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Show Turkey and Chicken Crop. "From all reports there will b a shortage In tho turkoy crop this year," says W. .... Ogden In the Sioux City, Iowa, Tribune, "but It la im-posslblo im-posslblo to approximate what th shortage will be as the turkey season will not bo on until October. This has been a bad season for growing turkeys owing to the heavy rains. Young, turkeys will not thrive In wet weather. Last year thero was a shortage short-age In tho amount of turkeys raised because of tho scarcity ot the food. Then tho crop was only about 76 por cent and from all reports It will be still less this year. I don't bellevo thero will bo much of a falling off In tho number of chickens raised this year. So far tho market looks good with prices several cents higher than last year. At this tlmo last year spring chickens sold at nine cents per pound. This year there Is an In-crcaso In-crcaso of two cents In tho price. Tho mnrkot prlco for hens nlso Is nbout two cents higher than last year. This Increnso, however, Is not duo to a shortngo In tho crop, but Is brought about owing to tno high prlco of meat. Bocauso of this raisers aro eating chickens Instead ot sondlnz them to tho market Feeding Cattle. Plg3 should always follow tho fattening fat-tening cattle, nt least one pig to every two steers. A good way to feed fodder fod-der corn Is to havo two largo yards or fields, hog tight Scatter the corn fodder in yard No. 1 and allow your fattening cattle to bo in thero for the first half day. Scatter more corn fodder fod-der In yard No. 2, and drive cattle from yard No. 1 to yard No. 2 for the second half day. Then drive the other stock pigs, cattle and horses into yard No. 1 whore the fattening cattle have been, and they will pick up everything, so there will not be any waste. - When you have fed this way for two or three months confine your fattening fatten-ing cattle In a small yard and feed snapped corn for about a month or six weeks. If tho weather Is cold, shelled corn Is better for them, mixed with about one-fourth oats and a little oil cake. For coarso food, clover or timothy hay Is tho best, but if hay Ib scarce stock fed In this wny will do well on straw. Always havo plenty of water where they can get at it; also keep salt mixed with sulphur sul-phur in front of them. A. M. Stewart Stew-art The World's Wheat Crop. According to Beerbohm'a estlmatci the world's wheat crop this year Is 2,861,200,000 bushels ot 60 pounds, against 2,801,200,000 such bushels In 1901, a difference of 60,000,000 bushels In favor of this year. This Is the largest larg-est crop since that ot 1898, which Deerbohm puts down at 2,962,400,000 bushels of 60 pounds. Tho crop of the Southern hemisphere included in these figures Is in each case that ot tho harvest following the Europoan harvest of the year for which tho estimate es-timate Is given. Thus tho estimate for 1902 Includes the estimated crops to be harvested In tho Southern hemisphere hemi-sphere a few months hence. Tho crop of Argentina to be harvested In November, No-vember, December and January next Is put down at 80,000,000 bushels, a considerable Increase on the last crop ot that country. Uruguay and Chill, too, are credited with Increased crops, but the crop ot Australasia is estimated esti-mated at only 32,000,000 bushels, which Is less than the production ot any recent year, although short crops In that part of the world have, with only two exceptions, been the rulo for almost a decade past. Roots In Hog Feed. So far as economy Is concerned little lit-tle can be said aoout roots In the ration ra-tion for the hog. But they have a value val-ue In addition to the nutriment that Is In thorn. It takes from six to eight pounds of roots to equal In feeding value ono pound of mixed grain. But the feeding ot roots keeps tno animals In good condition, which In turn helps them uso to advantage tho grains thoy receive. They prevent young and growing pigs from getting too fat Hogs as well as other animals seem to want somo bulky ftod and the roots supply that need. In fact the snout of tho hog was given him to permit hi m to dig Into the earth after roots, and wo can well lmugtno that they are therefore of unusual valuo to him. There Is little doubt that roots aro not fed to hogs In America as freely as they should be. Money In Good Fruit. Someone has said that the money In fruit Is In good fruit and not In bad. This Ib the exact truth of the situation, situa-tion, whether the fruit be apples, pears, peaches, or any other kind. Largo peaches, for Instance, always bring a fancy price. That great peach grower, K. Morrill ot Michigan, long ngo realized this truth, and so every year thinned tho peaches In his orchard orch-ard till he had growing only those that would make largo flno peaohes, The result has bcon that he has sold year by year peaches In Immenso quantities that brought fancy prlcos. But as yet few growers are practicing this sensible sen-sible act, having either not the knowledge ot Its value or tho grit to do It. It takes some grit to pick oft thousands ot peaches nt a time when the fruit is small and when it does not seem to be overloading tho trees. |