The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-09-03
PRACTICAL FARM NOTES.

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how much can raise? and how
much can | get for it,
Weeds are the farm loafers. Keep
up the sigu-"No room for loafers. +"
Don't let them go to seed.
Every improvement made on your
farm benefits all the adjoining farms.
Seer Have an up-to-date neighbor-
hood.
1t takes longer and costs more to
make up pound of loss than it does
to add five pounds of gain under IA
vorable conditions.
A farm with fence rows and creeks
grown up in brush and brers looks
like tramp with tangled beard and
his head not combed.
Put away the summer tools. If
you knew of a ten-dollar bill living
out in the field you'd hurry out there
and get it. Yet you leave ten-dol
lar pillow lie out there all winter.
Push is the quality in the man
which helps him to keep things mov-
ing every day in the week, when the
weather is good until all the crops
are secured and things are in shape
for winter.
The boy that knows how to do al
most anything in the house and the
girl that knows how things are done
on the farm, are capitol prizes no
matter who may draw them in the
matrimonial lottery.
We may have said before that it is
not always the best looking COW
that gives the most and best milk.
Watch the milk, both quality and
quantity. Don'tkeep anything that
don't pay its board.
Boys and girls of certain age be-
come restless, and long for a change.
Let me whisper to such: Don't be in
hurry to leave the farm. Stay up
on it and make it better and make
farming the best of all business.
That time is coming.
Flowing and sowing and gather
ing into barns is not half the work
that belongs to the farmer. He is
the salt of the earth, if he only knew
it. Without him this old world of
ours would all turn sour and go to
waste. Are we doing our part to
prevent this?
According to figures printed in Ger
man papers, the appropriations by
governments for the aid of agricul-
ture in proportion to cultivate area,
compares as follows: United States
3, Russia 8, France 20, Austria 80.
That is, the United States govern
ment spends $500 for the benefit of
agriculture, while Austria spends
$50.
Some of the Illinois corn show at
the worlds fair has been sold to
South America farmer for $40 an ear,
says the Drover's Journal. He
bought ten ears, selecting the finest
from the entire exhibit. This is pedi-
greed corn of the finest quality ever
raised in this country and was pro-
duced by young farmer near De
cature.
The number of mich cows in the
United States in 1904 is II, 419,S17.
worth $50S,941, 4S9, 1921 per
COW. Ofall other cattle there were 49,
629,49S, worth $712,17S,1 34, or
1892 per head There were import
ed into the United States during
1903, &c, 166 cattle, worth 81 ,161,-
54S, or $17.56 per head. During
the same time there were exported
4O5,178, worth $29,S4 ,S63, or
$74.22 per head.
The unexpected death of Col. ]. II.
Brigham. Assistant Secretary ofAgri-
culture, is greatly to be deplored as
he was a very useful man. He was
born at Lodi, Ohio, in 1898, a farm
er's boy, He was soldier in the
Civil War, and for ten years was
master of the National Grange. He
was large man mentally as well as
physically; he weighed nearly 800
pounds, without being overly stout,
and was six feet six inches tall. He
was an earnest friend of the farmer
and deserves to be kindly remember
ed by him.
A unique feather guessing contest
was recently conducted by promin-