The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-06-18

claim to respect that the reformed crir.-
inal has.
The 4O-acre farm with the silo can
be made to support as many head OF
stock as the S0-acre farm can with
out it.
The Russian government determines
just how much of the sugar product of
that country shall be sold and how
much placed in reserve.
If nice sweet peas are wanted, they
should be planted just as soon as the
frost is out of the ground and planted
deep, three inches at least.
If dairy cow is built like steer
and looks like a steer, she should share
the fate Of a steer and not wear out
mans patience in the dairy herd.
The enormous losses of sheep in Aus
tralia incident to the seven years
drought is expected to materially af-
feet the price Of wool for the coming
year.
Great as are the wheat possibilities
connected with the Canadian northwest
they are infinitely surpassed by those
of the Siberian country now being
opened by the Russian government.
The COWS of any breed which have
made high butter records almost in
variably give over 5000 pounds of milk
during the year, and unless COW will
give at least this much it is useless to
expect her to show up in the 400-pound
class.
We have several reports Of the value
of rape when sown in the cornfleld at
the last blowing. The rape does not
interfere with the early huskfng of the
corn and immensely improves the feed
ing value of the cornfeld, balancing up
the ration and wholly preventing any
trouble with cornstalk disease.
The general level of wages paid Ia
Dor in this country is at the present
time higher than ever before known,
and the curious fact is presented of the
ucts of the lowest paid labor on earth,
Brains and machinery do the business.
We end the low down, wide tired
wagon a most useful part of the farm
equipment, and besides whenever it is
used on the road it always does a good
job of roadmaking If every man could
be induced or made by law to use the
wide tired wagon, a great step in ad-
vance would have been made in the
matter of improved highways.
The st. Louis exposition will per-
haps ba more remarkable for it's dis
play Of agricultural and horticultural
products than for any other one thing.
Located as it will be in the very heart
of the hest agricultural district in the
world, the cotton of the South, the
corn of the central West, the wheat of
the North, the hog, the steer, the COW,
the hen, the orchard and the garden
will furnish an exhibit which will
make foreigners open their eyes.
Some close student of bird life has
made the discovery that nest building
is not altogether an instinct, but part
ly fine art taught by the older birds
to the younger ones just as child is
taught music. In proof of this claim he
says that the orioles in pairing are in
variably mated an old and a young
bird, one. of the pair possessing the
architectural knowledge necessary to
the construction of the hanging nest
which these birds build.
The mother on the farm will be CIV
ing her ten or twelve year old son
valuable part of his education if she
will teach him the elementary p Incl
pies of household economy-how to
sweep out room, make his bed, keep
his room in order, wash dishes and the
simpler forms of cooking. 1t never
hurts a man to know how to do these
things, and knowing how to do them is
often great help to him. Where there
arc two or three boys in the home and
no girls, as sometimes happens, the
work of the mother may be much light
ened by training boys along this line.
We know of more than one case
wher the need of a hired girl is hardly
felt because the wise mother has
trained son to assist her. On the 9TH
er hand, where the crop is all girls and
no boys the, father may obtain most
valuable assistance from the girls prop
erly trained to do certain kinds of out
door work not unsuited for woman to
do. We know of girls who can har-
ness horse, drive team on sulky,
piOw or mower, milk a cow, care for
the garden, do the family buying in
town and are none the less true ladies
for the doing of it. In fact, womans
chances of matrimony are increased
rather than diminished because of these
accomplishments with young men who
take a practical and serious view Of
life and it's responsibilities.
Few people realize the important
function birds perform of holding in
check various forms of insect pests
Their work is done so quietly and
continuously that much of it is rarely
observed by man. Here are few fig
ures showing what they do: The stom-
ach of quail was found to contain
1O1 potato bugs and that of another
500 cinch bugs. A cuckoo killed early
in the morning contained 43 caterpil-
lars, and another cuckoo 217 web
worms. A robin showed up with IT'S
caterpillars The stomachs of four
chickadees contained 1,02S eggs of the
cankerworm. Four others contained
600 eggs and 105 mature insects 1t is
estimated that barn swallow will
destroy 10000 flies and other insects