The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-17

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There are plenty Of people to whom
happiness would consist in simply get
ting out Of debt.
1t seems to be an easier matter for
the farmer to get rid of the middleman
in politics than the middleman in
trade.
1t is said correctly that eating oniors
will promote sleep, but they Go not
always work that way where there are
two persons in one bed.
Every farmer owning good fertile
acres is the possessor of a gold mine
which he can work without fear Of be-
ing assessed for operating expenses.
If your currant bushes are attacked
by worms at any time during the next
few weeks or later dust them with
white hellebore powder. The same
treatment will fix the slugs which may
attack your garden rosebushes.
The good roads commission of the
state of Illinois Is actively engaged in
pushing the new plan Of dragging the
highways as a means of securing inl-
proved roads. In fact, this plan is be-
ing generally adopted all through the
west
In early days In the west the birds
constituted a real menace to the set
tiers crops The blackbird by the
millions would raid his cornhelds
while sand hill cranes, wild geese and
wild ducks in countless numbers would
finish the crop up.
Canadian farmers have come to the
conclusion as the result of long expert
ence that they can produce their pork
more cheaply on imported American
corn than on their home grown peas
and barley. This fact is likely to Gre
ate an active demand for American
corn from that country
The matter of testing the corn plant
er should not be put off until ii is set
to work in the field, but should be Civ
en- two or three preliminary heats to
see just what kind of work it will do
Many man who takes plenty of pains
in the matter Of selecting and testing
his seed corn falls down badly when it
comes to testing the corn planter
The settlers along the Missouri river
slope make practice Of tapping the
soft maple trees which grow there
abundantly and from the sap make an
excellent quality Of sugar and sirup
While the sap from this tree IS not as
sweet as that Of the hard maple, it
makes a product that is greatly supe
rior to the ordinary commercial article
If you think you must have quick
growing deciduous tree there is moth
ing better in the whole list than the
soft maple or sycamore. 1t will grow
almost as fast as the cottonwood or the
willow, is free from insect pests and
furnishes a quality of wood for fuel
purposes easily worked up and every
way superior to most Of the soft woods.
so called.
The strippings Of a cows milk prod
uct are said to be valuable tonic for
weakly persons who cannot assimilate
other food. If the use of strippings
should become general by people in
need Of a tonic marked lowering Of
the test at the creameries may be look
ed for. We have known good many
degenerates needing a moral tonic who
hankered after strlppings.
We have friend living on a farm
who is bringing UP family Of five
boys and three girls, and she Is follow
ing the plan of training them all alike.
The boys are educated to do house
work, while the girls are taught to as
sist in such outdoor work as usually
falls to the lot of the boys There Is
much in this plan to commend it, as
the boys and girls thus trained soon
become useful and independent.
The bordeaux mixture VIII prevent
the ravages Of the early and late pota-
to blight It should be applied the first
time when the plants are about eight
or ten inches high and again in Au-
gust If the late blight appears. The
solution in question is made by dissolv-
ing five pounds Of copper sulphate in
fifty gallons Of water and adding five
pounds Of stone lime If the beetles
are in evidence at the time Of either
spraying, more likely the first, half a
pound of paris green added to the
bordeaux mixture Will put them out
Of business.