Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-21

The drinking of eight tumblers of
water, rawling into bed and covering
oneself with four comforters is recon-
mended as sure cure for an ordinary
cold.
AS result Of the thrifty and econom-
tcal propensities of the average house.
wife the garnet or storeroom all too
often becomes the receptacle Of lot
Of buds and truck that would vastly
better be snapped for tinware or used
to start bonfire.
Experiments recently completed by
a western experiment station show
that corn fed as corn and cob meal
was worth "a 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 it's 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.
It seems to be perversfty 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 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
stbly 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 OF cockleburs and may en-
pect to reap in kind.
Recent carefully conducted tests with
standard make manure spreader
show that the use Of the machine ef-
fected a saving Of $75 per year in labor
and in the increased value Of the fer
Hlizers so handled. There Is food for
thought here for every agr1culturist
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 complete burning
of the carcasses Of animals that have
died Of contagious diseases Is the only
absolutely sure way Of preventing a
spread Of the contamination. Unless
buried very deep the tramp dog or
stray wolf is apt to dig portions Of the
up, resulting In likely source
Of Infection Burned there Is an abso-
lutte destruction Of all disease germs.
Irrigation, thing and Intensive csll-
ture are three things that are working
8 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
q few sections are they still to be
found, relics Of day that was charac-
terized by a more leisurely type Of
agriculture and a less strenuous type
of living, when folks did without tele-
phones and electric lights and the
stagecoach sufnced as means Of COM
munication and travel.
While the figures were somewhat diff
ficult to get at, the Maine experiment
station has issued bulletin In which
it states that the droppings Of one
adult chicken covering a period Of q
year amount to seventy-fve pounds,
while the value Of this as fertilizer is
rs cents. In view Of these facts and
since this fertilizer Is in so concentrat-
ed a form it should be we'll scattered