Warren sheaf., 1903-08-20


went out with them.
Some of the mutual insurance CON-
panies among the farmers are making
a lower rate Of insurance on stock
where the policy holder properly
grounds the wires Of his fences.
We have noticed that bee men-men
who are successful In caring for bees
ane almost always mighty good men.
IT. IS said that the bee knows a mean
man just as soon as he sees him.
: A. late obituary notice of the wife Of
,darned 10000 socks, cooked 10000
meals, washed 100000 dishes, raised
8 children, then died and went to
heaven
J On a ranch in Nueces county, Tex,
there is a collection Of 10000 rattles
taken from that number of rattlesnakes
killed on the ranch during period Of
years A bounty Of 21a cents is paid
Tor each snake Killed.
4 representative of the 100000 peo-
pie of the island Of Ceylon, who are al
ways on the verge of starvation. is now
in this country studying American sys-
TENS of agriculture with view to i'm
proving the condition Of his people.
The North Dakota system Of crop
rotation-wheat. then a summer fall
ilow-is the method Of ancient agricul-
ture in the days Of the Roman empire.
The modern method Of rotation which
follows wheat with some sort of a
Glegume crop is infinitely better.
We are trying a one horse moving
machine Of 31a foot cut this year for
trimming up the orchard and roadsides
and are much pleased with it. 1t will
work in and among trees where a
standard machine cannot, and does
much better work than can be done
with a scythe. --
If a boy does not seem to be good.
for anything it is far better to try to
make q lawyer out Of him than farm
er these days. 1t used to be the other
way. The blockhead has no place Oh
the farm under existing conditions,
while judicial courtesy will still permit
him to address the court.
For tree planting on the farm we
would like to commend the nut bearing
trees-walnut, butternut, chestnut and
hickory. The wood Of all Of these
trees is very valuable and they have
the adva ntage over other kinds of trees
that their annual crop of nuts enables
them to pay their way while growing.
It will not do to refer to Kansas as
dry state hereafter, for one county In
that state during May last had enough
water fall to make a lake thirty feet
deep. covering one entire township, or
a matter Of 41,817, 800 cubic feet of wa
ter. 1t was this sort Of thing which
caused the destructive work in the
rivers Of that region at that time.
Winter wheat has proved a grand
crop for all that large territory in the
southwest where the rainfall mostly
comes during the winter and the sum-
mers are excessively hot and dry. Be-
sides producing a profitable crop, the
wheat fields afford the finest of pasture
during the winter for stock, such pas
turing being to the decided benefit Of
the crop. -. .
! Experiments conclusively prove that
fall apples, such as the Duchess,
Wealthy and Fameuse, when placed in
cold storage come out in the spring and
early summer in very much better con-
dition than do winter varieties, such
as the Willow Twig, Winesap, Bald
win, Greening and others. This fact
is of no small Importance to large
section of the northwest, where the
summer and fall apples named can be
produced in perfection and where the
winter apple is SO far wanting.
a costly way to raise calves and pigs
is to set the milk Of the dairy cows In
cans in cold water and sell the cream,
feeding the skim milk to the young
stock. Under the normal conditions
which prevail on the average farm
there is fed to the calves and pigs not
less than three-quarters of pound Of
butter fat for every 100 pounds Of
skim milk. The farm separator would
prevent this loss We know Of one
locality where there are $50 patrons
furnishing cream produced in the man
ner stated to the local creamery, and
the daily loss Of butter fat amounts to
over $40. These patrons raise good