The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-04-17

Copyrighted 1902 by !
The white horse is like milady's
white dress-it takes lots of work to
keep it fit to be seer on the streets.
Just so long as the price of hogs re.
mains at Sc and over, just so long will
the piano men be able 10 Go business
in the hog country.
Twenty-Five hens well cared for will
produce an income equal to that of an
average COW and will cost less to keep
and less work to care for.
If you milk q COW and try to fatten
her at the same time, you had better
let somebody else eat the meat. Even
her tenderloin will be tough.
The Juice of the sugar beet is twice
as sweet as the sap OF h maple tree,
one hundred pounds OF sugar e
yielding twelve pounds OF sugar, Whlle
maple sugar will produce only four OF
five.
The wise farmer. If he has boys
will not introduce any trotting bloso
among his horses. A man can raise
first class boys and draft horses to.
gether, but a 2:40 trotter on the farm
has sent many a boy to the devil.
The silo is the most practical ant
economical agency for furnishing &
~succulent and nutritious winter ratioI
for any kind of stock. Silage is ever!
way as good as roots, is easier TO feet
and hoes not cost one-half as much II
prepare.
That country will always best con
serve the fertility of its soil where tht
frost locks it up tight for a period o
not less than three months each yea'
and covers it with Winter rains
on unfrozen soil are great robbers O
fertility.
One fact has been very clearly de
monstrated with reference to the ex
detrimental work in growing alfalfa IL
the corn states and hat is that stand
ing water on the field where 1t Is sowi
at any time of the year is absolutel!
fatal to the crop.
A Holstein COW at Utica. n. Y, ha
Just broken the worlds thirty day re
cord. She gave during that time 2,75
pounds of milk, making 123 pound
81 ounces of butter. The worlds Of
fetal record previously stood at IL
pounds of butter.
Dishonesty on the part of the Amer
lean c~heesemaker destroyed his Ems
lish market for this product and CAV
to his shrewder and more honest Cal
adian competitor a market worth mi
lions Of dollars a year. 1t pays in tn
long run to be honest.
There should be more Eastwood sc
out for shade trees. We doubt
among all the long list of native TO
est trees we have n which excel
the Eastwood for hardness, cleanl
ness and beauty of form and foliag'
1t always grows more beautiful as
grows old.
In one small community in Kansf
a drug firm in four weeks in Januar
sold 1872 ounces Of strychnine, q
ounces of cyanide Of potassium, 4
bushels Of poisoned wheat and 90
gallons of carbon bisulphide, all fl
the p of destroying the prair
dogs on the farms of that communit
The question of food supply for an
mails produces some curious result
In Wyoming during the winter ju
passed the jack rabbits by THOUSAND
sought the protection of snow fenc,
along the lines of railroad. while Il
wolves and coyotes from over a val
tract OF country found the jack q
easy victim.
Some people will keep a pretty d
cent looking front yard, but the bac
yard Of their premises will be a tie
ror. As a matter of fact, there shou
be no back yard to any home-that
a dump lot for all the rubbish of Il
place. Such a place always puts
in mind of a finely dressed lady wes
ing a dirty petticoat.
The finest forests to be ound an
where in the whole world clothe u
mountains of the north PACING coa'
Having wiped out the forests or Ne
England, Michigan, Wisconsin n MI
nesota. the lumbermen are now attac
ing the forests of Washington al
Oregon to repeat, we suppose, the o
story of wreck, ruin and devastatio
They destroy in a day trees Whit
took a thousand years to produce.
A merchant advertised for a cle'
and got replies from four states insi'
of ten days from young men Will
to work for $40 a week and boa
themselves. In the same town a husl
young fellow willing to work by Z
month on the farm had six farme
after him in one day and willing
pay him the same wages h mercha
paid the clerk. The average you
man of today will dodge hard work
he a n