The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-02-21


machine to pick the fruit, and then we
will all be happy.
We saw a man haul in load of oats,
a little damp, in the year 1896 and sell
the load for $3.50. The same man
hauled in a load the other day of the
same number of bushels and got $21. 30
for it. Times have changed.
Passing by a poultry yard in the
country not long since, we saw over
200 Buff Cochins in one flock, as pretty
a sight as we ever saw in the line of
poultry, sleek, stately, peaceful and
dignifed fowl, looking for all the
world like Methodist conference.
The owner Of a very good one hun
dred and sixty acre farm said to us
lately that he had come to the conclu-
sion that he had too much land; that
he was going to dispose of half of the
farm and work the balance better He
struck us as being one of the wisest
men we have met for many a day.
The sum of 500 per year in cash and
what eggs and chickens the family can
use are easily obtained from what
poultry may be kept upon the average
farm homestead given ordinary care
and attention. This sum may be in
creased to 5000 where more fowls are
kept aud more attention given them.
There are all sorts and breeds of mi
crobes-those which give the fine flavor
to butter and cheese and those which
spoil them, bacilli which thrive at 100
degrees f. and produce cholera and
those which multiply at 80 degrees be-
low zero and batch out smallpox. Hap
piness and health seem to depend
largely upon what sort of bugs a man
eats and carries around with him.
A lady friend of ours who is very
successful with her poultry, making
about 5000 year from what she can
care for at a farm homestead, tells us
that the forcing of the hens to produce
eggs in winter does not pay her, that
by so doing the productive power of
the hens is much impaired and that
they are thereby predisposed to dis
ease. Is this correct conclusion?
We came across a man lately who
had several head of nice Shorthorn
young stock of both sexes, all eligible
to registry and of good families, and
the owner complained that he could
not find market for them at so low a
price as $50 per head, the animals be-
ing yearlings. He said it was almost
impossible to get his neighbors to pay
over $50 for a bull. 1t is needless to
add that the top of the market was
never reached by the beef animals of
that locality.
The man of sixty should have earned
and secured the privilege of doing only
just such work and just so much of
1t as suits his fancy and his strength.
AT that age work is just as much me-
cessity to his physical and mental well
being as at any time of his life, but he
should be exempt from the compulsory
feature of the work of his earlier man
hood. The Woodworking man who
quits work entirely at sixty but cuts
short his days, becomes grouty, cap
tious, snarly and unlovely, when it is
his privilege to enjoy genial old age.
The culture of tobacco as a crop is
extending from Wisconsin into Iowa,
400 loads of tobacco being marketed in
one day recently in an eastern Iowa
town. The crop brings return of from
500 to $3.50 per acre, is the worst soil
robber known and involves large
amount of work and care as we'll as
special training in order to make a
success. While the crop may and prob
ably will be grown to some extent we
do not believe it will in the long run
pay Iowa farmers to convert their
cornfields into tobacco plantations,
The very heavy losses sustained by
stockmen the past few months as re-
suit of turning their cattle into the
cornstalk fields have brought out much
SO called information about this trou-
BILE. After looking carefully over
WHAT lue SClSullolo nave W OhCl we
find that they do not at all agree as to
the cause. some assigning the trouble
to smut or fungous growth and 9th
ers to dry murrain. Cases are cited
where the smut was fed to the extent
OF half a bushel per day to one animal
without injury, while the most careful
feeding of the stalks resulted fatally.
We came across man not long since
who has built UP quite patronage as
a breeder Of pure bred Poland-ChinS
hogs, and we incidentally found OUT
that his brood sows for the next croT
of pigs wese all, with the exception OF
one, young sows not over eight months
old Jan. /. In doing this this man is
not only doing a serious injury to his
patrons, but it will inevitably hurt his
trade ana good name as breeder.
Pure l.red stock intended for breeding
purposes should never be the pr.duct
of an Immature parentage. but Of aged
and well GeveIoDcd str4k