The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-02-01

Some Of the Colorado apple orchards
have returned their owners as much as
$500 per acre the past season.
n is very remarkable how many pedi-
greed cattle get killed by the cars.
Scrubs rarely ever stray on to the
tracks.
Oklahoma land Of good quality would
be cheap at SIS an acre If used for
cotton production at anything like pres
ent prices for the staple
The falls of the Zambel river, in At
RIGA, known as the Victoria falls, would
If utilized for the generation of power
develop power equal to that of 3d.
100000 horses.
The south is fast becoming vast
hotbed and winter garden for the north
country. AS result we are getting
both vegetables and fruits in season
and out of season.
We know of one man who always
feels good at this time Of the year. and
all because he makes it rule to pay all
his debts at this time and start the new
year owing not any man.
It takes the first thirty bushels OF
corn produced on an acre Of land to
pay cost Of production So if you have
not raised over twenty five bushels to
the acre you can tell just what is the
matter with you.
Europe produced 2,15O,000 tons more
beet sugar last year than ever before.
When we get the Philippine Islanders
at work on sugar we will be virtually
independent OF any foreign country for
our sugar supply.
One-half bale Of cotton to the acre is
to the southern farmer Just about what
forty bushels of corr to the acre are to
the northern farmer. A few cotton
growers get one bale to the, acre, which
corresponds to the few men In the
north who raise eighty bushels OF corn
to the acre.
In Iowa, the great corn state, the in
terest taken by the farm boys in the
Improvement Of the crop is one of the
most hnlr,f.ri uav, oscn OF xxyc,.iv &,,-v,o-,1
this end. The enthusiasm Of these boys
Is Infectious and many a man is learn
ing how to grow corn from his twelve
year-old boy.
Western farmers have been altogeth-
er too much interested in teams of
draft horses exhibited at the various
state fairs purely for advertising pur-
poses by lot of old brewers. A fine
horse never appears to greater disad-
vantage than when he is hauling a beer
wagon or man when he is carrying a
load of the stuff.
The farm hand wanted today is not
so much 8 seller Of crude muscle as
one trained in the handling of machin-
cry and stock. More and more is the
machine being made to do the work Of
the man on the farm, and the man who
understands how to handle machinery
to the best advantage is the man who
Is wanted on the farms Of the country.
The temptation with the average meat
seller is SO great to make bis sausage
meat UP Of all sorts of scraps and odds
and ends In our larger towns it Is prac-
tically impossible to buy pound Of
good sausage meat for love or money.
1t seems strange that this should be so
when there Is an almost unlimited de
mand for fine article of sausage at
big prices.
It is said that 100000 of the people
of England are out Of employment, all
on the ragged edge of poverty and
many of them half starved Could they
only be sent to the United States there
would be work and food in plenty for
AA4. AAC NOILSA dI0 WdHtSU DIS tlOu1CS-
tic help the men as laborers on farm
and in factory and mine Rich men
with money to throw to the dogs might
better turn their philanthropy in this
direction than to the establishment OF
libraries and colleges
We think that one reason why ex-
perimental plats of alfalfa in the states
east Of the Missouri river so often fail,
turning yellow and dying out, is that
the soil where sown is deficient In nj
trogen and the plant, being a gross
user of nitrogen, perlshes for lack OF
it, while. like a calf, If 1t can be prop
erly and adequately fed until it can
take care Of itself by getting its own
nitrogen appropriating machinery into
operation, it would become an easy
matter to secure q field of this vall1a-