Warren sheaf., 1905-09-14

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6ilad fuller oe With bsoe0 fsod On
1t d. present t1mA.
Optimistic pred5edons 0 crop pro
tuctton shouh be d1seouaeed There
b nothing 70 bs gained b. hm. and
1t u probably true that de masksts
are to some extent unfavu9abiy Inn
pressed by them Crops are far more
frequently oveeest1mated than unde-
estimated
Good farming may be said TO be the
raising OF profitable crop from the
soil and the leaving Of the coll In
better condition for another crop than
It was before This Is a pretty high
mark to aim for, but men are doing
this very thing all the time, their farms
constantly growing richer and more
productive
Almost every man has had at some
time OF other rocbIe with horses be-
ing unreasonably afraid Of the cars.
There Il no way In which to 90 surely
and safely cure this defect In many
"a good horses reputation as to place
him where he, turned loose. Will be In
daily and hourly eonta6 with the
snordng engine and the moving cars
Two OF three days VIII entirely remove
his fear 0 them
We can conceive OF no more destr1-
bic rural conffuon OF living than to b
the owner 0 good farm Contiguous
to trolley road leading to the city
The owner Of such p2an u assured
an the advantages Of municipal life
with noos Of It's dfs~bochs. He II IN
touch With ths epod market and II Ger
tain 10 sooner q hAR have dsnanA
artee for acreage On Ids farm to pro
vide homss for o3 retdeatS who
have found out 0at 4 - entirely pos
s1hae to live With economy In The COON
try and still work IN de H.
Much hs been written o( hts pears
about the doom m he h0De and its
dtep3soemnt By me ounoo - of
bicycle and aueomook1e. We a1e not
yet IN nek H TIE hoEsdDs aSs BY 4
good deal In tact It b not ove,veatng
the caee TO say ttA4 0oe has never
been q better demand for the good
horse than now. and no modern inv0-
ton u at all nkeiy 10 all tn place
We know Of DO safR proposition for
the average farmer than to equip his
farm with two Or moee well bred
draft mares and. using thoroughbred
draft strea, raise colts tu1 as be would
steers and with much greater profit
Saddle and carriage horses may also
be most prodtabfy produced
In the building OF culvefts and bridges
and the digging Of bitches reference
must always be bad to the maximum
amount Of water which they may be
called upon to handle. It is the eI-
tsordinary and not the average rain
fall which wrecks these structures and
determines the water carrying capac-
iV of the ditch We recall the case
OF the man who undertook to drain
and reclaim q small lake bed he
carefully figured ont the average rain
fall and the area Of the watershed
tributary to the Lake and made out that
ditch Of certain size would easily
carry OF all the water He drained
the lake bed and had It all In crops,
when one day along IN June came q
cloud burst, a rainfall Of ten inches In
side OF six hours, which covered his
crops with sir feet OF water, his ditch
not being one-haH large enough to
when It did finally dispose Of the water
the crops were all ruined.
II young calves are stunted during
the first two months Of their lives they
never get over It. We noted q dozen In
mans pasture the other day-bony.
lousy, dwarfed little bgutes, which for
our use for any purpose whatever
would not have been worth Is cents
each We think they were creamery
separator calves which were having
about the same sort Of chance In life
that poor little Oliver Twist had at
the English orphan asylum The SIM
PIE rule to follow to raise . good calf
where the butter b wanted from the
cows - fun min for two weeks, taper
Ing OF on 10 skim milk during the ne1t
twu weeks and careful fofttfy1n2 OF
the skim milk With coRnmeaI b replace
the butter fat extracted; then all the
com and oats the CALI win eat with it's
milk ration As good calf can be
raised In this manner az though 1t were
allowed to run with It's mother, but It
is good deal more trouble and de
mands great care In feeding.
After q county has been settled dfty
years or more, its courthouse, school
houses and bridges bu0t It would
seem as though the yearly sats Of tax
alton would and should b Ieos. II
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