The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-02-07

Where a tree has ample room to grow +,
develop, it's root system will be Il
to correspond in area occupied v
the size and spread of its top. s
A row of Scotch pines set eight feet I
apart for eighty rods along the north I
line of our orchard is planned for a G
windbreak. Could we do any better? a
'In the morning SOW thy seed, and at 8
evening Withhold not thy hands, is a '
good motto to apply in the matter of
grass seed in the spring, partic-
ularly clover seed. ii
There will be a better litter of pigs
and more of them raised to the period
of weaving if the old SOW has nothing
to do with the corncrib before and after
the pigs are born.
The cattle which brought 81 at Chi
cage the last day of the OLD year were
what? Just long yearling steers,
finely bred and finely fed. weighing ,
about 1900 pounds. This fact is worth
studying.
Don't try to be a weather prophet,
for you will get let down if you do. The
little intelligence which some men pos
sess is very often devoted to d%escant-
ing upon subjects about which they
know nothing.
What is on many a farm is % bush
els of corn to the acre. What might be
is so bushels per acre on the same land.
The how to bring this about is the
great agricultural problem which thou
sands of men should study.
When a man finds himself the owner
of a farm worth $75 per acre, it then
becomes his duty as a GOOD citizen to
see that the public highway along his
premises is graveled and made II a
good road even if he has to do it at his
own expense.
Nearly every living thing, except the
family cat and dog, are fond of well
prepared corn ~silage-cows, young
stock. the fattening steers, the sheep,
the hogs, the chickens. A food which is
so generally palatable to all kinds of
stock should be provided~for them.
Along the fence on the north side of
a belt of heavy timber we will next
spring set out an 80 rod row of dew
berries, confidently expecting that this
delicious berry will there find almost
Ideal conditions. We will train the
vines along the wire fence If possible.
A good many of the rural mail route
carriers are r~esigning. as n by n
they finG out that they really are the
most poorly paid of any of Uncle Sans
large list of employees. The fair thing
would be to add at least 800 to their
present compensation of $500, especial
ly as it appears that the business is
more than s~elf-sustaining.
We note the advertisement For
Sale of a $50 acre farm of rich Indiana
farm land in the Kankakee country. 100
acres of heavy timber thereon, at the
seemingly low price of $27 per acre,
while men are actually tumbling over
each other in their eagerness to pay S45
an acre for lands in the Dakotas.
What's the matter with the old Hoosier
state?
The average yield of the cereal crops
of England for the past ten years has
been: Wheat. 29.93 bushels per acre;
barley, 1913: oats, 3S.47. The average
is not high on barley and oats as COM
pared with the average crop of the
West and Northwest. but on wheat
England beats this country all to pieces,
save in a limited territory in Oregon.
Washington and Idaho.
A late report from England states
that there is plenty of work to be OBJ
tanned ON English farms at $3.50 pei
week, the laborer to board himself, in
which connection we remark that there
is plenty of work on American farms a
$3.50 per week, with first class board
meat three times a day and two piece!
of pie and washing thrown in and IL
some cases a likely show to court thu
hired girl or the old mans daughter
besides.
The worlds sugar supply is yer.
large and is constantly increasing. Mod
ern methods of culture and manufac
ture applied to the sugar cane and tn
sugar beet are revolutlonizing this in
dustry. Once put Yankee brains ant
machinery in conjunction with the su
gar producing soil of Cuba, Porto Ric'
and the Philippines in cane culture an
manufacture and with the vast irrigat
able sections of the desert west of on
own country in beet culture and Amer
lea need not depend for a single poun
of the vast quantity of sugar which i
consumes upon any foreign nation.
Our Farm Machines in Russia.
. . American reapers, ~haryesters, hors
rakes and are being adopted /
nearly every part of agricultural Rus
STA to the exclusion of all other kinds
Few people realize the enormo iei
this opens to the American manufaC
turer of farm machinery, the cere;
producing area of Russia far eXceedin
in extent that Of this country. TheT
are vast sections of Russia where eve
vet the Russian peasant cuts all b
grain with a scythe or cradle. tram
the grain out with oxen n Yinanv