Middletown transcript., 1905-02-11
PRICE THREE CENTS
FARM AND DAIRY

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1t won't do to keep animals that don,
pay their board.
The richest part of manure is the par
which rain will wash out
Twelve Angora goats can be kept upon
the food e. nmed by one COW.
The best breed of hogs is the ones thai
will weigh 200 pounds the quickest.
Cubans are huying cattle in Venezuells
at the rate of 100, 900 head year.
The underbush on a farm is "done
for" when flock of Angoras is turned
into it.
Forests cover nearly one-fourth of the
surface of Germany-about $4,000 square
miles.
Chinese farmers are beginning TO de-
mand modern tools, especially such as are
useful for intensive farming.
The boards of trade acknowledge that
it is harder this year for them to manage
products than ever before in history.
Isn't 1t queer how abundant everything
is when the farmers own it. and now
scarce it gets as soon as the farmers have
sold out /?
In Webster County, Mo-, there is an
apple orchard of $4,000 trees. This is
probably the largest orchard of the kind
in the world.
A Kansas farmer, being asked what he
did to get rid of the weeds on his farm,
said that he sold most of them as mutton
at three and one.half to four cents a
pound.
Why not make every station worker or
agricultural scientist show the test of sue
cess before he is given position at public
pay? Make him prove that he has run
farm or garden at fair profit.
The children of the future will wonder
how the farmers made living without
being allowed to put a value on their
products, just as We now wonder how
they make living with the reap hook
and the fail
And now the farmer is having an elec-
trio bell placed in connection with his
rural mail box where the box is located
some distance from the house, the mail
carrier ringing the bell when he delivers
the mail. What next?
The area of the United States, exclusive
of Alaska and insular possessions. is g.
100000 square miles. Census returns
give 650.0O0 square miles of this as Sim
proved.farnl" land. An interesting illus
tration lies in assuming a segregation of
the principal farm products within
specific areas of familiar boundary.
The feeding of 100000 900 people will
be the biggest problem in this country
inside OF twenty-five years. A standard
living has. been developed under Ameri-
can conditions which demands much to
eat and very great variety. The teem-
ing millions of the old world are contentl
to live on the plainest and coarsest O
food.
The man who will discover an ever
lasting roofing compound will reap for
tune. Progress has been made along this
line, but there is room for improvement.
The best of shingles begin to decay when
exposed to the elements for fifteen years,
while other material shows signs of fail
ure in less time. A ieaky roof is a con.
stant annoyance and patching a short
lived makeshift.
According to an article in the Book
lovers Magazine, there is no farmer in
the world like the japanese farmer.
Progressive experts now admit that there
is nothing in all the annals of agriculture
that ever approached the scientific skill
of Japanese hnsbandry. If all the till
able acres of Japan were merged into one
field, man in an automobile, travelling
at the. rate Of fifty miles an hour, could
circle arabic Japan in eleven hours.
A bulletin issued by the United States
deDartment of agriculture gives the aver
age yield of corn per acre in the United |
States for 1904 as 267 bushels compared |
with 25.5 bushels last year. The average
for the past ten years was 24.2 bushels.
The average yield of the potato crop per
acre was 1904 bushels in 1904 and S4.7
bushels in 1908. The average for the |
past ten years was 81 bushels. The aver
age yield of hay was 1.52 tons in 1904, |
l .54 tons in 1908 and the ten year average
was l.35 tons.
A curious fact in regard to the drug
trade is that we are to-day importing in
quantities ordinary medical
plants which may be found growing wild |
in America on farms and are destroyed |
by farmers who condemn them as nui-
'ances and eye-sores, that destroy the
beauty of a well-kept farm. Among
his class of despised drug plants are the
,ommon may weel, dandelion, burdock,
,ouch grass and curlydock, and these
night all be source of income with
mall effort to members of farmers fam
ly.
Pawnee Bill, the Snowman, has a buf-
alo ranch south of Pawnee, Oklahoma,
md has at the present time bunch of
at young buffalo, which he will kill and
hip TO the East at any time He
xpects to realize close to $50, 200 from
lis sales this season, as the average price
will be $l.25 per pound. The hides will
ring him $75 to $3.50, according to size.
lis ranch lies in the heart OF the buffalo
ange of the 70s, where the growth of
he buffalo grass is the heaviest. He
proposes to try the experiment of cross
ng the buffalo with Galloway cattle.
successful he expectsto have an animal
1 a much more kindly disposition than