The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-04-17

A Vermont farm which sold for So
900 in the year 1867 Is on the market
today without a buyer at 81, 800. The
buildings are worth more than is ask
ed for the farm. Fruit and poultry
ought to make these farms good in
vestments at the prices asked for
them.
The first crop of wheat was raised
in the Red river valley in 1871. The
year 1903 will see enormous wheat
fields growing 1900 miles northwest
from this valley and the best wheat
in the world produced at the rate of
from twenty to fifty bushels per acre.
Forestry as a business is made to
pay in Europe on high priced land
simply because of the high prices
which the products of the forests al.
ways command. The same condition
of things will come in this country
when IL native forest supplies are eX-
hausted.
The members of a country church
in York state have adopted a novel
method of paying off the church debt.
All eggs laid on Sunday by the hens
belonging to the membership of the
church are to be devoted TO this pur-
pose. Thus old biddy's cackle on the
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
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ing them off at about a year old. This
method certainly insures more ration
al and healthful conditions for the pig
and will prove a step in the right di-
rection to prevent the ravages of the
cholera.
A SO, 200, 900 irrigation scheme in
connection with the use of the water
of the Snake river in Idaho, which is
now under way, will reclaim $40, 900
acres of land under the new govern
ment irrigation law. The profits con.
nected with this scheme may be read
lily understood. for this land, now a
worthless desert. will become worth
$40 or $50 per acre just as soon as
the water is turned upon il.
We have never known a ease where
a farmer went into the cross breeding
business that he made a success of it
BY this we mean the mixing of estab.
lished and standard breeds of domes'
tic animals. The first cross some,
times proves all right for the purposes
of meat and milk, but 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 il
| trade and commerce are buying up the
run down and abandoned farms of tina
| section and conducting them alons
| scientific lines with stock of the bes
! grades and are not only making theil
| investments profitable, but are afford
| ing a most valuable object lesson L
! the native farmers who are still onl.
| too willing to follow in the footsteps
\ OF their grandfathers.
l We are asked how it is that mel
| can keep sheep profitably in England
on land which is worth $500 or $40
per acre. Three things explain it
climate, which makes an English pas
l ture green and productive nearly tn
whole year; turnips. which make tn
| best favored mutton in the world, an,
price, which makes a fat wether sci
for $40. England could better affor,
to get along without her aristocrac
than without her flocks of sheep.
In fixing a home place, setting on
trees, etc, it is well to follow nature
way. Nature diversifies, never plant
trees in rows and always has an ey
for the shrubs and little things a
well as the trees. In the laying OF
of the grounds a natural irregularit
and diversity should be followed !
order to secure the most pleasing e
fects. OF curse fruit trees and stree
trees should be planted in rows, bl
no others.