The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-03

in a year, but he can't make a spiders
web in a night.
One Of the ~aggravations of age is to
have the rheumatism when the, bass
fishing is good in October.
In wet seasons, while a man may raise
bigger crops, he always loses more of
them. August rains make a terrible
waste.
1t is the busiest men who always have
the most work to do. The more such a
man does the more he finds that wants
doing. |
Considering the titanic power Of the
lightning stroke and its great frequency
during the summer months, the wonder
is that more damage is not done.
With all the food in sight and all the
pigs and cattle, it must be that before
many months the price of meats will
get down to a figure where they will
cease to be a luxury.
California is coming to the front with
a new crop of growing importance-the
soft shelled almond. This year the crop
amount" to 267 carloads. or 2.670 tons,
worth Jout IL cents per pound.
There is one comfort for the poor
man this winter, even if his coal is
likely to be high priced, and that is
that he will be able to get all the good
potatoes he wants at 80 cents a bushel
or less.
The most expert chicken picker in
the country is employed in a poultry
packing house in Chicago. His record
is so chickens in eight minutes one sec
ond. 1t is certain that the feathers fly
when he gets to work..
We have rid q large lawn of the
pesky squirreltail grass by persistent
moving during it's seeding period and
burning up the cuttings. If you keep
this pest from going to seed, it will dis
appear.
Rural mail routes will compel the
making of better highways. The gov
eminent has not sentimental feelings
on this subject and simply gives the
alternative of fixing the roads or losing
the service.
A heaping bushel basket of dead
sparrows was gathered up in one sec
ton of a small interior Western town
after one of the heavy storms of Au-
gust. Hail plays the mischief with
these birds.
The %byproducts of the Chicago pack
ing houses are worth $780, 900, 900 per
year and are the sources of large profits
connected with the business. Thirty
years ago most of these ~byproducts
were wasted.
If in a fit of public spirit you buy a
wide-tired wagon, your neighbors will
quite likely command your public spirit
and keep right OF using their old mar
row-tired outfits, letting you smooth
the highways for them.
The old poky way of farming with
oxen and doing most of the farm work
by hand in France is at last giving way
to improved methods where the horse
supplants the OK and the modern ma
chine the hand labor.
The freight car with ball bearings,
something we have often wondered did
not come to the front, is out at last and
is a pronounced success and if generally
adopted is certain to still further reduce
the cost of freight transportation.
The general government has finally
abandoned further efforts at the i'm
provement of navigation IN the Mis-
souri, river. The railways have beaten
the boats and captured nearly all the
freight which was at one time carried
on the river.
Central Iowa seems to be the center
of the atmospheric disturbances and
unusual rainfall of the year 1902, the
rainfall being reported at three feet
and even more in localities, doing i'm
mense damage to one of the finest crops
ever raised in the state.
When a man can get his dairy herd
I'D to an average of $50 pounds of but
ter per head, he can afford to entirely
ignore the beef side of the business of
stock raising. Such COWS should be
bred to secure as many hener calves as
possible which will do as well or better
than their dams. The male calf should
meet q theological fate-be disposed OF
as deacons.
Kansas farmers have learned that
the grasshopper, heretofore regarded as
a pest, may be made of much utility
and profit. Large fiocks of turkeys are
raised and are easily taught to range
the farms for the hoppers, of which
they are very fond and fed upon which
they become large and fat. This is the
@ of economics and utilities.
The growers of sweet corn for the
canneries are this year getting Sc per
ton for their product, equivalent to a