Warren sheaf., 1903-07-16

placed at 100000, while the drought
losses in the New England states are
placed at $7O,O00O0O, all this during
May and one week in June
Reef animals were selling the last of
June about $2.75 per hundredweight
lower than one year ago. but the retail
price Of beef hardly shows that there
has been any decline in the wholesale
price
The very newspapers which decry
the destruction OF the American forests
are themselves one of the worst eaters
of forest growth, using acres Of timber
in the shape Of wood pulp paper every
day in the year.
A New Jersey county has been lgur-
Ing on the cost Of getting system of
macadamized roads and finds that it
will cost something over S5.OOO.O0O to
secure 1t. These figures stagger the tax
payers and vel! they may,
1t is found that the poorer and more
porous grades of timber, such as elm,
black oak, birch and other soft woods.
respond more readily to chemical treat
ment for their preservation than do the
hard and more valuable kinds Of wood.
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In California they have discovered
the fact that If dynamite Is used to
break DIP the earth to the depth Of
three feet where the grapevine Is to be
planted 1t Is thereby rendered immune
to the phylloxera, the great plague of
the vine grower. 49,.
1t is not essential today that q man
must have pair of calloused, horny
fists, hair all over the back of his neck,
wear three-year-old chip hat, smell
like section Of the COW barn and wipe
his nose on the sleeve Of his wamus Ia
order to be successful farmer.
Science is working its way out on to
the farm in good shape, FOR here is a
case where some fellows chloroformed
six big fat hogs In a farmers yard.
then killed them and carried them off,
leaving the sponge and partly filled
bottle Of the anesHhetic as their bust
ness card.
It is strawberry week at our place
the middle of June and this summer
fruit festival will last about four
weeks. or until the last of the Gandys
are gone-a bushel or more every other
day from bed two rods wide and sew
en- rods long; just raise them for fun
because we like to see them around
One Of the most effective agencies in
the evolution Of plant life in the grow
ing season is June dew, dew which
holds every blade, tendril and twig in
a steaming sponge bath all night, an
elder down blanket of moisture placing
crystallized jewels on leaf tip and geo
metric spiders web, an all Unfolding
stimulant and tonic for all plant life.
The most valuable food element III
any Kind of cured forage is the pro-
tein, and this in the largest measure is
only secured when the plant, whatever
~ Auy OC, Ao& III uAu SuAC Cu .UClOlC5 ulds.
turity. To illustrate, clover which was
cut in early bloom showed 4.S9 per cent
of protein, while cut ten days past the
blooming period 1T showed only 329
per cent. This rule applies to corn cut
for fodder, all the grasses, sorghum.
the clovers and alfalfa.
There will be many an acre Of land in
the west this year upon which no crop
OF any sort save weeds will be raised. It
being too wet to handle during the
seeding and planting season. These.
acres should not be allowed to go back.
but as soon as possible should be
plowed and agAn plowed ii Septem-
ber, which treatment will put the land
ii the finest possible condition for IS
crop next year. a summer fallow Of
this sort Is almost as good as I coat OF
manure.
Things go at sort Of cross purposes
with some men, a year or SO ago our
friend had a big crop Of corn and lost
all his hogs with the cholera. He
called to see us the other day bout
the middle Of June and said his land
has been so wet that he has not been
able to get a single acre Of corn plant
led, while Ave sows In his hog yard have
raised him sixty nice pigs. He said
that he wished there was some way II
which he could bring the pigs and the