The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-01-10

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Copyright, 1901. by J.. s.. Trigg,)
Rockford, Iowa.
Correspondence Solicited.
There is a loss of from Sc to IS on
each steer fed for beef when 1t is not
followed by a hog.
A man has made a failure Of living
II there is not a .igger crowd at his
funeral than there Nyas at his wedding.
Do not turn down the small boy who
Is always asking questions. He will
know more han you do if he keeps on.
Nebraska raised only 5000, 900 BUSH
els of winter wheat in 1890. In 1901
her wheat crop aggregated 100000
bushels.
We came across a lady the other day
who was much surprised that the Ger
man language could be understood
over the telephone.
Keep that green boy of yours or the
careless hired man who thinks he
knows it all away from the corn shred
der, or the surgeon is likely to have a
Whenever the politician gets a foot
hold in any farmers organization hav-
ing for its object the betterment of
the farmers condition it is all day
with it.
We have offered a premium of Is
cents each for all rabbits killed in the
vicinity of our orchard, and if bunny
values his life he will keep away from
that territory.
The year 1914 was a year of short
crops for England, and she had no sup
ply of wheat to draw upon from Amer
ica. Wheat that year went up to $50
a quarter, or s1S.75 a bushel.
The rabbit can get along all right
with the shotgun and the hound. but
the ferret is bad medicine for him. A
12-year-old boy and a ferret extermin-
ated 200 Dummies last winter.
The right way for a farmer to dc
who desires to attend the farm insti-
tute is to hire a man for a couple OF
days to do all the chores and then take
his wife and attend all the sessions.
1t costs just as much for ocean trans.
portation to ship a small sized bee
animal to England as 1t does a large
one. Each occupies a stall, and the
tariff is on the number of cubic feet o.
space contained in the stall and not OIL
the weight Of the animal.
The widespread loss of valuable
stock as a result of turning it into tn,
stalkfelds, which is greater this yea
than we have ever known it before
should be a further incentive to qui
this wasteful practice and save tn
corn by cutting it up.
There has never been in this countr,
SO good a time as the present to pay II
debts and get square with the world
We know of lots of men who shoul,
seize the opportunity and do just thi
thing. Instead they are contracting
still more debt, foolishly assuming tina
these good times will last forever.
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If the owl made as much noise wit
its wings as it seeks its nightly meal
as does the migrating duck or the ruf
fed grouse or prairie hen, 1t would G
hungry, but the fan of the OWLS win
is the most noiseless motion in tn
world. and it drops on it's victim lik
a feather falling from the upper air.
While the corn crop Of 1896, one c
the largest ever raised, was wort
$491 .000, 900 on the farms where it wa
produced, the crop of 1901, less tina
one-half as great. is estimated to b
worth the sun of 500. 200. 900, thereb
proving that half a crop may be
blessing in disguise to the man VIII
raises it.
Wild blood does not render eth
animal or bird life immune against tn
diseases which beset domesticated v;
rieties. The wild hogs of Arkansas
Virginia. usually healthy as roame
OF the woods, fall easy victims to I'll
cholera and swine plague when place
under Poland-China conditions in Il
corn belt.
We went by his place the 9th er da
He cut up ten acres OF corn, sowed ii
field to rye, removed the shocks IL
last of October and shredded the Gro
His cows had the finest kind of a la
fall and early winter pasture. He wi