Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1905-05-18

A five foot vein OF soft coal under
mans farm will net him about $$44OO per
acre on the usual royalty basis.
Just one-half day spent in clearing
up around many farm homestead
would improve it's appearance 500 per
cent.
Spring frosts seldom do much dam
age to fruit buds unless they are Open
When once open they are very suscep-
rble to frost injury
Line nrst principle in the roadmaking
Is to get rid Of the surface water. then
grade and keep the surface of the road
smooth. This done, it will soon become
hard and stay hard
we are asked why mule raising is
confined to the south central states.
The reason is that the jacks are Of
tropical ancestry and habit and cannot
endure the cold of the north.
!, The culture Of the silkworm is being
promoted by the department of agricul-,
ture. One Of the very worst fakes
which ever hit the nation was a null
berry fad which struck it about 100
years ago.
Weeds are easiest killed before they
are born-at least before they see day
light. This fact emphasizes the value
OF the harrow as weed destroyer and
its continued use to as great an ex-
tent as possible.
The seventy-five dollar COW is every
way more profitable investment than
the thirty dollar one, for tie first will
return large profit over and above the
, cost Of her keep, while the last only
works for her board and is quite often
: shy on that.
It is going to take some time for the
farmer and the automobile to get on
: friendly terms. He has finally adjust
. ed himself to the bike and will in time
to the devil wagon. The existing fric-
ton is largely intensified by the reck-
less foolishness OF chauffeurs
April 10 marked the beginning of
good part Of the year-the date when
the fine strawberries from the south
country hit the northern market at 20
cents a box. Three months in sight for
this best Of all fruits, better than ever
when one can gather them from his
own garden.
The spring wheat territory Of Amer
lea is fast passing from the United
States into western Canada. Spring
wheat is rare crop now In Iowa,
where once it was the leading one.
Minnesota is also letting go of this
crop. Spring wheat seems to go with
new land and pioneer conditions.
There is much difference in the quail
ity Of corn SO far as it's market price is
concerned. Scrub corn-that Is, mixed
colors-always sells for less than corn
Of uniform type and color. The south
prefers the white corn, the east the yell
low corn. It pays just as we'll to grow
pedigreed corn as it does to raise pedi-
greed stock.
Cucumbers, melons, squashes and to-
matoes may be greatly helped by max
ing a box nine inches in height, just
large enough to take a 10 by II light Of
window glass for a top and with no
bottom. The plants referred to can be
thus grown safe from frost and bugs
and made to get two weeks start Of
such things planted in the usual man
ner
The value of any farm is enhanced
} by having a we'll kept public highway
. passing by it, and still there are few
men who rather than do any gratuftous
! work on such a road for fear their
neighbor may profit by it will let such
highway become disgrace to them
and to their community. A we'll at
tended public funeral seems the best
remedy for this trouble
: A COW has been made to give enough
milk to make 600 pounds Of butter
In year, and hen has been made to
lay go eggs in one year. These rec
ords mark the limits OF pCoductiveness.
Under natural conditions the wwould
give just enough milk to raise her calf,
while the hen would lay but one set
) ting Of eggs. The difference marks
what man has been able to do with
!, the COW and the hen.
J The secret of securing the large yield
, Of fifty-five bushels Of corn to the acre
on 1900 acre cornfeld in Iowa last
. year is found largely in the fact that
a perfect stand Of corn was secured,
and this stand was secured by the most
! thorough and careful work in the mat
J ter Of testing the seed corn and the
proper adjustment Of the plates in the