The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1905-03-18
PRACTICAL FARM NOTES.

corn starch.
The crop of cotton for 1904 is
found to be 1850, 700 bales, pro-
duced on 30, 055, 700 acres.
The boy on the farm today must
not be satisfied to simply know as
much about agriculture as his
father. He has got to know more
and will.
Honey is shipped from Cuba to
Germany, the United States, France
and other countries. The amount
gathered last year exceeds 100000.
Do not kill the ducks in spring
time. Let them alone. Allow them
to rear their young and then in the
fall there will be more and better
hunting.
John B. Guyton of Missouri,
signed a contract at Seattle the
other day, with Japanese officials,
agreeing to deliver 100000 horses
for the japanese army.
In Denmark the farmers have a
large cooperative egg marketing
concern, and farmer working off a
bad egg is fined SIPS. If such a
rule was in vogue i'll this country it
would bankrupt the farmers paying
the fines.
We do not think that the average
farmer needs to know how to make
more money so much as he does
to know to make it easier and in a
more profitable way-make fewer
acres do the work of the. many now
run over.
The boy brings back So where he
costs cent; Ifyou don't believe it
just wait until he is gone and sec
what a hole it makes in running tht
farm. Instead of figuring how
much the boy costs, | think it is q
great deal better to think how much
he saves.
According to figures compiled by
the Union Pacific railroad the alfalfa
crop of Nebraska in 1904 was 90S,
242 tons. Ten. years ago it was
stated no alfalfa existed in Ne
braska. Every farmer who raises
alfalfa, it was pointed out, can raise
cattle, sheep, horses and hogs,
Pennsylvania should step more
lively; she appropriates only $1,000
dollars year for the Agricultural
Experiment Station. Ohio give,
SCI 900; New York, $4,000; New
Jersey, $4,000; Connecticut, $17,
600; Montana, $4,000 and so on
We feel quite lonesome when w,
contemplate these figures: Penn
sylvania ought to do better.
i want to say another word tc
the farmer boys. 1t won't be Ions
until you'll be out working for your
self. You have been thinking anC
dreaming about that already ant
wondering when the time will come
1t will come and come quickly
What are you going to do then
Something honorable of course
something that will benefit tn,
world and give you a fair name
Such is the purpose of every good
ambitious and honorable boy.
The corn planter is the poores
implement we have on the farm. L
drops the kernels of a hill all to
gether and has no provision TO
scattering them out. If the thre
kernels of a hill were dropped fou
or FIVE inches apart he thought the,
would produce three fine large ears
which would make 1873 bushels pc
acre, but when three plants grow
from the same spot one or two o
them will be deformed and produc
only small ears.
More than 500 entries have beef
made in the corn show opened il
Chicago this week. Every know
variety is shown, on the cobb an,
of the cob and also canned. Tire
hundred and .twenty.one prizes wer
given, amounting to more thai
| 1890. Entries were made iron
every state in which corn is raised
seventeen states being represented
The first prize was won by ]. I
Whiteside of Franklin, Ind, Will
Illinois carried off the honors il
nearly other case.
If the 1904 crops were equal
divided every man, woman am
child in the United States would re
ceive one barrel OF -four, 200 egg:
$40 quarts of milk, more than ha
of which goes into butter; on