The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-04-03
Farm, Orchard and Garden Notes
By J. S. Trigg, Rockford, Iowa. Copyright 1908

By J. S. Trigg, Rockford,
The American people would prefer
cheaper nails and oil and fewer libra
ries and colleges. This may be here
sly, but it is the truth.
The growing of the corn crop bids
fair to be revolutioniZed in the near
future if all the good things promised
by the corn experts are realized.
Norway makes a -four out of fish
and Sweden q flour out OF milk. When
these get on the market. it will be
easy to make a dish of fish gravy.
There are two kinds of bad roads
mud roads and sand roads. The mud
road is bad only in wet weather; the
sand road is bad all the time.
The new Swedish process of CON
verting the casein of skimmilk into
-four gives a value to skimmilk of 81
per pound where it can be so used.
The butcher bird is a regular PR
ate. While he kills a good many mice
and bugs, he kills too many of our
small birds to give him an honorable
place in the bird family.
At a recent sale in Nebraska of
Jersey red hogs t~hirty-one head
brought an average of $10S.25 apiece
Three out of the lot sold for s5lOl
S315 and $16G respectively.
1t is about thirty years since the
first silo was built in this country,
Thirty years more will see it as com
mon a part of the farm equipment as
the barn or the cornCrib.
We find it handy to have the cover
ing of the strawberry beds when re
moved placed near by so that il may
be used if necessary to protect the
plants il case of a late frost.
Spring winds and spring sunshine
are great tonics for all the nortf
country folk who have a four months
winter. Those who live in perpetual
summer and sunshine know nothing
about 1t.
We believe that the best way tt
manage the dairy business on the
average farm is to keep enough COW!
TO keen one man busy caring tCI
them; then hire him for that specia
work.
The poorest grade steers are al
ways found in the dairy sections, tn
milk business being always at wa
with the beef interests. This Nigh
be remedied &c some extent if a bet
ter class of sires were used.
One of the most statistical genuise
connected with the agricultural dc
partment at Washington has figure
out that the value of the I'M pre-
duct of the country is 81 OIL 100000
Figures are great things.
The prairie dog in western kansa
and Nebraska instead of fOllowin
the Indian and the buffalo is increa'
inc in numbers and is one of the big
gest %nuisances connected with farm
ing in that section of the country.
Three years ago a key of nails,
hundred pounds of pork, a cord {
wood and a ton of soft coal eac
brought about the same price, abol
81. Today the nails are worth S2.7
= and the wood s., the pork 81 and TIL
coal So
., The lawn should have a top dres
. ing of we'll rotted stable eac
) spring. as the GLtinuous mowin
. tends to enfeeble the grass roots; bl
: mind that this manure has been we
rotted, otherwise a lot of foul see
! will be scattered over the lawn.
One of the results of the late co
strike has been to turn capital t
n ward the manufacture of the ligni
Goals of Dakota and Montana, whit
o when mechanically treated make
fuel equal in value to hard coal.
T next winter this prepared fuel W
be on the market.
Canals. ever if the railways do ca
!, ry nearly all the freight, still pay
maintain just for their value
freight ate regulators. The tran
port service which can do the WoI
Tor the lowest price Will always
= the rate for such service whether
v gets the business or not.
The tame grasses-clOver, timotI
and blue grass will never becor
acclimated and do well in the she
! grass or range country. These gra!
=, es must nave an average rainfall
u not less than thirty inches. T
u bronze grass up to this time is I
- only one which seems suited to tn
country.
~ We are experimenting with sever
new varieties of potato this year.
:, seems to us that none of those in co
= mon use today is as fine in quality
\ some of the old sorts - Peachblo
- Neshannock, Pink Eyes and othC
., which were common forty years a
70 and what varieties we do have SCI
~ to run out in less time.
n
We attended two farm sales
Gently, one where a lot of much alb