Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-14

Dirt Is just the common name 70,
bacteria, which are merely the forerun
ners Of rot decay and dissolution.
Contrary to what may be a genera
notion, there are fewer crops that pull
4 harder on the soil or which require
heavy fertilizing more than do cab.
q 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 filling 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 d.
rectly on the garden or placed on q
compost heap. Soft or hard coal ashes,
on the other hand, contain fertilizer
and should be used to fill up depres-
sions or scattered on the highway.
Roughly speaking, carload Of corn
Is worth $3.50; carload Of butter is
worth $4,000. 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. -E
A good many communistic and CO.
operative enterprises have gone to
smash because of the fact that too
many members went into the expert
ment with minds well 1mbued with the
idea that there was to be equality of
privilege and opportunity, but seemed
at the same time to be utterly obliv-
ious Of the fact that there was like
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 woodchuck.
While the local banker is not always
infallible in his judgment it 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 it is of 50 shaky financial backing
that your banker wouldn't put his
money into it, it will be pretty safe
thing to steer shy of it.
The prickly pear or cactus, which is
coming to be used as forage plant In
parts of Texas, has fodder value Of
one-sixth that Of and equal weight Of
dry sorghum hay. Steers fed on cac
tus and grain ration showed a gain Of
one and three-quarter pounds per day,
which, though not large Increase,
was made at q cost Of 31a cents per
pound. The cacti are sometimes singed
with gasoline blaze to do away with
the spines and in the feeding expert
ment referred to were shredded before
feeding.
Figures compiled including the crop
yeturns Of the past year show re-
markable 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 In 1887
Kansas produced 1907, 900 bushels Of
wheat; in 1896, e4.o9eOOO bushels, and
a 1905 81, 26D, 600 Nebraska h the
Same years produced 1885, 900, a.
10000 and 51.T2O.00O bushels respeo-
lively, while Texas made showing OF
i, $4,000. oe,4oO,oO0 and 14074O.ooo
bushels of wheat at the Same intervals.
Illinois legislators are this wint11
giving quite serious discussion to the
plan of employing the conyicts Of the
state penitentiary In improving the
highways Of the commonwealth. Con-
sidering its advance along many other
lines, Illinois Is decidedly backward
when 1t comes to the good roads propa
ganda, and the plan suggested would
seem to have much In It's favor. One
Of the arguments that are being most
strongly urged in favor Of the plan is
that it would remove the convict labor
Z from direct competition with the free
labor Of the state, inasmuch as in sew
eral neighboring states this prison la
DOR is being employed in the manufac-
ture Of different articles Of commerce