Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-10-24
Correspondence Solicited.

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The potato crop of 1901 is the poorest 80
ever raised in America.
England raises 664 500 acres Of tur- o,
rips most of which crop is eaten by It's -
70 600 600 sheep. worl
, ceip,
nv predestination, and ten weeks man
should mark the limit of his earthly gray
existence,
- only boys would take as kindly to COW
nucking wood as they do to bucking in nv,
a football game-but they don't and and
never will. he n
Whe
AS wealth producers it is just now ton
rip and tuck between the oil wells OF with
Texas and the corn and hogs of the
Western states. TT
No living man can afford to risk his shou
,,eiral happiness by trying 10 mix all 4
Ecking COW of the three pounds of corn
butter a week sort. ing
Ang
A cord of oak wod costing Sc when
expensive fuel than ton OF hooking good
valley coal at the same price. den
turn
Enough sugar beets will be harvest tuce
ed this year in the southern part of Their
Mich gan to produce the sugar needed abuI
to supply all the people of that state
1t persistent layers of large white do II
eggs are wanted. try the Houdans. as t
IN sitting In a
general principles They, further, are crea
very desirable table fowls. one
dolli
The quality of both the winter and est
spring wheat raised in this country the
past season is exceptionally good. The II
iTouth which cut short some of the do
Cher crops contributed to this result. milk
fool
Wherever corn is extensively raised, sing
co,us roilked and hogs fed there the whe
sllO has a place. for a winter ration of stoo
succulent food can thus be provided at WIN
far less expense than by the growing
Of any root crop w
engs
E.,d roads are nonularlv supnosed TO an e
b. muddy roads but in many sections the
If the country the bad road is a sandy turn
one and is the worst in dry weather day
ton dressing of clay is the hest cure for a di
this sort of bad road ana
do Il
Skimmilk is worth 35 cents hun
bred pounds to feed the little pigs, w
which, when six months old, will sell .ura
M g. nor bundredweipht or more than tion
laIt as mucb as the whole milk will mid
ITir, r. nut irto e-cent cheese tach
loco
wer,
france mas 10 dogs TOT each l,ooo OF HON
US population. In the locallty where feed
the writer lives there must be not less ing
than $50 to each 1000, and the hides of
nlne tenths of them were intended by M
the Lord for glove stock. b,ac
A Fl
II Is clalmed that concentrated I'VE care
placed along the runways of rats will nate
srt ria or the pests. me rye SUCKS 10 and
Nti leet ana DurnS them, anu thei have
they go to licking their feet, which is saws
too much for them. This is worth dian
trying.
If country folk would visit with each pret
other more, they would not give the ing
Itodler, the politician ana the rake char
agent so warm welcome When per- RAG
f'us nave been ieIt alone Ior a week, abol
tleF VIII welcome most any ola codger have
VINO comes along. grad
first
We are asked what becomes of the stra
pork made from the old stays and 700
pound old hogs disposed OF in the pack TT
ing house markets. The sailors on the hou
high seas get them, thus nicely illus (Oct
Fatlng one of the practical uses OF the shirt
American navy. NOR
shat
4 Che,1 tread power so arranged TO n
that the bull will have to mount it A ft
and work il in order to reach his food hou
"ll. almost surely take the devil ont of colo
Nun II the power is attached to a
pump he will do better and more re- If
""'I" work than any windmill. to S
groy
lue COW is just as likely TO be cheap the
SIS as another is at S25. 1t all de- from
ponds upon the cow COW which box
NUl make 400 mounds nf butter in a cella