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

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Copyrighted, 1902, by J.. S. Trigg,
Rockford, Ia
Correspondence Solicited.
A summer silo makes the dairyman
laugh at the brown August pastures.
Anyhow, oleomargarine will always
bring at least 10 cents a pound after
this.
1t is said that the horse chestnut is
richer in albumen than any other
known plant or tree.
Good crops always come as a COM
pensation for the having to work gum
DO highways.
AS a feed equal parts of corn and
wheat give better results than either
grain fed alone.
The steer and the COW have fought
the butter business out to a finish, and
old bossy is ahead.
Arbor day in North Dakota has been
set over to May 9 of each year to meet
the climatic conditions of the northern
latitude of that state.
The passage of the oleo bill necee-
state the placing of 500, 1000 more COWS
on the farms of the country to supply
the demand Tor butter.
If all the small, understood and in
ferior kernels of seed grain of any kind
could be eliminated from the seed
sown, it would do much to improve the
quality of all crops raised.
If you have set out a strawberry bed
this spring, do not let the plants bloom
and bear fruit this year, for it weakens
them, and they will not set so good a
crop of inner for the next years
crop.
Alfalfa butter is not as fine as blue
grass butter and will never take the
place of clover, blue grass and corn as
a dairy ration. but fed with these 1t is
of great benefit, as it is a great milk
producer.
Cold storage has proved a great suo-
cess with Baldwin apples in the East,
the fruit going in at S1.20 per barrel,
keeping perfectly and bringing SO in
the spring at an expense of 25 cents
storage charges.
While it is an right to break in the
2-year-old draft colt, it Is still a bad
blunder to make it do regular work
alongside of a matlred horse, and the
same rule should apply to your 14-year-
old boy as well.
A steer bought last October at 4
cents a pound, fed 70 bushels of 60-cent
corn and sold in May at 1925 per 100
only just paid his way and left no
proft-this from one of the most ex-
tensive feeders Of cattle in this
try.
But few of the younger people OF
the country have ever seen an OK, a
ten-year-old, long horned, eighteen
hundred pound beast of burGep for
his sort Is being almost wholly sup
their way to the slaughter house be-
fore they are three years old.
Tho howl AGAINST the meot trrSt
does not come from the farms. Out
west not a peep is heard, and rs the
old granger notes a twenty-five cert
advance in hogs and steers in his
caily paper he turns to his wife and
remarks that the Lord has not forgot
Pr his people after all.
The corn acreage of the corn belt
will be very large this season, the pre-
vailing high prices for this cereal act
ing as a stimulant to every man to
raise every bushel Of corn possible.
The country cannot raise so large n
crop of corn this season that the prices
will be forced to an improbable point.
The recent orders for the cattlemen
to remove the fences which they have
erected, enclosing vast areas of the
pubilC uOlldlA 10 NCly HhuCh III Ihe
interest of the homesteader and man
who wants to raise cattle on a small
scale. The order is making a lot OF
trouble among the cattle barons, how.
ever.
Cold storage has become a most i'm.
portant factor in relieving gluts of the
market for all perishab1e products ant
equaliZing the prices for the same. MOI
long ago eggs always used to drop tt
s or 9 cents a dozen along in the
month Of May. Cold storage facilities
now keep them up to 10 or IA cents t.
the producer.