The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-10-25

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The potato crop of 1901 is the poor
est ever raised in America.
England raises 1864, 500 acres of tur
nips, most of which crop is eaten by its
100000 sheep.
The Jersey bred male calf is a vealer
by predestination, and ten weeks
should mark the limit of his earthly
existence.
If only boys would take as kindly to
bucking wood as they do to bucking in
a football game-but they don't and
never WILL
AS wealth producers it is just now
nip and tuck between the oil wells of
Texas and the corn and hogs of the
western states.
No living man can afford to risk his
eternal happiness by trying to milk a
kicking COW of the three pound of but
ter a week sort.
A cord of oak wood costing Sc when
prepared for the stove is q much more
expensive fuel than a ton of Hooking
valley coal at the same price.
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Enough sugar beets will be harvested
this year in the southern part of Michi-
gan to produce the sugar needed to
supply all the people ip that state.
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If persistent layers of large white
eggs are wanted, try the Horrd lil
These fowls Are opposed 10 sitting on
general principles They, further, are
very desirable table fowls,
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The quality Of both the winter and
spring wheat raised In this country the
past season is exceptionally good. The
drought which cut short some of the
other crops contributed to this result
Wherever corn is extensively raised,
cows MIXED and hogs fed there the
silo has a place. for a winter ration OF
succulent food can thus be provided at
far less expense than by the growing
of any root crop.
Bad roads are popularity supposed to
be muddy roads, but in many sections
of the country the bad road is a sandy
one and is the worst in dry weather. A
top dressing of clay is the best cure
for this sort Of bad road.
Skimmilk is worth 80 cents a hun
bred pounds to feed the little pigs,
which, when six months old, will sell
at 81 per hundredweight, or more than
half as much as the whole milk will
bring to put into eight cent cheese.
France has seventy-five dogs for each
thousand of its population. In the locali-
ty where the writer lives there must be
not less than $50 to each thousand, and
the hides of nine-tenths of them were
intended by the Lord for glove stock
1t is claimed that concentrated I've
placed along the runways of rats will
get rid of the pests The I've sticks to
their feet and burns them, and then
they go to licking their feet, which is
too much for them. This is worth
trying. 9.s6s
y If county folk would visit with each
other more they would not give the
peddler, the politician and the fake
agent so warm a welcome. When per-
sons have been left alone for u week,
they will welcome most any old codger
who comes along.
We are asked what becomes Of the
pork made from the old stays and
700 pound old hogs disposed of in the
packing house markets. The sailors
on the high seas get them, thus nicely
illustrating one of the practical uses
of the American navy.
A cheap tread power, so arranged
that the bull win have to mount it and
work it in order to reach his food, will
almost surely take the devil out of him.
If the power is attached to pump,
ha will do better and more reliable
work than any windmill.
One COW is just as likely to be cheap
at $75 as another is at $25. 1t all de
ponds upon the COW. A cow which will
make 400 pounds of butter in year is
cheap at that figure, while another
which win only make calf and n ma
nure pile is dear at third Of the mon
ey.
A Missouri landlord who had a mum
Der of tenants and whose land was 10
Gated where the drought did its worst
work the past season made out re
ceipts in full for this years rent and
sent one to each of his tenants. This
man is thus getting his tombstone en-
graved before he dies.
This was cruelty: He put two calves
on to one COW and turned them out tC
take drought luck in the pasture, and
when these were fit for the butcher hi
put two fresh calves with the COW
When fall came, she was mere skele
ton. Inhumanity works hand in hant