The Western news., 1904-04-20

The robin which nests in March,
1SCN IvNH1 probably raises second brood later
1GT.L4AS ON in the season.
~ V4 When can sell cord wood for Sc
u ~ per cord and buy hard coal for $3.50
w ~ per ton. there is good money in selling
VI the wood and burning the coal.
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E1SsSzzsssM- IN We readily see how cats can be
essss:ssasaS~1 made to regulate the supply of rats
n and mice, but what really interests
more is to find out some way to regu-
..THEx3 late the supply Of cats.
xNAS~- long drawn out winter season is
M z | not so much of an objection where one
M lives in timbered country owns
<c<A timbered farm but where has a
NJ u prairie farm it is serious objection.
The Russian has but 12O days in the
ooo IONS OF whole year during which he can work.
The others all either Sundays or
church holidays which makes it a case
'tatoes IN COL of piety begettng poverty with a
lost profitable vengeance
The in the far Will cut off
the state of the supply Of butter from Russia. and
s ALWAYS in the countries which she has been sup
tier fat in the plying will have to import 10000 tons
from the United States and Canada to
take it's place
age horse is
,s TO save It. 1t is rather curious trait in the dog
lade of horse. that when he falls into the habit of
V idea Of killing and worrying focks of sheep he
will never do his work near home He
,f the acricu, will almost invariably travel several
sci, is said +o miles for his victims.
1T of this the
I'M of S4S as Much interest and discussion is be-
ing taken in the plan of teaching the
elementary principles Of agriculture in
ld about GOO the country schools. The plan has
eight or nine much to commend it. Plant and ami
these will be NAL life studies always interest the lit
I'd third wears tie folks.
We have friend who always sows
! oror of cot clover seed with all HIS small grain
+bis oou,trr crops. We do not know just what his
heap at $1OO ,esu course VI rol'oii ~ put we 90
nrohah,e fn know that he has wonderfully pro-
ductive farm, and it has been under
cultivation for sixty years.
ed and snow
a. ror+h,r,ra Comparisons sometimes help one to
NOT fo feel more contented with his lot life
ba most ro, It would be hard to find any ableboded
il n.rticu1,r man in this country who earned so
small sum $50 year and fed him
: c.,o IT, self and family with it, but China and
49,, <on India have such people by the hundred
Iie, , el,'nu w. million
Is curing ! eo Alfalfa and trolley railways are re-
african Ian generating the state Of Ohio-the al
falfa is restoring the lost fertility of
the soil and the trolley is making life
.ieie ~ eNe in the country accessible the people,
line of trans viii, oil i+s aaron+,oo 1a; IN;
~ ~ "l'n Z" nois and Iowa are beginning the good
sup ~ at any work too.
the farmers
sss. The minimum rates of transportation
are about reached by the great railway
the matter of corporations of the country. They
the canna hardly further improve the physical
or branching condition of their systems by elimina
ed OF salvias. ing grades using bigger engines
j. Ihere are ger freight cars SO as to much further
I'LL always re- lower freight rates.
A New York reader wishes to know
slow sale last how to nut I'M grated borsor.dsb .+
are III sharp home and have it retain it's color as
- per Dushel well as that which is put up by the
o'd not know professional Gamers We cannot an
ke this sort OF his query further than say that
most uncer- the discooraton referred to is doubt
less due to the imperfect exclusion Of
the air.
west farmers
o raise crop A friend who set out a wndbreak of
improve their Scotch pines twelve years ago writes
1t one farmer us that it of the best invest
er lives raised ments he made; that the trees
for his own are now perfect windbreak twenty
1t he gets at feet high. He planted selected nursery
trees from three to four feet high, set
two rows breaking joints, trees six
uoted any teen feet apart each way.
airy is on the
laska, which In these days Of sharp business COM
nndred dollar petition and improved commercial
G and pays methods eggs still sold by count
tally. 1t very and not by weight, unjust and un-
ney value of fair method, the like Of which is not
:om compet found in the buying and selling of any
other commodity that we know of. The
French people long ago discarded the
cabbage, eel count method, and wonder why It
ggplant most 10 not done in this country.
seed and all
or nuts are Our observations lead us to believe
,Io ,fi,nul 1ocot thorG