The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-05-21

ford, Iowa)
Correspondence Solicited.
We note recent sale in England of
DICE Shire two-year-old mares at ST.
10 to 81 400 each
Drought caused snrinkage Of 49,
5000 sheep and 275, 900 head of cattle
New South Wales last year.
The owners of the rich Nile valley
nds have to pay an annual tax OF So
II acre. We know of men who kick
tax of Is cents per acre.
The second and third weeks OF
1w's tactical period are the ones dur
lg which she will, under normal feeo
nd conditions, give the largest yield
butter.
The ordinary average farm of the
orn belt is just the place to raise the
eavy draft horse, and there should be
pair Of good we'll bred draft horses on
very quarter section farm.
At the late poultry show at Kansas
City three-year-old hen sold for SOL.
This beats 81 900 for boar pig or $12,-
500 for Shorthorn bull and beats
Shamrock, who only brought about $40
Ter pound, including all the prizes he
n.
The dairy COW expected to give flow
Of milk during the winter season 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 near vicinity of willow
trees or hedges the f1brous roots of surh
trees will seek the tile drain for the
moisture it contains aid by filling it
with a mass of roots thus render the
drain worthless The roots 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 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 as Patterns
Greening, and still a fruit grower in
central Iowa who has eight acres of
this variety told us recently that he
obtained gross return of 5000 per
acre from these trees last year. This
would indicate that the criticism re-
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 menace to al poul-
try raisers. We know of just two farms,
and these adjoining a city Of 5000 pop
ulation, 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
cool cellar The air is probably too
dry and subjects the fruit to steady
process of evaporation. When kept in
a cellar, apples should not be exposed
% the air. They keep we'll packed in
moist sand or in an underground pit,
Just as potatoes are kept. Ii 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 It 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 cost of only 80 per cent
IF the old-time grain ration.
One serious drawback to the COOP
9rative creamery business is the SEEM
ng 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
my other day, and this seeming neces-
sity of running the creamery on Sun
lay has in most cases overruled what
ever moral sentiment there may have
been in the community against Sunday
work We notice, however, that quite
number of creameries are giving up
this Sunday work, the patrons having
made arrangements to care for their
Sunday milk at home Wherever it is
possible to do this it should be done,
rs any form of labor on the Sabbath
has a demoralizing influence on the
community at large.
The Farmer and the Trusts.
In these days of almost universal
,nm hinatiOn of business interests we