The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1902-10-24

/. People are being compelled 10 study
\ simplicity In the matter of living
4 whether they wish so to live or not.
4 Ii is getting to be impossible to secure
the help in the home which is absolute
ly Indispensable to the putting ON of
any style.
4 Much Ia being written OF the agricul-
q tural possibilities OF Alaska, but II
farming Is ever carried on there there
n will have to be different rule for the
hired man as to his hours of work.
From sunup to sundown would mean
4 about twenty-four hours up there.
q There Is n good deal in the papers
| about ginseng and the great profits
n connected with growing this plant. 1t
N Is, however, n very infant industry, as
N there ara less than twenty-five acres of
Il ginseng all told in this country, half of
il which is found In two counties In the
| state of New York.
] The increasing use of machinery on
the farm has of course increased the
IL number of accidents happening to the
u men who operate 1t, but after all we
have noted that more men have been
killed this year by sliding of from
re loads of hay and grain on to pitchforks
'e than in any other way.
1t is no small thing in his favor that
u the farmer never has to sell his produce
OF on tick or keep book accounts or dun
or sue people. He just expects and
gets the cash for ali he has to sell,
lie while the merchant has to charge things
at and carry a line of credit which often
amounts to as much as his capital
stock.
d. The travelling public will have to
lg reckon with the automobile as horse
scarer all over the country. These ma
chimes are going to come into general
ed use and before five years will be so re-
Dd duced In price that common people
Iis who can afford to keep a horse will
have them. The average horse Is very
much afraid of them.
as The buffalo grass and the blue joint
ST grass, the two principal native grasses
of the western prairies, have never, so
far as we know, been successfully
Is propagated from seed upon land which
to has been under cultivation. Like other
gy wild things, they shun civilization and
disappear with the Indian, buffalo, coy
ote and rattlesnake.
all
ng The localities where the biggest crops
'p- of corn were raised during the late
census year, taking an average yield
for a whole county, were two counties
let in Illinois, three in Indiana and one in
In Pennsylvania, the average yield for
Is the five counties being over fifty-two
bushels per acre, Upton county, Ind,
leading with 53.7 bushels per acre.
en- --
ar. Best beefsteak is quoted at Al cents
all a pound in the city of Berlin, the same
kind which is obtainable in this coun-
try for % cents. Other meats are also
ed scarce and high priced. 1t seems queer
bd that for the benefit of the few stock
ci raisers in that country the government
should see fit to bar out the cheap
meat products of this and other coun-
ON tries
,rs
en- Nineteen hundred and two has been
~. q sort of freak season. We have noted
more abnormal growths among fruits,
grains and vegetables than we ever did
go before. Potatoes appeared in large
I'm nodules on the vines, corn grew unusu-
los ally tall and set from two to four ears
Of on a stalk, cabbage and celery have
gone to seed the first season, while
Strawberries and raspberries set q sec.
W. ond crop of fruit.
his
or A farmer friend of ours after thirty
ile years spent in peace and quiet on his
farm, having retired to live in town
thought he would take an active inter.
rly est in politics this fall and so came up
lrk as a candidate for an office. He tells
ies us that while he knew there was q
ted good deal Of meanness in men he still
ed. had no idea of the depth Of their totaI
depravity until he got into politics. He
as says he can hardly now trust his best
lat friends.
rly Ihere are TWO Things ABOUT whic1
be nothing bad is ever said-the bronze
grass and alfalfa. The former is of al
most inestimable value to all thai
be large territory where timothy and the
his cloyers will not do well for lack of suf
ard ficient moisture, while alfalfa is prov
,ys ing the redeemer of q principality OF
,ur heretofore worthless lands in the west
No fact Is better proved than this
where grass can be made to grow
ron there will follow all other good things
of In an agricultural way.
on
ing One of the best farm tenants W.
the have come across is q SWede with