The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-02-08

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Alfalfa is apt to give butter disa-
greeable favor, and care has to be ex-
ercised in feeding it.
1t is said that geese are very subject
to tuberculosis. Perhaps this is the
right name for pate de fois gras.
The Whitney No. 20 apple or crab Is
commended by nearly all our nursery
men as good stock for top grating.
The rot destroyed the potato crop of
northern Michigan the past year, the
damage being estimated at $1,0O0,O00.
The year book of the department of
agriculture for 1899 is the finest thing
of it's kind ever issued by the govern
ment.
Last years crop of cotton in Texas
was of the value of $150,O00,00O, or
500, 100000 more than Iowa's corn crop
was worth.
South Dakota did a mighty good
thing when she snapped off the jack
rabbit and the town site boomer for
old Bossy and Biddy.
The largest oil well ever drilled was
set to flowing in the state of Texas
three weeks ago. It's product is esti-
mated at $4,000 barrels day.
A trolley line can be built and equip
ped for about what it would cost to
macadamize highway If the material
for matchmaking has to be imported.
Every man owning and living on a
should have farm home which costs
not less than $1,000, and this home
should have modern conveniences.
The rural mail business is proving to
be the terror of the fourth class post
masters, for hardly any of these routes
is established that does not knock one
or more of these postmasters out of a
job.
The doctors tell the writer that this
is a great boy year out on the farm,
lots more boys than girls being born
Possibly nature is doing something to
help remedy the hired help trouble on
the farm.
The burden of testimony from plum
growers is to the effect that where
poultry is kept in the plum orchard
the trees are more thrifty, the fruit
of better size and freer from insect
pests and the yield larger.
An English writer who recently
visited this country made the criticism
that the. American people Hacked the
power of repose." If we could have in
troduced him to hired man we once
had he would never have said this.
There was $2,000,000 worth of buggy
whips manufactured in this country
last year, and large per cent Of them
were given away to get the farmer to
subscribe for a so called agricultural
paper which was worth less than the
whip.
Something more than a profit of 500
an acre will have to be shown up by
beet growers to induce men who are
raising 30 cent corn, So hogs, Sc beef
and making 20 cent butter to get down
ON all tours and thin beets on a hot
July day.
Cheap clover seed is almost invaria-
bly, adulterated seed. Some tests made
by the department at Washington
showed that seed selling for So bush
ell contained no less than 20.92S weed
seeds to the pound. The most common
adulterants are foxtail, sorrel, plan
tain, dodder and Hungarian grass. Seed
which cost $7.20 per bushel had but 226
weed seeds to the pound.
The agent of firm which makes a
speciality of constructing systems of
waterworks for small towns was try
ing to work the council of small
western town not long since and had
the gall to claim that water in an ee-
waited tank % feet above the level of
the street would have sufficient force
to throw fire stream to p height of 30
feet He failed to get the contract
If you want a fancy price for your
road horse, there is almost as much
in properly fitting him for the market
as there is in the breed. The country
is full Of slouchy, ungainly. i'll gated
luni heads eff horses which. had they
been properlr handled ana broken in.
would have made attractive and stylish
animals As much in This line can be
done for horse as for a young man.
An otherwise pretty good farmer
who, putting an acre of potatoes in in a
slipshod sort of way each year, had
never been able to get over so or GO
bushels per acre got a pleasing surprise
whnn he Onvq his 10-vpaI-ol1 hov an