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1901, ]. s. Trigg, Rockford, Iowa. .
Correspondence Solicited.
Fine naval oranges are $2.10 a box
at points in the central West, consider
ably cheaper than good apples.
So long as interests rates keep way
down just so long will there be a good
demand for farm land.
The present high prices of all dairy
food rations Is greatly charging the
number of COWS which do not pay for
their board.
The willow tree, planted ten feet
apart each way on moist, rich bottom
land, will cut about 70 cords of wood to
the acre inside of fifteen years.
The Whippoorwill pea is being high
ly commended as a valuable legume for
use in nearly all the northern states.
But little is known of its merits in the
West.
If it was not that the English farm
hand expects and receives about three
pints of good, strong beer a day, he
would rebel and refuse to work for the
wages paid him.
Booker Washington, the modern Mo-
ses of the Ethiopian race, AYERS that the
salvation of the negro depends upon his
being taught how to cultivate the soil,
which statement is a concrete wisdom.
The laws of Minnesota provide a fine
of $40 for any farmer who allows wild
mustard to go to seed upon his prem
Uses. There are some men up there who
would have to go into bankruptcy if
this law was enforced against them.
The American people have no inter
est whatever in the maintenance of the
sugar trusts refineries, hut they do have
a vital and abiding interest in the es-
tablishment and development of as
many beet sugar refineries as possible.
A consignment of Mexican oranges
for San Francisco was recently seized
and burned up, boxes of and all. They
were affected by a yellow worm, a new
pest, which if introduced into the ci-
trus belt Of the coast would work in
calculable damage.
We hardly believe it pays to bother
much to raise roots as a succulent win
ter ration for stock when silage can be
so much more easily prepared, stored
and fed. But If n cannot put up 81
lage by all means have some roots for
winter feeding.
An acre of cheap farm land will quite
likely produce just as good and often
better crops than an acre of rs dollar
land, while the crop may not sell for
quite so much money because of the
higher freight rate the sum total of
this difference is not very much after
all.
There is one thing about turkey, or
anges and a lot of other delicacies. one
soon gets very tired of them, while.
luckily for health and pocketbook, good
homemade bread, oatmeal, potatoes and
buckWh eat cakes we never weary of.
The best things after all, are the cheap
est.
In most of the states woman's prop
erty rights are not fairly and properly
protected. There is nothing fair or right
when a mans brothers and father can
step in and take property which the
man and his wife alone have accumu-
lated by joint work, and where no will is
left this can be done in several states,
The English walnut is being success
f,,11u urnuyn in tho ctafn nf NlW TarcoNr
We have often wondered why this most
valuable nut tree was not given more
attention in Kentucky, West Virginia
and other states having like climatic
conditions. Up to this time California
is the only state which has shown any
interest IN the cultivation of this tree.
A lumber company during the last
winters work in the north woods, en-
ploying 200 men, had during the winter
no less than 1000 different men upon
its pay roll. The trouble was that just
as soon as a man had earned enough
to 90 to Minneapolis and have a riI
roaring old time he would quit work
This sort would be better off as slaves
thar as free men.
A friend of ours who has a farm o.
100 acres in the Eastern portion Of
South Dakota which he rents to a pref.
ty good tenant tells us that the two.
ffths of the crop which he receives fol
his share has Melted him an average o.
$3.50 per acre for the past four years
which is equivalent to 6 per emf in
terest on a valuation of $55 per acr'
for the farm, yet where this farm is To-
Gated good farms are selling now at $2'
to $50 per acre.
An American boy-young man mai
perhaps would be better, for he Is 2.
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