Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-06-19

SOIL is composed of rocks and untillable
soil, make barrel garden" And It
gives full direction for making one.
from which cucumbers, radishes, peas
and even beans may in due time be
harvested probably not all from one
barrel.
There is strike in a near city. The
slogan is:
Eight hours work,
Eight hours rest,
Eight hours sleep,
Eight dollars pay.
1t costs to fly across the Atlantic. 1t
has been figured out the planes and
equipment cost 100000 each, and that
the research work brings the total 10
s250,O00. To this is added the cost of
the destroyers patrol, which makes
total of s1,OOO,OOO.
The destroyer cost is largely one of
bookkeeping, for the vessels would
have ben on other stations if not here,
and the only actual cost is the Yroblem-
attic item of extra fuel.
Was it worth it? The cost would
or done many other things worth while.
have built many miles of good roads
However. that experiment may lead to
something greater and in the end be
worth far more to the world.
* & =
The other day a convention of book
publishers and book sellers was held
in Boston. AS to the making of books
the business is increasing but the old
fashioned book stores are being sup
planted by the book sections in the
big department stores. 1t was once
pleasure to wander into a book shop
and browse among the tones but that
day, like the tallow candle, is almost
a thing of the past.
Two Baraboo people, one who spent
the winter in Florida and one who
spent the winter in California, have
been comparing prices. The Florida
visitors finds that eatables are higher
in the Land of Flowers than in
Claifronia and the other thought SO all
the time. Those who go to California
must pay more car far, however, and
this about makes up for what is saved
in boarding. All in all it is case of
the difference between tweedle and
tweedle dee.
In the BarabOO school one girl, in
defining an alien, said he was an I'M
civilized citizen.
Beef will be down in price when,
oh when?
In telling of the recent visit of the
John Muir club at the George Stauden-
mayer farm in Caledonia, the Madison
Democrat says:
But an amazing revelation to the
members of the club was Senator
Staudenmayer's farm. If there is
more remarkable instance in all Wis
consin of the creation of magnificent
farm by bona fide farmer, solely
through his own efforts in scarcely
visitors could cite it, Here is place
of over 900 acres, all under finest
cultivation except three or four acres
of a little lake in vast pasture, a
handsome new colonial home than
which few houses even in Madison are
more commOdiOus, two mammoth
barns "a big elevator for grain, one
stupendous silo that alone holds 500
tons, another half as large, upwards of
a hundred blooded Holsteins MIXED Of
course by machinery, half as many
more of younger quality over hum
dred hogs soon to be sold for thousands
of dollars, eighteen or twenty horses
for the actual operation of the farm,
two worthy sons of infinite value to
their solid father in running the giant
place and fourth on yet another 900
acre tract a few miles away; and three
capable daughters also who manage
the home admirably in the absence OF
mother whose loss few years since
Senator Staudenmayer yet profoundly
mourns. This truly remarkable farm
shows in every part the master hand
and brain of the practical, experienced,
intelligent, systematic agriculturist. No
weeds, no boulders, no leaning posts
or sagging fence wires are visible;
fields are titled to an extraordinary
nicely; rows are straight; buildings up
kept to perfection-the whole place
simply model of able, methodical
farming.
Senator Staudenmayer grows no
wheat, but enormous qualities of corn
and oat sand hay. Some of the oats
sells-all else is fed to his Holsteins
and hogs; the fertilizer thus remains
to enrich the farm; the cream, sep
arated on the place, goes to the Bara-
boo creamery, pork as it natures to
profitable market. One cOrnfield alone
contains 80 acres, and not tree or
stone or bush anywhere mars its rich,
black, finely narrowed surface yet
this indeed is the condition over all