Warren sheaf., 1905-10-19

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meats, the produet Of corn, and thus six
dollar hogs will not bs 20 common as
for tie pest tive years.
Come New Years, II 4 farmer had a
hundred good, fat capons or turkeys
to cell they would bring him as much
MONEY ~ the best horse on his farm
and to be easily raised entirely out
side Of his other farm work.
the best Of any Of our native forest
trees when subjected to the unfavora-
bic conditions Of the average city.
Whore the elms make but scant and
unhealthy growth the bur oaks retain
all their native vigor and thrift.
A wood lot containing a number Of
red or slippery elm trees was fenced
in for hog pasture, and about the
first thing those hogs did was to peel
those red elm trees up just as high as
they could reaeh standing on their
hind lsgs. TIE trees al were dead
nsxt apFtAG.
The sssa 0sp b large saoush this
year - that thsss wiA bs many men
VIE WIN bsGvs n pt3ss o. the
ground e s1ss ss1b ~ without any
eevx, bsh sf wAioA nsthsds are
was4sf1 n ~ Wt1sn1s. II it pays to
saiss sera t pAys 10 taAs ssre Of 1t
whsa hARvsstsA.
We wsss shown SAMPLES ef wheat
recently wAioh wAs raised On prairie
Sod broken ~ best Nay n western
Canada wbsh i was claimed yielded
twenty-five b1ahsaA PER acre, or more
than enough when soh to pay for the
land. But, than. those fellows with land
to sell In that faref region are all pref
ty smooth takers.
On the basis of hay at s. on the
farm 1t 70 the general opinion that
shredded corn fodder is too expensive
as forage. There Is good deal of
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only way IN which to insure the use OF
all the fodder In the cornfleld is to put
it IN the silo. Then there IS no waste
save the little which may be spoiled in
the ailo.
A writer on poultry matters says
that moro attention should be paid to
developing a breed Of fowls which
would combine greater meat producing
qualities; 70 need to develop other
breeds than those which we now have.
Any Of the larger breeds If caponiEed
vial improve both In weight, quality
and selling price at least 100 per cent.
It seems strange that a treatment
which all recognize as absolutely In:
dispensabls with the males of all other.
Of our domestic animals should be so
reluctantly adopted with reference to
our domestic fowls.
The pleasantest feeling which comes
to the up to date farmer in the north
country Il to feel as winter comes on
that he has everything in good shape
for the long siege. 1t Is pleasant to
feel that the fall blowing was all done
early in August, that the big barn is
full Of well cured hay, that the corn
was all gathered before the SHOWS
came, that the cellar is well stored
with the best things Of garden and or
chard. that there i good big pile of
n vsvt M 4pH %,n el~o ~
warm she1ter for all domestic animals.
When things are this way be does not
dread. bat rather welcomes, the winter
season.
We are asbed what 1t was that de
termined the growth Of trees along
the margins Of all streams In the
prairie resisos OF the country, why
there and not elsewhere We think the
reasons Wal be found as follows: The
auuvial soils of the river bottoms are
more cOngental to tree growth than the
upland prairie soils. Then such soils
command more dependable supply Of
moisture, something indispensable to
tree growth. Then the periodical
foods kept the banks of such streams
constantly well supplied with tree
seeds brought down by the water,
while the river offered a permanent
and effective barrier to the prairie fires.
which of themselves made tree growth
on the uplands next to Impossible.
A farmer paid lightning rod firm
$50 to properly rod his large barn. The
work was well done and represented
the most scientific protection against
damage by lightning to be obtained. A
hired man one day caught the rod with
q harrow tooth just where it entered
the earth and tore it apart. He, not
being scientist and only just a com
mon plug hired man. thought nothing
Of the damage which he had done and
did not even tell his employer. a
storm came up soon after, the barn
was struck and burned, and the ex-
pressed opinion of the owner OF the
lightning rod men was not fit for pub.