The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-05

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J.S.TRIGG. ROCKFORD IA
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Florida will only show up with $780,
900 boxes Of oranges this year, about
one-half Of the crop Of 1901.
The northwest will produce 45, 000,-
600 bushels of flax this year., worth to
the producers S1.20 per bushel.
A friend told us the other day that
he once hauled a load of farm produce
to town and got $1,001 for it. What
was It? Hops?
A few years ago 500 bushels of wheat
were thought to be a big carload. Now
1900 bushels are carried in the modern
steel freight car.
For-cent corn and five dollar pork
make a very good combination, not an
agricultural bonanza, but a good, legit-
innate, healthy business.
Almost any crop will do well on a
clover sod, especially wheat, potatoes
and corn. Oats are liable to grow too
much straw and fall down.
We are growing the blue Moldavka
(Russian) plum with success. 1t seems
to be perfectly hardy and bears a large
purple plum of good quality.
Winter is the best time of the year
TO thin out the sparrows. Batting and
shooting them is about as good a way
as IL to get rid of a lot of them.
Another Scandinavian walks off with
the first prize at the Milwaukee but
ter makers convention. He exhibited
butter which scored 1912 and four
years ago was the greenest of green
men as a helper in a creamery. He
read, watched, studied and won.
The farmers of South Dakota have
become so prosperous that money now
goes begging at 5 per cent where not so
very long since 20 per cen was de-
manded and obtained.
We are told that one of the reasons
why more corr is not raised in the
southern states is the fact that after it
is raised it is very difficult to keep it
owing to great humidity of the atmo-
sphere.
A new fruit men whom we know have
made a success of grating choice vari-
cites of apples on the wild crab, but it
is not at all a harmonious union, for
the scions will outgrow the stock, the
crab being of very dwarfish habit.
AS soon as ne had cut his cats in July
he sowed five acres of the stubble to
rye, putting the crop in with a disk,
and when we saw the field in October
he had seventy-five head of nice shotes
just where they liked to be.
There is a great waste of the best of
fertilizers in the dumping by the rail-
way companies of the contents of their
cattle cars where they cannot be used.
With SO much poor, starved out land
this waste should be remedied.
There is a good deal of satisfaction
in watching the coming of the first
snow when one has the corn all in the
crib. the fuel in the woodhouse and the
roots in the cellar. Winter is not half
bad when one is prepared for it.
In talking with a railroad section
hand lately he told us that the old ties
renewed from the roadbed just about
supplied the hands on the section with
fuel, provided they had a section boss
who would give them a fair deal.
Try hunting with a camera instead
of a gun. You will thus get rare pic
lures of wild life, which to every hui
name person VIII afford more pleasure |
than the shedding of innocent blood.
But you want meat, you say. Well. buy
that at the butcher shop.
The potato raised on the timber lands
of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin
is about the finest specimen of potato
there is raised-large and smooth, full
of starch and mealy as -four. Great
crops they raise up there, too, 800 to
500 bushels to the acre. |
The state of Colorado and Kansas
are having a tilt liz the courts over the
right of the first named state to tap
the water supply of the rivers which
they own in common. Colorado is so
thirsty that there is nothing left for
Kansas.
The Kansas experiment station has
been securing some remarkable results
IN feeding weak and run down calves
with a ration of dried blood, q product
of the packing houses. 1t would seem
to be a very valuable agent in the rails
ing of calves.
The idea of planting a fish under
each hill of corn as a fertilizer is cal
culated to make the corn grower of the
corn belt smile, but this thing is some
rimes done on the Atlantic coast. Where