The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-10-10

and chickens.
1t is less trouble to kill off the rab-
bit in the vicinity of the orchard than
1 1t is to let the rabbits alone and try
to protect the trees.
The hen which can be made to lay
an egg each day in the year Is much
farther away than the horse that will
trot mile in two minutes.
While two different crops may be
raised in one year upon the same piece
of land, it is always a mistake to try
to raise them at the same time.
We know of a man who manages to
keep a family of small owls In his big
barn, and he tells us that as mice
catchers they beat cats all to pieces.
II man could take his money with
him when he dies, there are some men
in this country whose death would
cause serious contraction of the cur
rency.
The daisy will run out blue grass,
and for this reason the men who live
in the blue grass country want to look
out for the coming Of this eastern
Plague,
The Chester White hog does not re-
ceive 'he attention among our hog
raisers to which it is entitled. 1t is
Tot to its disadvantage that it is not
as early maturing hog as the Poland
China.
There is more to encourage one to
take up the poultry business today
than there has ever been before. Hav-
ing the use of an acre or so Of land,
almost anyone, using ordinary intelll-
gence, can take up this business and
be reasonably sure of a profitable one.
Where Canada thistles have got
foothold in the west they propagate
not from the seed, which is infertile,
but from the sucker roots. The
only reliable way in which to get rid of
them is to keep them >persistenly cut
off during the growing period as soon
as sprout shows above the ground.
The battle with the weeds has been
hard and long one the past season.
Weather conditions have favored an
abnormal growth of weeds and the
gemination of much seed which has
lain in the ground dormant during the
dry years. The man who has garden
or field free from them in August is
entitled to q credit mark.
1t may be we'll for you to look and see
when your insurance policies run out
and also to inspect the family well
to be sure that the household supply
water is all right A dead policy In
case of a fire and a dead child in the
real troubles especially hard to bear
because they might have been avoided.
That mink which lives down by the
bank of the creek is likely to be a
worse enemy of the poultry than all
he hawks, owls and skunks which
you look after so closely A mink in
the henconp is four footed Herod, a
wholesale slayer and sucker OF blood.
He should be watched for closely and
shot or trapped, if it is a possible
Thing.
The production and sale of oleomar-
garine under the new law had by the
middle of August fallen off more than
one-third The shrinkage will be still
greater as each month goes by, as
some of the methods now used to color
the stuff are sure to be ruled out by
the revenue department. The effect of
the law has been to improve the mar
ket for the lower grades of store but
ter and has not, SO far as yet can be !
seen, increased the price of fine cream
cry goods.
In looking over the decisions of the
courts on the bee tree question we
hnd that the courts hold that a man
has no more right to enter upon the
PREMISES of his neighbor and capture
a swarm of stray bees unless they
rave escaped from his own hives, or
take the bees and honey from a bee
tree than he has to enter his neighbor's
orchard and steal his fruit. There is
an old belief among people, growing
out Of the customs of pioneer days,
that bees and their honey are any
5ody's property who first locates them,
but there is no law to Justify and war
rant any such belief.
AMERICAS FAMOUS BEAUTIES.
Look with horror on Skin Eruptions,