The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-27

thunder which does the business.
Good schools, telephones, rural mail
delivery, daily papers and interurban
electric car lines are all uniting to in
crease the wants Of the rural com
munity More wants, higher standard
Of living, higher wages and shorter
hours is becoming the order Of the day.
That there is good money in truck
and intensive farming is shown by the
bank rating Of Peter Reard, a market
gardener of Sioux City, Ia, who is
claimed to be worth $15O,OO0. He owns
$50 acres of land in the limits Of Sioux
City and owns Twenty-Five houses in q
nearby city. The income from his
property is $500 per month.
The New England housewife in no
way shows her thrift and foresight
more than in well filled shelves Of
canned fruit preserves and other sup
plies for winter. IF you see a house
WHY III w 11O1l1 Lilo IC1dC1SJ 1o Sl1OAo7
" developed it is quite safe to assume
that she is a New Highlander by birth
or traces her lineage pretty straight to
that thrifty stock.
We note that an Indiana agricultur-
list paper is still advocating the use
Of nitro cultures in getting a start with
clover and alfalfa A word Of advice
that it will do well to follow is to have
nothing to do with the SO called cul-
lures except on the direct Recommended
ton Of ones own state experiment
station or the department of agricul-
ture at Washington.
A good deal Of crooked and dishonest
work is involved in the methods a
good many men adopt in the packing
Of apples. If one is in doubt, but
means to do the right thing, a good
rule to follow is to put no apples into
the barrel as a packer that you would
not be willing to accept at the other
end of the line as a purchaser. It's the
only rule that is worth a copper.
The tendency Of good and bad types
and traits in farm animals, grains and
grasses to perpetuate themselves ac-
counts alike for scrubs and thorough
bred products to be found everywhere.
In very real way scientific agricul-
ture consists in a systematic attempt
to increase and perpetuate the good
tendencies and discourage and exter
| inmate the scrub or evil tendencies in
plant and animal life
By way of illustrating that the faith
Of the tree planter is rewarded we note
the case of a western farmer who has
lately cut 1000 cedar trees from
grove planted twenty-six years ago,
selling them to a telephone company
| for use in the construction of its lines,
the price paid being $3.50 apiece. This
goes to prove that there is good money
| In the growing of trees if a fellow only
| has the right kind Of faith and is will
| ing to bide his time.
| There are good many people who
| wish that the reported development
| of a type of chickens by an eastern
| poultry fancier, whose merit consists III
| the fact that one leg was shorter than
/ the other and that as a result they walk
In circles and never stray far from
4 ~; +,s11n
| that the breed might be introduced as
| generally and rapidly as possible. We
know of quite a number who we feel
sure would supply their neighbors with
eggs.
The railroads of the country are al
ready sharing the general concern
which is felt as a result Of our rapidly
/ decreasing forest areas and in particu-
lar those varieties Of trees which fur
nish suitable railroad ties. In 1902 the
Pennsylvania Railroad company plant
ed IL, 900 !ocusts on lands adjoining its
right of way, in 1908 they planted 49,
! 900. while the past season they set out
/ 100000 trees of the same variety The
Michigan Central is also experimenting
with catalpas, having recently planted
$4,000 young trees on tract Of 123
acres.
While not always true, it is quite
| often the fellow who is belated with
his spring blowing and planting who is
| also late with his harvesting operations
and tail ender on the thrashing list.
/ This matter of being late is largely
| a matter of temperament and habit
and tendency that can to quite an ex-
! tent bediscouraged or encouraged ait the
| will of the individual afflicted While
| the forehanded fellow is sometimes I'M
| avoidably delayed with his work, it is
seldom that the slack and chronically
hindhanded individual is caught doing
any Of his work ahead Of season.
docs the orchard pay?' Is a ques-
| ton that every owner of such a tract
| should be vitality interested in In way
Of answering the question it may be
| said that some orchards do pay and
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