Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-05-04

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Light seed not only means a poor
stand of grain, but mighty poor
showing in that which is able to get
head above ground.
When neighbors in community are
on cordial and friendly terms it not
only makes life more pleasant, but oft
times less expensive.
The enriching and preparation Of the
soil will have very much to do with
determining whether your yield of po-
tat0es this season is so or $50 bushels
per acre.
While money is an important factor
in contributing to the happiness Of
home life, wise Providence has or
dained that the essential principles Of
happiness are entirely apart from
financial considerations.
One Of the excellent features about
dairy which gives return Of 5000 to
5000 per year is that revenue is forth
coming at stated intervals throughout
the year instead Of in a lump sum, as
when grain or live stock is sold.
Those folks are moving too frequent
ly whose household operations do not
result in the accumulation of one rag
bag, while those either do not move or
clean house frequently enough in whose
garrets half dozen can be found.
instinct which causes folks to set
things of Questionable worth away
with a possibility Of their future use
as causes the dog to bury in the garden
an old bone from which he has gnawed
every possible vestigc Of flesh.
There was exhibited last year at the
Jamestown exposition White Orping-
ton hen that scored 81 points, which
makes her the most ideal poultry repre-
sentative Of her time. An added fact
OF interest in connection with this par
ticular bird Is that her owners value
her at close to $500.
That father Is a poor student Of boy
nature who gives the lad a pig with
the understanding that it Is a bona
fide transfer Of property and then
pockets the proceeds when the animal
Is marketed. This is a snide game Of
the first water, and the boy involved
therein has good grounds for grievance.
While there is danger now and then
that one will devote himself so exclu-
sively to one occupation or pursuit
that his faculties become warped as a
result. it is quite as unwise andNnsat-
isfactory for one to spread himself
doesn't amount to anything in any one
Of them.
Barring the first few weeks when
the stomach Of the calf is in tender
and sensitive condition and when no
ration is so well adapted for it as at
least a part whole milk, fat forming
ration can be fed in the shape Of oil
meal and cornmcal that is just as sat
isfactory and much less expensive than
in the shape Of butter fat in the milk.
While the state of Oklahoma IS rich
1y endowed with oil and mineral de-
posts, not the least valuable of her
varied assets are rich soil and gen.
ial climate, enabling her to grow boun-
t1ful crops Of cereal products. Last
year she produced 10000 5OO-pound
bales of cotton, worth not far from
S5O,0O0O0O, while her 100000 acres
devoted to winter wheat yielded a
gross revenue of not far from $4,000,
600. All her resources considered, Ok
lahoma is one of the most fayorably
situated states of the whole Union.
The economy effected by the use of
the separator in the dairy has been
proved so many times as hardly to
need further emphasis, but it Is we'll
to put the figures in black and white
once in awhile. Experiments noted by
the dairy department Of the New York
experiment station showed that in one
instance the loss in butter fat as q re-
suit Of setting milk in deep pans in
running water amounted to one pound
for every 100 pounds Of milk. In the
case of COW which gave an annual
yield of butter fat Of 300 pounds the
total loss on the basis of the above fig
ures would amount to ninety pounds
AS the result of a gradual yet al
most complete denudatio of many wa
tersheds in the Appalachian mountain
system cities and agricultural lands in
the territory referred to are now al
most completely at the mercy of spring
rains and freshets. 1t is conservative
~ estimated that the damage done in