Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-10-28
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Little Paragraphs That will Interest Every
Member of the Household

member OF Inc HOUSEHOLD
Hog cholera has become epidemic in
some sections in Illinois.
Ever notice that farmer carries big.
ger pocket book than anybody else.
The state of Ohio is going to investigate
the harvester trust. Let the good work
go on.
The seedess and coreles4 apple is a
fake, yet daily papers are still Quilted by
the imposture.
Horse flesh is considered delicacy in
Germany. In the city OF Berlin there
are alone 250 slaughter houses for horses.
The United States Is fortunate in the
fact that her farms annually yield largely
in excess of what eighty million people
can consume.
The beet sugar bounty paid by the
state of Michigan caused the building II
more factories than the lucal beet grow ers
could supply.
A machine for milking cows by cleo
tricity has been invented. 1t is reported
to work fairly well-when the COW can be
induced to stand still.
81 don't own as many acres a. some u
my neighbors, but I've made 'em better
acres" was said by farmer with bank
account, made from his acres.
When the farmers yet their rural mail
boxes numbered they may look for floods
of circulars from mail order houses and
all sorts OF cheap advertising fakes.
A farmer in the state of Oregon has
thirty-five acres planted in peas. lie
will harvest 600 sacks of choice seed
which he will sell to seed company for
81 80 per sack.
Western Canada expects to make her
record crop this year, in quality and
quality. 1t is estimated that the total
will reach 100000 bushels Of wheat,
and 100000, 900 bushels OF oats.
Farmers are getting $50, 900, 900 more
than last year for their wheat crops, 500,
100000 more for their corn crops, and
many millions more for their hay, oats,
barley, rye and other crops.
Hens not only pay their way on the
farm but here is story on their paying
their way to market. "a man in Iowa
shipped carload of hens to New York
and laid enough eggs Ell route to pay the
freight.
Easterner and westerner together an
nually buy 500, 900, 900 worth Of nrachin-
cry and own as the total value OF farming
$76l, 261 900, an average as
of $l33 per farm and 80 cents per acre of
agricultural land.
Farm hands are reported as being very
scarce. The general prosperity prevail
ing in this country through the grtater
part Of the past several years las placed
every body on the list of those who work
only when they want to, and as a result
it's a hard matter to find man Mho
wants to work.
Since 1870 the population lie United
States has about doubled, but our farms
have more than doubled their ,ieId la
1870 we raised 2S7 100000 bushels OF
wheat, but this year over 7O0,UOO, 600.
In 1870 We produced $50, 0O0, 900 bushels
and this year over 2, 100, 900, 900, or three
times as much.
The average yield OF corn in the
United States is twenty-five bushels and
the average value per acre is So, from
which the cost Of producing the crop
must be deducted before it can yield IL
profit. There is not cent of profit in
average. crops of any kind. Average
crops do not pay and average farmers
don't pay. Our bsst farmers are not
content with an average crop they want
the best The fault of an average crop
often lies in the cultivation; sometimes it
is in the land and again it is in the SEA-
son, but it more often lies in the farmer,
himself
In spite Of the enormous tealings Of
the public lands in Washington, Mon
tana, Oregon and other parts Of the
Northwest, Uncle Sam il appears still la.
Gland enough To give every one farm. :"
In table complied 10y Commissioner
Richards, OF the General Land Office, it
is shown that there are l26, l6I ,257 acres
of vacant lands in the WASH
ing!on, Oregon, Idaho and Montana
S2l ,S72,37 acres of unappropriated and
unreserved lands il: the country at large
Montana has Sc, 455, l35 acres OF sucii I'M
appropriated lands, OF which Is, 4a9, ops
acres have been surveyed. Idaho has the
next largest area Of unappropriated and
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