Connecticut western news., 1908-03-26

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 Light seed not only means poor stand of grain, but a mighty poor showing in that which is able to get head above ground.
 When neighbors in a community are on cordial and friendly terms 1t 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 DO tatoes this season is 80 or 250 bushels per acre.
 While money Is an important factor in contributing to the happiness of home life, 6 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 a return of $600 to $900 per year Is that revenue is forth coming at stated intervals throughout the year instead of in 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.
 Wonder if it isn't much the same instinct which causes folks to set things of questionable worth away with 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 97 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 $2,50O.
 That father is a poor student of boy mature who gives the lad a pig with Ithe understanding that it Is a bona tfide transfer of property and then pockets the proceeds when the animal is marketed. This is snide game of the first water. and the boy involved therein has good grounds for grievance.
 While there is danger now and then N that one will devote himself so exclu- sively to one occupation or pursuit that his faculties become warped as a result, 1t is quite as unwise and unsat- isfactory for one to spread himself out over so many things that he doesn't amount to anything in any one of them
 Barring the first few weeks when the stomach of the calf is in a tender and sensitive condition and when no ration is so we'll adapted for 1t as at least q part whole milk, fat forming ration can be fed in the shape of oil meal and cornmeal that Is just as sat- ksfactory and much less expensive than in the shape of butter fat in the milk {
 While the state of Oklahoma is rich ly endowed with oil and mineral de- pOsits, not the least valuable of her varied assets are a rich soil and gen. iai climate. enabling her to grow boun- tifui crops of cereal products. Last year she produced 919,00O 5OO-pound bales of cotton, worth not far from $50.OOO,OO0, while her 1,3OO,OOO acres devoted to winter wheat yielded a gross revenue of not far from $25, ,OO0,- 900. All her resources considered, Ok lahoma Is one of the most favorably 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 well 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 a re- suit of setting milk in deep pans in running water amounted to one pound for every 100 pounds of milk. Tn the case of COW which gave an annual yield of butter fat of 300 pounds the total loss on the basis of the above fg- ures would amount to ninety pounds.
 AS the result of a gradual yet al- most complete denudation of many wa tersheds in the Appalachian mountain system cities and agricultural lands in the territory referred to are now all most completely at the mercy of spring rains and freshets. It is conservative ly estimated that the damage done in