The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-02-12

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Copyright, 1901, by J. S. Trigg. Rock
ford, Iowa)
Correspondence Solicited.
The condition of winter wheat
throughout the winter wheat growing
section has seldom been as good as 1t
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 half
cent feeders to consume their soft corn
will get rid of their corn crop, and that
is about all.
A successful fruit grower recommends
the blowing of the orchard just before
winter sets in as the best means of re-
tanning and conserving the melting
SHOWS and. the spring rains.
1t is possible now to send 100 pounds
of freight half way around the world
for the small sum of 40 cents. We useo
to get that much for hauling the same
amount by team distance of SO miles.
Varieties of peaches which will stand
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 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
sometimes carried to an extreme.
The close Of the year 1902 sees more
hogs in sight than ever 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 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
we'll 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
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,
s7S.O00,000; silver s31 100000; copper,
$S7. 900, 900; lead, $4,000, 900; zinc, Sill
000,000 abrasive and chemical mater
ials, $38,000,000; clay products and &C.
ment, 1929, 0GG, 900; coal, petroleum and
natural gas, SAP, 000,0 00-making q
grand total of $949 GOO, 900.
A few days since We travelled through
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 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 burn
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-
1rie farm homestead is to have the
belt of timber too narrow and too near
the premises. In such a case it operates
to catch the drifting SHOWS and becomes
almost nuisance. This might be en-
tirely prevented by planting another
row or two of trees out away from the
grove at distance of Is or 20 rods.
The canneries of the west are now
making their contracts for the crop OF
sweet corn for 1903. The price being
paid is S. per ton, which makes it a
very profitable crop to grow. The yield
in extreme cases is as much as seven
tons per acre. To this should be added
one and half tons of choice fodder
and the further fact that the crop is in
no sense exhaustive of the soil.
Some of our most successful feeders
in To