The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-24

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There is no place where business
methods are more needed or less often
found than among members of the
same family.
We ran across her the other day
a good housewife who got all tired out
while hurrying her work so she could
have longer time to rest. There be
some such.
A more thorough working Of fewer
acres should be the watchword of ev-
cry present day agriculturist-a senti-
ment that should be stamped on his
forehead and put on the signboard over
his gateway.
An intensive type Of agriculture not
only insures a better price for products
raised and labor expended, but involves
more considerate treatment of the
land as well, and incidentally it is far
more satisfactory from the standpoint
of the man.
Clean and comfortable quarters are
just as much appreciated by animals,
even IL they can't as readily express
their feelings, as they are by human
beings. There is a point here worth
remembering by all who have the care
Of dumb beasts.
The cultivation OF state Of mind in
which fellow can laugh heartily is
one of the best methods on record FOR
banishing blues and dyspepsia. An
overdose of this prescription does no
particular harm, while the physicians
charges are nil.
A milking machine has been put on
the market during the past season
which, it is claimed, will milk a COW
clean in four minutes. Unless it is a
good deal more simple and practical
than any of it's predecessors the bulk
Of this distasteful work will continue
to be done in the old fashioned way.
Unless artificial fertilizers are re-
sorted to stock raising presents the
most practicable method for the main
tenance or restoration Of soil fertility.
Marketed in the shape of live stock,
the products of the soil fetch a maxi
mum financial return and levy a cor
respondingly small tax on the fertility
of the SOIL
We have known couples who went
together year after year with whom
there was no more prospect Of any
thing doing in matrimonial way than
there is of Matching chickens with the
old Buff Cochin hen that whiles away
hot summer days sitting on a porce-
lain doorknob or the butt of a last
years cob.
Where farm animals have a pond or
running stream for water supply it is
well to see that holes are kept open
near the shore so that they will not
have to venture on ice over deep wa
ter to get the water they need. We
have noted several instances in past
seasons where a number of head of
cattle were drowned because of neg
lect in this matter.
The corn crop of the country for the
year past is estimated at 1881, 100000
bushels, which is an increase Of 211,-
100000 over the crop of 1905. Sold in
raw form at SO cents a bushel, the crop
is worth $960,3OO0OO; in the shape Of
butter, beef, pork and other finished
products it should fetch 50 cents per
bushel and would be worth $1,44O,-
100000.
If there is any potency in economic
laws, the combination Of five and
half cent hogs, which he sells, and six
teen cent bacon, which he buys, ought
to cause the average farmer to look up
his fathers recipe for making NE first
class home cured product The mar
gin between the raw and finished prod
uct in this instance is too wide to be
tolerated with good grace.
Deposits in the postal savings banks
Of England amounted last year to
$760, 555, 695, and this in view Of the
fact that Great Britain has only about
half of the population Of this country.
This system of saving, which is large
" through the depositing Of small
has become very popular
among the English working people,
and already an agitation is on foot