The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-12-19

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cents a head in parts of Australia on
account of the drought.
California will ship a large amount
of celery to eastern markets this win
ter. 1t is n of the growing industries
of the coast.
The Devon cattle are hardly known
in the West. With the passing of the
OK as a beast of burden the special use
for the Devon ceased. Other breeds
better fill the needs of the dairy and
the feedyard.
The Argentine Republic produced
this year sc, 000, 900 bushels of corn, or
just about one-third of the crop of the
state of Kansas, and the Argentine Re-
public is the only competitor America
has in the corn business.
1t is much easier to put fat on an an
NAL when 1t is warm than when it is
cold, easier to feed with the sun than
without it. For all practical purposes
sunshine and warmth mean fat and the
want of them a curtailed ration.
Cows are fond of turnips and rape,
but it is poor stuff for their ration, as
it is almost impossible to feed them so
that they will not faint the milk. If a
root ration is desired for the COW in
winter, there is nothing better than
sugar beets or carrots.
The spiraea known as the bridal
wreath and the high bush cranberry
are specially noticeable for the rare
beauty of their foliage in the fall. No
shrub or tree we know excels them.
While it is all right to serve refresh
ments to one guests, it always grinds
us to serve those who come only for
what they can get to eat. 1t is so much
like throwing a basket of corn to the
hogs.
We know of a poor mar who raised
two acres of New Yorker potatoes this
year. He raised 200 bushels per acre
and sold the crop in the field for so
cents a bushel, or 5000. Allowing So for
rent, $40 for seed and SIG for planting,
%cultivating and digging, he had the
nice net profit on the crop of $166, or
more than he could have earned at
days work during the four months
work for other people. Other poor men
might do as well.
1t cost us S4S to raise and care for
seven-eighths of an acre of onions this
year, hiring all the work done, and this
on land which was free from weeds.
The season was such that it was almost
impossible to kill the weeds and in
volved expense than ordinarily
attaches to raising this crop. The yield
was 400 bushels and the net profit on
the crop $160.
The most pitiful fate of any dumb
creature is that of the horse. He grad
yates down from the carriage to the
lumber wagon, then into the hands of
the horse trader, then on to the ped
dler's cart, his last remaining atom
of strength whaled out of him till he
falls dead in the harness. If he were
only recognized as fit for food, this
would not be so.
The syndicate system of farming is
a bane to any country. 1t is death to
schools, society and almost bars the
natural development of any section
where it is practiced. 1t is the worst
kind of land skinning in it's operations
and blights everything desirable in our
American rural life. 1t is a comfort to
know that it so seldom pays hat only
here and there has it got a foothold.
A stranger coming to this country
would of course be informed of the
fact of our big things-our millionaires,
great corporations and manufacturing
interests-and just as like as not he
would not be told about the best thing
which the country can boast of, and
that is the way up from poverty to the
ownership of ideal American homes
and a comfortable competency for old
age.
Think of it. Three crops, or six tons
in all, of alfalfa in n year and a crop
of seed to taper off on, the hay worth
$42 and the seed s24; no blowing OF
seeding; just harvesting, that's all. Is
not that a dandy crop for you? They dc
this in Kansas, and If you live farther
north and have the right sort of sol
you can get the two crops of hay and
the seed. Most valuable plant grown
in America If you can only grow it
Try.
Speaking of agricultural swindles
there is the steel range trap. We know
of dozens of men who paid $68 for
range to some travelling agent who
could have got precisely the same thing
for $45 of their merchant, but the trou-
BILE was that the local merchant did not
go out in the country and illustrate the
nonbreakable qualities of malleablt
steel by taking a stove lid and maulint
1t with a ten pound sledge, as did the
travelling agent.
4, you want % cent eggs to soil II
winter, make the hens scratch II
living, feed corn only once a day, wheat
once and oats once and see that they
have a feed of ensilage or it's equiva'
lent in some sort of green food once 9
day. No BOOSTERS are wanted for win
ter egg production.
1t has been too cold the past summer
for the tea roses to do we'll out o
doors. 1t was with the greatest reluc
lance that they bloomed at all ant
MANY of the blossoms were imper