Connecticut western news., 1907-02-21

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 Contrary to what may be q general notion, there are fewer crops that pull harder on the soil or which require heavy fertilizing more than do cab bageS.
 In the very nature of things the small farm and good roads will be found in the same locality. While the theory of good roads may be fully understood, they are hardly to be looked for where farms run half section in size or larger
 A tilling of wet land means, as a rule, not only an increase in the num- Der of acres which can be devoted to agricultural purposes, but it means that the newly added acres are the richest and most fertile of any on the farm.
 Wood ashes contain valuable fertiliz- ing agents and should be scattered di- rectly on the garden or placed on g C0f+ .,g,.o on the other hand, contain fertilizer and should be used to fill up depres- sons or scattered on the highway.
 Roughly speaking, a carload of corn Is worth $250; carload of butter is worth $5,C0O The difference in the value of the two carloads not only i'm plies big difference in freight charges on the basis of the value of the cargo transported, but also represents great difference in the amount of fertility which is taken from the soil in the two cases.
 A good many communistic and CO., operative enterprises have gone to smash because of the fact that tco many members went into the expert ,ment with minds we'll imbued with the idea that there was to be equality Of privilege and opportunity, but seemed at the same time to be utterly obliv wise equality of responsibility.
 If cream patrons exercise ordinary care in the matter of covering their cream after separating, it won't be necessary for the hauler to fish dead rats and mice out of the tank when he dumps his load at the creamery. But some people are careless along these lines and won't care particularly if the animal that got into the cream can wasn't larger than; a woodchuck.
 While the local banker is not always infa11b1e In his judgment, 1t can be put down as pretty sure thing that there would be millions less hard earn ed money squandered every year if no outside investments were made except on his recommendation. If you have become ardently interested in some faraway bonanza mining enterprise and 1t is of SC shaky financial backing that your banker wouldn't put his money into it, it will be a pretty safe thing to steer shy of 1t.
 The prickly pear or cactus, which is coming to be used as a forage plant in parts of Texas, has a fodder value Of ore-slxth that of and equal weight of dry sorghum hay. Steers fed on a cac- tUs and grain ration showed a gain of one and three-quarter pounds per day, which, though not large increase, was made at a cost of 31a cents per pound. The cacti are sometimes singed with gasoline blaze to do away with the spines and in tbe feeding iexperi- ment referred to were shredded before feeding.
 Figures compiled including the crop returns of the past year show re- markablc growth in the wheat grow ing industry in the southwestern states during the past twenty years. The figures for Nebraska, Kansas and Tex as are of particular interest. Tn 1887 Kansas produced 7,607 ,0OO bushels of wheat; in 1895, 64939,OOO bushels, and In 1906, 91, 5,000. Nebraska in the same years produced 16,5S5,C GOO, 34,- 679,0O0 and 51,72O,O00 bushels respec- lively, while Texas made a showing of 15,450,O00, 93,4S0,OOO and 140,74O,OOO bushels of wheat at the same intervals.
 Illinois legislators are this winter giving quite serious discussion to tho plan of employing the convicts of the state penitentiary in improving the highways of the commonwealth. Con- sidering its advance along many other lines, Illinois is decidedly backward when it comes to the good roads propa- ganda, and the plan suggested would seem to have much in it's favor. Che of the arguments that are being most | strongly urged in favor of the plan is that it would remove the convict labor from direct competition with the free labor of the state inasmuch as in sew eral neighbofing states this prison la-