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

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real advance in the price of goot farm
land and setting price on their and
which seemed to them high have been
picket up before they could say Jack
Robinson.
The railway companies of the coun-
try buy good many old horses and
COWS during the year. which, curious'y
seem to have preference for coiar t
ting suicide on the track about the
time their usefulness is ended.
careful investigation showed that
OF 100 patrons of Western creamery
30 of them kept their COWS at an actual
loss, while one man received s235 for
each dollar spent for food for his cows
and another only so cents.
Twenty acres of shocked corn hurt
by the drouth and yielding 80 bushels
per acre We're husked and shredded UNI
der the writer's observation lately at
an expense of g per acre. ton and a
half of excellent shredded corn fodder
being secured from each acre.
Old and worn steel rails are now be-
ing converted into most durable and
satisfactory 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 it. 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 wagon, drove out to
the cornfield and husked more than
half a load of corn before he woke up,
doing the work just as we'll as though
he had been wide awake
1t seems like piece of foolshness to
make the statement chat any person is
crazy when he attempts to beat a fast
train at a railway crossing, but SO
many fatalities result from just such
folly that the truth needs pounding in
to the public. 1t is a 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 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 $40 The lady who serves a SIN
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
cute machine manufactures the ar
tificial comb and a swinder takes it
and fills it with glucose honey, scatter
ing here and there a dead bee on the
comb, and the deuded purchaser eats
il. 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 filling.
Speltz, or, more properly speaking.
Cmmer, 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 will 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 Will
only grow % bushels of corn to the
acre such land is not worth over $50.
while II It will produce G5, 70 and 50
bushels per acre such figures respect
lively represent in dollars its value per
acre.
Ten Acre Farm
ANY man who knows how can make
vastly better living off ten acre
farm situated near some good town
than he can 10 work at any of the ordi-
rary trades which will bring him in a
You see. when a man is so fixed that
he can keep COW. two or three pigs.
IS hens. have first-class garden and
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