The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-07-04

When a fat hog sells for $50 ana a
fat steer for 500, as today, it is no
wonder there is a boom in farm lands.
June butter is going into cold stor-
age at about % cents per pound this
year, nearly 4 cents higher than it has
been for many years.
Farmers seem to lend a willing hand
TO the bears on the boards of trade by
Dragging too much about the prospeo-
tive yield Of their crops.
Nature very reluctantly combines
size and good quality in any Of her
products. The largest things of a CIV
en- type are by no means the best.
Cold storage has made 1t possible
for the producer to get 10 cents for
May and June eggs. Before the days
price.
No moral training which the house
cat receives will ever prevent her from
robbing the young birds from the nest
in the tree by the door If 1t is possible
for her to get at 1t.
An elaborate experiment made with
the strawberry at the Iowa agricultur-
al experiment station proved that pis-
tillate varieties were more productive
than the staminate.
The suspicion is prevalent that a
good deal of old horse meat is passing
in gold labeled cans as choice corned
beef" There is quite likely to be some
kicking over this matter.
When you milk a COW and fatten her
for the block at the same time, you
will succeed in making the toughest
of beef. We do not know why this is
SO, but it's a fact just the same.
While the Jersey COW is almost GER
tain to be one of the gentlest and most
BILE, her mate is quite likely to be the
ugliest little devil in four states.
So many American farmers are buy
ing land and locating in Western Can
ada that it is going to be nip and tuck
which shall be celebrated as a holiday
the kings birthday or the Fourth of
July.
We think that we can see the time
neal when a load of musty oat straw
will not bring IS when it is wanted for
stable bedding or to v a strawber-
ry bed. The old granger won't work
this racket next winter.
Some farmers are becoming so well
fixed that they think they can afford to
do their farm work with a $500 team
of horses, and it almost makes play of
the work when done with such a team.
Some people will not let a Virginia
creeper decorate their porch on the
ground that it's luxuriant growth cling
ing to the woodwork Is liable to rot it.
This is a mistake. We have never
found that it had any tendency to dc
this.
The curse of the mustard follows
close in .the wake of the fax crop
through'all the Northwestern territory
where fax is grown. 1t is an easy
matter to get a farm infested with this
pest, and a very hard thing to get rid
of it.
A woman gets a big contract on her
hands when she finds that she has
married a man who Is bound to have
hot biscuit at least once every day, and
the worst Of it is that she is quite like
ly to have a cranky old d~yspeptic to
cook for before he is a grandfather.
There never has been a time when
the simple factor Of weight counted for
so much in a horse as at present. The
1000 pound horse has adistinct advan-
tage over the 1900 pound horse for all
farm work and town teaming.
We are asked how late in the season
it is safe to put gratis in trees. If the
crafts have been kept dormant, a good
per cent of them will grow II inserted
even when the tree is well leaved out,
but it is better to do this work during
March and April rather than later.
Ef~S $3.50 s-Ss 1I-SS
There is one thing which a good
many readers of these notes might dc
to their profit--just sit down and figure
closely whether the cows which they
are keeping are really paying their
way. Weigh each cows milk, and If II
proves that she is giving less than q
900 pounds a year you car figure out an
almost certain loss.
There is one advantage on the farm
and it is no small one, either, and that
is the impossibility of there ever being
an organized strike among farm labor
ers. No business could be taken sucf
advantage of by laborers as that of the
farm, and it is fortunate that 1t is from
the nature of things exempt.
These are the days when the maj
who set out a strawberry bed last yea
is reaping a rich reward. One mar II
about 20 will have all the delicious Der
ries he wants; the other 10 might, bu
won't. because they won't take tn
trouble. This is a grest -rste ut op
~'ortnrity and privilege.