The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-24


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-
SEES of the Ethiopian race, AYERS that
the salvation of the negro depends up
on his being taught how to cultivate
the soil, which statement is concrete
wisdom.
The laws of Minnesota provide fine
of SO for any farmer who allows wild
mustard to go to seed upon his prem
ises. 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 inOhe maintenance of
the sugar trusts refineries, but they do
have a vital and abiding interest in
the establishment and development of
as many beet sugar refneries as posi-
BILE.
A consignment of Mexican oranges
for San Francisco was recently seized
and burned up, boxes and all. They
were affected by yellow worm, new
pest, which if introduced into the cit
rus belt of the coast would work in
calculable damage.
What is on many farm Is twenty
five bushels of corn to the acre. What
might be is fifty bushels per acre on
the same land. The how to bring this
about is the great agricultural prob
lem which thousands of men should
study.
When a man finds himself the owner
of 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 into a
good road even if he has to do it at
his own expense.
Nearly every live thing, except the
family cat and dog, are fond of well
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
belt of heavy timber we will next
spring set out an eighty rod row of
dewberries, confidently expecting that
this delicious berry will there find al
most ideal conditions. We will train
the vines along the wire fence if posi-
BILE.
The highest figure which steer beeves
brought at the Chicago stockyards Dec
81, 1901, was $3.50 per hundredweight
and the lowest price was $500. 1t is
this difference of $3.50 per hunured-
weight which should be matter of
prayer and fasting with all stock rails
ers everywhere.
A good many of the rural mail route
= carriers are resgning, as one by one
they find 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 500 to their
present compensation of $500, especial
ly as it appears that the business is
more than self sustaining.
We note the advertisement "For
Sale" of $50 acre farm of rich In
diana 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 ca
gerness to pay $45 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, 1918; 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 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 per
week, the laboror to board himself, in
which connection we remark that there
is plenty of work on American farms
at $3.50 per week, with first class
board-meat three times a day and
two pieces of pie and washing thrown
In and in some cases likely show to
court the hired girl or the old mans
daughter besides.