The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

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COPYRIGHT I9O1,RI /
US. G.RCCKFORl IA
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
More farmers are gulled on the steel
range swindle than on any other fake
since the palmy days of the Bohemian
oats fake.
Farms upon which flocks of sheep
are kept are always clean farms and
fertile ones. This fact deserves more
attention than it receives.
The utter inability to secure good
country school teachers at the old
wage has compelled school directors
to advance the wages of the teachers.
The crop of apples on an Illinois Or
chard of 1875 acres was recently sold for
S11 800, while the property cost the
present owners only 81 900 last spring.
An agricultural paper published In an
Eastern city contains a picture of a
man harvesting his wheat crop, using
a moving machine to &C so. This sort
of thing makes Western men grin.
Every civil township should W a
gravel bed if there is one to be had in
side its borders. In all the black prai-
RE country there is 40 way in which
to improve the highways so easily and
cheaply as to use gravel.
What may be termed the leavings
and pickings of a farm can be more
readily utilized by the sheep than any
other animal. Aside from the scatter,
cd grain thus saved and used, a fence
corner crop of weeds and grass is also
turned into money.
About IS per cent of what we buy and
pay for as butter is not butter at all.
but just water, salt and casein.
AS a general thing n COW to the
acre of blue grass pasture is enough,
WILLIE thtiC a NC 40 q Vi pOttCi pos
tured on one acre of alfalfa.
Every plant has its parasite, some
times two of them. II it should hap
pen that there was a single exception a
parasite would be created for the work.
The selling price Of sirloin steak has
much to do with the price of eggs. A
dozen eggs are worth more for food
than a pound of steak, and the people
know it.
A Chinaman would get rich if he
could have the privilege of using for
crop production the waste corners and
spots on most of our Northwestern
farms. How many acres of waste Ian
have you?
The salvias as a flower for garden
decoration have given us much salts
faction this season. A bed of them
will give the most uniform and brilli-
ant lot of cardinal red bloom from July
until frost comes of any flower we
have.
When farmers get to regard agricul-
ture as a profession rather than as a
vocation, a new type of agriculture will
develop. Viewed as a profession, the
benefits and necessity of agricultural
education will be rightly appreciated.
Who ever heard before of making a
roaGbed out Of straw? Out in Wash
ington in order to get rid of the dust
in summer and the mud in the winter
over 800 miles of highway have recently
tooo onuara1 with about q foot nf
straw, the straw being contributed by
the farmers along the highway.
To get rid of two mice which had
been seen in the house, n of which
was killed with a broom, we have kept
one uncouth old tomcat, his black coh-
cubine. raised, two patches of kittens,
had the young wrens and robins all
killed and been wowwowed O. nights to
beat the band. Give us the mice,
We don't know very much.
There is one great advantage abou,
the silo often overlooked, and that is
that wet and catchy weather never pre-
vents the putting up of the silage, mol
does the rain in any way impair its
quality. 1t is safe to say that one
half of the hay put up in the United
States this season has been injured by
rains to a greater or less extent.
1t is worth mentioning that the cattl,
which brought the highest price paiC
for beef animals for 20 years on tn,
Chicago market up to the middle of Sep
TENDER were IS grade Hereford steers
grown in South Dakota and fed for
year on soaked corn and oats, ~averagin,
1878 pounds and bringing $685. pc
hundredweight, or $134.34 per head.
The hardest job which the societ.
journals have is to instruct the dea
people how to eat sweet corn from tn
cob when in company with a becoming
grace and gentility. The best way il
which to serve it for company is t
cut the corr from the cob before it |
brought to the table, for no fine lad,
can shipper Just right when she ha
three big shelled ears lying by the sid
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