The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-27

One of the most profitable industries
of the Western farm today is the grow
ing of hogs. A 10-months-old pig
which now sells for over $40 will not
cost the producer over $40, If it does
that.
The actual losses sustained on any
farm where colts are raised by turning
them into the pasture fenced with barb
I'd wire will amount in two years to
more than enough to fence the pasture
with woven wire.
We never could see why 1t is that the
blackberry will grow wild where It is
not wanted and will not grow In the
garden. The blackberry has a good
deal of about 1t, anyhow.
Dry eason and scant crops result In
the storing of much plant food In the
fields ready for use when the rains
come and make the crop. All Of the So
called waste arid lands Of the West are
very rich in stores Of plant food and
only need a water supply to make them
very productive.
The average cost in the state Of ILL
nois of raising a bushel of corn as de-
termined from an exhaustive line OF
experiments was found to be 16 cents.
When corn thus raised commands SO
cents a bushel, it IS easy to see why
good corr land In that state readily
sells for $500 per acre and upward.
Fifty cents worth of rape seed sown
with the acre Of barley will furnish
nearly three months feed for and fat
ten for market ten medium sized sheep,
or it will keep ten shotes nicely for
three months. One thus gets W crops
in one year and finely fertilizes the
land for next seasons crops besides
1t looks to us to be a pretty mean
sort of thing to give a sitting hen
goose egg to hatch. If old Biddy has
any feelings at all, how must she re-
gard the fraud practiced upon her as
she tries to feed and train the ungainly
goslings? Any self-respecting hen IS
justified in striking under such circum-
stances. Duck eggs are bad enough.
A very few years ago the stock grow
ers we're bowling about the meat trust
and wanted an official investigation be-
cause prices were so low. Now the
stock grower is very quiet, while the
is roaring at the prices he
must pay for his sirloin steak. The
law of supply and demand In It's ST.
lent and irresistible work never
plcases all classes.
A friend Of ours who has quite a
large grove of matured red cedar trees
derives a considerable income every
spring by selling the little cedar trees
which come up by the hundreds in his
timber lot, the cedar seeds being car
ried there by the birds and finding I'M
der the shade of these deciduous trees
just exactly the best conditions for
termination and development.
The West had to take care Of nearly
a foot Of water on the level during the
month of May. There was a general
filling up of rivers, lakes, wells, els
terms. springs, swamps, such an all
round soaking up as the territory COW
cred has not experienced for years. AS
a timely agricultural topic, ditching
and drainage have crowded that OF
conserving soil moisture to the rear.
A cycl0nlc storm IN early May swept
into it's folds a host OF migrating birds
during the night, and they were blown
hither and thither against buildings,
wires and fences and were picked up
by the hundred the next morning
~grosbeaks, orioles, vireos, flycatchers,
tanagers, wood thrushes and scores OF
other varities. The keen bird instinct
is not always equal to the perils which
beset our little feathered friends.
The caulifower Is a difficult vegeta-
hle to grow with US. OF so planted We
will only get a few good heads. lnfe-
rior seed and too much hot weather
during the growing season seem to be
the cause. One needs the moist. cool
elm ate of England to produce this
vegetable at its best.
Japan would hardly look at Ameri-
can -four in 1883, using only 1900
pounds all told, but last year she took
over so, 200, 900 pounds. B~reechclouts
and chopsticks have made way for
pants, plug hats and baking powder
biscuits, and more than any other peo-
7le are the Japanese today adopting
The American type Of civilization.