The Western news., 1904-05-04

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If the boy would only stick to the
farm as the mortgage does = but he
doesn't.
When the dead leaves are burned UP
either in the fall or spring, the very
best mulching material to be had is de-
Btroyed.
The man with the fourteen foot seed
er, the four horse disk and the twenty
two foot harrow makes very short
work of putting the crop in on a 200
acre farm.
1t has been poor year for the feed
ers and finishers of beef cattle unless
they have been feeding the very best.
The feeders of low grade stock have
not realized over 20 cents bushel for
the corn fed.
York state farmers either can't or
won't raise sugar beets. and large
factory in that state, costing $2oOOOO.
Is to be removed to Wyoming. The
American hates to grow a crop which
makes him bend his back.
Put 100000 people in the state of
Kansas, heather and idol wOrShipers
Ignorant and superStitious, governed by
a despotism, unskilled in agriculture
and in climate, size of territory, popu-
lation, development and government
you will have the kingdom of Korea.
cuba raised a magnificent crop of
high grade tobacco the past year, SO
much that the shed room for the cur
ing was totally inadequate, and in
some cases the people moved from
their houses and lived in tents in order
that they might use their homes for
curing the crop.
1t is an interesting fact in nature
chat the pollen and the silk of the corn
plant are so arranged in the order of
their development that they are never
In conjunction-that is, it is made al
most impossible for the plant to fer
tllize itself, the pollen from one plant
being used to fertilize the silk of some
adjacent plant.
The enormous amount of $50, 100000
Is paid out each year in this country
oio1
I'm the eastern and southern states
The territory where the use of such
fertilizers is either compulsory or
found to be profitable is constantly /
pushing west and now includes good |
portion of the state Of Ohio.
No plant we cultivate peters out and !
doses Its vitality and productiveness so
quickly as the Irish potato. The best |
of the new varieties only lasts about
fifteen years and many not that long.
This deterioration of the potato is much
more rapid all through the corn belt /
than 1t Is in the territory north of it.
All through the corn belt the use of |
northern grown seed is almost impera-
tive If one would expect to get a crop
of the tubers.
1t Is an easy matter to improve
poor herd Of stock. The sum of 5000
properly invested will do it-$1OO now
for registered sire and two years
later another. While doing this the
very poorest of the herd should be
culled out. Four years on this line
of work will make over the herd and
add 100 per cent to it's value. And
this applies to both beef and dairy
herds and for that matter to all our
animals.
We are asked will turning the pigs
Into a patch Of rape produce scurvy.
We have one or two reports of skin
disease where hogs had the run of
rape field, but whether chargeable to
the rape or not we cannot tell. One
thing is sure. however-we have seen
more scurvy looking hogs which never
saw stalk of rape than can be found
In any rape field. Plant rape for the
hogs and proportion the size of the
Held to the number of hogs to be fed,
SO that they will keep it closely fed
down.
Climatic handicaps may be found in
every section of the country. The
glorious sunshine of the far west is as
soclated with scarcity of rainfall; AMI
excess Of water makes an aquatic ex-
lstence for Washington and Oregon;
the blizzard, extreme cold hailstorms
and cyclones vex the residents of the
great northwest, while the genial eli
mate of the great south is largely cou-
pied with poverty of soil. 1t is hard
to find a spot where soil is good, mar
kets handy. mercury always above
zero. rainfall sufficient and plenty of
sunshine
While only just a beginning-a sort
Of kindergarten school, as it were-the
work done at the many farmers insti-