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

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The grass and weeds should be
cleared away from around the fruit
trees before the nov m to prevent
the mice from making nests and cir
ding the base of the trees.
The meanest work which there is to
be found on the farm is to have to dig
potatoes where one-half of them are
rotten, and that is the fix this fall
through much of the country.
New Jersey produces two things
which are the best of their kind
peaches and sweet potatoes. If she
would raise nor peaches and potatoes
and fewer trusts, we could love her
better.
A prominent fruit grower and apple
raiser tells us that he would rather
have the pigs clean up the windfalls in
his orchard than spray his trees if he
wanted to secur fruit free from blem-
ishes.
If We ever buy seed corn from a seed
house again it will have to be sold to
us in the car or we shall not want it.
There is almost as much chance for
fraud in this seed corn business as
there is in the maple sugar trade.
II you III pork for your own use
when has a streak of lean and a streak
OF tat, you do not want to raise the pig
on a corn diet, because it cannot make
these streaks out of that sort of food.
Feed skimmilk, potatoes, clover, peas,
bran, barley-things which make lean
meat and not fat.
The crow as a carrier of hog cholera
germs should not be overlooked. This
bird has a great liking for feed yards
alnd deaG hogs, and as it goes from one
farm to another it would be very easy
for 1t to spread this disease. Doves and
dogs are also agents engaged in the
same line of business.
We know of several farmers who are
no" getting their fuel supply from a
ten acre grove set out twenty years
More of this work should be done
all the prairie farms. 1t is neither
fair nor right to expect a woman to be
and good natured all the time
when she has nothing but soft coal to
burn.
The farther north any of the small
grains are raised the better is apt to
be their quality and the larger the
yield, provided the frosts do not catch
them before maturity. The finest spe-
of oats, wheat, flax, barley and
rye we have ever seen grown anywhere
were raised in the far northwest, where
1t does not get dark in the summer IN
til 10 O'Clock at night.
The problem of feeding the people,
in view of their constnatly increasing
and the inevitable impairment
of the fertility of much of the arabic
land OF the country, becomes each year
more and more important matter,
and thus it comes that all questions
pertaining to agriculture and the pro-
duction of this food command more
more attention. For this reason !
education is now being demanded for
the farmer, the aid of science is being
invoked, and the economics of agricul-
lure are being studied as never before.
More and more farmers are getting
INTO the habit of wearing gloves while
LONG their rough and hard farm work.
)f course some will call this a fad and
landyism, but there is much good
sense connected with the practice. If
t can be avoided just as we'll as not,
where is the sense in having ones
lands become so horny and cracked
hat they resemble the hoof of some
Wild beast? The rough, calloused and
lirty fist may be in one sense the in
sigma of hard toll, but such a pair of
lands are mean things to carry around
take care of.