The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-06

for poultry
Beginning with the LIST of August the
rural mail patron is allowed to con-
struct his own mail box, provided it
has the approval Of the local postmas-
ter.
Any parent who allows his child to
play around the mower or any other
machinery may just as we'll make up
his mind to be ready in ease Of acct
dent 1t doesn't pay to run any risks,
as the chances of getting hurt are too
sure.
The haste which causes the good
housewife to neglect to put out the gas
oline burner when filing the tank is
criminal as we'll as shortsighted, the
time which is thus saved being fire.
Quently offset by death by burning,
funeral expenses and bereaved and
grief stricken family.
Bad air or unpleasant 0dors about
the house or yard are usually not
without a cause. If not poor drainage
or a neglected cistern they may be ac-
decaying vegetables, damp, sour scrub
bing cloths or an old garbage can.
Purify the air by removing the cause.
David Rankin Of Tarkio, Mo-, is one
Of the king bee farmers Of the United
States, possessing $4,000 acres which
are under a high state Of cultivation.
OF this area 10000 acres are in corn,
the remainder being devoted to the
raising Of hay and small grain. He
fattens and markets 5000 cattle annu-
ally and as many hogs.
AS a result Of having an acre patch
Of alfalfa eaten up sleek and clean by
the grasshoppers last August, when it
got into the second and third leaf, and
because of the fact that grasshoppers
are if possible more plentiful this sea-
son than last, we have taken up the
idea of getting a start with this valua-
BILE cover crop in the fall and will try
it next spring.
The steady advance in prices of all
kinds of foodstuffs and wearing ap-
parel during the past five years has
| been bonanza of the biggest kind for
the agriculturist- the producer de
cidedly tough on the man on stipulat-
! ed salary which has not been inflated
to correspond with the increase in
price OF the things he has had to buy.
lie is, as it were, between the economic
upper and neither millstones and as a
result is being ground.
An Indiana reader of these notes
writes inquiring where a purchaser
may be found for ginseng, golden seal
and other herbs. While the larger
cities usually have brokers who make
a speciality of handling these articles
in large quantities, the nearest lead
ing wholesale druggist would be the
/ best person with whom to commune
cate with reference to the sale Of such
| products, end the addresses of such
/ firm or firms can best be got from ones
/ local druggist
/ There is no time when selection of
potatoes for seed can be done toabetter
advantage than at the time Of digging,
| for the reason that not only size, but
the matter of yield as well, should re-
ceiye attention when the selection is
made. While the matter of size can be
noted at a glance, the latter character
istic can only be determined when the
tubers are dug from the ground Care
full selection of seed in the manner in
dicated would tend to materially in
crease the productivity of any variety
grown.
One of the best posted dairymen in
the state Of Iowa is authority for the
statement that the newly enacted state
pure food law which makes it a pun
/ ishable offense to sell or buy impure
milk or cream to be manufactured into
human food, will give Iowa farmers
/ S1,600,0O0 more for their butter prod
uct annually than they have been re-
ceiying, this being due to raising Of
the butter standard, which will result
in decrease of the seconds output
and a corresponding increase in the
first class and western extras. The
| change will be noted with no less
pleasure by consumer than producer.
We have this year in our home gar
len a very thrifty golden russell branch
top grated in a Patterns greening
which has a hatfUl of the finest kind
Of fruit set. The thriftiness of this
scion from the time it was set three
4 years ago leads us to think that fine
orchard of russell trees could be got
| By top grating Duchess, Hibernal or
Paften's greening stock with russell
lions the first and second seasons
sfter the young trees. were set out. We
have Duchess trees which were thus
grated with Grimes Golden, Yellow
Transparent and other scions four.
years ago, which today are seemingly
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