Show turkey and chicken crop 1 I rom all reports there will be b a shor shortage taga in the turkey crop this ear says W ogden in the sioux lity ioa iowa tribune but it la Is tin im possible to approximate what the shortage will III be as the turkey season will not be on until october this las has been a bad season for or growing turkeys owing to the heavy rains young turkeys will not thrive in wet weather last year there was a short age in the amount of 0 turkeys raised because of th ahn scarcity of the food then the crop was only about ag per cent and from all reports it will b bo still less this year I 1 don bont t believe there will be much of a falling off in the number of chickens catald this ear so far the market looks good with prices several cents higher than last year at this time last year spring chickens sold at nine cents per pound this year there Is an in crease of two cents in the price the market price for hens also Is about two cents higher than last year this increase Ir crease however Is nut due to a 9 shortage in the crop but la Is brought about owing to the prica price of meat because of this ral balsera sers are eating chickens instead of them to the market feeding cattle pigi should always follow the tat fat cattle at least one pig to every two steers A good way to feed tod fed arr tit r corn Is to have two large yards or fields hog tight scatter tie tl e corn fodder in yard no 1 and allow your fattening cattle to be in there for the first halt day scatter more corn fod fed der lu lit yard no 2 and drive cattle from yard no 1 I to yard no 2 for the second half day then drive the other stock pigs cattle and anti horses into yard no I 1 where the fattening cattle have been and they will alk up everything so there will not be any waste 1 hen you have fed this way for two or three months confine your fatten ing cattle in a small yard and teed feed snapped corn for about a month or six weeks it if the weather Is cold shelled corn Is better tor for them mixed with about one fourth oats and a little ell oil cake for coarse food clover or timothy bay Is the bet bett but if hay Is scarce stock fed in this ray way will do well on straw always bave have plenty of water where they can get at it also 1 keep salt mixed with eul sul chur la in front ot of them A M stew art the world worlds wheat crop Al cording to beerbohm a estimates the world worlds wheat crop this year Is 2 bushels ot of 60 pounds against euch such bushels in 1901 a difference of GO bushela bushels in favor ot of this year this Is the larg est crop since that 0 of 1898 which beerbohm puts down at bushels of 60 pounds the crop ot of the southern hemisphere included in these figures Is in each case that ot of the harvest following the european harvest of the year tor for which the es dimate Is given thus the estimate for 1902 includes the climatee cli ead mated crops to be harvested in the southern hemi sphere a few months hence the crop of argentina to be harvested in november december and january next Is put down at 80 bushels considerable increase on the last crop of that country uruguay and chill too are credited with increased crops but the crop of australasian alasia Is estimated at out bushels which Is less than the production ot of any recent year although short crops in that part ot of the world have v th ith only to exceptions been the rulo rule bior almost a decade past root roots in hog feed so tar far as economy Is concerned little littie can be aid said snout roots in the ra tion tor for the hog but they have a value in addition to the nutriment that la is in them it takes from six to eight pounds of roots to equal la in feeding value one pound of 0 mixed grain but the feeding of roots keeps tue tsie animals in good condition which jn in turn helps them ise se to advantage the grains they receive they prevent young and grow growing ing pigs from getting too fat hogs flogs as welt well is as other animals seem to want some bulky teed feed and the r supply that need in tact fact the snout of the hog bog was givon him to permit hiro him to dig into the earth parth after roots and we can well imagine that they are therefore of unusual value to him there ie Is little doubt that rocta roots are n not ot fe fed d to hogs bogs in amelca lea as fre fro ly as they should be money in good fruit someone has aid said that the money in fruit in 1 ID in good fruit and not in bad this la Is the exact truth of the situation whether the fruit be apples pears peaches or art other kind large peaches for instance always bring a fancy price that great peach grower R borrill of michigan MIchl can long ngo ago realized thia this truth and so every year thinned the peaches in his orchard tilt till be he bad growing only those that would make large fine peach the greult has been that he be has cold sold year by year peaches tn in immense quantities that brought fancy prices but hs yet fo growers are practicing this sensible act having either not tb knowledge of its value or the grit to do it it takes some grit to pick oft off thousand thousands of peaches at a time when the fruit Is 1 small and when it does do not seem to be overloading the uw trees |