Milford chronicle., 1901-09-13

cation to bitter which II
We man does to the honest
N.
me wise men now say that salt is !.
he real elixir OF life. How about +
hose old Indian chiefs who turned 2
hundred years and never tasted salt t
Il all their lives? I
Late tests made at the Kansas ex-
station prove cOncusively
hat the smut ears on corn are fatally
poisonous to stock. Thus when the
,orn is husked all such ears should be :
gathered and burned up.
A farm Journal on our desk gives
1 prescription for a sick hen. rcd
Biddy survived the elaborate ue4to
ment prescribed, she would have to lay
four eggs a day for three months to
pay for the prescription
We came across a dairyman the other
day who was opposed to the use of the
farm separator because, he said. 1T |
will heat the milk so that cannot feed |
it 10 the calves" Ignorance of this |
type is pretty hard to combat.
The best remedy for the so called /
cornstHlk disease, which destroyed SO
many cattle all through the west last
fall. is to cut up the corn. We never
knew well cured cornstalks to kill a
critter or even make one sick.
Seven millions of the 100000 bales
Of cotton produced in this country are
the product of negro labor. However
much of menace the presence Of the
black man may be to America 1t is very
evident it would be hard to get along
Without him.
The hog is the mortgage LITTER the
sheep the farm fertilizer, the COW the
barn builder and the hen the grocery
bill payer. This quartet, with man
and a woman not afraid of the work
in caring for them, will insure pros
perity on any farm.
The Tennessee experiment station re-
ports that an acre of cOwpeas yields
twice as much digestable mat,er as an
acre of good corn and that it takes 1T5
bushels of corn, with the fodder, to
equal one ton of cowpea hay in the
matter of protein furnished.
Three times as much oatmeal will be
eaten in this country when American
women learn how to properly cook it..
You can put it down for a fact that
oatmeal cannot be cooked in ten min
utes so that it is fit for even a dog to
eat. Like a plum pudding, the longer
1t is cooked the better it is.
We once had a very fine climbing
tose-a Prairie Queen-whch we al
ways laid down and covered up Cor the
winter We used straw to cover this
bush one winter. and when we uncov-
cred it IN the spring the stems were
peeled clean Of bark by the mice. Since
then we have used earth and not straw
for this purpose.
Give the farm a name. Have this
name neatly lettered on a signboart
and placed where it can be seen by
the traveller who goes by your place
Then have some letter heads anC
D envelopes printed with the name o
your farm and your own thereon, ant
/ thus do business on the farm in {
businesslike manner.
Sometimes the thoroughgoing an,
careful hired man is so everlastingl
and exasperatingly slow and accom-
F, plishes so small an amount of wor
shat it just tires a fellow to have hiI
around. Coupled with thoroughnes
should be a reasonable promptness an
: dispatch; otherwise the careful ma
It an all round nuisance.
: And now here comes the story Of
L. fellow who got his leg into a col
p. shredder. Wouldn't that surprise YOU
Pretty level headed men get the
Il hands caught in these devilish m
@ chimes, but it would seem as thous
h none save a natural born fool wou
% lose leg that way. "a
q We noticed a field the other day
80 which We're left for the winter a see
81 er, a plow with the share in the grouI
g just as the team was unhitched from
20 and horse rake, each of these impl
a. ments evidently new from the sh,
Os last spring. An old crow sat on t
% tongue Of the seeder, which fifty col
g pleted. the picture of agricultural shi
81 lessness.
q The city Of Minneapolis shipped
d az this fall and winter 100000 barrels
OF apples to supply the trade of that CT
" and points in the northwest. All the
apples were raised in the east, or ne;
" all. They should have been large
= raised in Minnesota and Iowa. Tn
re will be some day when men get on
on what may be done in apple raising
II those states.
&C. Illustrating the supremacy Of /
la United States in economic and meehs
lg- lcal ways over methods in use
- France and England we mention Il
srs while with improved appliances it co
m as about 3 cents ton to handle c.
~ from car to vessel and from vessel
dock it costs the other countries nan
about 80 cents, the most of the work
their cases being done BY manual
= Dor.
= Fifteen lines of farmers telephC
systems radiste from one small to
!. in the west. The cost to each pat
served on these lines. which from