The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-13

prunes for about five or six cents a
pound the consumer has to pay from
ten to twenty cents for them.
When a farmer does his first work in
scientific agriculture with ar incu-
bator, he is quite likely to want to con-
sign science, the college and professors
to the bottomless pit
The wise man will get ready for the
reaction in the farm aud business
which is sure to come. He should at
least have nc mortgage on his land
bought as an investment.
We read an article lately on roe
culture in Oregon, and then when we
thought how hard it is to raise h nice
roses in north Iowa we wanted to move
right out to Oregon.
The short potato crop of 1901 made
the growers more one than they
have ever received from the crop be-
fore-that is,those who were able to
grow any crop of the tubers.
If man could find out how to control
sex, he would have the universe all
out of whack inside of a few genera
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done invariably fall to the ground
when tested.
If you are a guest at some home and
want to make friends with your hos
tess, praise her bread, her butter or
her baby. Where you do this you can
have two pieces of pie and no ques-
tions asked. We know, for we've tried
it.
A few years ago all the prunes in this
country were imported. Now the Pa
cific coast states produce three pounds
of prunes for each one of our $1,000, 900
people, and the fruit is 100 per cent
better than that which we used to i'm
port.
The enormous profits Of the great
packing houses are derived almost
wholly from the offal Of the animals
which they slaughter, and it is this
fact which makes it so difficult for the
concern with limited means to compete
with them.
Rooty, stumpy ground can be most
easily worked and best fitted for a
crop by using n of the heavy, narrow
orchard and vineyard disks. There is
no catching in roots, n the land is
Put in fine shape for a first crop with
out blowing.
We find that the influence of a black
walnut tree is absolutely fatal to the
growth of apple trees within a radius
of about 100 feet, and So, having to
choose between a handsome walnut and
the orchard trees, the walnut had to
come down.
We think it pays to fill out the miss
ing trees in an orchard up to the time
the trees are about six years old, but
not after that. After that time the
older trees have so monopolized the
ground that it is a very difficult thing
to make a young tree do we'll.
Just as the millions Of acres OF corn
land were ready for the planter this
year down came the floods. beating and
packing hard the mellow soil and ON
polling an extra disking before the
planting could be done, which will
prove to be a splendid thing for the
land and the crop.
A forty arce tract of river bottom
land, once producing blue joint grass
four feet high and always moved and
never pastured. has, after a contest of
forty years. finally succumbed to the
blue grass and must now be used as a
pasture to be OF any value. This trans
formation would have been effected
much more quickly had the land been
pastured instead of moved for hay.
The man who feeds steers in the corn
belt can do some thinking over the
fact that Idaho and Montana purely
grass fed steers have sold this spring
in Chicago at almost Sc, while the corn
fed animal has brought only 81 or
$3.50.
If a poor man cannot start in with
a quater section of land, let him take
80 or 40 or even ten acres. We know
of a SIS, 900 farm which grew out of a
tax title, ten acres and gopd grit.
The Borers.
We nave a number Of inquiries how
best to fight the apple tree borer. We
do not pretend to know the best way,
but do this with reasonable success:
First. keep all rubbish and grass clear
from the base Of the trunk of the tree;
second. give each tree a critical exam
ination during the month of May to see
II any borers are at work and. II so, dig
them out; third. give the trunk of the
tree a thick wash Of strong soapsuds
and lime as soon as the trees have
been inspected in May and another
wash along the middle Of June. In
spite of these precautions the borer
will get a few trees each year.