Warren sheaf., 1903-12-03

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The grape fruit is to us disappoint
ment-the poorest of the citrus fruits.
Everybody is cutting down trees, and
but very few are planting them. This
will make America a treeless country
before long.
The serum of tuberculosis in the hl-
man family used to innoculate cattle
conveys the disease, whether the in
verted proposition is true or not.
If your bees go out on the public
highway and sting a team you are liza
BILE for all damages; also should your
dog frighten a team or bite a person
using the highway you are responsible
for all damage. .
Try changing your seed oats this
coming year. Send 400 or 500 miles to
the north Of you and get your seed.
We will almost guarantee, if this is
done, an increased yield sufficient to
pay all expenses and $25 per day for
all time taken if twenty-five acres are
;sown.
Western dairy farmers should raise
more of the protein foods needed for
their cows upon their own land. The
continued outlay for bran and gluten
feeds to balance the ration is a heavy
one. 1t is possible to provide more
many farms alfalfa.
What the schoolhouse and church do
for community in an educational and
religious way the creamery does for it
in an agricultural way. The more
good butter and cheese there are
made the richer the people and the
land becomes. We never knew a poor,
down-at-the-heels dairy community.
A lady friend who is successfully
keeping hundred fowls wishes to in
crease her flock to 400 and wants to
know how to proceed. Such an in
crease in the number will compel divi-
sion into focks, an enlarged runway
and more systematic care and attention.
Four hundred fowls cannot be kept
profitably in one flock.
Rabbits are great pests in the young
orchard unless the trees are protected.
Along in November we commence war
on these rodents and try to exterminate
them in the vicinity Of our orchard.
With ferret, trap, dog and gun we have
been able to clean them out AS the
trees grow older and the bark becomes
rough the rabbits will not bother them.
He was a good worker when he
would work. He husked corn for a
neighbor of ours three days and drew
his pay, $3.50, and straightway went to
a pool room and blew it all in inside Of
three hours and had to borrow dollar
besides. This fellow is a foreordained
member Of the poverty gang, whose
wife in the future will have to take in
washing to feed the family, who will
live in any old place, beating the store
keepers and respected by none.
A friend inquiries why it is that the
varieties of potatoes in common use
SO seldom perfect seed balls when that
Is the natural method for the potato to
propagate. The why Of this thing is
not clear to us. We notice, however,
that any new variety of potato only a
year or two removed from it's origina-
ton from the seed will always bloom
much more profusely and perfect more
seed balls than one long in cultivation.
Possibly the exclusive propagation of
the potato plant from the tuber instead
Of the seed tends to destroy it's seed
bearing functions.
The first and most important factor
In securing better country schools is
more children. There is a great lack
of the old fashioned families-those
with from five to ten children-too
many married folk fussing around just
like an old hen with one poor little
chick, and there are altogether too