Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-06-20

The nutrltlFe Ndiue OIL 10 cents win
+ . per cent milk is equal to % cents Il
-orth of round beefsteak. d
Hay which win sell for 81 per ton
rom the barn next winter is better
old from the field when made at So. e
When a fat hog sells for $50 and p
at steer for 500, as today, it is no q
7onder there is a boom in farm lands. u
June butter is going into cold storage II
It about % cents per pound this year.
nearly cents higher than it has been
or many years.
Farmers seem to lend willing hand
o the bears on the boards Of trade by
,raggIng too much about the prospec-
i've yield Of their crops.
Nature very reluctantly combines
size and good quality in any Of her
products. The largest things Of a Civ
IN type are by no means the best.
Steady work for the bull at the head
Of the herd will not only make him Of
far greater value as a sire, but will
make him orderly and well behaved.
Cold storage has made it possible
for the producer to get 10 cents for
May and June eggs. Before the days Of
cold storage cents was a good price.
No moral training which the house
cat receives will ever prevent her from
robbing the young birds from the nest
in the tree by the door If it is possible
for her to get at it.
An elaborate experiment made with
the strawberry at the Iowa agrieul-
tural experiment station proved that
pistillate varieties were more produe-
tive than the staminate.
The suspicion is prevalent that
good deal Of old horse meat is passing |
in gold labeled cans as "ehoice corned
beef" There is quite likely to be some
kicking over this matter.
When you milk a COW and fatten her
for the block at the same time, you
will succeed in making the toughest
Of beef, We do not know why this is
so, but it's a fact just the same
While the Jersey COW is almost GER
tain to be one of the gentlest and most
ladylike of her kind, every way Iowa
Bile, her mate is quite likely to be the
ugliest little devil in four states.
So many American farmers are buy
ing land and locating in western Can
ada that it is going to be nip and tuck
which shall be celebrated as a holiday
the kings birthday Or the Fourth Of
July
We think that we can see the time
near when a load Of musty cat straw
will not bring So when it is wanted for
stable bedding or to cover a strawberry
bed The old granger won't work this
racket next winter.
Some farmers are becoming so well
fixed that they think they can afford to
do their farm work with a five hun.
bred dollar team of horses, and it al
most makes play Of the work when
done with such team.
Some people will not let a Virginia
creeper decorate their porch on the
ground that its luxuriant growth cling
ing to the woodwork is liable to rot it..
This is mistake. We have never found
> that it had any tendency to do this.
. The curse of the mustard follows
Z close in the wake Of the fax crop
9 through all the northwestern territory
q where fax is grown. 1t is an easy
8 matter to get farm infested with this
Z pest and a very hard thing to get rid
9 of it.
s A woman gets a big contract on her
y hands when she finds that she has mai.
IS ried a man who is bound to have hot
3 biscuit at least once every day, and the
10 worst Of it is that she is quite likely t
Is have a cranky old dyspeptic to cool
Dor before he is a grandfather.
There never has been a time wher
q the simple factor of weight counted
3 for so much in a horse as at pres
8 tnt. The sixteen hundred pound horse
y has a distinct advantage over the
z twelve hundred pound horse for al
x arm work and town teaming.
%
II We are asked how late in the seasoi
g It is safe to put CRAFTS in trees. If tn
b crafts have been kept dormant, a goo
20 per cent of them will grow If inserte
IA even when the tree is well leaved ou
sr out it is better to do this work durin