The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-06-15

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America furnishes England with It's
best apples, better in quality and high.
or I'm price than those from Canada.
The cement road culvcrt Is coming
into general use. 1t Is better than
snme.
A Rambo apple tree in Indiana last
year produced forty-fivc barrels of
fruit. -Four such trees to the acre
would return pretty good income.
Grass in the orchard Is n bad thing
In two ways-it robs the trees Of need
ed moisture during dry time and be.
comes constant temptation to turn
stock in the orchard to cat 1t.
or course II is important to have three
good stalks Of corn In each hill. hut II
duce one ear to the hill there will be
two barren stalks, which are Just as
injurious as weeds.
Public spirit has given the American
people an unrlvaled public school sys'
TEN and compels credltable care and
regard for the cemeteries. If once de-
veloped In that line 1t will do the same
good work for the public highways.
We saw over $500 going to waste
around farmers homestead the other
day, good cash lying around wasting
1t was 300 loads Of good barnyard
manure, every load OF which would
bring him In dollar If he would only
get 1t on his worn and starved acres.
If you will plow mp ten acres Of that
old timothy meadow and plant 1t to
corn and build n silo and put the corn
in next September, you will say some
spring It was the smnrtcst piece Of
farm work you ever did. In fact, you
can nC"cr realize how much 1t means
until you try It,
One single discovery made by the
experts of the agricultural department
Mt Washington now in general use con
nectcd with the making of turpcntlnc
Is worth in the saving effected annual.
ly In this business an amount equal Ia
the cost OF maintaining the forestry
department Of the government for n
period OF six years.
If you have to buy seed corn this
spring get It near home. Accllmated
corn will always yield more than i'm
ported corn. Anyway, get no seed from
latitude south Of you, and never buy
1t shelled Pay more and get 1t In the
ear. When one buys seed corn shelled
he has placed altogether too much
temptation In the way Of the seller.
If 1t Is n mans duty to work hard to
provide the food for his family 1t Is
equally the wife's duty to study how
to prepare and serve such food In the
best possible manner. If nine women
out OF ten would devote the time and
money now spent on music In learning
how to be expert cooks, the world would
be happier and there would be fewer dl.
vorces and smaller doctors bills.
Some efforts are being made In the
west to try to utilize the large deposits
of peat as n fuel. The process being
tried Is the pressing Of the peat into
brlquettes and then drying them.
There Is an lnexhaustlble supply OF
peat In northern Iowa and Minnesota,
and 1t would seem rs though in this
day of economies some method would
DO found whereby 1t could be satlsfac.
torily used.
When you meet young fellow fresh
shaved, wearing red tie, his horses
decorated with good many strings, n
high colored lap robe over his knees
and cigar In his mouth. 1t Is safe to
bet he is on the way to get his best girl
anu navy a buSSS llNlNi anu IL 10 ulSD
safe TO bet that his team will be going
much slower when he Is on the way
home than they were when you saw
him, We haze all been there, and 1t is
all right
The country department store is rap,
idly coming to the front as a solution
Of the problem of the loss of country
trade through the city catalogue
houses The owner Of such store told
us recently 1t was the only solution OF
the matter, such business to be sup
| plemented with persistent and liberia
advertising. The city store has got the
farmers patronage by getting close tC
him. The country merchant must gel
1t back by the same method.
The efforts made by the English t.
grow cotton on the east coast of Afrl
ca have proved a failure. The soil Il
good enough the rainfall and tempera
ture favora o, but an insurmountabl'
obstacle Is encountered In the deter
ntnatIon Of the native population no
toswork II Il " can help 1t, and so 1t Il
impossible to get labor to care for tn