The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-03-05

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Copyright, 1901, by j. S. Trigg, Rock
ford, Iowa)
Correspondence Solicited.
ARM NOTES ONE
It pieces out the lack of good looks
In many woman for her to be first
class cook.
When creamery buttar sells at over
sc cents to the consumer it invites the
competition of Oleo substitutes.
You can't raise hogs, calves, sheep
and apples on the same land. II you
want stock more than you do fruit,
don't set the trees out.
When men become SO patriotic that
they are willing to haul a load of grav-
81 and put it on the public highway
free Of charge whenever they can, then
will that era of good roads be here to
stay.
The system Of thrashing out of the
shock caused loss Of millions of dol
lars to western farmers during the har-
vest season of 1902, but we doubt if one
in ten of them would heed the lesson
learned.
The chemical analysis Of different
food rations for stock never rates the
important item Of palatability. This
fact is often overlooked. We regard it
as a most important factor in the value
Of any food ration.
When a farmer comes to town and
gets So for turkey, SIS for a common
fat hog, 2S cents for the cream or but
ter and % cents for his eggs he should
not kick if he has to pay Sc for soft
coal to keep himself warm.
Skunks do not hibernate in winter,
as do cOOns, but are ready at almost
any time to make a raid on the farm
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that these animals increase as the
country becomes more thickly settled.
About 100000 is now available un-
der the new irrigation law. No public
work which the government has ever
undertaken will be watched with more
interest than this attempt to reclaim
desert areas by the intelligent storage
of flood waters and their use in irrigat-
ing. 1t is not yet decided just where
the first experiment will be made.
A summing up of the experiences of
two or three of the experiment stations
proves conclusively that the lantern
moth traps do not catch the class of in
sectS that are injurious to the orchard,
nut do destroy many insects which are
# great value to the fruit grower Fon
instance, this form of trap will catch
neither the apple tree. borer, beetle
Goblin moth, curculio nor cankerworm
moths, and these are the four worse
insect pests of the orchard.
We are asked why the tame apple
cannot be grated on the wild crab
apple. 1t can, but not successfully.
growth, and the apple sc-5n -oon out
grows it's crab stock and is either broK-
en- off by the wind or perishes for want
Of an adequate rot system to supply it's
needs. The same difficulty occurs to
quite an extent when the large varie-
ties of tame plums are top worked on
wild plum stocks.
Of Nf
rivers of Minnesota and Iowa, too steep
to pillow and too much exposed to bear
good crops of grass, which would make
ideal sites for orchards of Wealthy ap-
pie trees, and in no other way could
such land be made so productive and
probable. The Lord intended all the
hills to be covered with trees, and they
would be were it not for mans rapacity
and destructiveness with ak and with
fire.
And now it is Missouri Judge who
has decided that the e,ye money be-
longs to the farmers wife. and fined
farmer in that state a good round
sum for selling the eggs from the farm
and apprOpriating the proceeds. Only
few pretty mean men ever attempt
this. The rest let their wives have
this source of income, most of them be-
cause they want to and the rest be-
cause they have to. Let every woman
assert her rights in this matter.
The Russian minister of agriculture
has appropriated the sum of $4,000
for the purpose of developing the
creamery bushes along the line of the
new Siberian railroad. The money is
to be expended in giving instruction in
the dairy business to the farmer and
for the conducting of dairy schools in
which to train butter makers. Siberia
lis likely to become an extensive butter
producing country, as the natural con-
ditions are exceedingly favorable for
the business.