Warren sheaf., 1905-08-24

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or Jersey, could easily produce all the
sugar, tobacco and garden truck for
winter that this country could use.
The sheep men of Montana are hav-
ing the best year of their lives. Their
clip of wool for this season brings
them over $9,OOO,OOO, to say nothing
: about lambs and wethers, at 5 to Z
cents a pound.
Whenever man gets so that he
thinks that he knows something about
the weather he is sure to get the con-
; ceit taken out of him, especially If he
ventures guess on the weather two
weeks or a month ahead.
An experiment Of growing vegeta-
Fbles under the influence of continu-
Gus electric light showed that greatly
Increased ratio of growth was secured.
The twenty hours Of sunshine in the
far north wonderfully hasten the ma
turing of all vegetation.
A good many people are evidently
fooled with the notion that If national
aid can be secured for the construction
@of highways it in some way costs the
people nothing, forgetting that every
dollar spent by the general govern
ment has to come out Of the people in
some form of taxation. --,,.ss..z-
We have lady friend, an enthusiast
tic gardener and lover of flowers, who
If she can ever come across toad dur
ing her rambles in the country will al
ways bring it home with her and turn
it loose in her garden. She regards
the toad as an invaluable insect de-
stroyer, and she is right.
The typical thunderstorm Is usually
accompanied by more or less rain
fall. However, we recall three thun-
derstorms Of particularly vicious
electrical type, one Of them lasting for
five hours, when not drop of rain
fell, and we also remember one accom-
panied by very heavy fall of snow.
A farm automobile has been brought
out in Scotland. It is adaptable to
plowing, sowing, cultivating and reap
ing and when not thus in use can be
easily converted into stationary
power for all kinds of barn work. The
machine costs about 1900 and does
it's work at one-half the cost of horse
power.
Where living Is made with but
little effort and where clothing and
shelter are easily procured there will
man become naturally lazy and shift
less. The energy and push Of the
people Of northern ATTITUDES are mostly
owing to the fact that If they do not
hustle in summer they will starve and
freeze In the winter.
Apple trees in the central west do
not need planting so far apart as they
do in the east, for the reason that they
never grow as large or live as long in
the west as they do In the east. We
have seen the trunk Of an apple tree in
the east which would make good saw
log, and we know of one tree in the
west which is forty-flve years old
which Is not over nine inches through
at the butt.
With a limited farming area only
one-third the size of the state of New
York, Denmark exports agricultural
products of the value of $33 per capita
of her population, while the United
States exports but $11. Denmark ex-
ports as many eggs as the state of
New York produces, twenty times as
much butter, one-ffth as much pork
and as many horses. Measured by re
suits, the Scandinavians are the best
farmers in the world.
There has been a big effort made,
which fortunately has failed, to get the
people wild over the growing Of GIN
seng, in some such way as they went
crazy over the Belgian hare a few
years ago. Even now the papers pub
lish stories Of the marvellous profits
of ginseng culture, but it should not be
forgotten that If any such profits have
been made they have been made by
selling roots and seeds to enthusiasts
in this country and not by the selling
Of the roots to the Chinese, the only
people who have any use for this plant.
The most successful dairyman Of
the west is 81. d. Griswold Of La
crosse, Wis. He has farm Of only fifty
acres, keeps twenty eight Guernsey
cows and runs winter and summer
silo. The cows averaged 454 pounds Of
butter per head and brought him in
$86 per head. He bought less than
$500 worth Of outside food for these
cows, which his hogs, potatoes and
calves more than met, 50 that he prac-
tically kept these twenty eight COWS
the year round on 6fty acres Of land.
He has given the dairymen Of the
country remarkable Illustration Of
agriculture and up to date
dairying. &.