The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-06-04

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COPYRIGHT 1901, By
JS.TRI6G. ROCKFORD Ia.
CORRESPONDENCE Solicited
The pure bred draft mare can easily
be made one of the very best of farm
investments.
Just so long as the price of hogs re-
mains at Sc and over, just so long will
the piano men be able to do business in
the hog country.
twenty-five hens we'll cared for will
produce an income equal to that of an
average COW and will cost less to keep
and less work to care for.
The juice of the sugar beet is twice
as sweet as the sap of the maple tree,
100 pounds of sugar beet juice yielding
IL pounds of sugar, while maple sugar
will produce only four or five.
The wise farmer, if he has boys, will
not introduce any trotting blood among
his horses. A man can raise first class
boys and draft horses together, but a
2:40 trotter on the farm has sent many
boy to the devil.
The silO IS the most practical and
economical agency for furnishing sue
culent and nutritious winter ration for
any kind of stock. Silage is every way
as good as roots, is easier to feed and
does not cost one-half as much to pre-
pare.
That country will always best con-
serve the fertility of it's soil where the
frost locks it up tight for period Of
not less than three months each year
and covers it with snow. Winter rains
on unfrozen soil are great robbers OF
fertility.
One fact has been very clearly demon
strated with reference to the expert
mental work in growing alfalfa in the
corn states and~that is that standing
water on the field where it is sown at
any time of the year is absolutely ia
tai to the crop.
Dishonesty on the part of the Ameri-
can cheesemaker destroyed his English
market for his product and gave to his
shrewder and more honest Canadian
competitor market worth millions of
dollars year. It pays in the long run
to be honest.
There should be more passwords set
out for shade trees. We doubt if among
all the long list of native forest trees
we have one which excels the bass
wood for hardness, cleanliness and
beauty Of form and foliage. 1t always
grows more beautiful as it grows old.
In one small community IN Kansas a.,
drug firm in four weeks in January sold
102 ounces of strychnine, 214 ounces of
cyanide Of potassium, As bushels of
poisoned wheat ard 231a gallons of car
bon bisulphide, all for the purpose of
destroying the prairie dogs on the farms
Of that community.
The question of food supply for ami
mails produces some curious results. In
Wyoming during the winter just passed
the jack rabbits by thousands sought
the protection Of snow fences along the
lines of railroads, while the wolves and
coyotes from over vast tract of coun-
try found the jack an easy victim.
Some people will keep pretty de-
cent looking front yard, but the back
yard of their premises will be terror.
AS a matter of fact, there should be no
back yard to any home-that is, a dump
lot for all the rubbish of the place.
Such place always puts us in mind of
finely dressed lady wearing dirty
petUcoat.
The finest forests to be found any
where in the whole world clothe the
mountains of the north Pacific coast
Having wiped out the forests of New
England, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota, the lumbermen are now at
lacking the forests of Washington and
Oregon to repeat, we suppose, the old
story of wreck, ruin and devastation.
They destroy in a day trees which took
thousand years to produce.
A merchant advertised for clerk
and got replies from four states inside
OF ten days from young men willing to
work for $40 week and board them
selves. In the same town husky young
fellow willing to work by the month
on the farm had six farmers after him
in one day and willing to pay him the
same wages the merchant paid the
clerk. The average young man of to-
day will dodge hard work if he can.