The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-09-01

plant 1000 IL must eithor be applied
Immediately TO the soil Or stored un-
der such conditions Is will maintain
Its already accumulative value.
A Country Dish on Loose-Ends Farm.
Father-Where did you find the
cows?
Son--They broke into the corn field
and ate their I'LL and then went from
there to the cabbage patch.
| Father-That comes pretty near be-
ing corned beef and cabbage, doesn't
II?
A careful farmer friend OF mine was
looking over the farm OF an acquaint-
ance one day and in speaking of the
matter to me later. he said: why,
| could 20 In there now and clean up
several hundred dollars on stuff that
Ia going to waste" Many little leak
on the farm. many an improvident,
carelons method, marks the whole diff
ference between profit and loss, sue
cess and failure.
What to do during harvest with the
machinery when the barn floors must
be cleared for hay is a problem one
farmer has satisfactorily solved by
cutting second growth chestnut posts
10 feet long,. and setting them in the
ground four feet with poles across
the top as supporting beams and a
matched roof laid on. The shed COW
cred 80 by so feet, open on all sides,
was easy Of access and provided shell
ter from sun and rain and has proved
of service every day of the year.
Butter producers will be interested
In some consumption figures. The
average per capita consumption OF
butter is as follows: United States
20 pounds; Canada and Denmark, %
pounds each; Great Britain, 10; Hol-
land and Belgium, Is EACH Norway,
IA; Switzerland and Sweden, IL each;
France and Germany, each; Aus
tria-Hungary, z; Italy, 4 Spain, 3;
Victoria, 1877; Queensland, 1873;
South Australia, 1919; West Australia,
20.5, and Tasmania, ia pounds.
One farmer who had tried II and
knows, says there are four serious OBJ
jections to growing alfalfa: % The
first cutting is due just when you
want to give the corn it's first cult.
walton and the alfalfa will not wait.
(2) 1t needs to be cut the second
time Just when you want to cut your
wheat. .(3) II demands cutting the
third time just when the corn has to
be cut (4) II you let your stock eat
it they will not cat anything else.
Yes, the American hen Is certainly
a factor in our prosperity, but let us
remember while her praises are be-
ing sung that our sheep and lambs
are worth twice as much, our mules
21a times as much, our horses more
than 10 times and cur cattle II times
as much. Also let us remember that
the hay crop of the country, of which
we scarcely have heard the first note
of praise. is worth three times as
much as the egg crop, more than all
the milk, butter and cheese; more
than all the cotton or all the wheat
and stands second only to corn as
our chief agricultural product Do not
let the hen lay drown out the hay
NOW meow.
Prof. l.. III. Bailey, director OF Cor
nell university agricultural depart.
ment. has been securing some inter-
esting data from the students born
n nj 20 Nd nd hot
were leaving the farm for various
reasons. which Prof Bailey has clas-
sified under four heads, as follows:
Financial rewards, physical labor,
social and intellectual interests, mis-.
cellaneous difficulties and handicaps
on the farm. Many of the students
thought the farmer had no oppor-
tunity either for political distinction
or for social, humanitarian service.
Fifteen expected to return to the farm
in the course of time, after a success
full career in the city in business or
the professions.
The telephone has revolutionized
the social conditions of the farm. and
It cannot longer be said that the
housewives lot Is one of isolation
and loneliness, for with the phone
handy she can keep in touch with
her neighbors and find cheer and
comfort in the latest bit. of gossip.
But the telephone Is only one of the
many things which have come to
tighten the burdens of the farm wife.
The separator" and the creamery
have relieYed. her of the severest toll
OF the dairy, the rural free delivery
brings magazines and newspapers to
her door, and there are a thousand
and one little conveniences for the
kitchen which are simplifying and
tightening the work there. No longer
can 1t be said that the life OF the
farmers wife Is one Of drudgery and
dreary isolation.
Speaking OF the phone on the farm
reminds us of an experience not long
ago which forcibly demonstrated its
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