Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-03

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yield will be proportionate to the
amount Of labor bestowed, other
| things being equal.
| a man or woman working in a
dairy should have good eyes and a
| good smeller When a can becomes a
| little rusty it should be discarded at
once. He or she should be able to
| detect every odor that will faint the
milk or injure the flavor of the butter.
That colt which persists in getting
| it's foot over the halter rope or strap
| should have the rope passed through
| hole in the manger on the end of
! which may be hung a weight that will
at all times take up the slack. keep
| ing 1t taut. When he lies down it will
| give him plenty of rope.
1t IS an astonishing fact. says the
| Agricultural Epitomist that more
| than 100000 dozen Of eggs are inn
| ported into the United States annual
ly, about 10000 dozen of which come
from China and Japan, while 100000
| dozen come from Canada. The Ameri-
| can hen is all right, but something is
wrong with the American farmer.
We have beginners and cutters,
| starters and losers, and then we have
| stayers One of the best things in
| this world is to know when to begin
| and when to quit; when to start in
IN
up If we stay by a thing that is
losing money the longer we stay the
worse.
Government statistics show that
1904 exports of bread stuffs will be
| less than one-half the value of those
| exported in the calendar year 1908.
| The first eleven months of 1904 the
| exports were but $S2 100000, against
$176,OOO,OO0 for last year. The de-
| crease is largely due to the wheat crop
OF 1904 and the corn crop of 1908.
A banker riding through the coun-
| try recently saw the implements of
q certain farmer out exposed to the
elements Now this man was a bor-
rover at his bank, and when he came
in to renew his paper, the banker
would not renew, stating that he
thought he was a dangerous man to
loan money to. This is an object les
son.
How does rain spoil hay? Let us
see. Take a wisp Of hay and steep
it in some hot water in pail. A
brown color will come to the water
which is known as hay tea" If left
long enough the solution will contain
all the nutritive substances of the hay.
Cold water will do the same thing,
requiring some more time. Hay that
has been permitted to become over
ripe loses it's nutritive properties to
the perfected seed.
The wheat crop of Russia is now
given out by official authorities as
follows: Spring wheat 457,024,000
bu: winter wheat, 206, 16S,51S bu. In
1903 the figures were: Spring wheat,
421. OS3,2S3; winter wheat 200,374,-
$40 bu. Rye, which is the principal
food grain of the lower classes of Rus
sia, produced crop of zoos, S6O,45S
bu. as compared with 1914, $50 blu.
in 1908 1t will be seen from these
figures that Russia will have consid-
erably more grain to export from this
crop than she had from that of 1903,
and this is one great factor in keep
ing down the prices of wheat in east
ern Europe and Great Britain.
The State statistician of Indiana. ia
his report on farming statistics for
the year 1904, says that lit is con-
sidered by those interested that wheat
can no longer be raised in Indiana at
a profit In 1904 the average yield was
a small fraction more than ten bush
els to the acre. Deducting one and
one-half bushels for seed, the net
crop was but eight and one-half
bushels to the acre, to pay for sow
ing, harvesting, threshing, marketing,
to say nothing of the interest on the
value of the land. 1t may be expect
ed that under these circumstances the
wheat acreage will decrease from year
to year" The report states that al
though the wheat acreage had been
reduced from 1908, yet the reduction
in the crop had been greater in pro-
portion, the crop falling off from 81
713.357 b6shels in 1908 to 1887, $40
bushels in 1904, and the yield per acre
decreasing from II bushels to a frac-
ton above ten.
According to the Los Angeles Times,
the government experiment of growing
date palms at the Arizona experiment
station has been so successful that
about ave acres OF plants Will be add