The Bottineau courant., 1912-12-27


The statistical experts in a western
agricultural college have figured out
that the housewife who prepares the
meals for her family for year walks
total of 1875 miles No wonder she
| gets tired and needs q rest
The highest price ever recorded in
the sale of stallion was paid the 9th
er day by a syndicate of Paris turf
men for August Belmont's blooded
stallion Rock Sand. The amount in
volved in the transfer was $15O.OOO.
1t Is to be hoped that the farmers
! who have from 10 to 100 acres Of corn
to pick. running from fifty to eighty
bushels per acre. will get the job done
before a heavy snow comes. There's
| grief ahead Of them unless they do.
Sensible economy in the manage
ment of the country school district is
commendable, but this never takes the
| shape of hiring thirty dollar teacher
when one good deal more competent
can be got for Sc, So or even $40 more.
The clam beds on the upper Missis-
sippi have been so depleted by fishers
in search of pearls and button mate
rial that the federal government
through the bureau of fisheries has un-
dertaken to propagate clans in order
I to renew them.
! A satisfactory ration for the. young
sows that are to be carried through the
winter is corn. ten parts. and high
grade tankage. one part. II the sowS
are not to be bred until spring the
tankage ration should be decreased
about One-tifth.
Grown people often lose sight of the
exceptional food value Of rich and pure
milk as an article of diet. 1t is not
only worth all it costs for food. but for
building up a depleted and rundown
system it has patent medicines and
other dope doubly discounted.
There are scads of men who would
begrudge a quarter in cash for the
support of the church who take it as
q matter of course If contribution
three or four times this amount is put
into pot of beans. pies and angels
food for ladies' aid social. Men are
sort o queer anyway
Hungarian or millet cut at the right
time and cured bright and fresh makes
a fair horse feed. but 1t should not con-
stitute more than one-third Of the
roughage While cows can handle
more of this kind of hay. it does not
give the results in milk 6ow that either
clover or alfalfa does.
The last United States census shows
that there are 3O7.7O6 women farmers
In the country. This is considerable
gain over the number given in the pre-
vious census and is accounted for by
the large number of women who in
the past decade have homesteaded
claims in western states
The trouble with the eleven dollar
per hundredWeight steer for the aver
age farmer is that it is price paid for
the very cream of the beeves shipped
to market and not for the average run.
However. the price quoted should con-
tain suggestion for the farmer ~hO is
willing to take the pains to produce
such prime beeves.
While the writer has never had the
privilege Of eating dish Of October
stra W berries. he has somehow got ths
notion that they come quite bit short
Of being the equal in either sweetness
or favor OF the June grown fruit. 1t
takes. warmth and sunshine to give
stra W berries that richness and sweet
ness for which they are SO highly
priced, and these conditions do not ex-
lst as fully as they should during the
fall.
A western farmer who not long ago
shipped bunch of steers to central
market wanted to save the hide Of a
certain steer. Il Texas product that had
been finished on northern range. The
hide. weighing eighty pounds. was re-
! turned to him with q bill for, $3.50.
/ or little better than II cents pound.
II packers the country over are getting
prices in proportion for all the hides
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