Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-10-17

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Correspondence Solicited.
The best Thanksgiving bird is a ten
mound hen turkey.
COrnmeal and rice are the logical
end natural substitutes for the potato.
The short crop Of fruit and vegeta-
Hes has made a great market for all
old canned goods.
Whenever a dairy bred sire is used
fhe heifers produced invariably show
q greatly improved milk production.
Some genius has invented an extract
# ragyeed which, taken as a medicine,
lie guarantees to cure the hay fever.
Whole corn soaked for "a hours is n
much better food for hogs than corn
ground into meal or cooked.
At the late Minnesota state fair the
Surprise. an American, or native. plum,
look the lead over all other varieties
Exhibited.
It Is worth a good deal for a man to
be able to get up in the morning, plan
cut his own work and be his own boss.
This is the farmers privilege.
To have a field of shocked corn look
Just right there wants to be about a
lalf dozen loads of good sized pump
kins to the acre among the shocks.
The early spring wild flowers are
largely white in color. those of sum
mpr run To red. while the fall bios
SONS are mostly yellow and purple.
II YOU want canned fruit the hest
way is to put it up yourself even if it
does cost twice as much. You know
-hon just how big dose OF drugs you
get,
As a purely forage crop sorghum
stood the effects of the drouth and
made the largest amount of good feed
Of any crop planted in the ccrE bo,1
this season.
Tho line of satisfaction ard content
5ront is as hard to find rs the end Of a
rainbow, for we notice that no matter
how much money man may make he
sull wants more.
The man who refused co cants
ushel for his oil corn in July. think
ing he would got - cents for II. viii
take less than 80 cents for it or have
the fun of seeing the rats eat it up in
The crib,
The most beautiful specimens of
rollNnroi that we ever came across
grew on the line Of the Northern Pa
cdc railway in the timber belt in
northern Minnesota and were in full
tioOm ia the fore part of July.
The secretary of agriculture cmphat-
itlNg disputes Prof. Koch's newly adj
'lnnd theory that tuberculosis cannot
10 communicated from animals to men
and addures pretty convincing proof
Tat the professors theory is all wrong.
Two hundred and fifty thonrand girls
are wanted in the United States today,
not lypewriters. artists. musicians,
5chooltachers or milliners, but just
common sense practical girls who know
Iow 20 do homework and are willing to
do H.
II your hired man squirtS milk on
lis hands to luhricate the cows udder
"h.la he Is milking, and you sell milk
attic creamery. YOU should either milk
ne cows yourself or quit selling the
r.|E The # favor of butter IL more
directly traceablc to this cause than
aay other.
ATT through the corn belt this year
me utilities Of the corn crop lie as
much In the fodder rs in the ear With
Ear NJ $40 per ton the acre Of corn fod-
Ger is worth not less than s12 to.fee5
On the farm, which. with % bushels Of
corn AZ As cents, will make the crop Of
1.ol one Of the most profitable ever
la.sed
Tho POland-China hog at 81 per hun
'Te've.cht is very easily at the head
OF The procession this fall Each 300