The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-07-10

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When we note how useful an animal
the mule is we sometimes wonder why
he was not made in the first place in
stead Of n jackass.
III 1t were only practicable it would
De good idea to make every owner
or farm responsible for the condition
or the highways bordering his land.
Inc Kansas experiment station hns
realized $11.90 per acre from rape pas
turc and $24.1O from alfalfa pasture
when fed to hogs in connection with n
light feed of grain.
1t Is now said that the oleo fellows
are coloring their product with the
yolks OF eggs. They are bound to get
mat steer butter into the gizzards Of
the American people somehow
| And now the distressing information
comes from an Iowa town that one of
Its citizens is in Il bad way rs the result
or eating package of bird seed, mis-
taking it for q new brand of breakfast
food.
The hog. bringing more than ordI.
nary good prices for the past year, has
enabled the feeders of beef cattle to
get out without serious loss this sen.
son. If 1t had not been for the pjp
they would have been in q hole.
| Where milk is set In deep cans I'm
| cold water and the cream thus ra ised
the farm separator will step in and
give the dairyman about 90 per cent
more cream. You can do some figur-
ing yourselves with this fact to start
from.
The time Is here now when the farm.
er with n $4,000 corn and hog firm
drives into town and pays 30 cents for
two boxes of Strawberries, when he
might raise the luscious berries by the
bushel just as easily as he raises tho
corn to feed his hogs.
the house like cats hrftl~ utGcs, .,fta.fss
have n lot of cute little ones, and tho
surplus may be sold and not killed Off
on the home place to get rid Of them.
hot Init w
scores 81 and that which scores 9714 Is
so small as not to be detected save by
a butter expert; still. the 97H fellow
walks off with the gold medal, gets his
| picture in the dairy journals and like
| enough has a brand of salt named aft
er him.
The payment Of the road taxes has
| for many years been loaded on to the
tenant Of the farm-that Is, he has
been required to work out that part
| which could be paid in that manner.
| The payment of all the road taxes in
| cash lets the tenant out and makes the
landlord kick.
We have friend who has so keen q
| love for the birds that he can find NIL
the birds nests in tree, shrub or grass
wherever he goes, and then we have
another friend who can never see
birds nest until the leaves are all off
the trees and the birds flown to the
south. Men will find the thing which
they love and look for, whether 1t be
birds nests or good qualities in their
neighbors.
We count a strawberry bed and an
asparagus bed properly cared for as
foremost among the cheapest and most
desirable luxuries for the family. To
have these two things in abundance Is
to solve the problem Of good living
from the 1st Of May to the 1st Of July
then have the green peas follow the
asparagus and the rcd and black rasp-
berries, the Strawberries, and who
cares whether school keeps or not?
We just hate to come across a man.
or, worse yet, community, which is
| on the hog to that extent that 1t will
take no interest in any matter Of pub
lie Improvement unless 1t brings dol
lars into its pockets. Even the Sioux
Indian would decorate his tepec, nearly
| all birds will use art and refinement II
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