Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-09-16

den and plant well than to half plant
q great quantity of stuff.
The community where the good dairy
cow il in the majority is the commu
nifty which is marked by contentment
and prosperity.
Pie 10 good, but nobody wants 1t three
times day, and nothing else. NJ
more does hog want corn month II
and month out without change.
The feeding out of the odds and end.
Of fodder before the cold and wet fal
weather ruins 1t is important ant
means the saving Of snug sum every
year.
Feed the COW all the hay or othel
roughness she will eat, even II she ii
running on good pasture. Her appetite
tells her better what she needs than
you can tell.
There are about twenty-five kinds Of
nut-bearing trees in the United States.
The consumption of nuts is increasing
rapidly, the demand evidently growing
much faster than the home supply ID
increased.
Some genius Of figures estimates that
the corn crop of Missouri for 1907
would I'LL 100000 farm wagons
which, II hitched close together, would
make chain that would reach around
the world.
All good sheep feeders have good
racks and feed boxes or troughs. A
dock may live II fed on ground, but
nothing less than keen hunger will
prompt SO delicate an animal to take its
feed from the wet and filth Of yard.
The tax commissioners Of some west
ern states are now trying to find out
whether they can tax land which was
previously entirely worthless, but
which through the expenditure Of large
sums Of money for irrigation has been
brought to large fertility.
In spite Of the fact that Professor
Milton Whitney says that there ID
enough land east Of the Missouri river
to sustain the population for the next
fifty years, Texas drainage system is
expected to reclaim 100000 acres
which lie along the coast.
i
The first butterfly farm was estab.
lished about ten years ago by William
Watkins. famous English entomol-
ogist, at Eastbourne, England There
are now many similar farms in France
and other countries. The object Of
these farms is to rear silk worms.
At the University Of Illinois nearly
100 students were last year enrolled
in the course of elementary bird study.
The object Of this work is to prevent
the needless destruction Of birds and to
teach farmer boys how to protect those
which are useful to them.
The Hoistein breeders in their re-
cent national meeting appointed q
committee to secure federal law for
the inspection of cattle for tubercu-
losis and to do away with inspection
by the states. There is no question
that such law would prove advan-
tageous.
A Kansas City man who went to a
neighboring poultry farm to buy a trio
picked out three good-looking birds and
rendered $50 bill in payment, expect
ing about $40 in change. He almost
tainted when he was informed that the
price Of the rooster and two hens was
$3.50.
Unless the stock is fed an amount
over and above that which is needed
for body maintenance there will be NO
gain. A thousand pound steer has
been found by experiment to require
daily IL pounds of timothy hay, u
pounds Of clover hay and seven pounds
Of corn meal just to keep on an even
keel. More must be fed II there IL to
be any gain.
II neighbor asks US to do an er.
rand or two while In town why be
grumpy We may want to ask favor
ourselves next day or next week. And
by the way, some men have a knack OF
doing troublesome act for neiphbor
In such manner us to create the i'm.
preston that 1t is the one thing that
gives him great pleasure. That is a
fine gift and we cannot cultivate 1t too
much.
1t seems at the present time that
the graduates of the state agriculture
al schools of the country are finding
no trouble In getting located. The
young man who knows the science OF
good farming and how to apply II
commands SIS to 500 a month, with
his board and lodging, and lives cas-
lily. comfortably and wholesomely. The
farmer, who can do So should give
his sons the education that will thus
lift them to the heights OF their occu
patton. Young men trained SO that
they can command such financial re
turns for their services to others car
use their scientific training to still
greater profit for themselves. The sci
entiflc farmer, who is worth 500 OF
$50 month to another man, is worth
$500 to 5000 to himself II he apply
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