The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-16
INCREASING THE FARM rzcaME

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writes us that his average gross in
come from his farm, taking series of
| years, is about So per acre and wants
to know if there is any way practical
] and available for him to increase this
really very small income. He has for
| many years been what Is called rails
er of grain and hay to sell, keeping but
little stock. AS a result he has greatly
impaired the fertility Of his soil. and
4 thirty bushels Of oats and corn to the
| acre and a ton of hay to the acre are
about all he gets even with fairly good
seasons. There are so many men In
this fix all over the country that it
justi6es a somewhat extended COM
ment by us. The system referred to is
| all wrong. 1t goes from bad to worse
each year it is continued. There must
| be radical change. In this case,
| which may be taken as type, there
| should be from twenty-five to thirty
acres of clover soWn this spring: there
should be hog pasture fenced off and
at least fifty hogs kept; a dairy Of six
teen cows should be set to work on the
farm, and coming right with these
4 cows will be the calves and the pigs:
/ half the acreage of corn should be
| planted and twice as well cared for
as ever before; every mouthful Of hay
and every kernel Of grain produced on
i the farm should be fed to some animal
right on the farm; system Of crop
rotation should be adopted which will
include clover every fourth or fifth
year. While it will take three or four
years to get these reforms all brought
| about, we will guarantee the result to
be that in the end the yield of crops
will be nearly doubled and the income
correspondingly increased. Thousands
| Of men have done this, and other thou
sands are now engaged in this reform
J work, and we have never known the plan
to fail. But some may say they do not
like to take care Of dairy-too much
bother. Well, then, try sheep or raising
beef animals, and if neither Of these
variations Of the plan appeals to you
| the best thing you can do is to sell the
farm and go to town and run for super
visor
THE RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE.
In the present controversy being
waged between the people and the
! railroads over the matter of transDor-
tation it is not so much a matter of
rates as it is discriminating charges
the favoring of certain towns and inter
ests and the consequent discrimination
against other communities and individ-
uals. While the railroads are and
should be protected in an unquestion-
ed title to their respective properties,
there is this difference between them
and purely private business in that
the public, having bequeathed them
the most valuable franchises in the
whole country and with such fran
ch1ses bestowed extraordinary powers
i and privileges to promote and secure
great public utility and necessity,
has thereby acquired an inalienable
and important interest in such roads,
which gives it every right to demand
absolute fairness and impartiality in
their management. This right the peo-
pie have been rather backward and
slow to assert and possibly never
would were there no just causes for
complaint. AS it is, the people are
waking up, and such peaceable and
equitable adjustment will be secured
without doubt as will insure entire i'm
Partially in the administration Of the
roads. Their power is SO omnipotent
and SO far reaching in the making or
the marring of the business success of
communities and individuals that moth
ing short of absolute equity for all will
ever satisfy the American people.