The Western news., 1904-07-06


dog.
The Georgia peach is at that stage OF
development which will make any fur.
ther lying about the condition of the
Delaware crop entirely unnecessary.
1t Is always safe to take up land and
make home and farm where alfalfa
will grow, for with this crop alone 9
right smart lot of money can be made
from the land.
statement that Strawberries beget in.
digestion. Be that as it may. they are
the best excuse for dyspepsia there is
on the market.
A granger friend Of ours thought he
would take in cheap railroad excur.
sion because he could have ride OF
400 miles for 1926. AS he was robbed
of his watch and 500 by a pickpocket
he is of the opinion he will pay full
fare next time.
We note q marked difference in the
bearing age of some Fameuse apples
top worked on Hibernal stocks and
some top worked on the Brier Sweet
crab. the latter bearing heavily in six
years. while the former have not yet
produced an apple.
The board of supervisors of west
ern county which pays bounty OF
SIS for an adult wolf and one Of s. for
pup wolves has got to settle the prob
lem of just when wolf ceases to he
a puppy, having to pay bounty on
some half grown wolves.
The man who can draw a straight
furrow with his plow is quite apt to be
a good plowman. Why plow witt
crooked rows or set out a crooked row
of trees or build crooked fence? II
is just as easy to do work on straight
lines. and it Is every way more salts
factory.
1t is probably true that the dragging
of the corntield just as the corn is
coming up and after it is up does some
damage to the stand; but. on the other
hand, it thereby receives sort Of cul
tvation which no other tool save the
weeder can give it. If the ground is
cloddy or filled with old cornstalks we
would not use the drag.
A kind hearted philanthropist, refer
ring to the value of the quail as d
friend Of the agriculturist in the eat
ing of weed seeds and pestiferous in
sect life. advises people to order some
other bird put on their toast This is
almost unnecessary, for they usually
get squads. sparrows or spring chicken
when quail is ordered anyway.
Some nicely engraved letter heads
some fake references and quotations
Of farm produce above market figures
enabled a New York sharper to lately
transfer some $4,000 Of hard earned
money from gullible country shippers
to his own jeans. II all other crops
were only as sure as the sucker crop
what a country this would be!
The red fox increases In number
with settlement and civilization. The
eastern states are overrun with them
They were entirely unknown In Iowa
and Minnesota forty years ago, the
prairie wolf occupying their field
Now the wolves are about extermi'
mated, and the fox Is becoming plenti'
full. one county in Iowa having paid
bounties on hundred killed last win.
ter.
Many wonders in wood are to be
seen at the great st. Louis fair. There
are hollow sections Of the big frs OF
Washington. ten feet in diameter: saw
ed plank three inches thick, twelve
feet long and eight feet wide; saw
log which. lying on the ground, Ii
eighteen inches above tall mans
head, and tree trunk cut into four
teen foot saw logs placed end to end
nine logs Of it three feet in diameter al
the butt and thirty inches at the top.
The agricultural department is out
with a story detailing how Methodist
parson keeps twenty-five cows which
bring him in 2,4OO year on fourteen
acres Of what was awhile ago one OF
the poorest little farms in Pennsylva
mia. These cows are soiled and kept in
the barn the year round. and all theil
food is produced on the farm. When q
preacher and the agricultural depart
ment go into partnership just orners
farmers may prepare to open theil
eyes.
A western railway has undertaken
to solve the nuisance Of snow block
ades in the winter by planting ever
green trees alongside the cuts on it,
tight Of way. From what we have no
ticed Of the work Of trees in connection
with drifting snow we should thinl
that trees planted along right of way
which Is usually 4 hundred feet II