The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-07

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Copyright, 1901, by J. S. Trigg, Rock
ford, Iowa.)
Correspondence Solicited.
Bicycles and Belgian hares busted to-
gether.
Most Of the fancy brands Of foreign
made cheese are now successfully 1ml-
tated and manufactured in this country.
Give a smart man a good COW, 70
hens and half acre of land, and ne
will from them more than half support
himself and family.
No man can afford to quit his corn
blowing and go with his team and work
On the road for $3.50 per day. Every
day in the cornfield in June is worth
at least S..
The snow lay on the ground and a
chill winter wind blew from the North
when this sower went forth to SOW;
but, as he sowed clover seed on his rye
field, he was all right.
The Wealthy apple behaves remark
ably well in cold storage. On the last
of January a barrel taken from cold
storage gave but IL damaged apples
and $50 perfectly sound ones.
The growth of the rural telephone
+, service is something remarkable. 1t is
reaching out in every direction and be-
fore long will have. the farmers of the
country all linked together, to their
social and financial betterment.
Cornstalks returned to the soil give
a supply of humus and improve the
mechanical condition of clay soils, but
there is little or no fertility in them.
Light and sandy soils are better Off
without than with them in dry sea-
son.
The value of speltz as a crop for the
far North country was well illustrated
last year in northern Minnesota. A
very cold, wet spring delayed seeding,
and when the soil could be worked it
was late in the season. Speltz then
sowed yielded 46 bushels an acre, wheat
seven bushels and oats eight bushels.
The vast glaciers of the mountain
regions of France have been lately
most felicitously referred to as the
white coal fields" of that country, the
never failing streams of water fed by
these glaciers two miles up in the air
being now utilized in their fall to gen.
crate an electric power which makes
black coal useless.
A convention of the Gamers and
packers of fruits and vegetables was
recently held in the city of Washing
ton. At this meeting there was illus
trated the wonderful advance made
during the past few years in this line
of industry, machinery now accom-
plishing automatically nearly the whole
complicated process of preparing the
raw material, cooking, canning, seal
ing and labelling the cans.
It is an important thing to procure
seed of any crop suited to your lati-
tude, and this is especially true Of corn.
This is a large country, and the vary
ing lines of latitude mark the bound
aries of zones which define the limits
of successful cultivation of nearly all
our farm products as well as fruits. 1t
is we'll to study out those things which
are best suited to given ATTITUDES and
confine ourselves to their production.
In the clover, corn and oats rotation
of crops, which is common one in
many sections, it is often found that
the oats crop following but one crop
of corn will grow too rank and lodge
and spoil. This will be prevented by
taking at least two crops of corn from
the land before sowing to oats or q
crop of fax to make the richest land
poor enough to grow crop of oats
which will stand up.
Science is touching agriculture and
horticulture in many ways-in plant
breeding, cross fertilization, in the
spraying and limitation of insect pests
in analyses of all foodstuffs as animal
rations, in soil physics whereby the
soil is fitted for its work, in animal
husbandry, the feeding and breeding OF
all domestic animals-in fact, there is
no other business in which man is en-.
gagged where science touches him more
belpfully or with which it works more
tremendously.
The central butter making station
supplied with cream from the farms
using the farm separator and shipped
in twice a week by rail from territory
anywhere within 100 miles is becoming
disorganizinS factor in existing dairy
methods in the West. 1t is menacine
the life of the cooperative creameries
working under the creamery system