Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-02-14

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The blight is destroying the fine pear
of Texas.
The hen which has to scratch for a
living is the one which will ill the esq
basket.
Kansas comes to the front this ye,lr
with an apple crop Of over 2O,OO0,0t0
bushels, worth over S12,0O0,O0O.
Wanted.-some sort of an animin
which will eat up clean the 80 per ceIt
wastage on corn fodder fed from the
bundle.
Twenty-six thousand cars Of oranges
are in sight in California. and they viii
be much cheaper than apples the con-
ing winter.
Climatic conditions are little out Of
Joint in Minnesota when a man gets
killed by lightning in November while
husklng corn
It is claimed by scientists that the
value Of an acre Of ocean harvest ma.T
be made greater than any acre Of land
harvest product
The state OF Nebraska could produces
cherries enough to supply all America
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tribute the fruit.
Scratches from barbed wire seem to
be singularly productive Of blood poi
soning. and wounds of this character
should never be neglected.
An Illinois man walked of with first
prize on butter at the late Iowa state
dairy meeting. His butter was made
scientifically and not by guess.
A friend Of ours had twenty dollar
straw stack tumble over the other day
and kin a fifty dollar COW. A fifty dol
lar COW should never be allowed to run
to straw pile.
Missouri and Kansas orchards have
brought their owners this season a net
return Of from $S5 to S125 per acre,
which is real easy, lazy way to get
a living out Of the land.
We see that some writer's are adyis-
ing the trimming Of the feet of the
bull. AS we observe it, this is trim
ming on the wrong end, his horns need
ing trimming far more than his feet.
Where there is found a poor stick
Of boy there will almost always
be found a poor stick Of a man who
has something to do with the boy
either as progenitor or tutor and guide.
This country has become SO large
and its interests so diversified that spe-
cial legislation intended to favor any
particular interest or locality is almost
sure to do just as much harm as it docs
good.
There were 2,155.6S3 bushels Of fax
imported into this country the past
year, while the state Of North Dakota
: could easily supply every bushel if
men would only break up cheap land
and grow this crop.
The difference between some men
and some dogs is that some dogs are SO
mean and worthless that they ought ia
. be killed and are. and some men are SO
i. mean that while they ought to be kill
!. ed we send them to the legislature.
& A learned astronomer has lately
2 made a discovery which lie claims fully
3 sustains the theory Of the nebular ny
3 pothesis. To the great mass of human
3 ity this is Of secondary Importance
9 compared with the price ,of potatoes
q It has been no uncommon thing 70
y corn belt farmers to have sold during
3 the past year from their hundred an,
Y sixty acre farms hogs to the valu
j Of $1,000 and over. We have know
this to be done on an eighty acre farm
D. We sometimes think it is easier t
= find proof of the theory Of evolution
8 as advanced by Darwin, Spencer, HuS
y ley and others in the decadence and re
q progression Of things and men than i
Il their physical and moral improvement
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% The government estimate Of the cor
g crop Of 1901 is 1874 bushels per acr
50 against an average yield Of 24.4 busl
% els per acre for the whole country 70
20 the past ten years. Ohio reports til
4 best crop, while Kansas has the pool