Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-11-28

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1901. by j. S Trigg, Rockford, la.
Correspondence Solicited.
If YOU want a good pumpkin pie the
Dumpkin needs to be boiled down.
crop of corn seems to be always
the best crop with which to follow a
crop OF flax.
The value of any sort of new bug
may ne determined by finding out what
other sort OF bug he wants for food
The year 1901 shows up with very
short crop of apples the country over,
only % 600 600 barrels against $4,000
QUO barrels year ago.
Wanted. -Some new bug to kiH OF
the box elder bug which has become an
unmitigated nuisance wherever box ell
der trees are grown.
The corn crop Of the state of Iowa
foOts up according to the crop report
ing officials, about 225 $4,000 bushels
an immense lot of corn after all
The grosbeak is he only bird which
we have ever noted as eating potato
bugs and he will eat one for sauce
while feasting on the early green peas.
If YOU want handsome cherry tree,
plant it on rich ground. but IL you want
cherries put it on the poorest ground
YOU have. We have found this out by
experience,
When the house cat takes up the bust
ness of catching chickens, the sooner
She is killed the better, for you can
never break her of the habit when once
acquired.
The government can far better afford
10 appropriate money for irrigation of
the fertile arid lands than to spend
it pulling snags out of unnavigable
streams.
California wines like Chicago dressed
beef are winning their way in the mar
kpts of Europe, whore alone it was not
long since thought good wines could
only be produced.
Onions are selling at so cents peck
all through country where it is entire
~ possible to raise 800 bushels of them
on one acre of land. There is cog
loose here somewhere.
Do not forget that if you want the
cajs to catch the rats around the barns
and granaries they must have daily
ration of raw milk The rats and the
milk make a balanced ration.
The new president. from his thorough
knowledge of the conditions of the
sCmiarid west, may reasonably be ex-
pestcd to cordially favor any move to
reclaim these unproductive lands by
a system of irrigation.
There is a recognized difference in
the quality of the meat of a well bred
md well fatted steer OF the standard
beef breeds and that of an equally
we'll 'attcd scrub steer which the eaters
o.. beef are willing to pay for.
Frost as pulverizer of tough and re-
.gaatory soils can do better work than
any machine which man ever made
For this reason all such soils should be
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earlier the better.
Pe-sons who wish to stock fakes
ponds or streams With food fish should
lft the cary tribe alone, for we have
newer heard OF or known CASE where
le-e fish have been introduced that
They did not end in disappointment
In a general way we have Just two
''s's TO apply 10 farm lands north and
south For the north VIII clover
grow For the south VIII alfalfa
grow. If not, such lands would have to
. offered very cheap TO get us To invest
a thcm
tae draining removes any excess of
.'|' IA a NtlNtlIif lIUlu Inc ldliu
ana nonserycs the moisture in the soil
.a dry time This seems like para
.'N"aI statement. yet it is nevertheless
e as any one may note on field
trained.
uWtchering Of pig in a Missouri
immunity on a Sunday. because OF the
.ae0luE manner in which the job
lone and the great noise made By
HN set in operation the provisions
"ndaF law and resulted in tbe
ars arrest.
'NnEatng stock ranch in Texas
Teen 10 twenty-five acres OF pas
~. ..n required for each head of stock
we ~ Wisconsin or Minnesota
"r the same amount Of Iowa OF
blue grass will keep the same
. ~ better condition
an authenticated record of
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