The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-22

the winter For this purpose nothing +
better than marsh hay. The next hes
material is cornstalks, then clean straw
of any sort. The sole object Of covering
the bed is to prevent the thawing o.
the ground and not the freezing.
A northern lake which has for many
years been known as a great resort
for canvasback and redhead ducks
which fed on the wild celery which
grew ablndantly In the lake, is now
entirely avoided by these valued game
birds because the carp placed in the
waters have eaten all the celery.
A young lady friend Of ours is work
ing as a hired girl for $3.50 per weel
for the sole purpose of getting the
means wherewith to pay her way
through a course at some college. That's
the sort of girl we like. Her enter
prise ought to secure her not only ar
education, but one of the best men fol
husband.
Try the experiment anyhow and send
the boy this winter to some good agri
cultural school or college for a three
months term 1t will not cost very
much-less than 500 for clothes, books
and board--and see If it is not money
well invested The farmer under com
| ing agricultural conditions must know
more than his father who wrestled with
pioneer Heterogeneous and cheap
land
We came across two men recently,
each over sixty, who had not made the
discovery during all their lives that the
fly which bites the horses is not the
same sort of fly which tickled their
bald heads and got into the sugar
bowl. While these two varieties of flies
look almost exactly alike, they are built
very differently, the house fly feeding
by surface suction, while the horse fly
bores for blood like a mosquito.
1t has, never been entirely clear to us
why the pests of agriculture grasshop-
pers, chinch bugs, potato bugs. borers,
hessian fly, aphides, purslane pigweed,
foxtail, ragweed and the like-should
have been endowed with such marvel
GUS powers of reproduction. They are
all propagated on ratio not of twenty,
sixty or one hundred fold, but million
fold, and need but just foothold to
claim all the earth The good things
Of life lack this power of fecundity.
When a man plants out honey To-
Gust tree, he starts quite little trou-
bic for himself as a general thing. No
tree of which we know will so persist
emily extend itself by suckers, and the
more these suckers are cut off the more
they will spread, almost exactly follow
ing the habit of the Canada thistle in
this particular We know of one case
where a single locust planted thirty
years ago has covered over several
acres of land with these sucker trees.
The government has interesting re-
ports from it's expert sent to examine
the agricultural capabilities Of the Tu-
kon valley In Alaska. He reports that
nearly all the common vegetables po-
tatoes, turnips, cabbage, onions, let
tuce, radish--and In cereals barley can
be raised there without difficulty, the
almost perpetual sunshine of the sum-
mer largely compensating for the
shortness of the growing season. The
native grasses are reported as very
luxuriant.
In the abstract an ear of corn, a
stalk of clover and milk COW are the
commonest of things. but just the same
they have offered problems which tax
the best knowledge and wisdom of the
most wise and learned of men, and
they have not yet found out all there
is to know about this remarkable trim
ity of good things. The COW and her
milk, corn and its utilities and clover
as soil redeemer will still furnish
texts for valuable agricultural sermons
many years hence.
We were in one of the largest poul-
try establishments of the west not long
ago when large consignments of all
sorts of dressed poultry We're being
received. Talking with the proprietor,
he said that there was loss of from
% to so per cent to the average shipper
or producer solely on account of care
less dressing of the birds. He showed
us turkeys which he was selling at 10
cents pound, these well dressed, and
Others equally fat which he could not
get rid of at cents owing to their bad
appearance.
There is all the difference in the
world between driving your work and
being driven by it. In this strenuous
age 1t is almost impossible for any man
doing any sort sof business to take
things easy and do them deliberately.
A slackening of the pace set by modern
business methods means being run
over, crowded back and seeing your
place usuEped by some other man with
more push. There is much to regret in
this state of things, for this high pres
sure method robs man of very much OF
the pleasure OF living.
dertook to reproduce the ideal of Long
fellows "Village Blacksmith He pro-
duced young and vigorous man,
when it win be recalled that he went
to church
and sits among his boys.
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