The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-01

The Wisconsin Agriculturist sensibly
remarks that IF owners Of automobiles
must drive them thirty, forty Or fifty
miles an hour, let them build private
roads for the purpose and not approprl-
ate highways used in the transaction
OF ordinary business.
The American Cultivator resents the
statement of a magazine editor that
farmers die young, and calls attention
to the fact that any assemblage Of
farmers will present an array Of gray
boards whose ruddy faces and firm
steps give the lie to the theorist who
imagines that agricultural life is I'M
healthful.
The Twentieth Century Farmer apt
ly says that ''old wheat in the bin is
a Farmer synonym for surplus, and
this year he has more "old wheat in
the BIN than ever before. This is but
another way OF saying that the Ameri-
can farmers are in a better financial
condition than they have been for
years.
The Progressive Farmer heartily en-
dorses the suggestion that country wo-
men take up horseback riding as it was
practiced by their grandmothers. The
exercise is both exhilarating and
healthful, and there would be less need
for doctors in rural parts if there were
more side saddles Or divided skirts in
the country homes.
1t is evident by a glance at our anti
podean contemporary, the Agricultural
Gazette, Of New South Wales, that the
irrigation fever has struck Australia
Several schemes are already afoot; and
the successful irrigation works IN the
united States are referred to as an
evidence Of what can be done with the
arid lands OF Australia.
The American Agricultrflst calls
attention to the fact that there is a
general demand for mules from all
sections OF the country, and suggests
that hog and sheep breeding shall not
ENJOY monopoly of prosperity. With
pair OF good mules selling at 5000,
there is ground for this contention on
the part Of our contemporary.
The Northwestern Agriculturist
proves the good sense OF the people Of
Minnesota by calling attention to the
TACT that the state timber lands are
growing 100000 feet OF timber a
year and produce revenue
from 100000 acres OF forest
annually OF $500, 900; and no timber is
sold except what would otherwise go
to waste. Here is lesson for other
states that have been wasting their
forests.
Here is a wall from the London
Rural World that sounds very Ameri-
can in its tone: "The old skilled race
of agricultural laborers is fast disap-
pearing from the country, and there
are no young men coming on to take
the place OF the: elders when they are
gone" A remedy suggested by our
contemporary is organized instruction
in matching, hedging, ditching, etc.;
but this is regarded as only a make
shift, and ownership of the soil is
The Rural New orBer does not see
much benefit to the farmer in the I'LL
PRODUCTION of jack-rabbits and other
animals into game preserves and their
extended protection by complaisant
legislators. While these foods for the
sportsmen's powder are increasing in
number, they are waxing fat in the
farmers field, gardens and orchards;
but those who thus unwillingly feed
them are not allowed to shoot them.
1t was such laws and customs as these
that goaded the farmers of France in
the time of Louis XIV.