The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1902-07-11

The state of New York bids fair TO
harvest splendid crop of apples this
year.
In 1862 we sold load of wool for 81
per pound. Those were the days when
1t paid to keep sheep.
The first car of new wheat from Tex.
as was on sale at Chicago May 80. 1t
brought So cents per bushel
IL you buy any butter after July 1,
there is one comfort--you will know for
sure whether COW or steer made it.
The good brood mare should never be
sold from the farm. Properly cared
for she can be made the most profit
able animal on the farm.
If "a man wishes to change the type
Of cattle kept upon his farm, 1t is bet
ter to sell out clean and start with the
kind wanted rather than to attempt to
cross breed into it.
There are plenty of counties in near
ly every state where the number Of
dogs kept exceeds the number of
sheep, and 1t is largely because OF the
dogs that so few sheep are kept.
Said farmer to us the other day:
IT don't have to pay $1.50 per day for
hand to plow corn. My wife takes
the team and cultivator and does as
much work and does 1t as well as any
hired man."
There are being prepared for ship.
ment to South Africa $4,000 Texas cat
tie wherewith to restock the war raid
ed plains. Cuba Is also prepared to
take large number Of the same class
Of cattle.
A friend Of ours finds very effective
stump puller in his twenty horsepower
traction engine. On all stumps partial
ly decayed and live ones up to ten inch
es In diameter the engine does good
and rapid work.
The northern range pasture land has
never been better than this summer
and that of the south seldom worse.
Feeders are being moved by the hun
dred thousand from Texas to Montana
and the Dakotas.
Given immunity from late spring
frosts, good cultivation and sufficient
moisture during the blooming and
fruiting season, we find the strawberry
by all odds the most certain crop pro.
ducer Of any of the long list of fruits
commonly raised.
The general introduction of the rural
mail route is working a great change
| in the status of the American farmer
He is writing more letters, reading
closely in touch with the busy worlt
outside, which to him before has beer
| little save market.
A man who planted the locust for G
windbreak and timber belt has this t.
say of the tree: ''It never makes de
cent tree, suckers terribly, breaks dowI
badly, it's black pods look horrible, Il
leaves out In the spring tardily ant
parts with it's leaves prematurely.
hate it thoroughly"
We have drilled all Of our corn this
year. Those who have tried it claim
that so planted the yield will be in
creased from six to ten bushels pei
acre over the old way of planting il
hills. 1t looks reasonable that stalks
of corn growing one foot apart in thu
row should produce larger and NOR
uniform ears than if grown in hills.
Altogether there are about 250 buf
faloes left in the whole of the Unite'
States. While these, which are nearl.
all in captivity and partially domesti
Gated, will breed to some extent, th'
greatest care will have to be exercised
or the bovine which once could b.
counted by millions will become utter
ly extinct, as in the case Of the passen
ger pigeon.
A drove of 100 two-year-old steer
running on a good clover and timo
thy pasture and on full corn feed dur
ing the last half of May and the firs
half of June made the remarkabl
gain in weight of 119 pounds each i
the thirty days, or nearly four pound
per day. This happened near tn
writer's home, where he saw the cattl
and the certified weights.
Thousands of farmers during tn
past four years have changed fror
farmers into bankers-that Is, the
have their savings (no small sum
either) invested in the stocks of the
home banks-and they are now abl
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