Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-07-26

'Oung men willing to pemain hired men [
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hired girls, and this time is not COM
ng right away, for the flag and the 4
school. the pulpit and newspaper and /
he air we breathe are each and all at
work to make disconnected hired men /
and hired girls, and the glory OF Amer
.ca is that this is so.
We noted on recent trip along the
right of way of a western railway not
less than . varieties Of our native flora
which are wholly extinct save as they
may be found along such rights Of way
Of the roads. These narrow strips,
fenced in and never pastured, are pre-
serving not only the native flowers
which were so plentiful when the cOun-
try was first settled. but also several
varieties Of native grasses.
1t used to be very common thing
hundred years ago for the British
authorities to impress men into the
naval service of that country, but it
has remained for the farmers of Kan
sas to seize the persons Of gang Of
tramps and by force of arms compel /
them to leave the train upon which |
they were travelling and 90 to work in |
the Kansas wheatfields. 1t is not often
that agriculture gets on such a bel !
ligerent streak.
A friend wants us to tell him how
to identify the old hens from the full
grown young hens in his large flock;
in OTHER words, how to Gull out his two
year old hens While there is no reli-
able mark or indication, as teeth in n
horse or rings on a cows horn, there
is still to the practiced eye a marked
difference in the appearance of the
aged hens as compared with the young
ones. They are more clumsy, heavier,
fatter. 1t is not hard to pick them out.
The weed is rank, coarse, aggressive,
Iawless. and the delicate flower which
has to contest with it for sunshine and
fertility has but poor show, and so
we root up the weed and give the bet.
| ter thing a chance. 1t is just this way
| in life. The coarse, the unrelined, the
vicious, riot in virility and sort of
brute strength, and unless checked and
eradicated easily smother out the beau
| tiful and the good in the world. Pull
the weeds in the garden, and pull those
other and worse weeds also.
A good deal depends upon just how
a business is started, for here is the
state of Minnesota with its hundreds
If creamerics as a general rule not Op-
Grating them upon the Sabbath, while
Iowa creameries are run continuously
Just because the business was so start
ed years ago. This Sunday work is
not an easy problem to solve where
large numbers of cows are kept. About
as much work on the farm is involved
in caring for the milk over Sunday as
though it were taken to the creamery
We have lying on the desk before us
as we write a head of blue stem wheat
large and well developed. taken from
a field of growing succotash, or miXeC
wheat and oats, and at the basp Of tnl
head in place of ono Of The wheat husk
is a well devel, ped husk of yellow Oat
containing two perfectly formed ker
nels. We have never come across an.
such hybrid growth in cereal grains be
fore. The men who believe that whea
degenerates into chess might here flint
some evidence to support their theory
LONGITUDE A HUNDRED.
We are in receipt of several inquire
rs 10 the wisdom of investing in cheal
, lands which lie bordering the line o
: longitude 100 degrees west and latitud
. from u to As north. If we cOrrectl
: understand the topography, rainfall
and climatic conditions of the territor
referred to-and we think that we dc
for we have examined the land and tn
4 conditions personally-we are frml
q of the opinion that agriculture - til
s growing of the common cereal crops c
,r the country and its grasses and roots
10 as practiced in all the older settled DO
Is tions of the country is not, taking a s.
a ries of years, Il safe business Dropos
ton. The country has its uses, bI
they are not in the line Indicate
" There are just two conditions whiC
y. are constantly liable to defeat man
+ best work in the effort to raise a crop
Y. an uncertain and deficient rainfall al
40 the hot winds from the southwest,
in which may be added incidentally
m greater liability to loss by hail than
any other section Of the country. II
soil is exceedingly fertile and respO
IN sive. but the drawbacks referred to a
a a normal attribute of that section al
OF such as will never be modified or I
lis moved by settlement and the GUILTY.
at ton of the soil. This country Is one
nd the best sheep sections in the Unit
er States. 1t is also a good cattle cOuntI
gy and fine horses can be raised thel
and its uses lie on these lines. The V;
ne of these lands must therefore
at based upon what they may be wor
he for these purposes, bearing In mi
nj, the fact that if one acre will pasture
OF COW in the luXuriant blue grass mea
Tx, Ows of Iowa it will take Il good d.
ilk more than one acre to keep the sal
ed COW in the territory mentioned y
ne cannot undertake to say what su
lands are worth for these stock gro
ing purposes further than to say Il
iaWV an acre of blue grass in Iowa or l
,s+ nOs is worth not less than $50 as ID
Oh ture land. 1t should be said that tn,
no will come seasons, like the present o.
-r,,r when the rainfall will be ample a
nc when splendid crops of all the cere
- may be raised, as will be done t
no year, and it is possible that improV
tba methods of cultivating the soil will
~ discovered and adopted whereby
Oh moisture and rainfall will be bet
tbo conserved. but the ample rainfall
Iod the exception. and it is pretty hard
conserve moisture when there is NJ
to conserve. Summing up. we wo
say if such lands are bought it sho
-. be on their value as stock ranges 6
=. not as grain producing lands.
NJ FUTURE PRICES.
o+i We are asked how long present p
rio- ing prices for farm products will
~, likely to continue Prices for what
90 farmer raises and has to sell are ba
If wholly upon the demand for 81
- produce; this demand comes partii
~ from other lands and mostly from
III nonproducers of our own count
Good prices imply ability of the {