The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-20

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Copyright, 1901, by j. S. Trigg, Rock
ford, Iowa.
Correspondence Solicited.
We note a recent sale in England Of
choice Shire two-year-old mares at ST.
5000 to S1,400 each.
Drought caused q shrinkage of 49,
900, 900 sheep and 275, 900 head of cattle
in New South Wales last year.
The owners of the rich Nile valley
lands have to pay an annual tax of So
per acre. We know of men who kick
at a tax of 25 cents per acre.
The second and third weeks Of a
cows tactical period are the ones dur
ing which she will, under normal feed
and conditions, give the largest yield
of butter.
The ordinary average farm of the
corn belt is just the place to raise the
heavy draft horse, and there should be
a pair of good we'll bred draft horses on
every quarter section farm.
At the late poultry show at Kansas
City a three-year-old hen sold for'S101.
This beats $4,000 for a boar pig or $12,-
500 for a Shorthorn bull and beats
Shamrock, who only brought about $40
per pound, including all the prizes he
won.
The dairy COW expected to give a flow
Of milk during the winter seaso should
be provided with some kind of a sue
culent ration, either roots or ensilage.
In the line of roots there is nothing
better for her than sugar beets or car
rotS.
A point worth remembering in the
tile draining of land is that if the tile
are laid in the neal vicinity of willow
trees or hedges the fibrous roots OF sr"h
trees will seek the tile drain for the
moisture 1t contains and by filing 1t
with a mass of roots thus render the
drain worthless. The roofs once inside
Of the tile viii travel an almost unlim-
tied distance.
The tendency has been in the keep
ing Of butter in cold storage to grad
ually lower the temperature year by
year of the room where the butter is
stored. This season the butter which
has kept in the most perfect condition
and which shows practically no loss
whatever of fine quality and flavor has
been kept at a temperature of from six
to ten degrees below zero.
No apple grown in the West has been
the recipient of more unstinted abuse
than the variety known a. Patterns
Greening, and still a fruit grower in
central Iowa who has eight acres Of
this variety told us recently that he
obtained a gross return of 5000 per
acre from these trees last year. This
ferred to is not altogether impartial and
fair.
A little pest and brute almost I'M
known in the West thirty years ago
the civet cat or small skunk-is con-
stantly increasing in numbers so that
in many sections it has become an in
tolerable plague and ena to all poul-
try raisers. We know of just two farms,
and these adjoining a city of 1000 pop
u~lation, where last season were killed
no less than 35 of these pests.
A friend writes asking why apples
shrink up and wither when kept in a
cool cellar. The air is probably too
dry and subjects the fruit to a steady
process of evaporation. When kept in
a cellar, apples should not be exposed
to the air. They keep well packed in
moist sand or in an underground pit,
just as potatoes are kept. If kept in
the cellar, cover them with something
which will prevent the evaporation.
Molasses as a by-product of the sugar
factories has always until lately been
regarded as little better than a nui-
sance. 1t is now known that when it is
properly mixed with other foods it
makes a most valuable stock ration,
especially for horses. In France and
Germany it is now being used in i'm
mense quantities as food for horses,
and they are being kept in the best OF
condition at a cost of only SO per cent
of the old-time grain ration.
One serious drawback to the COOP
erative creamery business is the SEEM
ing necessity which compels Sunday
work during the summer to properly
care for the milk. OF course the COWS
must be MIXED on Sunday just as on
any other day, and this seeming neces-
sity of running the creamery on Sun
day has in most cases ~overruled what
eYer moral sentiment there NAV have