Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1881-05-12

WHITE SULPHUR SPI
IHE fact that one seed house in Denver
is disposing ofits third car load of alfalfa
seed at rapid rate is an unerrino index
that this valuable forage plant has establish
ed Itself in the regards of of our aglicultur-
ISIS, great and small. In a word, alfalfa has
come to stay.-Colorado Farmer.
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UPLAND rice, from seed imported from
Japan, is said to grow with the same Gu lt,1re
given to wheat, is to be tested this wear at
the Agricultural College grounds, in El
Haso, county, Colorado, by the members of
the horticultural Society. and in the virini-
ty OF Denver
HERE is a good word for muck: "It is
cooling to the soil 10 summer, and warm
ing in winter; it collects moisture. and re-
tains it; it erates the earth, is reservoir of
ammonia aid other kinds OF plant food. not
the least OF which are its crumbling shells
aud fragments of petrifactons.''
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WHEN we take into consideration the
great quantity of flowers which can be cut
in small space from heliotropes when full
ly grown, their delicious fragrance and uni
versal popularity, we are surprised at the
small amount of their bloom usually found
in ameteur collections
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ASA GRAY says: Most of our esteemed
fruits have not SO much been given to man
as made by him, and mans work ia mainly
to direct the course and tendency of nature"
BY these methods the farmer and the florist
are producing wonderful results in the i'm
proyement of their products. often being
surprised to see how kindly nature cooper
ates to bring forth the objects they desire.
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The Minnesota millers are now fighting
the old-fashioned flour barrels. Their cry
is tor cotton sacks holding half barrel of
flour. The millers urge in favor of the
change, that -four does not sift through a
good cotton bag as much as it sifts through
barrel, and while barrels are worth forty
five cents each, sacks cost only ten cents
apiece q saving on barrel Of -four of twen-
ty-tiye cents, with the sacks left. Flour is
shipped to Glasgow and Rotterdam in sacks
and they are valued as highly there as here.
TIE report of the Ohio Board OF Agricul-
tuae just published gives an unfavorable
outlook Tor the winter wheat, showing that
it has been injured more seriously than pre-
vious reports intimated, and Secretary
Chamberlain, who has travelled extensively
over the State, reports the condition as crit
ical. In many places entire fields are win
ter-killed and will be plowed up. Although
the acreage put under crop last fall was set
down officially at five per cent. increase,
yet Mr.. Chamberlain thinks the yield next
harvest will not be over seventy per cent.
of the production of $780, which was 52,-
100000 bushels, With very favorable
season, however, many sickly fields may
recover, and happily disappoint present
gloomy expectations.
The news from Iowa is discouraging to
those who have expected a big surplus of
corn in that State off the last crop. Vast
quantities have been used for fuel, and
quantity tol feeding, ow-
ing to the unusual severity of the winter;
and in addition to that, it is feared that
great deal is lost. More was left standing
ia the fields than ordinarily, and the storms
have beat it down, leaving it to be covered
up in the frozen slush, which will prevent
a great deal from being merchantable. OF
course there is corn LETT, and so much of it
as to leave no danger of a corn famine, but
it also diminishes the danger of a corn glut,
which was feared by some. 1t now looks
as if there will not be much old corn left in
the West by the time the next crop is ready
to use, and it may be more scarce six
months hence, than at the same date at any
previous year since the was.-Chicago 11i6-
l4ne.