Connecticut western news., 1907-10-24

The value of good manure spreadel lies not only in the fact that 1t saves labor in the spreading of the fertilizer, but in the more important fact that the manure available will go more than twice as far if scattered with the spreader than if handled in the usual way.
 While the gasoline engine as a mo tor power does not often kick the dash board off or get its tail over the lines the driver of good horse is often glad that he Is not owner of the motor which he passes dead on the roadway, with the generator on tear or a tire busted.
 Higher education is justifiable for the boy and girl when they are interested enough in acquiring it to be willing to pound most of 1t and the expense of it out with their own energies. If 1t is not looked upon as something worth working for 1t will be worth relatively little when realized.
 In many cases If the property is kept in fathers or mothers name until the close of life 1t will insure considera- ton from children who if the property were divided might grow somewhat careless and neglectful. The showing of respect and consideration to par ents ought to be entirely apart from mercenary considerations of this kind, but it is not always so.
 If the lawn has not seemed as thrifty as it might the past season it would be we'll not to cut the grass too short be- fore 1t freezes up, doing which would leave 1t largely unprotected. In addi- tion to letting 1t grow to fair length, 1t would be good idea also to scatter a liberal supply of we'll routed manure over 1t, letting the strength of 1t leach out slowly into the soil until spring. when the coarsest of 1t can be easily removed.
 While the first six weeks of the young turkeys life Is attended with considerable care by those who have them in charge, there is probably no money received for the things raised on the farm that comes easier than that obtained from the turkeys at Thanksgiving time. They are great rangers and aside from little grain subsist almost entirely on crickets, grasshoppers and other insects which do injury to the farm crops.
 Recently there was unearthed in the celebrated fossil beds of Montana the skeleton of giant prehistoric lizard which measured 314 feet in length, which is the largest geological speci- men ever discovered. The magnitude of this animal will be more easily comprehended when 1t is stated that in life its body would stretch from street to street through an ordinary city block, while its head was carried about forty feet above the ground.
 The delicate sense of smell possessed by the Irish setter and the sense of di- rection exhibited by the carrier pigeon and the polar seal as 1t ranges from the opening beneath its home in the inky black waters of the arctic seas in search of food for its young are every day yet marvellous exhibitions of the wisdom and power of an all wise Crea- tor, who has equipped his creatures in a mysterious manner to cope success, fully with their environment.
 The relative protein value of wheat and corn Is Illustrated in a recent bull letin issued by the department at Washington. It shows that 10 cents will buy four pounds of corn at a price of 21a cents a pound, containing protein content of .31, while 1t will buy two pounds of wheat at 5 cents a pound with protein value of 1. The summary at the close of the bulletin is to the effect that for most feeding purposes corn was the more practical and economical of the two grains.
 There ought to be a law on the stat ute books of every state compelling the lazy lout who is content to loaf around all season and let his wife take in washing to provide for the family larder to wield a sledge on a munich pal stone pile and subsist on a diet of bread and water until he has a change of mind and habit. For the man who Is willing to work and Is prevented by physical ailment or disability there is ground for excuse, but for the fellow who can down three square meals a day and is strong and husky and won't work there is absolutely none He should be suppressed.
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