The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-11-07

Inc corncob can hardly be depended
upon to AXE the place of coal this win
ter, for it is doubtful if the cobs can
be got dry enough to burn at all.
Rabbits are very fond of blackberry
IN n will eat them up clean to
the ground. The only remedy is to get
rid OF the rabbits.
There will probably not be much
complaints this year of loss of stock
from the cornstalk disease. There is
so much green and immature corr that
the stalk ration will be better bal
anced.
We have packed a lot of nice, sound
Wealthy apples in oats to see if they
Will keep longer than they would in
the barrel. We have no faith that thev
Will, but som who have tried it claim
success for this method.
1t Is the deficiency of humus in the
SOIL which explains the impacted con
dltlon or so much of the arabic fields
as a result OF the heavy rains of the
summer. The easiest way in which to
remedy this trouble is to give the land
q TWO years course in clover.
Try baking the pumpkin in preparing
the material for pumpkin pies. 1t is
SAID to be just as good as boiling the
frult down and far less trouble, as the
pumpkin can be Quartered and baked
and the cooked pulp dug out with a
spoon, no pairing or cutting up being
required.
The gang pillow is gradually super
seding the sulky pillow simply because
by putting on the extra horse more
blowing may be done in a day. The
necessities of the case are compelling
the substitution of horse and machine
work on the farm wherever it will les
sen the need of hired help.
Ii one wants June results from the
COW in January, June conditions must
be provided. This is the key to sue
ces in winter d%airying. June furnishes
an abundance of succulent milk MAX
ing food, a genial temperature and
plenty of sunshine. Provide these
things i'll January and you will get
June returns from the COW.
There is always this to be said in
honor of agriculture-its products are
always honestly earned, no man en-
gagged in it has ever cause to have a
tussle between his avarice and his con-
science or study to see how nicely he
can violate the intent of law without
breaking its letter. Its rewards are
new deity flched from some other
mans toll.
We have an inquiry from Arizona as
to where the Colorado blue spruce can
be obtained for planting. Most of the
up to date nurserymen offer this tree
for sale, though there is much differ
ence in the individual merit of the
trees. Only a small per cent Of the
trees grown from the seed show the
peculiar color which makes the best
specimens of this variety of confer so !
very attractive. |
Referring to an item which appeared
In these notes recently commencing the
use of a horse to tramp and pack the
center of a hay or straw stack while it
was in process of building, we are ask
ed to explain how the horse could be
got down from the stack when it was
finished. This is easy enough. A pile
of loose straw or hay is left at the end
of the stack, and he just slides or
tumbles down to the ground.
Mining and agriculture do not go
well together. Here is a farmer in Mis-
souri, suing a smelter company for de-
stroying eighty acres Of fine clover for
him by the poisonous gases and fumes
of the smelter. The best combination
of the two Industries of which we have
onu 1ypnUu1oHon ic in Inuya ond Illinois
where the land is worth 500 an acre
to raise corn and another 500 per acre
for the coal strata which underlie the
cornfields.
One of the warmest and most bitter
political scraps we ever knew was be-
tween two men, farmers, and their re-
spective adherents over the question Of
which should be elected road super
visor, an office which paid the man
who held it less han 500 per annum
Things could not have been more live
ly and interesting had the governor
ship been at stake. The worst of 1t was
that the man who was beaten would
never after speak to his old neighbor
who laid him out.
We know of a man who has a splen-
did spring of water boiling out of the
rocks in a side hill pasture, and he
either does not know how or does not
care to utilize this rare possession. He
could at a small expense put in a ram
and supply his house with spring wa
ter under pressure, running the over
flow down to his barns and yards for
his stock, and then at a very small X
pense he could dam up the run through
which the brook made by the spring
flows and have a model fishpond in
which trout or black bass would thrive
and prove profitable. 1t is too often
true that the best things in life fall to
the lot of those who cannot appreciate
end usa them Ii