The Harrison times., 1905-01-14
PRACTICAL FARM NOTES.

The Belgians are the greatest po-
tato-caters in the world, and the r.
ish come next.
Trees transpianted at night are
more likely to live than those trans
planted in daytime
1t requires about one-half as much
grain to produce 100 pounds of gain
on calves as on two-year-olds. The
work of the Missouri Agricultural
College has definitely demonstrated
that the most profitable age to fat
ten cattle is while they are still very
young.
1t seems strange to us to-day to re-
call the time, but a few years ago,
when corn in some of the western
states was competitor of coal as a
fuel. If corn is only worth ten cents
a bushel and coal is So per ton it is
economy to burn the corn, and many
did 1t in those years
And now the progressive farmers
of some sections are fitting up their
rural mail boxes with electric bells
and wire conveyors where the box is
located some distance from their
houses. The mail carrier rings the
bell when he delivers the mail, and it
is pulled up to the house on the wire.
The only real JOY after all, in this
world, is that found in adding to the
sum total of the worlds happiness,
in making conditions better, in light
ening the burdens and adding to the
happiness of others. Strange, isn't
it, that so many people fail to COM
prehend this fundamental fact in hui
man experience?
More than a million Christmas
trees have been taken from the sides
of the Green Mountains iii Vermont
to supply in part the demands this
year, of New York and Boston alone.
This destruction has been carried on
for years, and now Vermont is sta
ted to be practically destitute of
young spruce trees.
The area of the United States, ex-
elusive of Alaska and insuIar posses
sions, is 100000 square miles.
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miles of this rs improved farm"
land. An interesting illustration lies
in assuming a segregation of the
principal farm products within speci-
fc areas of familiar boundary.
A noble industrial enterprise has
had its inception in La Porte, Ind,
by the organization of the Easy
Wagon Company, which will be in
corPorated with $15O,OOO capitali-
cation. 1t is proposed to sell stock
to the farmers Of the middle west,
limiting the amount that can be pur-
chased to $500 1t is proposed to
establish a factory that will sell
wagons to farmers at much lower
prices than now prevail.
Why do not those southern far
mers and merchants who have en-
tered into an agreement to burn D.
OOO,O 900 bales of cotton rather than
see prices slump because of surplus
bestir themselves and find a new
market for their goods? fhalf the
energy spent in grumbling and plan
ming to burn were spent in devising
new outlets for consumption, prices
would take care of themselves with.
out burning raw material
According to an article in Book,
lovers Ma. azine, there is no farmer
in the world ike the Japanese farm
er. Progressive experts now admit
that there is nothing in all the an
nails of agriculture thst ever ap
preached the scientific skill of Japan
ese husbandry. If all the tillabl,
acres of Japan were merged into on
field, a man in an automobile, trav
cling at the rae of fifty miles ar
hour, could circle arabic Japan il
eleven hours.
eve have come to the parting o.
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