The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-12-13

Fifty dollars worth Of paint and q
title labor put on the house and farm
buildings will add $500 to the value OF
farm when it is offered for sale.
Looks count for almost as much with a
farm as with woman.
The railway companies of the coun-
try buy good many old horses and
cows during the year, which, curiously,
seem to have a preference for commit
ding suicide on the track about the time
their usefulness is ended.
A careful investigation showed that
If 100 patrons of western creamery
thirty of them kept their cows at an
actual loss while one man received
30. 35 for each dollar spent for food for
his cows and another only go cents.
Twenty acres Of shocked corn hurt
by the drought and yielding thirty-five
bushels per acre were husked and
shredded under the writer's observa-
ton lately at an expense of So per
acre, a ton and a half Of excellent
shredded fodder being secured from
each acre.
Old and worn steel rails are now be-
ing converted into a most durable and
railway tie at very small
expense A substitute for the wooden
tie, so short lived, must be found, and
the old rail will help to do 1t. Tracks
laid with these ties do not require one
half the work in maintenance.
An Iowa boy whose daily work had
been gathering the crop Of corn on the
farm got up one night in his sleep,
went to the barn, harnessed the horses,
hitched on to the wagon, drove out to
the cornfield and husked more than
half load of corn before he woke up,
doing the work just as well as though
he had been wide awake.
Don't set a price upon your farm
unless you mean to sell.
most men are sharp
enough after the dollars, not few
have been unable to keep up with the
real advance in the price of good farm
land and setting a price on their land
which seemed to them high have been
picked up before they could say Jack
Robinson"
1t seems like piece of foolishness to
make the statement that any person is
crazy when he attempts to beat fast
train at railway crossing, but so
many fatalities result from just such
folly that the truth needs pounding in
to the public. 1t is very poor way by
which to exhibit that spirit of bravado
which is so very characteristic of the
American people.
Olives are likely to pass from high
priced delicacy to a common and low
priced food product The olive crop
of California is large, and the price of
the olives has dropped from $40 per
ton to $50. The lady who serves a six
course supper at some feminine func-
ton will have to substitute something
for the olive and wafer which so often
make one of the courses.
A cute machine manufactures the ar
tiflcial comb, and a swindler takes 1t
and fills it with glucose honey, scatter
ing here and there a dead bee on the
comb, and the deluded purchaser eats
1t, associating it with apple bloom, the
fragrance Of white clover and summer
flowers, while the stuff is made of
paraffin instead of beeswax for the
comb and glucose for filing.
Speltz, or, more properly speaking,
emmer, a European cereal but little
known in this country, is being doomed
by some Of the northwestern papers.
The merit of this plant seems to lie in
connection with the semiarid belt, as it
can stand heat and dry weather better
than any Of our common cereals. Like
bronze grass, there is no place for it
where corn, oats and barley win do
well.
Rather curiously, farm land may be
said to be worth per acre in the corn
belt just as many dollars as it will one
year with another produce bushels of
corn per acre; thus If the land win
only grow twenty-five bushels of corn
to the acre such land is not worth over
$25, while if it will produce sixty-fve,
seventy and eighty bushels per acre
such figures respectively represent in
dollars its value per acre.
The difficulty of tanning and civiliz-
ing wild things is well illustrated in
the case Of the 1900 Indians upon one
of the western reservations. Small.
pox is decimating their ranks, and
they will neither submit to vaccination
nor quarantine. The state has no con-
troll over them, and the general gov
eminent humors their whims.s The
reservation is surrounded by a thickly
settled community of white farmers,
who fully realize what nuisance the
red man can become.