Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-02-07

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Sheep averaged 60 cents lower in the
Chicago market for 1901 than they did
for 1900.
The prize winning Hereford beeves
at the Chicago live stock exposition,
which sold for So per hundredweight,
were Texas cattle finished off on Ohio
corn.
A car containing 1900 bushels Of |
wheat was unloaded at a western -four |
mill short time ago. We can all re-
call the time when 500 bushels Of |
wheat was considered a big carload.
Milk dried and powdered Is a new
product which is attracting some atten-
ton. It is claimed for it that it will
keep indefinitely in any climate, is cas-
lily handled and contains all the nutri-
tious properties Of LIQUID milk
Some wise man notes that high prie-
ed corn and healthy hogs almost al
ways go together, the inference being
that if the hogs were fed less corn they
would not be 50 subject to disease
There may be something in this.
The mounted head Of an old fashion
ed long. horned Texan steer win inside
of ten years be almost as difficult to
obtain as the head Of a buffalo bun. The.
white faces and the doddies are driv-
ing the Texas steer out Of existence.
When clover will do so much to reno
vate and redeem The farm why don't
more men SOW it? IT'S hard to tell. The
many don't know and won't learn;
some get discouraged and quit because
their seeding fails; the few stick to it.
build their soils up and make money.
We saw a stack Of clover hay lately
so feet in length, 10 feet wide at the
base and 8 feet in height from the
ground to the apes, Of the roof. Clover
hay in that locality was worth 81 per
ton in the stack. How mach did that
man lose by building his stack in this
manner?
A friend tells us that he successfully
Il fruits his strawberry bed for five years
in succession. This may be done posi-
bly, with small bed, but where the
bed Is large it is every way better to
fruit two years ard then plow up. We
e find it less trouble to set out new bed
than renovate an old one.
!, A farm boy made openings in the
L loft Of a barn SD that the sparrows
y could find a sheltered place to roost il
I cold weather. They quickly tumblet
q to the snap, and after they were once
4 wonted it was an easy matter to clos'
Il the openings after they had gone t.
4 roost and catch them with a dip net.
4 The aged farrow COW is a Gamer b.
!. predestination. but sometimes fails t.
q work out her destiny, and a lot of kind
!. " disposed persons in the communit
'e are innocently compelled to eat her u
y as prime steer fed beef. It does no
seem so bad when a Chicago picni
party works her Up with beer and pref
zels.
A western farmer suggests the II
/. moval of the barb used on wire fencin
and the use Of mild current Of ele'
- tricity generated by dry battery as
II. substitute therefor, claiming that tn
70 light shock produced by contact wit
o. the wire would soon educate all kind
% Of stock to keep away from the wiz
Is fence.
2 A grass fed Texas steer Of the ne
% kind sold in Chicago in December for
u per hundredweight. 1t weighed 1,6(
50 pounds, brought SIP and wouldn
g have known what to do with an ear
s. corn had one been given it. Only Il
10 very best Of the corn fed steers
ms Iowa and Illinois brought as muC
IN. money the same day.
N. We hardly know whether it is al
% worse to sell your neighbor a co
Is which does not pay her way in 20
81 dairy herd or sell her to the loo
2s butcher for all your neighbors to ha
u a hand in eating her up. The princip
os difference is that in the first case v
g get the eussing. while in the last t
IL butcher gets it.
80
Several men whom we know are II
20 ing these freaks. the mule footed hoi
"a hogs which have a solid instead of
ar split hoof The claim is made for Il
breed that it is cholera proof. 1t is b,
- to wait awhile and see. the chances