The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-28

The thousand pound yearling steer
fatted for baby beef is a sixty dollar
product which should be more common
than it is on all farms where blue
grass, clover and corn will grow. To
produce him nothing is better than g
high grade Polled Angus.
There are much pleasure and many
good things to be got out of fall gar
den. The writer planted string beans,
turnips, seed onions, radishes and let
tuce the LIST of August, and on Oct. l,
there being no killing frost. had an
abundant harvest from the seed sOwn.
One-third of the western danSmen
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 thirty kept their cows at a
loss, one farmer received $2.35 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 her yourself if you are fool
enough to keep her and commence
singing "My soul, be on thy guard"
when you grab the pail and the milk
ing stool if you ever hope to shake
hands with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Where there are two or more men en-
gagged in the work of the farm it 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 q
division of labor, because chore work
and Sunday cleanliness and clothing
do not work well together.
When the public ideal of an agri
cultural fair centers around the sensa
tional in the amusement line, such as
midway fakes, dropping live dogs at
tached to a parachute from balloon
locomotive collisions and bullfights, II
were better that the people stayed a
home and kept right on milking cows
feeding hogs and doing the fall pillow
ing.
OF all the small fruits we find tn,
blackberry the most difficult to raise
A friend tells us that we take to,
good care of it and that if we woult
set out patch on the north side o
some grove and just let it entirel.
alone we would have all the blackbeI
ries we want. He says the blackberr.
| is just like an Indian-can't stand civ
| ilization.
| The grade of certificate held by tn
| pretty country schoolma'am has moth
| ing whatever to do as affecting he
chances for exchanging it for MARI
age certificate after she has laugh
| about a year and a half. In fact, a
we have noted it, those with a thir
| grade certificate are likely to go OF
first. for beauty and brains are ofte
strangers.
The Virginia creeper as a decoratiy
house and porch climber is just no.
oct. u in all its beauty. No tree {
shrub will give for a brief season
more rich or bizarre display of co
or, shading all the way up from
| 10 no
and yellow. \ festoon Of it on mort
side of your house viii be a whole flov
en- garden for color and beauty.
If you want some nice currant busht
to set out next spring, cut this year
growth of wood from the old bushes
the new shoots which have sprun
from the roots-and stick them in
box Of damp sand, which keep in IL
cellar. When spring comes, they wi
be rooted and ready to set out, TIL
rule applies to any and all plan
which may be propagated from Gu
tings.
Just as soon as a man gets to regal
his COW as Il machine instead of a pc
sion bureau the better results he wi
obtain. Like the ancient Hebrews, wi
were required to make bricks withO1
straw, so a large per cent of the Gov
are required to make milk withol
proper food. Cows can make milk OF
of straw Just as the Israelites cou
make bricks without it, but it is
hard proposition.
There should be a weekly gatheriI
Of a social sort maintained in eve
country community during the wint
months Ii may be literary, music;
terpsichorean or just simply social IT.
more the people of Il neighborhood S
of each other the more they will thil
Of each other-that is, generally spea
ing. Then the chance is thus given
the boys to go home with the girls, al
that's worth considerable.
One man whom we know has mat
q great success of hauling cut COZ
fodder by waiting until early whit
Ind taking a spell of cold, d
weather hauIiug thp corn 10 The HON