The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-25

Looking on the bright side is worth
while simply from the fact that it
keeps fellow in the frame of mind
and heart in which he can do his best.
Encouragement alone is responsible
for many failure in life when there
was in other respects no lack of ca
pacity or ability.
There is just the same difference
between using bright and sharp and
a dull and rusty hoe in the garden
that there is in the use of a sharp ana
dull AK Too many work on the as
sumption that just because. it is weeds
which are to be cut most any old thing
will do for the job.
Where one grove or timber lot is
kept properly thinned or thinned too
much ten suffer greatly through lack
Of sufficient and judicious cutting. The
smaller trees in such groves suffer for
lack of light and room, and taking out
the larger trees is the only thing that
will better conditions.
The careful dairyman will keep tab
cock tester and the careful poultryman
with the trap nest upon the egg records
of his laying hens. A test of this kind
usually reveals individuals which are
not paying for their keep and ought to
be consigned to the soup kettle.
Owing to the amount of seed which
it produces, millet makes a very rich
hay, especially for horses. This CON
dition may be obviated somewhat by
cutting the crop before the heads fill.
that is, when they are about half de-
veloped. Secured at this stage bright
and dry, it makes an excellent rough
age for both horses and cattle.
1t is well to do with commercial fer
tilizers as with some other enterprises
Of a semieXperimental and speculative
character into the business on a
somewhat limited scale before apply
ing to all of the acres of the farm.
II the application of fertilizers will
not pay on five acres, it is fair to as
sumo that it will not pay on fifty.
The wide tired wagon is not only
one of the most convenient vehicles for
use in ordinary farm work, but is one
of the best aids to making good roads
in the whole category. Communities
where the King road drag is in use
and where the broad tired wagon Is
numerous are doing a splendid work
in the cause Of highway Improvement.
Where the field of alfalfa has run
out somewhat and the weeds have
come In and yet the owner does not
wish to pillow it up, there is no better
treatment than giving the field thor
ough disking. This seems a trifle
harsh, but it will kill many of the
weeds which infest the field and will
not seriously injure the roots Of the
alfalfa.
The school director who insists upon
rigid economy in the matter of
wages paid the rural teacher regard
less of the service that may be rem
dered is quite likely to order his grass
seed of catalogue house because he
can get 1t half dollar bushel cheap
err. In the second instance a fellow is
apt to be bothered with mustard; in
the first something good deal worse
and harder to get rid of.
Experiments which have been con-
Quoted in the matter Of feeding corn
smut to cattle seem to prove that
has no perceptibly injurious effect.
A chemical analysis shows that it con-
tains the following elements: Water
6.87 per cent; ash, 500; crude protein,
1914; fat, 800; carbohydrates, $500.
While not barrAful in it's effect, neither
was the smut found to be beneficial.
The Minnesota experiment station
has lately concluded some investiga-
tons along the line of growing differ
ent farm crops, including corn fodder,
timothy hay, rape, pasture grass, etc.,
and has found not only that larger
amounts Of these crops were obtained
from a land of high state of fertility,
but that such crops contained smaller
per cent Of ash and from % to 80 per
cent more protein than crops taken
from run down lands.
Wine producers Of southern France,
numbering up into the hundreds Of
thousands, have been up in arms and
riotous lately because of a serious deca-
dence in their grape growing industry,
brought about by the extensive adul-
teratiOn Of yinOuS beverages permitted