The Western news., 1904-04-27

The hired man will always do best
when his boss sets him a good exam
pie.
1t takes ginseng seed eighteen
months to germinate. while purslane
and foxtail require only about that
many hours.
The law will not let you turn the wa
ter from your farm on to your neighbor
to his injury save as it flows down a
natural water course over his land.
Bronze grass, speltz, macaroni wheat
and alfalfa are four things which are
adding millions of acres Of tillable land
to the arabic acreage of the semiarid
west.
We never see clipped horse in early
spring but we are reminded Of the
cruelty Of such fad. No artificial
method Of protection can take the place
of the winter coat nature provides.
In certain parts of Africa, where the
grasshoppers have made clean sweep
of the country, the only things in the
way of vegetation left are the leaves
of the coffee trees. These they would
not eat, while they even ate the bark
of other trees.
Two South Dakota boys have invent
ed a method of exterminating prairie
dogs which they have patented and
which is such pronounced success
that it is said that the boys will make
q fortune out of it.
American beef has almost completely
captured the English market. A few
years ago when our beef first sought
the British market it could only be sold
disguised as English beef; now the
English beef has to be sold under the
American brand.
In one Of the irrigation districts OF
India the value of the first crop raised
exceeded the entire cost of the work
The same thing will prove true to !,
lesser degree with several of the irrigt
ton schemes which the American gov.
ernment has now under way in the
arid west.
The highways in many parts of Ger
many are lined with handsome rows
of fruit trees. Their product is pro
tected by law and when fit to pick is
sold at auction and the proceeds de-
voted to the improvement of the high
way. The European does some things
better than the American.
If you want to realize what the Ge
velopment Of the cold storage industry
has done for the country recall the
time few years ago when your Apri
and May eggs sold for 6 cents dozer
and the best butter you could make fol
10 cents a pound. Cold storage has
doubled the price to the producer Of
both commodities.
All through the corn belt it is now
we'll settled that the silo offers the
cheapest and most economical methoG
of getting all the value out of the corr
crop and securing supply of sue
culent winter forage for the stock OF
the farm. This truth makes headway
slowly, but the time is coming whe1
the silo will be an accompaniment o.
the big red barn on every we'll man
aged western farm.
A Chicago florist who was candi
date for alderman of that city did al
altogether unique thing on Easter Sun
day to propitiate the voters Of hi!
ward. He lavishly decorated th,
twenty-nine churches in his ward will
houses and saw to it that every man
woman and child received a carnation
This is ever so much nicer than tap
ping lot of pony kegs.
Good beef sold for cent pound il
the reign of Queen Elizabeth In Eng
land. Pork sold at the same price.
chicken at 2 cents and a fat goose at
cents. That was before the days o
knives and forks, chimneys for til
houses. glass for windows, guns an
gunpowder, and when every man ha
to provide his own armor, pike an
bow and arrow and be ready on me
ment's warning to join the army. Thi
was when the courts hung man fo
stealing as small a sum as $3.50. or
sheep, or for killing game on the bal
on's estate.
Birds have almost as hard a tim
making a final selection of a place j
which to build a nest as some folks d
in hunting house to live in. w
watched a robin the other day engage