Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-01-07

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The city smart boy who undertook
to play rural mail delivery box for
a slot machine got into the 'Rube''
class at once. 4r
A knowledge Of at least the elemen-
tary principles of farm mechanics
should be acquired by every young
man who expects to conduct a farm.
for his work will Of necessity be large
ly that of operating machinery. :,
AS soon as the ground is frozen the
strawberries should have a covering Of
straw, cornstalks or. better than either
Of these, marsh hay. this covering sim
ply. to prevent the thawing and freez-
ing of the plants during the winter. r.
The gradual playing out of the oil
supply will necessarily increase the
price of oil. Electricity stands ready
to supplant oil as soon as oil reaches a
certain figure, and with electricity be-
ing produced more cheaply each year
the meeting point may not be far off.
We have never taken kindly to geese
either as domestic fowl to have
around the place or as a table bird
There is but one kind Of goose which is
choice eating, the wild Canadian bird
of this years growth fattened on the
grain fields of Manitoba and killed in
November.
A reader wishes to know how many
hens he can profitably keep in yard
on a town lot containing four square
rods Of ground. the birds to be confined
in this lot. If he will supply them with
plenty Of green food, oyster shells and
q ration of scrap meat in addition to
their grain ration he may keep twenty
hens prof1tably, better less than more
! In general way it may be said that
II person is troubled with any form
Of lung difficulty censump-
ton, bronchitis, asthma and the like
he should as soon as possible seek
home in those portions of the country
where these troubles are always allie
Waited If not absolutely cured. These
localities are to be found in Arizona.
New Mexico, Colorado.
We have inquiries as to macaroni
vrho0f xry1,o +
can be obtained and where grown. 1t
may be obtained from any grain firm
in North Dakota and is specially fitted
for growing on the semiarid prairie
soils lying west Of the one hundredth
degree of longitude. We do not I'M
derstand that it would be good crop
where other wheat will grow.
A good illustration in nature of the
old Biblical statement, 'To him that
hath shall be given and from him that
hath not shall be taken away even
that he hath" is found in the action
of the elements upon all the billy and
rolling lands. there being a constant
robbing of the fertility of such soils
by erosion to still further enrich the
naturally more fertile valley lands.
What the cholera is to the hog raiser
the chinch bug to the wheat raiser and
the codling moth to the orchardist the
boil weevil is to the grower of cotton
in the south. a pest which threatens the
future cotton crop of the country and
one for which no remedy has SO far
been found. It is spreading rapidly all
over the cotton belt and this season has
materially reduced the yield Of cotton
in Texas particularly.
It looks as though in short time the
barrel as package for the shipment
of apples will give way to the square
bushel box. The box has so many
points in it's favor over the barrel
compels more honest packing, better
suits the wants of the average family,
is more easily handled, takes up less
room in the car when shipped. The
principal count against the box is that
1t costs trife more than the barrel.
The old fashioned way of sticking to
one employment and one place and be-
ing content to build up competence
with small savings has almost entirely
disappeared in the "get rich quick
methods which so generally prevail to-
day. There are more moving from place
to place and changing Of employment,
more SnQculafion UNDERLYING all h,1si-
ness methods, a contempt for small
profits and moderate competition. AS
result there are more debt, less indie
pendence and more Of spread eagle
style of living than ever before. The
old way has much in it to commend.
No line Of business has shared to
larger extent in the benefits Of modern
inventive genius than agriculture.
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