The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-02-21
1901, j. S. Trigg, Rockford. Iowa.
Correspondence Solicited.

l9Ol, }. 5. Trigg, Rockford, Iowa.
Correspondence Solicited.
The neatly built stack or the now
full of nice shredded corn fodder has
this yea become a common thing all
through the corn belt.
1t is pretty well settled that corn
planted on fall blowing will ripen from
a week to ten days earlier than when
planted on spring blowing.
1t costs $50 a year more to live than
1T did five years ago. If you have not
had your wages raised this much in
that time, you are worse off than you
were then. Better attend to this right
away and strike the old man for a
raise.
Late rulings Of the postoffice depart
ment shut out the circulation of fake
weather forecasts from the privileges
OF s~econd-class matter, and as a re-
suit the country at large is benefited.
We shall have just the same kind of
weather as before, but the government
will not be the agent whereby the fakir
is able to catch and swallow the sucker.
II you wish to destroy the grove
around your orchard, turn the fruit
trees in your orchard, TURF the stock
loose and let them have the run of
grove and orchard. You may charge
the death of the trees up to borers,
drouth or Providence, Just as you
please. but the truth is that you killed
the trees the day you turned the stock
in.
For an all round primary school you
can't beat the little country school
house, ten or more little folk and a
sweet little woman to teach them. Ev-
cry child may represent a separate
class, but that doesn't matter. Each
child has the patient, careful aid in its
studies which is so largely denied it
when attending the larger and graded
school.
1t beats all how much annoyance and
%vexation can be worked up'out of the
everyday work of life if one is always
looking for trouble and bound to find
1t. And, inverting this statement, it
also beats all how a cheerful and hope
full way of looking at life and its work
Will checkmate trouble and make life
worth living. We always feel sorry for
thai person who is born with the cor
ners of his mouth turned down.
The persistent boring for oil in so
many sections in the arid West is de-
veloping what may prove to be worth
far more than oil-viz., more valuable
supplies of artesian water. Millions of
acres of the far-famed Sahara desert
In Africa hac honn rolaon,nl hu fh;o Jic
covery Of these artesian supplies of
water, and millions more will be re-
claimed from the equally desert areas
of this country in the same manne
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A b. oeder of the Polled Angus cattle
in Central Iowa told us, the other day,
that he can produce on his farm one
year with another a | 200 pound Angus
steer for each four acres of his farm.
This finished steer is worth one year
with another about $50, which gives
him an income of 500 per acre for his
land 1t should be said that the use of
the Adrm for this purpose has brought
the soil up to a most productive condi-
ton.
We know of a farm whose productive
power has been fully doubled inside of
10 years by keeping on it as much stock
as it would carry and consuming all the
products of the farm upon the farm.
The same thing may be done with thou
sands of other farms. and it matters lit
tie whether 1T is stocked with sheep, a
dairy OF COWS or devoted to the produc-
ton of beef. 1t cannot be lone so well
with hogs, as the hog is a very poor dis
tributer of fertility.
We lately exhibited at a farm insti-
tute a slrloln steak cut from a well bred
Shorthorn heller 28 months old and a
similar steak cut the same thickness
from exactly the same part of a COM
mon heifer, equally fat and of the same
The %Shorthorn steak weighed
three pounds and that of the other an
imal only a pound and a half. 1t is
right here where the well bred beef an
gets in its work-no more hide, not /
much rougher tallow, but much greater
weight of meat in all the choice cuts. s
The farmer of the Northwest has long
regarded his fur coat as an ~indispensa-
BILE part of his winter equipment, but I
until lately have we ever seen what
should long ago have been as common I
as the FUR coat for the man-viz., a ,
long cut, we'll fitting fur jacket for his E
wife. The n we saw was made of I
coonskin, had a high collar and was one |
of the most comfortable and appropri- {
ate winter wraps for a woman that I
could be imagined. There should be G
more of these put on the market, for I
they would find a ready sale, as they t
are not expensive in the sense that wo- {
mems furs usually are. |
A "A Cheap %Sub-Soiler.
A friend who had for many years
a field with a stiff gum sub
soil, always blowing the field about four '
inches deep, had by the action of the 6
pillow packed and smoothed down this 7