News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-06-25

of the western farm today is the grow
ing of hogs. A ten-mOnth-old pig
which now sells for over 500 will not
cost the producer over So if it does
that.
The actual losses sustained on any
farm where colts are raised by turning
them into the pasture fenced with
barbed wire will amount in two years
to more than enough to fence the pas
ture with woven wire.
We never could see why it is that the
blackberry will grow wild where it is
not wanted and will not grow and do
we'll when one tries to make it grow in
the garden. The blackberry has a
good deal of meanness about it any
how.
The American people can well afford
to sit down on the glucose, OleOmarga-
rine and cottonseed oil type of prog
ress, which, like the weeds in a corn
field, threatens to destroy the unadul-
terated and genuine products of the
country.
The last census shows that there has
been a gain of % per cent in population
and only a gain of per cent in milk
cows. With her steer calf no longer
competing with her in the dairy bust
ness, it is"eyident that there is a great
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Nearly all counties in all northern
states now have their farmers mu-
tual insurance companies. These or
CARNATIONS, almost without exception,
give reliable insurance at actual cost
and afford the very best sort of insur-
ance available for the farmer.
Dry seasons 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 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 Hi,
nois of raising bushel of corn as
determined from an exhaustive line Of
experiments Was~found to be 16 cents.
When corn thus raised commands 80
cents a bushel, it is easy to see why
good corn land i 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 two
crops in one year and finely fertilizes
the land for next seasons crops be-
Sides
1t looks to us to be a pretty mean
sort of thing to give a sitting hen
goose eggs 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 cir
cumstances. Duck eggs are bad enough.
A very few years ago the stock grow
ers were bowling about the meat trust
and wanted an official investigation
because prices were so low. Now the
stock grower is very quiet, while the
consumer is roaring at the prices he
must pay for his sirloin steak. The
law of supply and demand in it's silent
and irresistible work never pleases 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 decfduous 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 Sf 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 cyclonic storm in early May swept
into its folds 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
grosbeats, orioles, vireos, fycatchers,
fanagers, wood thrushes and scores of
other varieties. The keen bird instinct
is not always equal to the perlls which
b6set our little feathered friends.