Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-12-05

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materia! is cornStalks, then clean straw
or any sort. The sole object of cover
ing the bed is TO prevent the thawing of
the ground and not the freezing.
A northern lake which has for MANY
years been known as great resort for
canvasback and redhead ducks, which
fed on the wild celery which grew
aDundantly in the lake, is now entirely
avoided by these valued game birds
because the carp placed in the waters
have @aten all the celery.
A young lady friend of ours is work
ing as a hired girl for $3.50 per week
foG the sole purpose of getting the
means wherewith to pay her way
through course at some college That's
the sort of a girl we like. Her enter
prise ought to secure her not only an
education but one of the best men for
a 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 il is not money
well invested The farmer under com
ing agricultural conditions must know
r'ore than his father who wrestled with
pioneer discouragements and cheap
land.
We came across Two men recently,
each over 60. 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 mos
quito.
1t has never been entirely clear to us
why the pests of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
hoppers. chinch bugs, potato bugs, Dor
ers hessian fly, aphides, purslane pig
weed foxtail ragw eed and the like
should have been endowed with such
marvellous powers of reproduction.
They are an propagated on ratio not
of 90 GO CT 100 fold, hut 10000 fold,
and need but just Ii 'foothold to claim
all the earth. The good things of life
lack this power of fecundity
When man plants out a honey To-
Gust tree, ne starts quite little trouble
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 fol-
lowing the habit of the Canada thistle
in this particular. We know of ono
case where single locust planted 30
years ago has covered over several
arces of land with these sucker trees.
The government has interesting re-
ports from Its expert sent to examine
the agricultural capabilities of the Yu.
kon valley in Alaska. He reports that
nearly all the common yegpta bles-pu-
tatoes. tuITlps. cabbage, onions. let
tuce, radish-and in cereals barley can
be raised there without difficulty. the
almost perpetual SUNSHINE Of the sum-
mer largely compromising 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 a milk COW are the
commonest of Things bul just the
same they have offered problems which
tax the best knowledge and wisdom Of
the most wise AMI 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 a soil releemer viii still furnish
texts for valuable agricultural sermons
many years hence.
We were in one OF the largest TG,ttrv
establishments Of the West not long
ago when large consignment Of all
sorts of dressed poultry were trcing
received. Talking with the proprieror
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 u
cents a pound. these Wen dressed and
others equally fat which he could not