The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-08-26

appearance on q 900 salary. This
common error Is the parent Of many
defalcation, many q divorce and fire.
quent suicides. Sometimes the man is
responsible, sometimes the woman and
quite often both.
The grass growing along the side Of
the road adjoining ones land belongs
to the owner of the property, and he
may prevent his neighbor across the
way from cutting it, but he cannot
deny the mover or traveller the right
of securing what he may require for
his passing needs.
For the person engaged at hard man
ual toll there are few rations that are
more appetizing or satisfying than a
well cooked dish Of pork and beans.
The reason for this seems to be that
beans are very rich in heterogeneous ele-
ments, which are necessary in keeping
the human organism in good working
order.
Some one who has looked into the
ings-asserts that bananas are twenty
five times as nutritious as wheat bread
and forty times as nutritious as pota-
toes. With bananas selling at 10 cents
dozen they would seem to be most
! economical food even il the above ra-
ito is three or fourfold too large.
Whiln Of he CHI oh
! go to the young stock on the farm.
| properly for the making Of cottage
cheese for the boys and girls, whose
uninterrupted growth and development
are just as important as that Of the
calves anc little pigs. Dutch cheese,
as 1t is quite commonly called, is in
expensive, appetizing and nutritious.
! An interesting case has recently been
decided in New York. A retail dealer
was fined 500 and costs for selling
bottled vinegar which had been labeled
| Pure Cider Vinegar by the whole
saler. The retailer sued the wholesale
dealer to recover damages, but the case
went against him. On appeal IL. deci-
sion Of the lower court was reversed,
throwing the responsibility for the
false label on the proper person, the
wholesaler who bottled the adulterated
product.
Denmark annually exports to Eng.
lish markets 49,. 500 900 pounds of but
ter. This fetches ON an average 40
cents pound and represents value
| Of 55,OOO,COO. Yet Denmark is but
about one-third the size Of the state
Of Wisconsin. 1t would make inter
esting figuring to take a pencil and
see what the value of butter would
be were all sections of the country to
| go into the butter business on the
Denmark scale and receive the same
| price per pound.
Along with other agricultural doc
trines that need disseminating the
coming year Is this one--that there is
just as much money to be made, and
with a whole lot less fuss and fret on
the small farm Of from fifty to eighty
acres as on the larger one running
from 100 to 400 acres. Soil that has
been gradually robbed Of its fertility
can never be put back to it's original
state of productiveness except by in
tensive methods. which can only be
practiced on limited areas.
| The old saying at never rains but
1t pours" finds painful illustration this
season in portions of Manitoba and
North Dakota, which, in addition to
being badly drought stricken, have
been overwhelmed with a pest of
black grasshoppers. which attacked the
green things in the garden first and if
these did not suffice to safe their hun
cry maws lit in on the grainfelds and
destroyed them. The settlers in the
afflicted areas are certainly entitled to
public sympathy and assistance.
An entirely new scope and meaning
might be given to the work Of the
average country school were the teach
er to send to the department OF agri.
| culture for the bulletin entitled Boys
and Girls Agricultural Clubs" some
account Of which was given in a re-
| cent issue of these notes. II the coun-
| ty superintendent does not have suf
ficient push and enterprise to bring
this matter to the attention of the
teacher and pupils they might gel
copies Of this bulletin in the manner
suggested and after they have looked
them over bring pressure to bear upon
him to take steps to organize such
clubs in the county.
| The law in most states makes streams