Middletown transcript., 1906-08-25
THE FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY
Short Pnngant Paragraphs Gathered Here
and There

Short Pnngant Paragraphs Gathered He
and There
The Canadian harvests are incredibI
great, and the farmers are crying for bel
to garner the grain as badly as are Amer
can farmers.
1t is hard to realize that until FIVE yeal
ago durum or maearoni wheat was prac
'tieaily unknown in America il Nas do
spised by cur milIers until year or 8
ago.
The harvest is plenty but the laborer
are few. With all the improved ma
chinery of the nineteen centuries, the bar
vest conditions are not much differen
after all.
A large percentage of the barley anG
oats throughout che Northwest is materi
ally injured each season by being tied in
to too large bundles and shocked in com
pact shocks when the grain is too green.
A slice of Wisconsin land amounting to
twent. seven acr e, on the shore Of Lorp
Lake, SIIeboygan Co., disappeared last
month. Later it was discovered floating
as log in the middle OF the lake.
Upward OF 250, 900 acres are devoted to
grape culture in California, which State
produces more than two-thirds Of the en-
tire grape output of the country, the an
nnal production OF wine being over aO,.
600, 600 gallons.
Fifteen thousand men are needed in
Minnesota, Iowa and the two Dakotas to
harvest the crop, and about thousand
are av ailable. The wages offered by the
farmers range from Sl.75 to So a day and
board, but the jobs go begging,
Harvest hands are getting from 81 to
81 75 day in the Northwestern wheat
fields, and cry gees up for 1900 men.
The demand is not only from the harvest
fields, but also from the railroad compan.
les because OF extensive construction
work.
The sugar beat industry in the United
States had grown enormously and has a
promising future, There are at this tin Q
a9 factories with capacity of 40. $50 tons
a year, which distribute annually $6, 800, !.
BOO among farmers and pay to working
men SIS, 500. 900 in wages. There are now
building II factories with capacity OF
3, 100 TONS
Hay is going to be high IN price this
year, and because of that, special pains
should be taken to save plenty of good
corn fodder. Horses and young cattle
IAN be brought through the winter in
splendid shape if they have access to
matured corn fodder. Don't
delay cutting it until the leaves are dry.
When ths corn Ia nicely dented it is a
good plan to put it in shock, or into the
lilo for that matter.
Government reports indicate con-
inuance of the prosperity which the
country has experienced for several
Yeare.. The grain crop of 1906 contents
he farmers. The total wheat crop is
stimated at .60. 600, 600 bushels, an in
reaae Of about 10 per oent over last year.
rhe corn crop is estimated at $3.50, ,OOO-
100 bushels. Other grains, except oats,
how an increase. This means that the
armer will have more money TO spend,
md all lines of trade will share in the
'enefit OF abundant harvests.
The rural mail routes were established
or the benefit of rural homes, or in
tlier words the farmers. They have
'royen greater benefit and blessing to
he farmers than was anticipated by the
most sanguine. A farmer, who has once
njoyed the advantages OF the rural
nail service would hardly know how to
i've without it. 1t did not come to the
armer, however, until he had many
ines earned it. The farmers are our
eayiest taxpayers. What property |
hey have is in plain sight and is taxed,
bile the city man. at least many OF |
hem, who deals in notes and bonds is
nabled to hide his wealth from the |
SCISSOR. For quarter of a century the
lail has been carried to the city home,
OF once, but many times each day.
inalIy the big heart of Uncle Sam has
saclled out to the men who feed the
torld
While the demand for college farm
ands in Kansas is unabated, and while
! able bodied collegians who are willing
J work are assured kind treatment, good
ages, pure food, and Sundays to them
Ives in all parts of the Sunfower state,
It the crying need of the moment is for
omen cooks in the harvest camps. A
an may be quick-lunch cook of ex-
ptional skill, or he may be clubhouse
ief with Parisian diploma, but when
. reaches that part OF the menu where
. is expected he fails utterly. So ad-
srtisements fill all the Kansas papers
hich offer unparalleled inducements
women cooks. And the chief qualifi-
tion demanded of them is that they be
pable of making the kind OF pie that
other used to make. Il
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