The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-01-23

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Copyright, 1901, by ]. s. Trigg, Rock
ford. Iowa)
Correspondence Solicited.
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The condition Of winter wheat
throughout the winter wheat growing
section has seldom been as good as it
is at the present time.
She then sold the dressed product for
$3.50, no part of which the stingy old
man had the nerve to ask for, or would
have got If he had asked.
Men in the soft corn sections OF the
country who bought four and a half
cent feeders to consume their soft corn
will get rid of their corn crop, and that
10 about all.
A successful fruit grower recommends
the blowing Of the orchard just before
winter sets in as the best means of re-
tanning n conserving the melting
SHOWS and the spring rains.
II is possible 70 to send 100 pounds
of freight half way around the world
for the small sum of 40 cents. We USED
to get that much for hauling the same
amount by team a distance of 80 miles.
: Varieties of peaches which will stand
a temperature of 20 degrees below zero
are being successfully grown in many
parts of the country where heretofore
peach growing has been considered i'm
possible.
The twin %evangelists Of agriculture
always working and blessing the waste
places of the country are blue grass
and white clover, ever creeping by way
side and highway, unlimited and al
ways welcome.
Old black walnut stumps are being
dug up all over the west for use in the
manufacture Of gun stocks, the stumps
In some cases bringing more money
than the tree which grew upon them
did fifty years ago.
For some years there has been a craze
or fad for the all red Shorthorn, and
this, too, in spite Of the fact that the
prize winning animals at the big shows
have quite generally been of some other
color, mostly roam. The color fad is
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The close OF the year 1902 sees more
hogs in sight than eve before and a
more active demand for their product
at higher prices than the hog raisers
have known for many years. Coupled
with this condition of things is an al
most entire absence of epidemic dis
eases among the herds.
Here's a point: If you empty the
warm cream from the farm separator
taken from the mornings milk into the
cold cream skinned the previous even
ing, you have done about all you could
well do to spoil the whole batch. If
you have to mix the cream, cool down
the morning product before mixing.
Don't forget this.
If we wished to establish a herd Of
blooded stock, We think we would wait
a little while before investing, prices
for this class of stock being at high
water mark. We look for a reaction
inside Of two years, when such stock
will be more easily within reach of the
average farmer.
The mineral products Of the United
States loom up in large figures-gold,
SIS. 900 900; silver, $31 900, 900; copper,
$S7. 900, 900; lead, S2S, 000, 900; zinc, SILL
600, 900; abrasive and chemical mater
ials, S38, 900 900; clay products and ce-
ment, s239 ,000, 900; coal, petroleum and
natural gas, SAP, 600, 000-making a
grand total Of $949, 900 900.
A few days since we Travelled through
a section of the west where scores of
men were busily engaged in digging
out and hauling to the barns the shocks
Of corn which were half buried in snow.
Laying aside the waste connected with
this process and viewing it simply from
the standpoint OF convenience, surely
the silo has very much to recommend it.
While 1t is true that your eighty dol
lar an acre farm will not, if rented for
cash, pay you much in excess of 8 per
cent, we still would hang on to the land
in preference to selling and investing
the proceeds in some other form of in
vestment. Farm land will neither urn
up nor be lugged off and for all time to
come is bound to be most valuable of
all assets.
A very common mistake in the plant
ing of groves of timber around the pra-
irie farm homestead is to have the
belt of timber too narrow and too neal
the premises. In such a case it operates