Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-11

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before he can hope to secure any sort
of crop.
One western county maintains a
county farmers institute and has
monthly gatherings the year round
The summer meetings are given pic
mic turn. and the system is one to be
commended.
Existing prices for farm products, If
continued. will justify still higher
valuation of farm lands. Land which
will bring in the owner a net return of
IS per acre for series of years is
worth 800 per acre as an investment.
Sir Walter Siemens estimates that
the power generated at the falls OF
Niagara and mostly going to waste
horsepower the equivalent
of that obtainable from all the coal
mined and consumed in the whole
world.
Let the small boys onthe farm go to
the circus and celebrate the Fourth. as
boys like to. Don't forget that 40
years ago you got up at 8 o'clock on the
morning of the Fourth to try those
firecrackers. There has been no change
in the boys.
1t will please the grangers of the
west TO learn that Mr.. Phillips, who
lives il little one story cottage. at
Evanston. made enough out of his corn
deal so that he can move into brown
stone front on Michigan avenue if h.
wants to.
June extras are going into cold stor-
age at about 20 cents, marked adj
vance over the prices paid few years
ago. when Is and 16 cents was consid-
cred good price for June creamery
butter. The improved methods of re-
frigeration which almost perfectly
preserve the June butter favor arc
largely responsible for this advance.
The margin between June and January
butter is now very small.
Don't fool yourself with the promise
that when you have made your pile
you are going to lay off and enjoy your
self When you get ready to lay off.
If you ever do, you will have lost the
capacity for enjoying anything save
hard work and the making Of money.
Happiness in living very fortunately
is given to men in daily installments
and cannot be banked and checked
out all in lump at some future and
far-off time.
Southern Missouri is not likely to de-
velop into the home of the big red
apple" as was so confidently expected
a few years ago. Insects, blight and
fungous diseases have so affected the
orchards of that section that the owner
of $500 acre orchard there located
pronounces the attempt at commercial
orchardng a total failure. The two
most promising new apple sections Of
the country are Northern Michigan and
Idaho.
A writer in Minnesota paper states
that the prairie chickens OF that state
will hatch out two broods this year, the
spring weather having been so favor
able. This is a mistake. This bird
rarely ever brings off more than one
brood in season unless the first set
ting of eggs is destroyed in some man
ner. The quail will often in the lati-
titude of Missouri bring off two broods
in year, but the rusfed grouse and the
prairie chicken never
We would like to know whether or
not it would be possible, and, II posi-
BILE, profitable, to domesticate the COM
mon wild pea of the North and grow it
as a field crop. There Is no doubt that
it is a valuable legume and under IA
yorable conditions in its Wild state
produces a heavy crop of fodder of
1ust the kind which is needed on every
stock farm. Have any OF our read
ers ever had any experience with this
plant? If so, we will be glad to hear
from them.
The fear was expressed at many OF
the horticultural meetings last winter
that the apple trees of the West and
Northwest were in special danger OF IN
Jury by the cold of the winter because
the trees carried nearly all their leaves
into and through the winter. This fear
seems not to have been well founded,
for apple orchards never came through
a winter in better shape. Possibly an
exemption from very low range OF
during the winter may
have had something to do with their
good condition.
II takes more skill to make good
cheese than IL does to make good but
ter. Butter making 's reduced TO SCI
ence. while cheesemaking is still large
" done by guess. The principal trou-
bic lies in the curing OF the cheese
most Of il being cured in too high a
The fancy and high priced
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