The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-07
ALONG THE RURAL ROUTES.
Don't borrow, not even trouble.


Seed, weed; then harvest and feed.
Hard knocks strengthen your powers
Breed, feed and care make the stock.
Yes, pillow the orchard but do not GO
deep.
The best is good enough for royal Am
erican farmers.
Don't say you're farmer if you buy
all your fruit and vegetables.
Germany sells the United States near.
ly 100000 worth of beet sugar year
The agricultural department, nation
al and state, were created for your bene-
fit; use them.
In the orangs fields of New Zealand
the crop has been known to net as high
as $1,000 an acre.
Boiling the milk fed to poultry will
check looseness of the bowels, COM
mon trouble in hot weather.
The man who does not make a good
husband and good father is neither q
good citizen nor good farmer.
When the boys become old enough to
earn money have them start bank
account and then encourage them by
paying them for little odd jobs.
Only the rich man can afford to keer
poor COWS, and they do not; the poor
or man is the better his few cows
should be if he calculates to make any
thing from them.
The Usage Indians are the plutocrats
IT af nd HOY
have a trust fund of $5l6,203. Besides
they have 1.470,S5S acres of as produc-
tive land as the sun ever shown upon.
Here is a good idea. Put bottles OF
sweetened water in among your plants
and the worms will get in. One lady
hung such BOTTLES on her plum trees and
it was surprising how many worms she
got.
Box car tourists will do well to avoi1
Kansas, where the agriculturist, frantic
for harvest hands, is holding up freight
trains and compelling occupants of the
brake beams to descend and labor in the
fields.
The worlds sugar last year was TO-.
100000 tons. If this was loaded on
wagons, two tons each, the line would
encircle the earth. The annual cOnsump-
ton in the United States is 6S cents pei
capita, total of 2,50O,000 tons.
A number of farmers are putting il
small elevators and dumps. Shovel,
ing will soon be thing of the past; IN
fact, it looks like farmers will only have
to press a button in few years and
everything will go except milking the
cows. Well, the hired man can do that.
"There, that looks BETTER" is remark
that is uttered thankfully many times
after an ugly spot on the farm has beer
tackled and neatness' and improvement
brought about. Can't you find place
where little effort and app--,-eior
would make that remark happily apply
The American farmer has not learned
to enjoy life. He works until he is 81
years old like a slave before he thinks
OF taking any enjoyment, so says Herr
Won Flugge, one of the forty Germon no
blemen now touring the United States
Guess he don't know what he is talking
about. The farmer has more enjoyment
than the merchant
Not only are American mowers, har
vesters and hay rakes in use in al
the farming districts of South Germany
but our smaller agricultural implement
such as forks, garden and lawn. rakes
hoes, shovels, spades and hand potatl
diggers, have also rapidly grown in favor
and are now on sale in nearly every loca
hardware store.
Several flour mills are now in opera
ton at Hardin, Manchuria, where a fin'
quality of wheat can be purchased at 81
cents a bushel. 1t is one of the bes'
wheat growing sections of the world
nited States newspapers state that Tn
northwestern part of our country cal
produce wheat and flour and ship then
i 500 miles to Siberia at a profit. If eN
cellent native wheat can be delivered II
large quantities at Marbin for 30 cent
per bushel with ancient methods and ma
chinery, what can be done when improv
ed machinery is introduced.