The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-02-14


Some wise man notes that high
priced corn and healthy hogs almost
always go together, the inference be-
ing that if the hogs were fed less corn
they would not be so subject to dis
ease. There may be something in this.
The mounted head of an old fashion
ed long horned Texan steer will inside
of ten years be almost as difficult to
obtain as the head of a buffalo bull.
The white faces and the doddies are
driving the Texas steer out of existence.
When clover will do so much to rem
ovate 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. builG their soils up and make money.
We saw a stack of clover hay lately
so feet in length, 16 feet wide at the
base inc 8 feet in height from the
ground to the apex of the roof. Glover
bay in that locality was worth 81 per
ton in the stack. How much did that
man lose by building his stack in this
manner?
A friend tells us that he successfully
fruits his strawberry bed for five years
in succession. This may be done pos
sibly with a small bed, but where the
bed is large it is every way better to
fruit two years and then pillow up. We
find it less trouble to set out a new
he'd than %renovate an old M
A farm boy made openings in the loft
of a barn so that the sparrows could
find a sheltered place to roost in cold
weather. They quickly tumbleG to the
snap. and after they were n wanted
1t was an easy matter to close the OPP
enings after they had gone to roost and
catch them with a dip net.
The aged farrow COW is a ann by
predestination, but sometimes fails to
work out her destiny, and a lot of kind
ly disposed persons in the community
are innocently compelled to eat her up
as prime steer fed beef. 1t does not
seem so bad when a Chicago picnic
party works her up with beer and pref
Zels.
A Western farmer suggests the re-
moval of the barb used on wire fencing
and the use of a mild current of cleo
tricity generated by dry battery as a
substitute therefor, claiming that the
light shock produced by contact with
the wire would soon educate all kinds
of stock to keep away from the wire
fence.
A grass fed Texac steer of the new
kind sold in Chicago in December for
81 per hundredweight. 1t weighed l.
600 pounds, brought SIP and wouldn't
have known what to do with an ear
of corn had one been given it. Only the
very best of the corn fed steers OF
Iowa and Illinois brought as much
money the same day.
We hardly know whether it is any
worse to sell our neighbor a COW
which does not pay her way in your
dairy herd or sell her to the local
butcher for all your neighbors to have
a hand in eating her up. The princi-
pal difference is that in the first case
you get the cussing, while in the last
the butcher gets it.
otNtIa al liCH WlOll VIC hhOW 4 lily
ing these freaks, the mule footed hogs,
hogs which have a solid instead of a
split foot. The claim is made for this
breed that it is cholera proof. 1t is
best to wait awhile and see, the
chances being If the brute is a hog and
not a mule that 1t will go the way of
all the rest of it's kind when the cpl
demic comes.
A buffalo bull recently slaughtered
in Iowa brought its owner nearly ST.
900. The head sold for $500, the hide
for $500 and the meat for so cents a
pound. In the year 1877 a drove of
buffalo estimated at 1000, 900 head
crossed the North Platte river in Ne
braska and Were worth a dollar apiece
to the poachers who exterminated them
for their hides.
Illustrating what the rural mail route
accomplishes, we note that on a certain
route in a western county upon which
about 100 families are served, of which
but W were taking a daily paper prior
to the rural service, there are o.
n%inety-one daily papers taken, and the
figures show that the correspondence
of these families has more than dou-
bled in the same time.
II we had a timothy meadow which
we wished to plant to corn the COM
ing season and feared the ravages OF
the cutworm, as there would be good
reason to do, we would not pillow it until
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