The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-10-04

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A good beefsteak costs 60 cents a
pound in Paris and good wine cent a
gallon. No wonder the nation is peter
ing out.
Where the writer lives a bushel Of
potatoes brings as much as bushel of
peaches, and not a peach raised within
200 miles.
With pork at 81 per hundredweight
and beans at $2.75 per bushel, the great
national dish is getting out Of reach of
poor people.
Make note of the fact that shredded
corn fodder is just as good for horses
as it is for other kinds Of stock. 1t has
no heaves In it.
Eighty-two per cent of the American
housekeepers get along without any
hired girl, and the other IL per cent
wish that they could
In the work Of growing all the small
fruits it is of just as much Importance
to arrange beforehand for the market
for the fruit as it is to grow it..
California vineyardists who have an
established wine trade with France will
find it hard to meet the competition Of
French wines at cent a gallon.
Cows in the best dairy districts Of
Holland bring in their owners about
$50 each per year. This is about up to
the record of the best American diaries.
1t is now too late to cut weeds, for
the mischief is done. Still, we saw a
man at it Sept. 20, and his work looked
like a sort of agricultural deathbed re-
pentance.
The pound of butter, the dozen Of
eggs and the pound of steak are very
near together in the matter Of price
these days. A man has got to be earn
ing over a dollar day to get even q
smell of them.
Don't aspire to live too long, for
there are lots Of old fellows over ninety
in the poorhouses of the country. In
fact, if one wants to find man ninety
and over the poorhouse is the best place
to hunt for him.
Hogs sold in Chicago Sept. 10 at 81,
the highest price paid since 1882 High
er rather than lower prices for hogs are
predicted for the winter. This condi-
ton of things makes hog raising the
most profitable form of farm produc-
ton.
When a man takes load of hogs to
town and then takes on load of beer
and his team runs away with him and
breaks his neck while going home, it
gives job to the undertaken, the par
son, the sexton and the judge of the
probate court without any serious loss
to the community at large.
We are asked why it is that with 49,
100000 acres of rich land subject to
homestead entry in the state of Nebras-
ka alone the government should be ask
ed to spend millions to promote irriga-
~ ie nQc nj
an acre of this land in Nebraska is
worth cent for general farming pur-
poses without irrigation.
One of our valued agricultural pa
pers says that boiled milk with little
pepper is just as good for chickens as
it is for children. This may be all
right for the chickens. but our own
experience in raising children is that
the less pepper one gets into them the
better. Most American born kids have
too much pepper, ginger and hot stuff
in them on general principles.
There is not half the show for bugs
under limited monarchy that there is
under republic; for instance, the Colo
RADIO potato bug had the run Of this
country without any official interior
ence. Not long since few Of these
pests were discovered in England, and
everybody turned out to kill them.
while a $50 penalty was imposed on
any person knowingly harboring them.
That's the way to fight bugs.
A good crop of potatoes, say of the
late varieties-Burbank or Rural New
Yorker-could have been raised in this
year of general drought and potato fail
ure had such crop been given continu-
ous-that is. weekly-surface cultiva-
ton all through the dry season. 1t is
strange, but none the less true, that the
common belief is that the more the
ground Is stirred in dry time the fast
err 1t will dry out, when the exact re-
verse of this is true.
Cresceus. the worlds trotting cham
pion. hurt his leg when colt and was
ordered killed by his owner, but he
escaped death, recovered and from an
ornery, most unpromising animal as a
yearling has developed into king of the
turf. This leads us to remark that
there are lots of boys like this horse