The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1902-07-11

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The polled Hereford is a new type
of the improved breeds.
No class Of men are SO thoroughly
enthusiastic in their speciality as are
the bee men.
The pork, mutton and beef which are
made out of grass are the most cheap
ly made meat.
When a fat hog will bring as much
in the market as good COW, it is
rather discouraging to the COW.
Count not that time lost which Is
devoted to an old fashioned family
picnic, even If you could make 81 or
SIS plowing corn.
1t is a great comfort to be well
enough fixed financially 80 as to be
able at sixty to enjoy the rheumatism
without vision of the poorhouse
ahead. ..t..
: The May receipts of beef cattle at
Chicago were s3.509,995 pounds short,
which does more to explain the high
cost Of beef than all the talk about
meat trusts.
The southern mocking bird is this
season noted in many places far north
Of its usual habitat. This bird would
prove one of the most welcome things
that the south could send the north,
for no bird in America sings like this
one.
One Of the worst combinations Of
which we know is that of friend who
dearly loves Strawberries, but who Is
prevented from eating them because
they produce q skin eruption some
thing akin to the itch. Here surely is
subject for pity.
A pair Of wrens with nestful of
ten little wrens are the busiest indi-
viduals about our home grounds. About
one fat grub or worm minute from
daylight until dark seems to be needed
for, that crowd, and it keeps the old
birds on the fly all the time to provide
them.
The sympathy which exists in bird
life is confined almost wholly to those
of their own kind. We notice that
when a cat or hawk or snake menaces
a brood of young robins none save
robins comes in response to the call fol
help; it is the same way with catbirds
bluejays, crows and sparrows.
The very best thing in the world t
do with a town boy as soon as the
long summer vacation begins is to ger
him out on some farm. 1t will bt
good for bis health, his manners anC
morals. He will get lot Of valuable
experience and be removed from mucl
temptation. Get him out in the coun
try and let him work and play-any
how, work. t.I.
NMany men have made the mistake
this season in trying rape crop, SOW
ing the seed with oats, wheat and bar
ley, Of sowing too many acres. They
cannot possibly use all the feed which
will be produced. This fact should b,
remembered about rape-it needs to b,
fed down close, then the young ant
new growth is always tender and ap
petizing. If not fed down, 1t soon be
comes too coarse and rank for palata
BILE ration.
Abundant moisture during the sea
son when the crops are growing ant
maturing brings trouble for the farme
Just as does lack Of 1t, cycloni
wind, cloudbursts, so called. hail ant
interference with the work Of cultiya
tion-this Just when the corn need
constant work and the clover. need
cutting for hay. Then during sucl
times the weeds have things abou
their own way and war upon then
becomes impossible.
NOW complaint is coming TO US ina
fields Of barley and oats sown in tn
spring on which pound or two o
rape seed were sown with the grain ar
likely to be crop failures for the rea
son that favorable conditions of weatt
er have induced too rank growth Q
the rape and it will be impossible t
cut, bind and save the crop of grair
This condition might have been obv
ated by delaying the sowing of tn
rape until the small grain was up.
The first moving machine which W
ever tried to operate was an old Hus
sey, along in 1855. This was befor
the guard for the cutter bar was fl
vented, and the cutting arrangemen
was made up of two sickle bars worl
x ing one over the other just exactly lik
n nair of shears These by striking oil