The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-19

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GOPYRTGAE 1901, BY
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CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
We never saw smartweed grow to a
height of five feet until this year.
Tho tile draining of land results in
making the soil dry in a wet time and
moist in a dry time. 1t works both
ways.
Meats are high priced in all coun-
tries-England, Germany, France, Aus
tralia-everywhere saw in the Argen-
tine.
Just as soon as a woman has learned
how to make good soups not so much
good meat is thrown out to the pigs
n chickens.
1t is less trouble to kill off the rabbit
in the vicinity of the orchard than it is
to let the rabbits alone and try to pro-
tect the trees.
We find some comfort in the fact
that even the best farmers we know
have this season more weeds than they
know what to do with.
No weed that we have to deal with
gets such a grip on the soil as does the
souirreltail grass. Its hold is worse
than that of a mortgage.
The hen which can be made to lay
an egg every day in the year is much
farther away than the horse that will
trot a mile in two minutes.
While two different crops may be
raised in n year upon the same piece
of land, it is always a mistake to try
to raise them at the same time.
We know of a nan who manages to
keep a family of small owls in his big
barn, and he tells us that as mice
catchers they beat cats all to pieces.
If q man could take his money with
him when he dies, there are some men
in this country whose death would
cause a serious contraction of the cur
rency.
The daisy will run out blue grass,
and for this reason the men who live
in the blue grass country want to look
out for the coming Of this Eastern
plague.
The rush for land in the Northwest
continues with undated vigor, and the
fine crops which are being secured in
all the Northwest section are serving
to intensity it.
The Chester White hog does not re-
ceive the attention among Il hog rails
ers to which it is entitled. 1t is not to
its disadvantage that it is not as early
a maturing hog as the Poland-China.
There is more to encourage one to
take up the poultry business today than
there has ever been before. Having the
use of an acre or so of land, almost any
one, using ordinary intelligence, can
take up this business and be reasonably
sure of a profitable M
Query-So long as it has seemed best
for the United States to acquire large
areas of sugar producing territory, why
not let this territory be developed to
tine fullest extent in supplying the needs
of the American people?
Crop experts place the value of the
cereal crop alone of 1902 at the
nous sum of So, 000, 000, 900 for the farm
ers of the United States. This is all new
created and original wealth. Nc other
country on earth ever before made such
a showing.
A supposed perfectly worthless house
cat that for long had persisted in max
ing the front porch by our bedroom
window a trysting place where duels
were nightly carried on deposited the
scalp and nose of a large rat on the
doorstep one night recently, done, we
suppose to prove that his reputation
was not as bad as we took it to be.
But we are not sure that some other
cat did not kill that rat.
The condition of hay in the stack
varies so much that it is difficult to de-
termine the exact number of cubic feet
of hay required to make a ton of hay.
Where the stack is of timothy and it
is not less than ~ feet in height when
it has settled solid about 425 feet will
make a ton, while if it is of clover at
least 450 feet will be required.
Where Canada thisties have got a
foothold in the West they propagate not
from the seed, which is infertile, but
from the sucker roots. The only reliable
way in which to get rid of them is to
keep them persistently cut off during
the growing period as soon as a sprout
shows above ground.
The battle with the weeks has been a
hard and a long n the past season.
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