Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-01-18

Beekeeping always profitably follows
the growing Of alfalfa, as this plant is
rich in bee food.
The state Of Kansas produced last
year 100000 pounds Of good butter
and 100000 pounds of poor butter
which had to be renovated.
The sea is getting to be farmed just
as Is the land, especially in the raising
Of oysters. An acre of we'll kept oyster
water will bring in a gross return of
$500 per year. which beats most crops
which the land can produce.
Irrigation brings about the same con-
fict with individual and private rights
that drainage does. They are neither
one possible save as result of CO.
operative effort and merging Of pri-
vate interests for the public good
Some of the largest salaries paid to
experts in this country are paid to the
men who know how to buy stock on the
hoof and others who know how to cure
such meat for the market. There are
several $4,000 men engaged in this
business, and none Of them ever had a
college education either.
A darby down in Oklahoma claims to
have made the interesting discovery
that if cotton is topped or pruned back
in the darl. of the moon in August it
will increase the yield of the staple
from one-half bale to one bale per
acre, and he has found some people
who believe what he says.
Every load Of manure put on the land
to be in corn next year means at least
two bushels more corn, and it will add
that much to the crop the second year.
In other words, when man hauls out
load Of manure on to his cornfeld he
has earned a dollar, and we know Of
many men who cannot make dollar
any easier.
The uniform irregularity Of the sea-
sons is the only regular thing there is
about the weather No two seasons are
just alike, either as to rainfall,
droughts, frosts or hours Of sunshine.
1t is this uncertain factor in all farm
operations which upsets all calcula.
tons and makes farming more or less
Of lottery.
The state Of Iowa has recently com.
pleted what is said to be the very finest
dairy building in the world at its state
agricultural college at Ames. A herd
of hundred cows will be used in con-
nection with this building, and labora,
tory and experimental work will be
carried on which will be Of the great
est benefit to the dairy interests of the
country at large.
We know Of several farmers who,
finding that they had poor seed corn
and worthless stand, and some who
lost their corn by the worms, replanted
their fields as late as the middle Of
June with early types Of corn and Sc
cured crops running from forty to fifty
bushels per acre. Their experience has
convinced them that it will pay to
plant some Of this early corn as early
in the spring as possible and thus So
cure plenty of good feed for their hogs
long before the ordinary field corn Is
matured. This is good plan.
We noticed a row of catalpa trees
Ately which man had planted adjoin-
ing the line fence of his farm about ten
years ago. He had planted them thick.
ly and not more than two feet apart.
The trees today would furnish one good
fence post each, worth about 20 cents,
and on the eighty rods so planted he
had $40 fence posts at small trouble
| and expense, as one-half Of the root
| system of the trees was In the public
highway. In five years more these
trees will give him three fence posts
| each, and we commend this method tc
men in all ATTITUDES where the catalpa
Is hardy.
| A boy shot hawk and thought he
had done a smart thing. He Dragged
about it, and his father praised him fo4
doing it. Had he known just wha'
composed the food Of this hawk h@
probably would not have done it. These
hawks very rarely visit the poultry
yard-in fact, in spite Of their name
not in forty years have we ever known
hen hawk to modest the hens 1T
food consists almost entirely Of rab
bits and goi.hers, two of the worst
pests with which the farmer has II
contend. When hungry we have known
them to catch snakes three feet IL
length. The hawk should be let alone