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


The drinking of eight tumblers of
water, crawling into bed and covering
oneself with four comforters is recon-
mende1 as sure cure for an ordinary
cold.
AS a result OF the thrifty and econom-
ical propensities of the average house
wife the garnet or storeroom all too
often becomes the receptacle Of lot
Of duds and truck that would vastly
better be snapped for tinware or used
to start a bonfire.
Experiments recently completed by
a western experiment station show
that corn fed as corn and cob meal
was worth 271a cents per hundredweight
more than shelled corn, which clearly
wouldn't pay for the trouble and ex-
pense of grinding.
There is hardly state legislature in
the country whose programme will not
be seriously at fault If its deliberations
this winter do not include a serious
consideration of the problem Of pre-
serving our present forest areas and of
replacing those already destroyed.
1t seems to be perversity of the
tame canary that he wants to sing the
loudest when there is the most ami
mated conversation going on in the
room in which his cage happens to be-
At other times, when a song would be
in place, he is often strangely reticent.
An agricultural doctrine that should
be preached in season and out of sea
son from this time forth is the pleasure
and profit to be derived from the in
tensive culture of the ten acre farm.
The time may be far distant when this
conception will hold sway, but the
tendencies Of the time, both economic
and agricultural, point in that direc-
ton.
The father who views bis children as
merely economic propositions from
whom he should get all that he pos
sibly can in the way of labor before
they are of age should have no kick
coming if he gets mighty little from
them in way of affection, consideration
and sympathy after that time. He can
sow wheat or cockleburs and may ex-
pect to reap in kind.
Recent carefully conducted tests with
q standard make manure spreader
show that the use of the machine eff
fected saving of $75 per year in labor
and in the increased value of the fer
tilizers SO handled. There Is food for
thought here for every agriculturist
who would make his manual labor
most effective and at the same time
get the largest possible benefit from his
farm fertilizers.
Quarantine specialists are quite gen
orally agreed that a complete burning
of the carcasses of animals that have
died of contagious diseases is the only
absolutely sure way Of preventing
spread of the contamination. Unless
buried very deep the tramp dog or
stray wolf is apt to dig portions Of the
remains up, resulting in likely source
of Infection. Burned there is an aDso-
lutte destruction of all disease germs.
Irrigation, thing and intensive cul-
ture are three things that are working
a marvellous change in the agricultural
methods and economic possibilities of
many sections of the country. The
first two Improvements are making
available for mans use hundreds Of
thousands of acres of the most fertile
and productive lands Of the country,
while intensive farming is getting the
largest possible returns from the land
so redeemed.
With the general Introduction of the
barbed and woven wire fences the
quaint and artistic old Virginia rail
fence is fast disappearing, and only in
a few sections are they still to be
found, relics of day that was charac-
terized by a more leisurely type Of
agriculture and less strenuous type
of living, when folks did without tele-
phones and electric lights and the
suf1ced as a means Of COM
and travel.
While the figures were somewhat diff
ficult to get at, the Maine experiment
station has issued a bulletin in which
1t states that the droppings Of one
adult chicken covering a period Of
year amount to seventy-five pounds,
while the value Of this as a fertilizer is
25 cents. In view of these facts and
since this fertilizer is in SO concentrate
ed a form, it should be well scattered
over the ground or over the manure
nile when tha hnnhoI1an Ia cInanod