The Mankato free press., 1903-07-31
ALONG THE RURAL ROUTES.

How many hives of bees have you?
The Parisiaus ate $4,000 horses last
year.
Last year America imported only s.
100000 bushels of potatoes.
There is nothing of any more import
ance ON the farm than a good tool house.
Good corn silage is highly relished by
stock and is an economical food for fat
tening steers.
The Astor family in New York has
bought land in Mexico for the largest
cattle ranch in the world.
Black teeth in pigs do not indicate di-
sease. Just what causes them has never
been satisfactorily explained.
Why not let the young boys and girls
try SQUAD raising? Very little capital Is
required and the returns are quick.
Molasses is. excellent to mix with hog
feed as nearly all molasses contains acid.
1t is a great helper in the fattening pro-
cess.
When you crowd the old barn caves,
Think what countless harvest -sheaves
Have passed within that scented door
To gladden. eyes that are no more.
Experiments in Colorado and Wyoming
point to the development of species of
hard wheat that will yield boWtifully in
the arid regions.
Iowa has twice as many hogs as any
other state in the Union, numbering y
43S, ,655, with an average value of $S.97
per head, or a total value of $66, ,724, 1856.
| Iowa stands first of all the states in
poultry, having more than 2O,OOo,OO0
chickens, producing more than 100000
600 eggs a year, valued at nearly Sl2,-
100000.
| OF the land in Russia, as shown by the
government report, the nobility own lol,-
100000 acres and the merchants 36,OOO,-
900, while the peasants own but 35,OOO,-
| 600 acres.
1 With Minnesota making strawberry
sugar out of corn cobs, poor old Csnnec-
ticut's wooden nutmegs seem to be ut
terly outclassed.
| 1t is estimated that the dipping OF
sheep for the eradication of the scab mite
adds from 100000 to $5,000,000 to the
annual profits of the sheep growers OF the
United States.
Kansas is not only harvesting her
greatest crop of wheat, but, because OF
the scarcity of farm hands, some of her
best girls, properly attired for the occa-
sion, are helping do it. .
In buying horse look out for brains
as well as fat, limbs and body. An ami
NAL that is sound in every member but
| has not level head is not pleasant
horse and seldom a valuable one.
The peculiarities of department of ag-
Iriculture seed are now accounted for.
1t appears that the contractor has will
| fully cheated the department and will
forfeit $4,000 of his pay as result.
The average annual importations OF
foreign corn into France for the past
three years were 100000 bushels, OF
which the Argentine republic furnished
an annual average of 4, 25O,OO0 bushels.
Rounlania 100000, and the United
States 2, 100000 bushels.
| Now that Montana has discovered that
she can raise pretty good wheat, alfaifa
and red clover on her arid lands, which
on account of their topography are I'M
possible of irrigation, she is kicking be-
cause only one crop year can be pro-
duced. 1t is this spirit that enables the
green goods men and the 25O-per -cent-a-
year people to prosper.
Hay sold in the field at $4 per ton Is
las well sold as it would be from the hay
NOV next winter at Sc. Potatoes sold IN
the field at 80 cents are as we'll sold as
they would be at fifty cents the follow,
ling spring. The labor of harvesting and
storing, the shringage and the interest
lmore than eat up the difference.