The Harrison times., 1905-01-21
PRACTICAL FARM NOTES.


If 1t pushes you TO pay, remember
it will pay you to push so you can
pay
Cubans are buying cattle in Venez-
uella at the rate of 100. 900 head
year,
The underbrush on farm is ''done
for wien a flock of Angoras is turn
eli into it
Yes. the scrub must go 1t won t
do to keep animals that don't pay
their board
The farmers wife is to the farm
what the handspring is to the
watch If you let iler run down you
will see
\ poor farmer has been known to
make fair business man, but a poor
business man never made a good
/ farmer
Isn't it queer how abundant every
thing Is =, hen the farmers own it,
and how scarce it gets as soon as
the farmers have sold out.
Watch the timber planting by the
United States government in the
sand hills Note how cheaply the
work is being done, and then take
courage and do Likewise
The fact has been demonstrated the
| past season that the use of we'll bred
and pedigreed seed corn was wholly
responsible for the increase of twenty
bushels per acre i'll the WELD of field
of corn. the test being made with
scrub seed and pedigreed seed in the
same field, with the same crop, re-
ceiving the same treatment and cul-
tivation. There is a fact here of the
greatest Importance to all growers
OF corn, and one which can no long
CT be ignored.
\ bulletin issued by the United
States department of agriculture
gives the average yield per acre of
corn in the United States for 1904 as
26-7 bushels compared with 25.5
bushels last year. The average for
past ten years was 242 bushels
The average yield of the potato crop
per acre was 1904 bushels per acre
IN 1904, and ST. per bushel in 9O3-
The average for the past ten years
Vas 81 bushels. The average Weld
of hay was 1.52 tons in 1904, 1.54
tons in 1908 and the ten year aver
age was 1.35 tons
When the steel trust was formed,
newspapers and magazines had
many, many very long articles about
1t. 1t was thought to be a wonder
iul thing because it had a capital
stock of S1,OOO,OOO,OO As has
since developed, this represented an
actual value of Only about 5000, ,00O,-
COO 1t was the biggest combina-
tlOn of wealth the city fellows. the
sOI-dIstdnt Capitalists" have ever
been able to make But it isn't so
much The 1904 corn crop will sell
for that. Just think of it. Only one
of our farm crops and: Jones years
production of it selling for 81, ,OOO,-
600, 600, and it is really wealth. not
paper profits"
So much nonsense written about
balanced ration" in feeding live
stock that it is refreshing to read
the common sense statement of "The
Feeders Problem in the current issue
of The Iowa Homestead by Andrew
Boss, the well-known live stock ex-
pert OF Minnesota Agricultural Col
lege. Mr.. Boss shows that if a steer
Is tretting about anything or uncom-
Portable from any cause, the most
scientific ration In the world will
produce unsatisfactory gains. He
points out the fact that the feeder
must be man of resources and
Judgment and have an intuitive
knowledge and sympathy with the
animal he is feeding
The weather prophets do not in
tend for the world to end in less than
twelve months They have issued
the calendar for 1905. By the way.
there are some curious things about
the calendar. No century can begin
on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday.
The same calendar can be used every
twenty years October ALWAYS be-
gins on the same day of the week as
January; April as July; September
as December; February, March and
November begin on the same davs-