The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-28

moved placed near by so that it may be
used ii necessary to protect the plants
in case of late frost.
Spring winds and spring sunshine arc
great tOnics for all the North country
folk VINO have a four months winter.
IhOse who live in perpetual summer
and sunshine know nothing about it.
We believe that the best way to
manage the dairy business on the aver
age farm is to keep enough COWS to
Keep one man busy caring for them;
then hire him for that special work.
The poorest grade steers are always
found in the dairy sections, the milk
business being always at war with the
beef interests. This might be remedied
to some extent if better class Of sires
were used.
One of the statistical genuises con-
nected with the agricultural depart
ment at Washington has figured out
that the value of the manure product
of the country is $2,071 100000. Fig
ures are great things
The prairie dog in western Kansas
and Nebraska instead of following the
Indian and the buffalo is increasing in
numbers and is one OF the biggest nui-
sances connected with farming in that
section of the country.
We attended two farm sales recently.
one where lot of much abused and
poorly cared for farm machinery was
sold for a song, another where an
equal amour. Of farm tools which had
been we'll cared for brought more than
half OF their first cost The difference
to the owners was not far from 500.
which represented the pay the careful
man got for his trouble.
Three years ago a key of nails. hun
dred pounds of pork, a cord of wood
and ton Of soft coal each brought
ABOUT the same price, about 81 Today
the nails are worth $275 and the wood
30, the pork 81 and the coal S..
The lawn should have a top dressing
OF we'll rOtted stable manure each
spring, as the continuous moving tends
TO enfeeble the grass roots; but mind
that this manure has been we'll rotted.
OtherWIse lot of foul seed will be
scattered over the lawn.
one OF the results of the late coal
strike has been to turn capital toward
the manufacture of the Ignite Goals of
dakota and Montana, which when me-
chanlcally treated make fuel equal
IN value to hard coal. By next winter
this prepared fuel will be on the
market.
Canals, even if the railways do carry
nearly all the freight, still pay to main
tain just for their value as freight rate
regulators. The transport service which
can do the work for the lowest price
will always fix the rate for such ser
vice whether it gets the business or
not.
The tame grasses-clover, timothy
and blue grass-will never become ac-
cllmated and do we'll in the short grass
or range country. These grasses must
have an average rainfall of not less
than thirty inches. The bronze grass
up to this time is the only one which
We are experimenting with severa;
new varieties of potato this year. 1t
seems to us that none of these in com
mon use today is as fine in quality as
some Of the old sorts-Peachblow
NeshannOclz, Pink Eyes and others
which were common forty years ago
and what varieties we do have seem
to run out in less time
We are asked whether ice in the
spring of the year ever sinks and if
not how it disappears in such
short time. 1t is like this: It does not
sink, but a process of disintegration
goes on in the mass until it falls all to
pieces in needlelike crystals not a
quarter of IN inch in diameter; these
quickly melt in the water and the
heavy icefield is gone in few minutes
How to Spend ST goo.
We are asked how to spend 81 900 on
q quarter section farm, fairly well i'm
proved, to the best advantage. Assum-
ing that this refers to an average farm.
With average improvements and carry
ing an average assortment of stock.
We would put $500 of the money into
little pure bred stock Of cattle, swine.
sheep and poultry, making the money
go as FAR as we could, but getting a
start in each of these lines The other
$500 we should invest by sending the
boy to good agricultural school and
i'm n -