The Western news., 1904-06-29

Illinois has an exhibit of corn grown
by the boys of that state which will
attract the interested attention of every
visitor at the Agricultural building at
the worlds fair.
An annual side hunt for crows came
off in northern Illinois lately. A total
of l,37o crows were killed. The effect
of such warfare on these birds is to
practically drive them from that Sec
ton of the country.
When some scamp comes into farm
ing community with some scheme to
swindle the farmers it would be a
mighty good plan for the first farmer
he tackles to notify all his neghbors
by phone to be on the lookout
1t is "home sweet home sure
enough when John comes in from the
corn plowing ut night and finds a
strawberry shortcake foot in diam
eter and three inches thick on the sup
per table alfd the berries from his OWL
garden.
There is a right and wrong end to
all things, which truth is we'll illus
trated in the case of two men recently
killed. one of whom was gored to death
by a bull and one kicked to death by
mule. Both Of these men got at the
wrong end.
Down in Oklahoma 20 per cent and
more is paid for the use of money to
prove up on land and develop that rich
country, while per cent is the ruling
rate of interest in all the older por-
tions of the country. We hardly un
derstand why this should be so.
A grizzly bear supposed to he as
much as forty-five years old which had
long been the terror of the rancllmen
OF a section in Wyoming was recently
killed He weighed 1000 pounds and
was covered with scars. The man who
got him secured very large bounty
which had been offered for his scalp.
We saw at the worlds fair an old
plow made and used in Maryland in
1916. It had but one handle, was made
Of wood. had an iron point and two
strips of an old saw blade nailed on
the wooden moldboard. 1t was on
exhibition by the side of one of the
modern chilled steel plows of today.
which shone like mirror.
The crop of clover hay is due to care
for along the last of June through all
the northern states and this is the Pc
riod of the year when storms are fire.
quent and the rainfall heavy, making
the securing of this crop one of the
most difficult problems on the farm. 1t
is safe to say that not so per cent of
all the clover hay put up each year is
secured in good shape.
There never has been a time when
men of wealth who have made their
money in the cities are investing so
largely in farms, some doing it to graft
fy fad, some as an investment. 1t
matters little what the motive; the fact
that they are doing it, and doing it in
the very thorough and progressive man.
ner which they are, Is working almost
a revolution in farm methods In many
localities. their good example being
contagious.
The farm boy should be allowed
reasonable number of holidays-circus
day, Memorial day, Fourth Of July
and at least half day off each week
to go a-swimmin' and a-fshin'. The
wise man will take day off himself
once month during the summer and
take the boys with him on a fishing
excursion or a picnic. BY doing this
more and better work will be done by
the boys, and then they won't want to
run away from home the very first
chance they get.
each other when once mated? 1t can
hardly be by sight alone, for there is
no apparent difference in appearance
in members of the same species. Do
birds have an individuality like human
beings by which they can be identified.
or is recognition secured by means Of
some difference in voice, or is there
something connected with the fine in
stinct which birds and animals have in
place of sense which enables them to
know each Otheri
The south has a one horse agricul-
ture that is, plowing, cultivating
and working the land are mostly done
with one horse, or, rather, mule. A
little farther north there will be found
a two horse agriculture, where two
horses form the motive power for farm
work; in Iowa the three horse team Is
almost universally found, plowing,
dragging. seeding, harvesting, while up
in North Dakota we find the four horse
type Of farming, where vast areas are
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