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The fat horse is always more easily
sold than the lean one. Fat hides many
defects.
A farm may be worth only $50 an
acre to sell and still be worth 500 an
acre to keep.
The winds which blow do not do one
half the useful work which they might
be made to do.
If your dog is ugly, don't take any |
chances on him. Tan his hide, but take |
it off from him first.
The small sum Of So in the cost Of !
the sire will often make $50 difference
in the value Of the colt.
We never could see just why people
will keep a flock Of geese where there
is no water for them to keep clean in.
The Rambler roses must be well COW
cred during the winter north Of lati-
tude AZ in order to insure their living
over.
The general use Of corn fodder pre-
vented a famine in the hay market the
past winter through much Of the west
and northwest.
Frequent cultivation not only makes
the care of the garden easy, but won
derfully stimulates the growth Of all
garden products.
1t viii pay well to grow a half acre
Of sugar beets just for the milk cows
and the brood sows; nothing better for
either during the winter.
Because the hired man on the farm
has a sort Of cinch this year it is no
sort of reason why he should go off
and get full Saturday night.
The Vassar college girls, if they are
counted pretty, ethereal and intellec-
tual, manage to get away with several
barrels of potatoes at each meal.
A patient and persistent encounter
with hard work and dirt has laid the
foundation for more of the big fortunes
Of America than any other one thing.
The Nebraska experiment station re-
ports that cowpeas will from a given
area Of land produce more and better
milk producing food than any other
crop.
The sparrows pick up an immense
amount of rubbish for their nests, and
few people whom we know depend
upon the sparrow to clean up their
yards.
A pair Of Norman horses was sold
for IL cents per pound in the COM
munlty in which the writer lives a
short time since. The team weighed
1920 pounds.
A friend Of ours put in hard three
hours work to dig out an old willow
stump the origin of which was a sliI
which he took much pleasure in plant
ing 20 years ago.
Raspberries may be safely trans
planted in late May, when the new
growth has well started, by taking
them up with a good spadeful of eartt
attached to the roots.
The increase Of the box elder bug hal
simply kept pace with the increase il
the number Of box elder trees. And 81
long as We have the trees we are prett!
sure to have the bugs.
are asked whether pieplant is
y { or a vegetable. That depend
neither the question is asked of
4 scientist or just a common gardener
$ For our use it is fruit.
, Based upon purely physical and ecC
? homie reasons, it is best to rest, so ia
6 as may be possible, upon the Sabbat
y day. Then there are moral reason
! which should not be wholly ignored.
There is a good deal connected wit
= being able to select the good mother
' in the matter of raising farm animal
Z and still more in having sense enoug
: to keep them year after year as bree'
. ers.
IS The things which seem commonplat
y enough to you are quite likely to |
q very wonderful things to that sma
& boy Of yours. 1t is a great help to +
% member that you were boy yOurse
Z at one time.
8 1t is noted that the hog is invariabl
. healthier in the dairy sections of Il
= country than in those where the cow
not kept, and this difference is attri
, uted to the use of skimmilk for the phi
I when young.
We finished putting out a new stray
h berry bed April 24-200 Clydes, p
Beder Woods and 400 Warfelds. TIL,
= viii be cultivated this summer, co
BIT cred next winter, and next season v
Is shall have berries to burn.
Z How Are Your KIdneyss
n Dr. Hobbs sparagus Pills cure all kidney Ills. sa
Ile free' Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or n,
p We find the best time to trim a
r. orchard tree to be the last of May
40 "a the first of June, just when the sap
n full flow. Trimmed then, the wour
% very quickly heals over with a ne
8 growth of bark.
20 We note no difference whatever
., different breeds of hogs as to their Ii
80 bility to disease. When the cholera
q abroad in the land, it takes the razC
Ii back just as certainly as it does t