The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-07-19
BY J. S. TRIGG,

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Des Moines, Iowa. Core
spondence Invited.
with fine large strawberries retailing
at $l50 per crate it is question
whether the berry bed, as ordinarily
managed, is a paying proposition.
A friend of the writer who paid 81
for twenty-five newfangled straw berry
plants contributed $1.25 toward paying
the livery bill of the agent who sold
him the plants
There are portions of Colorado in
which the ravages of the potato worm
amount to as high us per cent of the
entire crop raised.
In 1890 the leather and leather manu-
factureS of the United States were
valued at $12.2Ij, 40; in 1905 the total
for the same items was $3S,946 422
There are many eases where the hir-
ing of outside help for extra work in
the house will prove vastly more eco
nOmica than the services of physi-
clan following Il spell of overwork.
N tln y.rHap that iS
available may much more protitably
grow some useful vegetable than u
corresponding quantity of weeds. Each
foot of land should pay its share of
the taxes.
Cabbage growers along the Nfssis-
Slppi river are concerned over the ap
pearance of cabbage lice, which are
. doing much damage and are thought
to have been imported in shipments of
cabbage from the south
The man who has Il wife and fam
ily and who refuses TO take the home
paper during the busy season because
he hasn't time TO read ii has an eX-
ttemcly warped and selfish disposition
and needs making over badly.
There would seem to be considerable
Justice IN the proposal of the granger
of central state who holds that mas
much as owners of automobiles share
equally with the farmer in the benefit
of good highways they should be asked
TO pay Il portion of the tax levied to
keep the road in repair
Experiments which have been made
show that the runts in a drove OF hogs
do vastly better when kept in "A sepa-
rate pen, where they can have a better
cGance at the trough. When kept with
larger and more vigorous pigs they are
chased from pillar TO post and have
little chance to get the food they need.
While there is no trait that should
be more generously exercised or whose
effects are more wholesome or salu-
tary than charity. it is badly prostitut-
ed when its exercise affords cloak
or shield for preventable rascalty.
There is the charity which uplifts and
yet another which may tend to de-
grade
Perhaps tnere is no more charming
instance of gratitude than that to be
observed in the return which we re-
ceiye from the flowers to which we de-
vote our care. \ bed of roses in our
yard furnishes Il daily Thank offering
of beauty and fragrance, and though
its messengers are mute they teach a
helpful lesson Of purity and unselfish-
ness.
A section farm within few miles
OF the writer's home has AN amount of
quack grass growing on II that would
cover forty acres II ii We're collected |
on one patch. The paSserby does not |
need to be told that this deplorable |
state OF affairs Is the natural out
growth OF long years of neglect and |
slipShod farming encouraged by year |
TO year system of renting. Under this |
the landlord Squeezes the renter, the |
renter skins the landlord, with the re-
suit that there is II very real agrcul-
tura devil TO pay in the shape of be-
fouled land and depleted soil fertility,
When once the start has been made
IL Is just as easy TO raise thoroughbred !
as dunghll or scrub fowls, while the
satisfaction which comes from the rails
ing Of flock 0f uniform color ana size
is no mean consideration The thor
oughbred fowls will usually lay as well
as the scrubs and as n rule bring IA
better price when put on the market,
both on account of size and appearance.
We know of nearby farm which 1t
Is IA pleasure to pass by, simply because
there are raised there each year from
100 to $50 full blooded light Brahmas.
The statement made would he as true
of any other variety of chickens.
While II occupies relatively very
humble place i'm the economy of nature,
there Is probably no one of her crea.
lures that fulfills IA more useful mis-
sion or in Il greater measure earns his
way than the common toad. That he
performs a great service for the farm
er aud gardener Is shown from the fol
lowing daily bill Of fare: Caterplllars,
cutworms, beetles. SOW bugs, snails
moths, wlreworms and
potato bugs. All OF which damage the
"a fpanq 10 eapfana !