The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-02-23

Soil fertility, like money, should be
kept at home. Raising grain and sell
ing it off the farm is just like patroniz-
ing the city department stores both
fertility and money leave the commune
ty for good.
The state of Minnesota owns vast
tracts of worthless swamp land in the
northern part Of the state and is very
sensibly appropriating large sums Of
money for the purpose Of draining and
retaining these lands
Some wise man notes that high priced
corn and healthy hogs almost always
go together, the inference being that il
the hogs were fed less corn they would
not be SO subject to disease. There
may be something in this.
We do not think that the average
farmer needs to know how to make
more money so much as he does to
more profitable way-make fewer acres
do the work Of the many now run over.
We are getting a class of people in
dollhouse tomatoes and green stuff in
January, frogs legs, fresh eggs in win
ter, and such stuff, and, while it pays
to feed them, they don't, as rule
amount to very much.
A pair of sparrows we saw nest
building in December found themselves
when the blizzard struck them a few
days later like pair of young fools
who got married on 1915 and inside Of
a week found no fuel, -four or meat il
the house and no money to get any
with.
Lucky is the man who is so situated
that he can look upon his big corn
crop as simply SO much raw material
to be, every bushel Of 1t, converted in
to some form of finished meat or dairy
product The man who sells the corn
will get 35 cents bushel, and the man
who feeds it will get 80 or go cents
In planting a grove of native timber
it is well to remember that some vari-
cites of trees may be planted much
closer together than others. The soft
maple will bear thick planting, as will
the larch, catalpa and many of the
conifers. The cottonwoods, on the con-
trary, will not stand thick planting, but
will nearly all die by the time they are
twenty years old.
We know Of farm whose productive
power has been fully doubled inside OF
fifteen years by keeping on it as much
stock as it would carry and consum
ing all the products Of the farm upon
the farm. The same thing may be done
matters little whether it is stocked
with sheep, dairy of cows or devoted
to the production Of beef. 1t cannot be
done SO well with hogs, as the hog is a
very poor distributor Of fertility.
We are told by a prominent cattle
man from the range that no attempt is
ever made to furnish the stock of that
country with a supply Of salt. This
seems quite strange in view Of the
trouble 0AieA is taken to furnish cat
tie a supply of salt in all other sections
of the cou. E. It is barely possible
that the all1aIi nature Of the soil in that
country furnishes through the water
and the growing vegetation sufficient
supply of salt to meet the needs Of the
animal.
A friend who had planted bed Of
in what had been for
years a feed yard for cattle and hogs
complains that he does not get any
fruit. The trouble is not because he
failed to plant the staminate and pis-
tilate varieties SO as to secure perfect
fertilization, but probably because the.
1OAA
ence that it is entirely possible to get
land too rich for Strawberries. A soil
which is fertile enough to produce six
ty bushels of corn to the acre is plenty
rich enough for the strawberry.
Many men have a hobby In the mat
ter Of the color Of their corn, some
claiming that white corn is the best
and some yellow, while not a few will
swear by their calico corn. The fact is
there is practically no difference at all
in the feeding value Of the different
colored corn, assuming that it is alike
matured. There is, however, a very
marked difference in the types Of corn
Of any given color in the matter of pro
ductiVeness, and this thing is well
worth studying. The biggest ear Is
not BY any means the best ear: