The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

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Manure is always injured by heating,
through which process it loses its am
monia.
The best remedy for lice in the hem
house seems to be to line the building
with tarred paper.
The colored brother needs freezing
up-putting into cold storage-for
about three months every year. He
would then get hustle on himself.
There will always be some one to
breed the scrub COW, somebody to milk
her, somebody to lose money feeding
UeT steer call, UuI II llcJ NC yOu'
At the present prices of the staple
good cotton lands-those which will
produce from three-fourths of bale to
bale per acre-are easily worth 500
per acre.
The wolf bounty appropriation of the
state of South Dakota is short the sum
of $4,000 Range conditions always
favor the multiplication of wolves, who
find an easy living preying on the
young and helpless of the focks and
herds.
If the oatfield Is rank and black in
May and the field is level, turn the
sheep in for a short time; If the field Is
rolling, do not do it, as the sheep will
invariably feed on the higher portions
of the land, just where their work is
not needed.
Good seed is the first step In securing
good crops, then proper and thorough
preparation of the seed bed. Ignoring
these things many men work and fret
and fall it being the same sort of fool
ishness which makes a man expect to
raise good calf on sour separator
milk.
Neither an old boar nor an old bull is
a desirable adjunct of the stock farm.
They are very apt to be ugly and more
or less of nuisance, but just the same
off 70
matured sires, Gagged up like wild
beasts, IL necessary, for the sake Of
their value as sires.
A friend wishes to know what he
can do to make his hired man content
ed. 1t depends upon the man, but if
he Jour friend will do all the milking
and get good looking hired girl the
chances are the h. IN. will be reasona-
bly, contented. If not, then he should
be fired at once.
We commend the red cedar for an
evergreen belt around the farm home
1t will not grow so fast as the white or
Scotch pine, but is everywhere tough
IRENE cold better than any evergreen
we have. 1t should be planted much
more extensively than it is.
"How many sheep can be kept on the
food required by one cow" We are
asked. That depends altogether on the
breed of the sheep. Five 200 pound
Gofcvuol1e, will onpct,Yno 6 tptoh food
as thousand pound cow, while eight
Shropshires and ten Merinos would re-
quire about the same amount of food.
A prominent railway official told us
lately that it will pay to build line Of
road anywhere in the west and north
west where a belt of farm land six
miles wide on each side of the road
can be depended upon for patronage
If this statement is true, we have not
got to the end Of railway construction
by good deal.
If capitalists can make good money
buying western range sheep and your
grain and hay to fatten them for mar
hCbt W Ay III tliS hulLS VI NOLhAiOAi SShoC
should not you? These men are max
ing close to a dollar a head, and you
would have an additional 10 cents
which they can't get in the matter of
fertilizing your land.
One ton of commercial fertilizer,
worth SOS, is required for each acre of
farm land on Long Island in order to
insure a crop. And there are thou
sands of men in the fertile west who
grow three tons of worthless weeds in
each acre of their cornfields who would
not know what a commercial fertilizer
was if they We're asked.
Two million seven hundred thousand
Frenchwomen are reported by the last
census of that country as employed in
outdoor work on the farms and gar
dens of France. This condition would
theoretically imply large families of
children, but the same census discloses
the fact that the nation as whole is
barely holding its own in point of pop
ulation.
The dust and fine chaff from a ma
chine thrashing flax We're carried by a
strong wind over ON to piece of land