News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-04-30
FARM, ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

FARM, ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
One reason for the present stiff prices
for all farm commodities is that few
farmers are obliged to sell.
The building over of barbarian into
a white man is almost as big a job as
to keep the white man civilized after
you have got him made.
There may be something more at
tractive in the fruit line than a heaping
painful of Clyde Strawberries, but we
really do not know what it could be.
The largest return in food value Is |
obtained from an acre of corn when it |
is put into Il silo. Where land is high |
priced this fact is well worth consid |
ering.
The supreme court of the United |
States has ruled that the antitrust laws |
of the several states are unconstitu-
tional where an exception is made in
their operation in favor of the farmer.
If the owners of the beet sugar facto-
ries are making "a per cent on the cap
ital which they have invested. they can
afford to pay the farmer more than 81
per ton for the beets to make the sugar
from.
The average farmer will do better to
raise just beef horses, the heavy draft
breeds, than any other kind. These can
be raised and sold and one year with
another will bring about 8 or 10 cents
pound.
When q man has set Sc as the price
he will take for his hogs and no less
and the market stubbOrnly sticks at
$3.50 week after week, he is quite like
ly to be a loser because of his tena-
ciousness.
1t takes an average of LOO pounds
of corn to produce 100 pounds of beef
on an old animal while half of that
amount will produce 100 pounds of
meat on yearling steer well bred on
beef lines.
The oriental lilacs, the Syringa ia
ponica from Japan and the Syringa pc
kinensis from China, grow in tree form,
are perfectly hardy and very great
Improvement over the old bush varie-
ties of this shrub.
Tests made on the Montana and Da-
kota railways show that the Ignite
coal of those sections can be used on
locomotives successfully and at saw
ing of 43 per cent over the soft Goals
of Iowa and Illinois.
We wish that the good women who
prepare the salads for the church So
ciable would not leave great chunks of
raw onion in them as big as peanut.
Salads should never contain more than
just a suggestion of onion.
The long time worthless sand hills of
western Nebraska have risen in value
from So to $12 per acre by the discov-
cry of the fact that alfalfa will grow
there and do WE'LL for where alfalfa
will grow there will successful farming
be assured.
The state of North Dakota officially
announces that there were produced il
the wear 1901 $50 bushels Of wheat 10(
bushels of flax, rs bushels of oats ant
$40 worth of cattle for each man, wo
man and child in the state. This ough
to keep them in pretty good shape fol
the coming year.
A man who has looked into the mat
ter asserts that an owl or hawk il
worth not less than $50 and that an.
one such bird will destroy during tn
year at least So worth of vermin, whicl
would be per cent interest on such
valuation, and still every man gu
with a gun will shoot these birds OF
sight.
The hog is the great scavenge
among all animals on land and tn
mackerel among all the fishes of tn
great seas, and both of them are re
garded as toothsome delicacies by maj
while the horse, the cleanest of all an
mails, and the carp, a purely vegetabl
feeder among fishes, man turns up hi
nose at.
We heard an Indiana farmer say nc
long since that he always raised goo
corn on the Wabash bottoms by throw
ing furrow against the corn at til
time of the last blowing so heavy tha
il bent the corn clear over. He sal
this plan fixed the weeds in the hi
and that the corn soon Strengthened u
all right
We like the headland of grass aroun
the borders of the cultivated field
1t always improves the looks of tt
farm and almost compels the mowin