Milk removes from the cow a large por
tion of impure matter which escapes in
this way from the animal without showing
any indication of its presence. Even pois
ons, such as that of (lie fatal milk sickness,
prevalent at this sea-on, are carried off
from (hecow in the milk without any evi
dence in the animal of the existence of the
fat il impurity.
IVint t Wheat.
There is no mistaking the fact that win
ter wheat is growing steadily in favor as a
part of the crop rotation in the west. A.
combination of causes ha-s led to this re
sult. Farmers must have some crop of
small grain with which to sow grass seed.
Spring wheat is becoming more uncertain
and unreliable along the entire border of
the spring wheat region. For some reason
it recedes farther and further northwest
each year. Blight and rust drove it con
tinually before them. When farmers get
down to the business of restoring fertility,
they soon get the land too ricii for oats,
and something must lie found as a nurse
crop for the grasses.
After clover has held the land for a few
years farmers find they car. grow winter
wheat even in central and northern lowa.
The uniform experience this y ear has been
that winter wheat paid better than spring.
Again farmers are begmuig to see that
there is a hopeful future for the price of
wheat. This arises from two entirely dis
tinct causes: one, the advance in silver
compelling the English buyer to pay twelve
cents more for the silver bullion used to
buy a bushel of wheat in India,'and hence
raising the competing point that much, and
the other that consumption in wheat has
very nearly caught up with production.
