Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1905-07-13


difficulty seems to US would be to
take the average of the vote for the
whole state ticket and forpresident.
Roosevelt gained about as many as
Dunn lost, and the average would
come as close as it is possible to get
to being the actual Republican
strength.
THE PRESIDENT found a worthy
successor to secretary Hay in Mr..
Roat. Evidently the presiden has
faith in McKinley''s judgment in
picking men of ability, yet it must
not be inferred that even Mckinley
found all the great men Of the coun-
try.
The value Of manure depends very
largely upon what the stock is fed.
heterogeneous foods make far better fer
tilizer than do carbonaceous ones.
The only real leisure class which we
have in the United States are tramps.
In the old world countries they are
given title, called gentlemen, and the
common people are taxed to support
them.
The polled or the dehorned bull Is
just as likely to have fit as the buii
with horns, but the advantage lies In
the fact that the remains are more cas-
lily put in shape for the funeral by the
undertaken.
Glover is a fine subsoiler, for its roots
penetrate deeply and, rotting at the
end of two years, leave the compact
subso4l finely perforated. Glover is
the cheapest subsoiler and soil fertillz-
er the farmer can get.
Winter wheat might be grown much
farther north than the present limit if
corn was planted five feet apart and
the wheat sown among it in the fall,
allowing the stalks to remain standing
during the winter to catch the snow.
The earlier and more frequently corn
is cultivated the easier will be the lat
er civilizations and the cleaner the
field. 1t is always a mistake to put
off the first cultivation until the weeds
get we'll started. The field never gets
over it.
We do not care If the fence will turn
stock. If it is a crooked fence we would
tear it down and set it straight, for no
one thing is more indicative of good
business methods on the farm than that
Of fences, buildings, plow burrows and
orchard trees set on the square,
A prominent farmer told us recently
that the advent Of the automobile on
the country highways is driving the
farmers trade to the catalogue houses
for the reason that it is safer for him
to order his goods by mail than to
trust his wife or boy with horse and
buggy to go the local store for goods.
There may be something in this.
When a man finds himself with a
wet farm upon which the crop will fail
two years out Of five he had better
sell half Of his land and properly tile
drain the balance, if he cannot do it
otherwise, for eighty acres Of we'll
drained bottom land will produce more
than 160 acres undrained, and at far
less cost and vastly more comfort.
The high wages demanded by farm
help and the increasing value Of land
are compelling more and more the sub
stitution Of machinery for hand labor
on the farm, and the use of machinery
tends to increase rather than diminish
the average size Of the farms, and this
in turn tends to reduce the popula-
ton Of the rural districts and close up
the country schools.
Nowhere else save in the far east
could great war like that which the
Japs and Russians are waging take
place without materially affecting the
price of cereal crops of all nations. AS
it is, the Russians eat rye bread which
they produce themselves, while the
Japs live on rice and fish, and so the
values Of wheat and corn are in no
perceptible manner affected.
Coyotes are constantly increasing in
numbers over all the range country,
and the prairie wolf, first cousin to
the coyote, is more numerous than ever
in the thickly settled portions Of Iowa
and Minnesota The great abundance
Of food, particularly poultry and
lambs, accounts for this increase. Some
Iowa counties have paid bounties on
as many as fifty wolves this spring.
Quit paying rent. Build house
Of your own and get the lumber