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

Rape is better for both hogs and
sheep than clover.
Any dairy cow will cost at least $50
co keep one year. On this basis 1t is
an easy matter for any man to inquire
out what COWS it pays to keep.
While the milk of the goat makes
some of the very choicest brands OF
cheese, it is a curious fact that 1t cam
not be converted into butter, the fat
giobules refusing to unite as IN the
case of the milk of the COW.
The average price which the farmers
receive for sugar beets in Kansas is
$3.50 per ton. and some of them have
made the interesting discovery that
such beets are worth more than that
to feed to five dollar pork in connec-
ton with alfalfa.
The modern inventions which have
made the transmission of electrical
power possible have made available in
France alone over 100000 horsepow-
er, largely in the shape Of heretofore
unavailable waterfalls ell through the
mountain districts.
A little pile of sawdust from pigput
hickory wood formed a seemingly
tempting breakfast for a half dozen
biuejays in the writer's dOOryard one
of the snappy cold mornings of the past
month. While the jay is an omnivo-
rous feeder. we did not before know
that he would eat wood.
All through the farming section Of
the country it is not more land which
men need half so much as it is the
they have to better advantage. Three
fourths of the farms of the country are
not half worked and do not produce
oD ehalf of what they might be made
to do.
The kernels Of the tips and butts of
an ear Of corn will, while to some ex-
tent malformed, still produce good ears,
though they will vary slightly in the
time Of maturing. The real reason
why such kernels should not be used
for seed is that their irregular shape
prevents to some extent uniformity of
dropping by the planter.
One acre Of timothy hay, costing to
half, will feed one cow six months. The
same acre CT land planted to corn and
the corn put in the silo at total cost
of Slips will feed four cows the same
length of time with a better ration. The
more this problem in agriculture is
studied the palmer will it become that
timothy hay is very expensive dairy
ration.
The highway problem is very seri-
GUS one in many sections of the West,
especially in those parts of the country
where the soil is black and mucky and
where there are no supplies of either
stone or gravel to be obtained where
with TO surface the roads after grad
Ing. While the dirt roads of such 10
calities are the very best in the world
for about nine months in the year, they
are for the other three months the
very worst.
The question of grass-pasture and
hay CROPS almost wholly question
OF sufficient water supply, no rain, no
grass. While moisture may be con-
served by mechanical manipulation in
cultivated fields, this process is not
applicable to pasture and meadow
lands. Thus when the winter forage
crop is raised in cornfeld instead of
meadow one has the crop under
much better control.
1t seems too bad that any parents
should try in these days to bring up a
family of children and deny them the
benefit of plenty of good wholesome
reading matter in the home. Yet some
do. We know Of families where a story
paper OF the trashiest sort and filled
with Off color advertising matter is the
only literary food given the children
When this fact is understood in all it's
bearings, it is no wonder where all the
great crop of suckers spring from. Fur
nish the children good reading matter
for the home, no matter what it may
cost.
The first class farm hand looks a
good deal like $42.50 for the coming
season by the time his wages, his
board. his washing and horse feed are
all footed up. This man cannot be
used on land to produce only twenty
I'VE bushels Of corn or thirty of oats
to the acre. The more such men and
the more such acres a man tries to
bring together the worse he is off. He
can be used to milk COWS which will
make ESQ pounds of butter, to feed
steers and hogs which will bring $3.50
to care for sixty bushel crop of corn.
but the man who pays So an acre rent
Tor run down grain farm had better
steer shy of this fellow, for he will
nave the profits for the year and the
man who hires him will be holding the
sack.
we know man who brags that he
mas raised corn on a certain field on
MS farm for twenty consecutive wears
1t is a piece of river bottom land and
was originally very fertile. Still. the
fact is he does not get to exceed one
half the crop on this field that he did
twenty years ago. 1t matters not what
the crop may be, it should never he
grown continuously on the same land
and this applies in a smaller way to
garden crop as well as field crops.
A syndicate of farmers, thirty of
them, bought $4,000 Percheron sire