The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-06-11

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Copyright, 1901, by ]. S. Trigg. Rock
ford, Iowa.
Correspondence Solicited.
1t is hard to make any money by SELL
ing a good farm.
1t is worth money to have any kind
of live stock we'll bred, and the state
ment is equally true as to children.
If the destructive floods of the lower
Mississippi valley could only be di-
verified on to the desert areas OF this
country, what an empire could be
opened up in the West!
The town of Columbia, Mo-, is almost
destitute of cats, caused by the demand
for the animals by the students for dis
secting purposes at the college. There
should be more colleges.
South Carolina is producing $500
worth of tobacco per acre on land
which is worth only $25 per acre. One
thousand pounds of commercial fertil-
tier are used to obtain this result
The man with brush farm which he
wishes to clear up and convert either
into grass or tillable land should GER
tainly look up the Angora goat propo-
sition, for there is money in it for him.
In the black gumbO road sections Of
the country much success has followed
the application of clear sand to the
surface of the highways, the combina-
ton greatly improving the condition of
the roads in a wet time.
His name was -, and just because
he had it stamped upon each barrel of
apples which he sent to market it add
ed half dollar to the selling value of
each barrel Honest packer-honest in
the middle of the barrel
A Kansas man, poor politician in
financial way, quit politics and went to
raising early potatoes for the northern
market down in Oklahoma seven years
ago. He is now worth 100000 and every
dollar came from that potato patch.
Always something new-here are nice
easy chairs, sofas, settees, baby cabs
and dozens of other useful things now
being made out of the much despised
wire grass of the northwestern sloughs,
it being used in all lines of furniture
work where rattan is employed.
A series of experiments made under
western conditions where corn, clover
and alfalfa could be produced on the
farm shows that it costs S5.16 to pro-
duce a hundred pounds of beef, $3.50
for a hundred pounds of mutton and
$3.50 for hundred pounds of pork.
Any man who owns and works 160
acres OF land and buys two boxes of
sandy strawberries for a quarter when
he might raise them-plenty of big,
living away behind his privileges and
opportunities. Try more berries and
one less hog.
During a somewhat extended trip
through northern Illinois recently we
noted not single new young apple or
chard, and this, too, in section of the
country where apples should do we'll
There were many remnants of old or
chards evidently very poorly cared for.
We passed through a section of the
West lately where the land for farm
ing purposes was worth $500 per acre.
Down 200 feet was vein after vein of
good COAL Along the banks of an adj
jacent river were endless deposits of
sand for glassmaking, clay for brick
and stone for lime and cement. Rich
country that
AS boy we have gone to town from
the farm and bought whisky at Is
cents a gallon to furnish the men who
were doing the moving and grading.
Everybody did so in those days. To-
day not one farmer in 500 would think
of doing such thing. Public senti-
ment has changed wonderfully on this
line in a half century.
Everybody dnds market in the big
cities. A few days ago, while passing
down South Water street in Chicago,
we saw a commission man loading on
the cart of a Russian peddler Jersey
red boar. with tuSkS on him like crow