The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-24

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The good times of 1902, when a fat
hog brought $40, will long be remem-
bered.
The aster, we find, is subject to more
insect pests than any flower which we
try to grow.
Clean %grainields are almost impossi-
BILE where there is neither rotation of
crops nor sheep.
The largest and handsomest apple
grown is the Wolf River, and it is at
the same time the most worthless.
We note that one of the reclaimed
lake beds in a Western state is afford
ing the finest kind of duck shooting
this fall.
The easiest way to keep a good hired
girl in the farm house is to get a good
looking hired man. We know that this
plan works.
There is quite a risk in holding hogs
at this season of the year., and just as
soon as they are fit for market it is best
to let them go.
We sometimes think that a mans
reputation suffers almost as much to
be known as small, mean and stingy
as to be rated as dishonest.
The pansy bed has been a delight all
summer, the cool, moist season having
contributed to the very best develop
ment of this favorite flower.
A cornield infected with both pocket
gophers and wild morning glories is in
a bad fix, and the sooner such a field is
turned into pasture the better.
The Gamma roots should now be taken
up and set on the floor of the cellar.
Let them dry out, and they will be all
ready for planting next spring.
The geraniums which have bloomed
in the garden this summer may be
taken up, potted and if well cut back
will afford a lot of bloom all winter.
A clover sod is an ideal preparation
for almost any sort of crop. There
should be at least 20 acres of such land
available each year on every quarter
section farm.
If the hogs of the Northwest manage
to get away with all the soft corn
there is in the fields this year and not
get the cholera, it will be a piece of rare
good fortune.
Twenty thousand Americans have in
vaded the Canadian Northwest this sea-
son and have either bought or home
steaded a cast tract of the fertile land
of that region.
Great Britain imports yearly nearly
500, 000. 900 of butter, and Denmark
furnishes seventenths of it and makes
it largely out of dairy rations imported
from America. This ought to be
stopped.
The Hibernal apple is every way as
poor as it looks to be. The most that
can be said in its favor is that it is so
hardy that it will probably do fairly
well where other apples cannot be
grown.
They say that a goose will live to be
70 years old, though Just why this bird
should be so long lived it is hard to
see when the more useful hen lays and
cackles herself out inside of four or five
years.
Where we live, while the second crop
of clover was unusually fine and full of
bloom. there is hardly any seed set,
continuous wet and cold weather dur
ing the blooming season having kept
the bumblebees from working.
More money is made from the Ben
Davis apple than from any other vari-
ETY.. 1t is red for one thing, grows large
and keeps we'll. 1t holds its own as a
market apple in spite of the fact that
the quality is of the poorest.
We came across a properly fed rape
field the other day. 1t was full of SEEM
ingly bare stalks of rape a foot or more
high. these covered with little buds and
shoots, tender and toothsome, which
the hogs nipped with eagerness.
It seems queer that a mar will work
hard on a farm for 80 years to ac-
cumulate a little property and then fall
an easy victim to some shell game fakir
whom he knows nothing about. More
men of 60 need guardians than have
them.
1t has been demonstrated the past
season that the soil of Cuba will pro-
duce the much wanted sea island cot
ton in the greatest perfection, a staple
three and a half inches in length being
grown. This fact makes any land which
will grow this kind of cotton worth
over 500 per acre.