and men than in
"'F mystical and moral improvement.
i7" government estimates of the
corn nsop Of 1901 is 16.4 bushels per
against an average yield of "a 4
.."' Der acre for the whole country
'' past ten years. Ohio reports
crop, while Kansas has the
.".' We're 1862. 100 acres Of public
SOFA 1y the government the past
more than In any one of the past
wears While Uncle Sam may be
enough to give lis all farm It
"' ..IH ~ lrul J5suoI uonu lou 81
.#.m 10 give.