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


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Unless you like bees you had better
let them alone, for not more than one
man in SO can handle them successfully.
1t is a good deal the same way with
fruit, poultry and sheep.
An extensive experiment is being
made by the government in the effort
to make trees go on the sand hills OF
Nebraska. A large tract of these hills
will be planted with red cedar and jack
pine.
A Holstein cow at Utica, N. Y, has
just broken the worlds thirty day rec
ord. She gave during that time 1854
pounds of milk, making 1913 pounds 81a
ounces of butter. The worlds official
record previously stood at liz pounds
of butter.
The first crop of wheat was raised in
the Red river valley in 1871. The year
1903 will see enormous wheatfelds
growing 200 miles northwest from this
valley and the best wheat in the world
produced sat the rate of from 20 to so
bushels per acre.
A Vermont farm which sold for Sc 900
in the year 1867 is on the market today
without buyer at 81, 900. The build
ings are worth more than is asked for
the farm. Fruit and poultry ought to
make these farms good investments at
the prices asked for them.
Forestry as business is made to pay
in Europe on high priced land simply
because of the high prices which the
products of the forest always command.
The same condition of things will come
in this country when our native forest
supplies are exhausted.
The members of a country church in
York state have adopted novel meth
cd of paying off the church debt. All
eggs laid ON Sunday by the hens be-
longing to the membership of the
church are to be devoted to this pur-
Sabbath day will become a religious
song of praise
There Is a. growing disposition on the
part of hog raisers to keep their pigs
longer before fattening them for the
market, letting them make a good
frame on grass and clover and finish
ing them Off at about a year old. This
method certainly insureS more rational
and healthful conditions for the pig
and will prove step in the right direc-
ton to prevent the ravages of the chol-
era.
A 100000 irrigation scheme in con-
nection with the use Of the water of
the Snake river in Idaho, which is now
under way, will reclaim 100000 acres
Of land under the new government irri-
cation law The profits connected with
this scheme may be readily understood
for this land. now worthless desert,
will become worth $40 or $50 per acre
just as soon as the water is turned
upon it.
1t is claimed by the inventor that if
the wheels of the locomotive are prop
erly magnetized the tractive power of
the machine is vastly increased. Some
interesting experiments are being made
on this line.
We have never known a case where
a farmer went into the cross breeding
business that he made a success of it.
By this we mean the mixing of estab-
oh
animals. The first cross sometimes
proves all right for the purposes of
meat and milk, but never beyond that.
Breeding from these crosses soon fills
a mans barnyard full of scrubs of the
scrubbiest kind
Many of the wealthy men of eastern
cities who have made their money in
trade and commerce are buying up the
run down and abandoned farms of that
section and conducting them along sci
entlfic lines with stock of the best
grades and are not only making their
investments profitable, but are afford
ing a most valuable object lesson to
the native farmers who are still only
too willing to follow in the footsteps of
their grandfathers.
We are asked how it is that men can
keep sheep probably in England on
land which is worth $500 or $500 per
acre. Three things explain it-climate,
which makes an English pasture green
and productive nearly the whole year;
turnips, which make the best favored
mutton in the world, and price, which
makes fat wether sell for $40. Eng
land could better afford to get along
without her aristocracy than without