Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-05-02

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The Australian wool output for the
year 1906 was 100000 bales, valued
at f13 each, or total valuation Of
1926, 100000.
If the truth were known in every
case, it is more likely to be the care
than the kind of fowl or animals raised
that determines the amount of money
made in keeping them.
The Ben Davis has fairly respecta-
bic rating in some quarters simply be-
cause 1t is pretty to look at and goes
by the name of apple. To any one who
has ever set teeth in juicy Spy, Spit
zenberg or Jonathan the B. D. is
very fiat, disappointing proposition.
The hog and sheep tight, horse safe
woven wire fence costs more to begin
with than the ordinary barbed wire
fence, but more than makes up for it's
extra cost in security and satisfaction
covering period Of years. In many
localities Of the west this is the only
type Of fence that is being built.
The agriculturist who makes a bust
ness of raising beans has to raise his
crop in such limits Of time as to es-
cape two evils the weevil, which is
apt to infest and damage his crop if
frost which is likely to nip the pods
If the crop isn't pretty we'll matured
by the 10th Of September
a lot of learned anthropologists and
pomolOgists are just now trying to
prove that it was lemon instead Of an
apple that Eve tempted Adam with in
the garden Of Eden, basing their be-
liefs on the fact that apples were not
native and cid not grow at so early
date In the country where this Elysium
Of our forbears was supposed to be
situated.
While there is no getting around
the fact that the farmer has his full
share Of hard and disagreeable work,
it is at the same time worth emphasiz-
ing the fact that he is more independ-
ent economically than any Of his fell
lows In other occupations. He is his
own boss and is seldom viewed as
mere human baggage, as is true of
laborers in many other voca tons.
In view of the difficulty we some
times have in getting fire started in
the kitchen stove with kindling and
kerosene on frosty winter morning it
is beyond our ken how so many disas.
trous fires start from bunch of waste
In the corner or from a mouse biting
the head off a parlor match Put both
of the things under good kindling in
the kitchen stove and fellow would
not get teakettle to boil in hundred
years.
The walnut trees growing on the re-
serves of Missouri mining company
5000 acres in Philip and Crawford
counties-were recently sold for fab
ulous sum to gunstock manufacture i
ing concern. One hundred and fifty |
men will soon be at work telling the
trees and cutting them in suitable
lengths for the purpose indicated.
while the roots and stumps of dead
trees will be worked up into gunstock
of an inferior grade.
A number Of experim ents conducted
by the Minnesota experiment station
seem to prove that the soil Of the state
is possessed Of a sufficiently high de-
gree of fertility so that commercial fer
tiliZers-several kinds were used-do
not produce an increase in yield suffi-
,cient to cover their cost and applica-
ton. This speaks we'll for the state
and is quite conclusive proof that in
portions of it at least methods of ag-
riculture are being followed which do
not seriously .deplete the fertility of the
soil.
While lime is used on the land in
large quantities in many Of the east
ern states, chiefly Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Wiz
ginia, it is not as a fertilizer, but for
the purpose Of correcting a sour or aciJ
condition Of the soil. 1t is being used
in the middle western states to some
extent, with Ohio in the lead. Tile
presence of the sorre1s and moss are
indications that the soil may be in
need Of the lime application, while the
fact that clover will not thrive is an
other indication that the soil Is sour.
1t is worth while remembering that
scab free potatoes and even that seed
which is given the formalin treatment
cannot be counted on to produce
crop Of clean, smooth tubers if the soil
Itself is contaminated by growing q
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