Warren sheaf., 1905-10-26

The best apples are quite apt to be
shy bearers and hence improbable
apples to raise If one il in the apple
business In commercial way he must
have trees which will bear the fruit.
This is the one redeeming feature Of
the Ben Davis.
The time is fast coming in this coun-
Try when either the Chinaman OF the
Jap will be cordially welcomed az a
domestic drudge. as the doer Of that
work in American homes which our
girls are too high toned or too ignorant
or too lazy to do.
II ablebodied men in this country md
themselves today out Of employment it
is because they are either in the wrong
place or do not want to work. We do
not recall time when the demand for
labor was more urgent or the wages
paid more satisfactory.
The west has just finished one Of the
most successful corn canning seasons
1t has ever known. The crop Of sweet
corn was very large and every factory
ran to its full capacity during the sea-
sou The farmers made good money
whether the packers will er not
Bronze grass and Quack grass are
very closely allied in the matter Of
taking complete possession Of the soil
and being extremely difficult to get rid
Of when once well established The
bronze grass should never be sown on
any field which il included in the reg
ular course Of rotation. Its place il in
the permanent pasture.
1t is worth repeating again that the
more blue grass pasture is tousled
around with a disk and drag in the
early spring the better the pasture will
be. Many such pastures well disked
and dragged in the spring can be made
worth twice as much as a pasture by
such treatment 1t is good idea to
scatter little medium clover seed
over it just before the last time over
with the drag
the press to the effect that western
pouItryman is feeding a large number
Of ducks and geese on buttermilk at a
creamery, with the result that the birds
are doing finely and that the butter
milk ration converts their naturally
dark colored flesh into meat Is white
as that of chicken. II this were true
it would be valuable suggestion for
our colored brethren who would like to
tighten up their complexions. Som,
men are great liars.
A poor man should take care, and
good care, Of his credit. 1t may not be
a big thing in dollars and cents, but i
is worth more proportionately to him
than it Is to his richer neighbor Buy
ing In small quantities, as the poor
man must necessarily, he should try to
pay cash, for when to the higher
prices, which he has to pay as small
retail purchaser, there is added the
extra charge he pays when buying on
credit he very often pays nearly two
prices for the necessaries Of life
We noticed several carloads of range
steers on their way to market the other
day They came from the far west,
and, what was rather remarkable, they
were aged steers, probably four to six
years old They were big, rawbOned
fellows, with great horns on them, just
like the old oxen we used to have, when
a yoke of them hauled an old iron plow
which would not scour for us when q
boy a good many years ago. This type
Of beef has almost entirely disappeared
from the markets, the three year-old
steer being about the extreme in point
Of age.
That ''other eighty" has quite often
proved poor investment for the west
ern farmer Possessed with an in
ordinate lust for land, no sooner is the
old farm paid for than it is again
mortgaged to buy that eighty. This
works badly in many ways. It is
QrOOaOlo lO3C Cue Oiu QOIueStetu luz
nishes all the acres which the owner
can prof1tably work. Then just so
long as mortgage hangs over the
farm just so long is kept up series
OF pinching economies to meet the In
terest and pay of the principal, which
not only tell on the productive power
sf the farm, but are all too often re
iected In all that pertains to living In
the farm home.
Farm land having selling value Of
500 per acre must be worked in
better way than land worth only $50
per acre IL 1t is to be made profitable.
Que trouble is that the land which gets
Nd to 800 IS, because Of bad methods,
not - productive as when It was worth
only $50. The high priced farm can
not be run as grain farm alone, just
raising and selling the grain from the
farm This kind ef farming may be
d0e for a few years when the country
and the sod are new, but not forty OF
nf9 years afte its occupation The