The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-04-03

ing crops on a farm sold at judicial
sale do not go to the purchaser.
Plant the odd corners around the
homestead with sunflowers. They
will hide a blemish. take the place
of weeds and furnish a very valuable
food for yOur poultry.
1t would be worth $500 to any man
who raises hogs to get five acres OF
land into an alfalfa pasture for the
pigs. 1t makes the best pasture in
the world for them.
The difference of a few degrees Of
temperature or a few inches OF rain.
fall will usually definitely settle the
question of what crops may or may
not be raised in any given country.
For the first time in several years
our old favOrites. the bluebirds, are
back again in vey large numbers. On
a late March day on a short trip in
the country we saw over 100 of these
birds.
Scientific agriculture will reclaim
and restore the deserted farms of the
east and will double the productive
ness of rich western land. The work
of the agricultural colleges and eX-
pertinent stations has only just begun.
The stock food companies do not
show any disposition to take a hand
in the several stock feeding expert
ments undertaken at the experiment
stations this winter. They ran up
against a very hard proposition a year
ago.
No other of mans inventions has so
materially affected the food supply of
the world as the modern reaper and
harvester. If all the grain used for
bread today were cut with a sickle,
flour would be So instead of 81 a sack.
4 friend of ours is setting out a
thousand evergreens this spring
around his farm homestead. He will
probably make the mistake so many
do and plant them about ten feet
apart each way when they should be
twenty feet. The thickly planted
evergreen ~windbreak is always a fail
ure.
The practice of economy in the ear
lier years of a mans life sometimes
utN6lODS lllD SlIlSlltSS dS liz "a
gets older. This is bad. AS be-
tween the usefulness of a lazy man
and a stingy one there is not much to
choose. save that the latter can be
meaner in his s~tinginess than the
former in his ~laZiness.
We have seen a barb wire fence sep
arating two droves of hogs, Il of
which was eXterminated by the chol-
era. the other with ave a sick hog
in it. We have also seen a wire fence
divide two cOrnfields, one of which
yielded sixty five bushels an acre. the
other twenty-five bushels. Wire
fences are great things.
t An average of thirty inches OF
} rainfall will usually provide sufficient
, moisture to insure good crops of grass
and grain without irrigation. With
only twenty inches crops may still
: be successfully raised if due care is
given to conserving the moisture by
proper cultivation. With only ter
t inches irrigation is Indispensable.
| Would not il be a good idea to take
enough pride in the school grounds OF
your district to see that at least {
! dozen good shade trees are planted
= this spring? Get two or three of thu
e neighbors to join you in his patriotic
work. If you will take the common
a water elm and cut the tops back well
V the trees will live and do well unde.
schoolyard conditions.
The continual tramping of stool
will kill trees of any sort, even thu
bur oak. Thus when you turn stool
c in your orchard or in your grove yol
are taking the surest and most effeC
L tive method to kill your trees. Thi
v fact should be remembered by me
who work hard to set out groves an.
orchards and then deliberately TAX
this means of destroying them.
e We are asked whether ice in tn,
It spring of the year ever inks and j
s. not how it disappears in such a shor
If time. 1t is like this: 1t does no
sink, but a process of disintegratiol
.e goes on in the mass until it falls a
It to pieces in needlelike crystals not
quarter of an inch in diameter; thes
quickly melt in the water and tn
al heavy ice field is gone in a few mil
II utes.
IS The chief barriers in the way OF III
adoption of a generally improved sy
RS ten of agriculture are ignorance an
20 prejudice. Too many men still thin
m old ways good enough for them. Col
servatism and caution and a recel
regard for ones grandfather are a
well enough up to certain point, b'
e. every man should be able to see thi
Is the world moves OF the farm as we
II as elsewhere.
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