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

ter of cooperation so indispensable as
among fruit growers. It is almost i'm.
possible for a man to go it alone in this
business and find profitable market
for his fruit.
Greater miracles in agricultural de-
velopment are being wrought out by IT.
rigatiOn than have ever been accom-
plished by drainage. Irrigation under
government control is literally making
the desert to blossom as the rose.
More and more men are finding ont
the intrinsic value of small piece of
land intensively cultivated as an aid
to the support Of a family. 1t is really
surprising what little piece of land
can be made to produce under an in
telligent cultivation.
Latitude makes a great difference in
the keeping quality Of apples. Thus, If
Wealthy apple is raised in Missouri it
becomes simply late summer or early
fall fruit, while if it is grown in cen
trail Minnesota it may be kept through
the winter without trouble as winter
fruit.
A friend who planted two acres of
soft maple on good piece Of land
twenty-five years ago cleared the tim
Der off last winter and secured 100
cords Of wood. While this was not a
very large return upon his investment,
it proves that there are millions Of
acres of land which should be planted
with timber, because as such land is
now used it does not pay as we'll as the
timber would.
Men engaged in working for other
men on a fixed salary very often find
themselves in a position where the
work forced upon them is too much for
one man and not enough for two. With
ency is to do only so much work as
they think is fair stunt and let the
rest go, while here and there will be
found man who will cheerfully Shout
der the additional burden and for
awhile uncomplainingly do two mems
work. 1t is worth noting in this con-
nection that when a promotion is to DO
made in the force some way it Is these
men who usually secure it.
A friend wants to know what he had
better do with a balky horse. He says
that If he tries to trade him off and tells
the truth about the horse nobody will
take him, and that If he sells him and
says nothing he is sure to hear of 1t
safterward to his sorrow. This Is true,
showever-some horses are balky with
some men and not with others, the fact
being that it Is the man and not the
horse which Is balky. We have at diff
ferent tir2es owned two balky horses.
One we cured by wrapping piece OF
plug tobacco around his bit when the
fit took him; the other we let neighbor
have who bought him knowing his bad
habits. In Germany the best thing to
do with such horse would be to COD
vert him into sausage.
Wild game, from being forty years
ago the poor mans necessity and one
important source Of his food supply, is
fast becoming the rich mans luxury.
We can recall the time when ducks
geese, prairie chickens and fish were
such common and everyday articles OF
food that the people got tired of the
sight Of wild game, whether dead OF
alive. None Of the almost endless
amount and variety Of wild life then
so common now survives save the few
migratory wild fowl, which year by
year become fewer in number and
more difficult to shoot. This condition
prevails Notwithstanding game Of al
kinds Is protected by law In all the
states. The truth Is that wild game
like the Indian, cannot stand civiliza
ton.
A hundred years Of occupation ant
cultivation by man have about ruined
the productive capacity Of the soils o.
many Of the eastern states, have SO bad
" impaired their fertility that ever
with the stimulus of commercial fer
tilizers they will no longer return
profitable crop. The same DESTRUCTIVE
process is at work in marked name
In the southern and north central states
and even the land of the northwest
whose fertility was supposed to b
practically inexhaustible, Is alread,
bearing abundant evidence Of the cel
tain result of continuous highway rob
berry Of the soil. The western land
owner should heed well the lessor
taught by the eastern and southern
states in this matter, and before it !
too late change the degenerating an
soil pauperizing methods in such ger
eral use in that section. No ma
farms well whose soil grows poore
and less productive year by year. Their
are lands in England which produce
wheat q thousand years ago and whic
today produce an average crop Of THU
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