News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-04-23
FARM, ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

FARM, ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
Where clover will grow and Short
horn cattle are kept don't expect to buy
farm for much less than $50 per acre.
Seed potatoes are high priced this
spring, and so it is just as well to re-
member that one good eye is just as
good as more when cutting the potatoes
for seed.
We know one locality which had a
streak of good luck lately. 1t got rid of
81 mighty mean citizen and imported a
registered Polled Angus bull. 1t was
good trade.
In planting apple trees this spring
on the prairie soils set trees not less
than eight inches deeper than they
grew in the nursery and give them a
decided lean from the perpendicular
toward the southwest.
Do not try to transplant a black wal
nut or hickory tree grown in the ma
tive forest, for it will be sure to be a
failure. Nearly all the nut bearing
trees should have the nut planted
where the tree is to grow.
There will always be poor and i'm
perfect kernels of grain produced even
If you sow only the very best The in
ference is-we might say the fact is
that the more poor seed you sow the
poorer will be the harvest
A whole lot of eager homeseekers
are buying farms west of the one hun
dredth degree of west longitude in the
Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska and
are going to come to grief. That is a
stock country, not farming land.
We think that where so many as tif-
teen COWS are kept in the farm dairy
some arrangement should be made to
have one man do all the milking and
give him plenty of time in which to dc
it. 1t certainly would be better for the
COWS.
A field OF corn planted thickly for
fodder was dragged until it got to be
six inches high. %'hile some of the
corn was thus destroyed, there was
still plenty left, and it only required
two plOwings to make perfectly clean
field of corn.
There is a peculiar significance con-
nected with that Biblical phrase which
refers to "the grasshOpper as bur
den" when it is known that 100000
out of the 100000 square miles of the
land surface of the globe are subject
to the scourge of these insects.
The United States furnishes Eng
land with GO per cent of her bread
stuffs and 65 per cent of her meats.
So long as England is compelled to
thus depend upon the United States for
her very living there will be no serious |
ruction between the two countries.
Darwin once picked up a wounded |
pigeon by the wayside. It's leg had |
been broken, and in it's contracted |
claws was little lump of earth. This |
Darwin planted to see what vegetable |
life it might contain. From it he pro-
duced fifteen varieties of plant life.
Right now, during the last days of |
April, is the time to set out the straw
berry bed. We have sometimes thought |
that the doing of this might almost I
come under the head of legitimate |
Sunday work. for the doing of it is |
certainly work of necessity and mer-
cy.
When a sixteen-year-old boy unskill-
ed in every particular can secure as
wages on a farm $50 a month, his |
board and washing, as he can today,
he is alone to blame if he is not worth |
$1,000 by the time he is twenty-four
years old. But not one in ten of them
will save dollar.
The oil discoveries in Texas bid fair
to become the big discovery of the
country's natural resources Of the. new
century. Assuming that the supply is
practically unlimited, as it appears to
be- the wells at Beaumont will supply
a large part of the steam making fuel
of the whole country.
We find that there are always two
things which need doing in the spring
of the year where there is only time to
do one. So many things must be done
right then if done at all during the sea-
son-the sowing of seed and planting Of
trees-and then there are always so
much cleaning up and fixing to do. 1t
is altogether the busiest season of the
year for US.
The government is sending 1000
bushels OF seed corn from the east to
those parts of the southwest where the