Connecticut western news., 1907-07-04

JULY f, 1907
 More men fail in the matter of col lection Of accounts due them than as a result of the volume of business which they may fail to transact.
 A certain amount of sucker fishing and baseball is necessary to the proper development of the American youth. In this statement we know we will be backed by the boys.
 In majority of cases 1t is the farm CT that keeps in closest touch with latest ideas on agriculture as exem- plified by the work of the state exper. iment stations that achieves the largest measure of success in his occupation
 There is probably no profession where a man has opportunity for a nobler service and, contrariwise, chance to be bigger grafter than as physi- clan. There be both kinds, fortunately for the human race more of the former than the latter
 The roadside bordering the farm may be leveled a little if need be and used to grow clover and timothy just as we'll as to be the breeding place of an unsightly mess of weeds, which not only mar the landscape, but often con- xo R1I
 The government Is bound to have difficulty in securing young men of sound teeth and good digestion for serv- ice in the army and navy at SIP to SIS per month when fellow with no pedi- gree or qualifications whatever can get the equivalent of $34 to $40 per month working on the farm.
 The advantage of starting a few cu- cumber vines by planting the seed in a piece of sod and starting in the house or hotbed lies in the fact that when transplanted into the open ground they make such rapid progress and get such start that they grow right away from the striped squash bug.
 If you want to arouse the boys in- terest in live stock, let him have lit tie pig and use in his own way the money it fetches when 1t is marketed. The cash nexus Is what does the busi- ness, as there s.no particular honor fr1r n nj Q when some one else pockets the pro- ceeds when it Is sold.
 He was surely a hard hearted chap who answered his wife's modest plea for a new spring dress with the state ment that as he was going to buy a big bunch of steers and would have to hire another man she would be so busy with extra work that she wouldn't have any need for new fixings. This must have cheered her tired heart i'm mensely.
 From the physical point of view the amount of work a man or class of men can perform Is in quite direct propor- tion to the character of the rations which they eat For this reason we do not expect so much from John China man. who lives on rats and mice, as we do from his English or American brother, who has a ration of beef. pork, wheat bread and oatmeal.
 Reports from Colorado, where until recently alfalfa has proved a very thrifty and profitable crop, tell of the appearance of q serious blight which has attacked this valuable legume and which has proved so disastrous in DOT tons of the state as to render the fur ther culture of the plant practically futile. Investigations are now being made with a view to ascertaining the cause of the blight and finding a cure If possible.
 Linoleum has come to be recognized as the best all round material for the kitchen floor It is not only durable and made In varied and attractive pat terms, but 1t Is mopred up and cleaned with vastly less effort than the very best hardwood floors. It can be laid on an old or unfinished floor and is one of the biggest labor and nerve savers that can be brought into the house. Iinoleuln should be laid in the kitchen before manure spreader is installed in the barn.
 The department of agriculture at Washington has arranged for the es- tablishrlent of two experimental farms in western South Dakota, one under the national irrigation project and the other for the purpose of putting to the test what is known as the Campbell system of dry farming. The promoters of these farms have in view the prac- tical assistance which may be render ed to the settlers who may make their homes on the governments irrigated lands in that semiarid section. , There Is no particular virtue in a fel-