Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-09-17

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Down in Massachusetts it costs a
man 500 to dock his horses tail, which
is about right.
The government is spending a dollar
in promoting the interests of ,agricul-
ture for each $4,000 Of agricultural
products grown each year. \ Z
The enormous crop of hay secured
through the west asa result Of the ex-
cessive moisture VIII be found to be
below the standard in.nutritiye value.
The Introduction, Of Mansury barley
BY the Wisconsin experiment station
has been worth millions Of dollars to
the barley growing { sections Of the
country. d. ~ .... ,.'a..,f.;
The southerner fries his chicken and
fish in hot lard juats as the northern
woman does her fried cakes, and it Is
very nice way To- do.fit-way ahead
OF the frying pan. :.s All
The lazy man Is, spre of one crop no
matter how late he. may lie abed in
the morning, and that is a crop Of
weeds. There are lots Of men who keep
their gardens clean. with scythe.
Katar corn as crop has only been
grown about fifteen years, but its val
ue in the state of Kansas alone is
placed at 100000 each year. 1t Is q
most valuable crop for Oklahoma and
Texas also. ... ", "
Every farmer who possibly can
should take in the state fair of his
state. He can learn more there in two
days than he can at home in three
months and will learn something there
which he can learn nowhere else.
Chicago milk dealers object to the
publication of their names in the city
papers when their milk and cream as
tested show them to be ,adulterated.
Men never like to see their names in
the papers when they have done
mean thing. &r+..,: ~
Whims count for, much touching
what one eats. NoW here's squirrels.
and, hunter as we have been In the old
days, wernever yet would shoot SOUR.
1ei for the purpose Of ;eating it--just 40
aoon eat rat or cal, yet some folks
sap 1t Is good.
The average cost Of. raw sugar I'm
ported into this country the past year
has been $1.71 per hundredweight, or
less than ever before. There is a big
steal somewhere between this price and
the S. per hundredweight which the re-
taller has to pay the refiner.
American farmers spend the enor-
nous sum of $5O,OO0.O 600 for CONNER
cial fertilizers each year. These fer
dizers might be termed agricultural
whisky. stimulants which leave the
Land poorer than before when their
work IS done and requiring little big
ger dose next time.
We passed the other day row of
black walnut trees set thirty,-fve years
ago alongside Of a public highway.
The trees were most graceful in con-
tour, were loaded with a crop Of deli
cious nuts and are fast growing to the
point where they will be worth $25
each for the lumber they will make.
While blindfolding balky horse will
sometimes cure him of his balky,
IT. It will not always do 80. We once
owned balky horse. and the only
thing which would start. him. was to
tie piece Of plug tobacco around his
bit This would make him soS sick at
the stomach that he forgot all his
meanness.
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! The limit In strawberry culture
would seem to have been reached when
the berries grow 80 large that they
have to be served sliced. as tomatoes.
We note that flavor is deprecated Ia
all these large berries. and save for
purely. show purposes we count them
0f but little value. No strawberry pos
sesses the exquisite flavor Of the little
wild berry.
3 We tackled the remains Of one OF the
grand old forest trees Of dftySyears ago
the other day. the remnant of.a black
walnut stump over four feet Ia diane
ter. The tree was probably cut and
split up into rails forty or fifty years
ago, as was the wont Of the early set
tier. Had 1t been spared it would have
brought $500 today. A fact worth not
ing was that much Of this old stump
was sound wood today.
III "a COW is manufacturing no large
amount Of milk when she stands up to
her middle in dirty pond on a hot
August day fighting flies. She would
do ever so much better shut up ia q
basement barn, darkened, and. fed