Warren sheaf., 1905-04-27

After the corndeld is al, ready to plant
it will almost always pay to give it an
other good dragging The thorough
preparation Of the seed bed is some
thing which always pays, and pays
we'll
What man does and what he fails
to do up to the 10th of May will very
largely determine whether his crops
shall be good or poor But few agri-
cultural mistakes can be rectifed after
that date.
We know Of man who paid $150
for a bull to put at the head Of his
herd who at the same time gets his
seed corn from the crib. # he was no
wiser on stock than he is on corn he
would save his $50 and use his neigh
boris scrub sire
One good woman whom we know al
ways celebrates her wedding anniyer-
sary on the 25th of September by going
out in the cornfeld and gathering a
supply Of seed corn for her husband
for the succeeding year. He always
has a good stand of corn, and the wife
never forgets about it.
Some one has figured out that in the
raising Of a forty acre field Of corn in
the old way prevalent forty years ago
man walked $50 miles to plow the
field, SO miles to harrow it, so miles
to cultivate it and $50 miles to husk it,
while now there need be no walking at
all, save what is necessary to gather
the bundles and shock them.
There Is always a controversy on
among corn growers as to which is the
better corn, the white or the yellow.
There is practically no difference at all
in the feeding value Of these varieties
The south wants the white corn, the
east the yellow corn to crafty whim.
1t pays better to worry over how to in
crease the yield Of corn rather than ar
que over the color.
1t is just the same old story every
spring folks with a garden they
have worked hard to plant and the nice
neighbor across the road with no gar
den and lot Of Old hens, the misera bic
neighbor Or a ruined garden. We have
got SO that we do not hesitate to have
the fuss, as all hands feel better after
it is over and we save our garden
Alfalfa is redeeming much Of the
braska With alfalfa have come the COW
and the hog. and these three things
form a tripod upon which to rear a
very profitable agriculture. Corn is a
good thing, but corn without alfalfa is
not as safe proposition as alfalfa
without corn. Where both can be
grown on the same farm there is the
best combination in America.
One fact worth studying by Ameri-
can farmers is that the Danish farmers
are able to buy our corn, bran and oil
meal, ship it 5000 miles and feed Dan
ish cows and then control the English
butter market at a price from 3 to
cents above the best prices American
butter will bring. If you are in the
dairy business and happen to run
across a Dane, talk with him, for he
knows lot more about dairying than
you do.
We regard the butcher bird or shrike
as a-good deal Of bushwhacker and
brigand among our birds. While he
catches some mice and graSShopperS he
also likes the callow young in the nests
Of other birds and will not infrequent-
ly attack and kill the old birds. IT one
will note the thorn bushes and barbed
wire fences in the vicinity of the nests
Of the butcher bird he will find plenty
of evidence on the barbs and thorns of
the fact that this bird rightfully en-
joys a bad reputation
In the coming years that land which
will produce large crops Of corn is
going to be the highest priced land in
the United States The corn area Of the
country is limited at best, being con-
fined to a few Of the north central
states, and, with the exception Of the
there is no foreign country
which can ever develop corn growing
section I'm connection with this fact is
the constantly growing demand for
corn, not only for domestic consump-
ton, but an ever increasing foreign de
mand for it. as food supply for the
rye eaters Of Europe.
The sweet corn canneries Of the
west are quite generally going into the
business of raising their own corn,
finding it impossible to get the farm
ers tributary to the cannery to raise
sufficient for them. In some cases the