The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-03-09

1ue Breatiy LhBulueu unu ulBhiy coi-
ored seed catalogues are now in the
hands of prospective gardeners. Nearly
every seed firm exploits some speciality,
some new thing. 1t is usually best to
let these things alope, for only rarely is
anything offered which is Of any spe-
cial merit.
A man in Iowa raised a fine crop Of
wheat last year worth dollar bushel
when thrashed. He thought it would
pay to hold the crop for higher prices
and carelessly stored his wheat in bin
when 1t was little damp, with the re-
suit that he has lately been glad to
take chicken feed prices for it.
The great trouble with the beef busi-
ness today is that 1t is hard to find a
market for the lower half Of the beef
carcass. The American people are a
sirloin and porterhouse crowd and will
have none of the lower priced and
equally nutritious cuts from the lower
half of the animal. II women were
more skilled In the art of cooking
meats and knew how to prepare and
serve these lower priced cuts of meat
in balatable form, much of the trou-
BILE referred to would be done away
with.
There is one farm animal at least
which bids fair to hold his own In the
matter of price and profit, and that is
the well bred draft horse. No matter
to how great an extent the automobile
may be utilized for heavy hauling, the
machine can never displace the horse,
for 1t s/only under certain fixed condi-
tions that the machine Is available,
while the horse is adaptable to any and
all conditions. There is today no easier
way to make $3.50 on the average farm
than to have a pair of well bred three
year-old draft colts to sell each year.
They cost but little If any more to
raise than a steer and will be grown
on very much more Of the r0ughness Of
the farm than the steer.
A more general utilization of the
wind as motive power on the farms
of all the prairie region would seem to
| be possibility in the near future. Up
to date two or three horsepower
| seems to be about the limit, the mill to
do the pumping and the grinding, while
every farm homestead has a hundred
horsepower going to waste on the half
acre inclosing the farm buildings. Sure
ly, If men can impound the big rivers,
reclaim the deserts, build oceanic en-
mails and tunnel the mountains with
railway bores. some way can be discov-
cred whereby the wasted power Of the
| winds can be captured and harnessed
for practical work. An unlimited source
of both light and heat, as well as Of mo-
tive power, Is Gagged in the fugitive and
f1tful winds which, with but slight In
termission, forever sweep the vast prai-
rie plains Of the west. There is q great
field open here for inventive genius.
The Bible Ia the greatest agricultural
and horticultural year book ever pub
lished. From Genesis to Revelation,
interviewer with all its wealth of his
tory, prophecy and revelation, with all
its wisdom, poetry, logic and morals,
we find farm, field, wayside, orchard
and garden ever present as historical
fact or forceful metaphor. We are first
introduced to the perfect man In the
perfect garden and then to the keepers
of the hocks and the herds, the ram
caught In the bushes, the evening meal
at Abraham's tent. then the long code
governing the agricultural and pastoral
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the spies, Araunah's thrashing hoor
the delightful romance of Boaz and
Ruth in the wheatfields, the grain deal
in Egypt by the sons of Jacob and the
first recorded successful corner In the
grain market, then the withholding and
bringing of the rain by the old proph-
ets, followed by all the exquisite Inn
agery of the Master as Ne sought to
i impress a moral lesson touching the
flowers Of the field, the barren fig tree,
the sower in the field, the wheat and
| the tares, the man who would tear
down his barns and build greater ones,
| the termination of seeds, Gethsemane
with Its olive trees, the sheep and the
goats, the lamb the worlds emblem of
| innocence and purity, the ears Of corn
picked on the Sabbath, winding up with
the apocalyptic vision on Patmos, where
the faraway country and the beautiful
city were graced by tree which bore
twelve manner of fruits. All of its
history, morals and ethics are closely
allied ana Incorporated with the earth
and Its products.
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