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

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Copyright, 1901, by j. S Trigg, Rock
ford, Iowa.)
Correspondence Solicited.
All kinds Of stock enjoy a variation
in their food ration just as much as do
human beings.
The supreme court of the state OF
Nebraska has recently held that grow
ing crops on farm sold at judicial
sale do not so to the purchaser.
Plant the odd corners around the
homestead with sunf1owers. They will
hide blemish, take the place OF weeds
and furnish a very valuable food for
your poultry.
1t would be worth $500 to any man
who raises hogs to get five acres Of
land into an alfalfa pasture for the
pigs. 1t makes the best pasture in the
world for them.
The difference of a few degrees of
temperature or few inches of rainfall
will 60f, IL
ton OF what crops may or may not be
raised in any given country.
For the first time in several years our
old favorites, the bluebirds, are back
again in very large numbers. On late
March day on short trip in the coun-
try we saw over 100 of these birds.
Scientific agriculture will reclaim and
restore the deserted farms of the East
and will double the prOductiveness of
rich Western land The work of the
agricultural colleges and experiment
stations has only just begun.
The stock food companies do not
show any disposition to take hand in
the several stock feeding experiments
undertaken at the experiment stations
this winter. They ran up against a
very hard proposition year ago.
We heard a successful potato raiser
say recently that no matter how he
might prepare and fertilize specially a
field he could not now raise on old land
more than one-half the crop of potatoes
he could in an early day on new land
No other mans inventions has so
materially affected the food supply Of
the world as the modern reaper and
harvester. If all the grain used for
bread today were cut with a sickle,
flour would be So instead of 81 sack
An average of 80 inches of rainfall
will usually provide sufficient moisture
to insure good crops OF grass and grain
without irrigation. With only 20
inches crops may still be successfully
raised if due care is given to cOnserv-
ing the moisture by proper cultivation.
With only ten inches irrigation is in
dispensable
A friend Of ours is setting out a
thousand evergreens this spring around
his farm homestead. He will probably
plant them about ten feet apart each
way when they should be 20 feet The
thickly planted evergreen windbreak
is always a failure.
The practice of economy in the earli-
er years Of mans life sometimes de-
velOpS into stinginess as the man gets
older. This is bad. AS between the
usefulness of lazy man and a stingy
one there is not much to choose, save
that the latter can be meaner in his
stinginess than the former in his lazi-
ness.
We have seen barb wire fence sep
arating two droves of hogs, one of
which was eXterminated by the cholera,
the other with never a sick hog in it,
We have also seen a wire fence divide
two cornfields, one Of which yielded 65
bushels an acre, the other % bushels.
Wire fences are great things.
Would not it be a good idea to take
enough pride in the school grounds OF
your district to see that at least doz-
en- good shade trees are planted this
spring? Get two or three of the neigh
bors to join you in this patriotic work.
II you Will take the common water elm
and cut the tops back we'll, the trees
will live and do well under schoolyard
conditions.
The continual tramping of stock will
kill trees of any sort, even the bur oak.
Thus wnen you turn stock in your or
chard or in your grove you are taking
the surest and most effective method
TO kill your trees This fact should be
remembered by men who work hard to
set out groves and orchards and then
deliberately take this means of de-
stroying them