Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-20


not over twelve years old driving four
big grade Percheron horses on gang
pillow and turning over the soil Mt the
rate of five acres day. 1t gave the
little fellow about oil he could DO 10
raise the pillow by the lever when ne
came to the end of the field.
1t is now about time to think ABOUT
protecting the strawberry bed. After
the ground is frozen put on covering
two inches thick of slough hay or clean
straw, the object of such covering De-
ing not to prevent the plants from
freezing, but to prevent them from
freezing and thawing during the Win
ter.
We are asked whether a man can
make business of trading horses. be
straight and honest and still make
money. We have never come across
this pleasing combination. The honest
man who goes into the horse tradlns
business soon has lOt of experience,
and the other fellow has the horses
and money.
New inventions always beget new
risks. Men have for centuries hauled
out manure from the yard into the
field, and we never heard of an accl-
dent, but here comes this neWfansled
manure spreader, and in some manner
the teamster managed to get run
holes in less than two seconds.
AS an explanation Of how eastern
dairymen are able to keep cows on
high priced dairy ration we note that
the dairymen of New Jersey have late
ly contracted their milk to the condens-
ing factory ut an average price of SIS
per 100 pounds, or 81 IS per quart,
equivalent to 81 cents ger pound for
what butter fat the milk contains
The coming farmer will know how to
Judge stock and feed 1t, will UNDER
stand all about balanced ration and
the proper rotation of crops and know
enough of practical mechanics so that
he can handle the machinery he will
be obliged to use in his farm opera
tiops. and the average boy should be
given start along these lines as part
of his education.
In the August crop reports on corn
of the department Of agriculture the
state of Missouri made the best show
ing Of any of the states, 1O2. closely
followed by Nebraska, with 1o1. As
the crop maturcd in both of these
states these figures will not be altered
much in the final roundup. The crop
was failure in both of these states
last year owing to the drought.
In order to keep the corn Of large
area OF the corn country this year it
will be absolutely necessary to put the
grain in narrow well ventilated cribs.
The old cribs ten feet wide or even
eight should be split lengthwise by
four inch partition and air space. An
other thing, the soft ears should be
separated as far as possible from the
sound ones at the time of husking the
crop.
In the matter Of corn there Is q great
deal of Importance in properly adapt
ing varieties to climate and latitude.
We lately saw samples of White Dent
corn raised in central Minnesota which
was better matured than the same sort
of corn raised 400 miles farther south.
The northern grown corn was not so
large as that grown south, but plenty
big enough to make it very profitable
crop to raise.
Those handsomely labeled cans Of
"potted chicken" which are In favor
for high toned society luncheons and
picnic parties are quite likely to be the
only evidence Of farm tragedy where
nice little day old calf was by the
hand Of science, aided by fraud,
changed from a prospective head of
the herd into boiled rooster. Managed
lust right it would be hard to detect
the fraud.
Most men do not like to bother with
fall pigs. but friend of ours had forty
such pigs last fall, and, letting them
wiggle through the winter as best they
could, he turned them Oh TO clover ana
rape last spring and fattened them dur
ing July and August, making them
weigh 245 pounds each by early Sep
TENDER, and sold them at 81 per hun
dredweight. He made good money ON
those pigs.
1t is impossible to keep some men
down and equally impossible to lit
some men up. When fellow once gets
the corner grocery and dry goods box
habit and his wife takes in washing to
support the family, you have got hard
proposition 1t would be good thing
if all such men could be drafted into
the army, for they are of no use what
ever to either their families or the COM
munity at large.
NIillet is crop which may be raised
in the north country where corn Will
not grow and mature. 1t Is almost q
sure crop and produces an abundance
of valuable seed. This seed has most
Of the fattening properties of corn, ana
the stockmea Of that country are lind
ing out that in millet they have val
liable food 20 finish off their cattle as
first class beef 1t is fed as meal
combined with barley or oats.