The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31
DENATURIZED ALCOHOL.

Congress to remove the internal re-
venue. tax from grain alcohol. This
bill had passed the Lower House,
and we suggested that if farmers
wanted cheap source OF farm pow
err now was the time to see the SEN
ate did not kill the bill.
FARMERS! WATCH THE SENATE.
This bills still under discussion.
1t has been for ten years past. Its
to-day. more than ever, of moment
to the farmer. The increase IL use
of motor power on the farm demands
a cheap source of power This the
farmers would have In denaturized
ALEC hol. Demand of your Senators
a passage of this bill
WOMEN AS CORN SPECIALISTS.
Tt is an interesting fact to note
that several young women are now
taking the ''corn and stock Judging"
course at various agricultural colleg
es. This would indicate that farmers
daughters are beginning to apprec'-
ate the necessity of fitting them
selves thoroughly and in a scientific
manner for the business they expect
to follow.
FLAX STRAW FOR BINDER TwINE.
They have several valuable and
we'll appointed laboratories for re-
serach 10 Toronto, Canada. Two
tons of fax straw from Manitoba
have been shipped to these for tests
in the hope that they may be used in
the manufacture of binder Irvine and
paper.
SCIENTIFIC METHODS VALUABLE.
Farming is fast being reduced to a
science, if it may not be said to have
reached that stage already. Scien-
tific methods now widely prevail.
Deep blowing, soil investigation,
seed selection, improved machinery,
all com bine to assure our brothers
of fair reward for their toll and
expenditure.
.COsT OF LIVING GREATER.
Is there any substantial reason
why the cost of living in all parts OF
our country should be so much
greater to-day than it was sixteen
years ago, except in so far as we are
trustbourd? Will you help break the
trusts in the interests of the common
people?
A COMPARISON OF PRICES.
The wholesale prices of all commod-
tiles reached last year a higher
point than at any other time during
the sixteen years preceding, with
general average of 30 per cent above
the lowest price prevailing from 1890
to 1900.
FIGURES FOR FARMERS!
The statistics carefully compared
show that farm products were $3.50
per cent higher than in 1896; food
generally, 1871 per cent higher;
clothing, 22.9 per cent higher, fuel
and lighting, 1874 per cent higher
than in 1894; metals and implements,
4l8 per cent higher than in 1898;
lumber and building materials, 41.4
per cent higher than in 1898. Farm
ersl the reasons are patent.
FARMERS CAR" FOR FRISCO.
Many farmers of Benton County,
Oregon, united in sending a farm
ers car" to Frisco loaded with bacon,
potatoes, eggs, apples, canred fruits,
baled hay and oats, Major James
Bruce, a prosperous farmer of the
county, sent 800 in &C dition.
THE FARM BREEDS MEN.
It is a glorious thing to know that
the farm does not breed criminals
They are the product of the cities
and towns. We believe that only
about one per cent of convicts were
born on farms. Of the total popnla-
tion about forty per cent of the city
born furnish the SO per cent of the
criminals class.
CoGENT REASONS FOR THIS
Farming is based upon honesty;
rugged. hard, implacable, honesty. |
Nature will not be cheated, nor
tricked, nor lied to- tits the weed |
that fears the hoe. And the stand
O r6 Of uir4,,o ic hiuhov In tho CONN |