The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02

plains the prOdlglOuS grown OF all
plant life in any wet year following a
period of drought.
One small hotbed, to IL feet, pro-
duced us $12 worth of early radishes,
lettuce, cabbage and tomato plants had
the stuff all been sold at market prices.
1t did not take over two hours to make
it. A little later we will tell our read
ers how it was done.
There are hundreds of Western farm
ers who would have done far better to
have used their surplus funds in aiding
in the construction of trolley lines in
their respective communities than to
have locked up their funds in wild
lands in the British Northwest.
There are several things which dam
age cream-it hurts it to freeze 1t, to
overhead it, to mix it with warm sepa-
rated cream, to hold it any length of
time at temperature OF over 50 or to
keep it any place where it can possibly
pick up any bad odOrs, which it is only
to ready to do.
We have a great respect for the poor
and ambitious boy who at % years OF
age has succeeded in earning and saw
ing $500. If girls knew what was good
for them, they would pay more atten-
to this class of young fellows and less
to cigarette and red necktie dudes who
have run up bill at lunch counter.
A partial explanation Of why more
poultry is not kept in the warmer sec
tions of the country is found in the fact
that it seems to be more difficult to
keep the flocks in healthy condition
in such sections. The largest poultry
farms in the country are located well
north and not south, where it could be
cared for at much less expense.
1t is not often that famine visits
country as a result of excessive rain
fall, the periodical famines of central
Russia and India being invariably caus-
ed by drought, but in the northern dis
tricts of Sweden and in Finland fam
inc involving the lives of over 100000
people exists today as result of the
excessive rainfall of the year 1902.
A very successful and growing type
of dairying is being developed in the
range sections of the Dakotas, Kansas
and Nebraska, where none of the tame
grasses-timothy, blue grass or clover
will grow, but where the buffalo grass
is native to the soil. Cows fed on this
grass yield a fine flow of good milk,
and the butter produced from 1t is of
the very best, so far as flavor is con-
cerned. One of the largest and most
successful creaMeries in the country is
operated under these conditions.
A million and a half acres of exceed
ingly fertile land have finally been re-
claimed in eastern Missouri from what
were long known as the sunken lands,
tract of country the natural level OF
which was lowered by some volcanic
disturbance of comparatively recent
date and which was covered with from
one to four feet of water and quite a
heavy growth of timber. Canals which
have cost over half a million dollars
have perfectly drained this region, and
it is now being transformed into an ex-
ceedingly rich and productive agricul-
tural section.
A town man bought lot of Angora
goats and placed them on his farm,
which was in charge of a hired man
ager After the goats had been there
awhile the manager reported that they
had eaten about everything on the farm
except the wire fences, the hinges on
the gates and the deeds to the proper
ty: that they would climb on each 9TH
er's back and jump any fence and strip
every twig off tree less than ten feet
high and that he would have to get rid
of the goats or else new manager.
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ports of the government bureau of an
imal industry prove conclusively that
flock Of these animals combine the de-
structive power Of a graSshOpper
scourge, a cyclone and hailstorm.
1t is poor business policy to sell the
good cow or the good brood mare.
Good things in this line when once Sc
cured should be held on to.
Minnesota may properly be referred
to hereafter as the bread and butter
state, no state excelling her in wheat
fields and creameries.
The mistake is made not in crossing
and producing grades, but in using the
grades as parent stock. This is always
an inexcusable blunder.
1t is a pity to feed all the skimmilk
to the calves and pigs and use none Of
ii for the family. 1t is just as good to
make boys and girls grow strong as it
is fr the pigs and calves.
1t makes no difference what the effect
of the oleomargarine law may be, no
bigger fraud was ever perpetrated than
the selling of this stuff as pure butter.
If people want it for what it is, all
right.
A Maine hog swallowed box con-
tanning bank bills to the value of $3.50,
and it made as much fuss almost as the
holding of a town meeting, while plen-
ty of Western farmers put $500 into a
bog. and nothing is though Of It.