Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-10-24

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year is cheap at that figure, while an
other which will only make a calf and
a manure pile is dear at a third of the
money.
A Missouri landlord who had a num-
Ter of tenants and whose land was To-
Gated where the drouth did its worst
work the past season, made out re-
ceipts in full for this years rent and
sen. one to each of his tenants. This
man is thus getting his tombstone en-
graved before he dies.
This was cruelty: He put two
calves on to one COW and turned them
out to take drouth luck in the pasture,
and when these were fit for the butcher
he put two fresh calves with the COW.
When fall came, she was mere skele
ton. lnhumanity works hand in hand
with sIeed on many farm.
The ,000-pound yearling steer fatted
for baly beef is a $50 produc. which
should be more common than it is Oh
all farms where blue grass, clover ana
corn will grow. To produce him moth
ing is better than high grade Polled
Angus.
There are much pleasure and many
good things to be got out of fell gar
den. The writer planted string beans,
turnips, seed onions, radishes and let
tuce the 1st of August. and on Oct. l,
there being no killing frost, had an
abundant harvest.
Onethird of the Western dairymen
do not obtain from their cows as much
as the food eaten by the cows costs
In a test made with 100 patrons of a
creamery, 30 kept their cows at a loss
one farmer receiving $235 for each
dollars worth of food fed and the poor
est stick in the lot only 60 cents
If you want to keep your hired man,
do not give him the kicking COW to
milk. Milk Der yourself if you are
fool enough to keep her and commence
singing My soul, sbe on thy guard &"
when you grab the pail and The milking
stool If you ever hope to shake hands
with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Where there are two or more men
engaged in the work of the farm ii is
an excellent way to assign the doing of
the Sunday chore work to each in
turn. leaving those off duty to have the
day to themselves This is better than
a division of labor, because chore work
and Sunday cleanliness and clothing
do not work well together
When the public ideal of an agricul-
tural fair centers around the sensa-
tional in the amusement line, such as
midway fakes, dropping live dogs at
tached to a parachute from a balloon.
locomotive collisions and bullfights. 1t
were better that the people staid at
home and kept right on milking COWS,
feeding hogs and doing the fall plow-
ing.
OF all the small fruits we find the
blackberry the most difficult to raise
A friend tells us that we take too good
care Of it and that if we just set out Il
patch on the north side of some grove
and just let it entirely alone we would
have all tho blackbeiTies we want He
says the blackberry is Just like an In
dian--can't stand civilization.
The grade certificate held by the
pretty country school ma am has moth
, ing whatever to do as affecting her
chances for exchanging it for a mar
riage certificate after she has taught
about year and half. In fact, as we
/ have noticed it, those with third
grade certificate are likely to go off
first, for beauty and brains are often
strangers,
The Virginia ereeper as a decorative
| house and porch climber is just now
| (Oct. u in all its beauty. No tree or
shrub will give for brief season a
more rich or bizarre display of color.
| shading all the way up from blood red
to maroon, scarlet, orange and yellow
/ A festoon of IL on a north side OF your
house will be a whole flower ga,den for
color and beauty.
| II you want some nice currant bushes
| to set out next spring, cut this years
growth of wood from the old bushes--
the new shoots which have sprung
| from the roots-and stick them in a
box of damp sand, which keep in the
cellar. When spring comes, they will