The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1901-11-29

ent. BY the way, 8 per cent. milk is
retty thin stuff, and fat babies will not
@ found Oil the route of the mllkman
Tho sells 1t.
What may be done with a small
,iece of land is well illustrated by q
whom we know who the past sea-
on has sold the produce raised on two
lots containing just GA square rods
# ground for $125, or at the rate OF
'ver 5000 per acre. The produce raised
vas mostly common garden vegetables.
When you have sown the clover in
he spring with a nurse crop, pastur-
ID 1t in the fall after the crop has been
'emoved. cut the field for hay the fol-
owing June and taken a crop of seed
rom it in September, that clover field
,as fulfilled it's mission and is done for
,nless enough seed is left on the
to reseed the field.
A mar who would kick up quite a
fuss should some relation of his wife's
to his home and hang around I'M
to work for his board, will still
keep in his COY barn and milk twice a
day n or more COWS who are just as
big beats as any relative which his
wife may have, and do it all compla-
just because of his ignorance.
What seems to be a perfect remedy
for sOurs In young calves. a trouble
with which nearly every dairyman is
familiar, is found in the use of dried
Elood is prepared for market at the
large packing house concerns. A ia
blespoonful 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 enor-
mously increased, and that in many
countries. 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 pros
pect.
Persistent advertising will create a
demand for any fairly good article, but
a superlatively good article will find a
market. anyway. There is a certain
cereal breakfast food being made today
which, so far as we have noticed, has
never been advertised at all, yet be-
cause Of its excellence, the demand is
so great that the manufacturers cannot
fill the orders sent them.
We have n friend who owns a good
farm. and he rents this farm right
along for 81 cents an acre less than he
could get for the reason that he has q
tenant who takes good care of the
place. This tenant keeps the fences up
the barn doors in place, the manure
hauled out, the tree trimmed, the weeds
on the highway moved, and our frienC
thinks all these things are worth about
Is cents an acre to him when he goes
out to sec the place.
The man with a productive apple or.
chard located in the Northwest, whilc
he has plenty of encouragement, al
] Ways llto ILLS luNdlldSt oNtl HE
brother orchardist in the more ia
vored regions of the far East or thu
far WeSt-he is always close to a goot
market in Il territory where the prod
uction of apples will be far below thu
normal demand. And this question o
Il good market for fruit is one of thu
main elements of attaining success il
the business.
In the city of Vienna, last year
there were 25.640 horses and dorkey'
slaughtered for food, the meat being solC
in 1S5 meat shops specially licensed by
the municipal authorities for that pur
pose. All this meat was carefully in
spected by government officials befor,
being sold. The fore quarters of thesl
animals sell for from 5 to 8 cents pc
pound and the hind quarters at & to
cents, choice cuts retailing at 10 cents
or less than one-half the price OF sim
liar cuts of beef.
The past season has been a bad on.
for the farmers in England and Scot
land. The competition of the low
priced grains and meats of this countr,
has about ruined the agricultural in
tcrests of those countries. Each yea
shows a fewer number of acres tile,
land a lesser amount of stock kept
while my lord who lives in the castl
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