The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-12-26
FARM AND GARDEN.

will be the result of delay.
Perennial plants may be taken up;
divided and reset in new places.
Plants to be potted should be taken
up in time to be established before
cold weather.
The best test of good farming is
when each years crop is superior to
the one proceeding it.
The wheat crop in the Red River
Valley is nearly all thrashed, and the
yield proven satisfa ctory.
Dig sweet potatoes as soon as frost
touches the vines. Handle carefully,
and store in barrels or boxes.
Irrigation will take the place of ma
richly repays the labor expended.
1t is said that wheat is cheaper in
England now than it has been before
since 1880, q hundred and four years
ago.
A prominent poultry raiser says that
5000 hens cared for in q proper man.
ner will show an annual profit of
$4,000.
A general cleaning up around the
barns and outbuildings is now in or
der, and should be made before winter
sets in.
Eggs packed in well dried ashes,
and so as not to touch each other, have
been kept perfectly sweet for twelve
months.
AS soon as frosts put in an appear
ance the beets should be harvested, Sc
cure the carrots next and follow with
the turnips.
Early lambs, to those who have the
facilities for raising them, are always
profitable. Plan now for lambs to
come in March.
Green corn stalks touched by frost
should be shocked as soon us possible.
The bleaching process will go on rap
idly if left exposed.
Get the hogs in good condition
early. Do not wait until cold weather
to fatten under adverse circumstances
and at increased cost.
Of sixty different varieties of grapes
fruited in the vineyards of the Kansas
Agricultural College, Moore's early
gave the first ripe fruit.
Dust from the public highway with
woods dirt may be profitably stored
now for winter use in the pig pen,
privy and chicken house.
President Wilder estimates the value
of our fruit crop annually, at $40, ,O0O,-
600. One million bushels of small fruits
were received at Chicago in 1888.
A gardener recommends sowing
onion seeds in the fall. Ove1 the beds
place some mulch for protection.
Early onions may be thus secured.
Keep the horses in the stables at
night. The season is too far advanced
for night pasturing. A cold storm
might do exposed horses much harm.
From March l to September IS Chi
cago packers slaughtered 1,451, 900
hogs, being one thousand less than for
the corresponding period year ago.
The great problem in modern dairy
ing seems to be now to make the live
COW compete with the dead hog. So
far, the hog is about two lengths
ahead.
Cider apples are not injured by light
frosts. Placed in heaps, the fruit
loses water and the juice becomes
richer Cool weather is best for cider
making.
The barren nature of soil containing
much tannin is due to the fact that it
precipitates in an insoluble form the
constituents which are most necessary
for plant life.
The Farm Journal puts it in this
way: '.If the fair is a fair, attend and
help build it up. If it is gambling
concern in any form, stay away and
help break it down."
The Mississippi Valley produces 1885,
600 tons of cotton seed, one-fourth of
which is marketed in Memphis, much
of it being shipped in crude state
from that point to Italy.
Winter wheat may be sown up to the
middle of October. IT the soil is deep,
rich and mellow, late sowing may do
as well as early; the plants will escape
the ravages OF the Hessian fly.
Do you know that it is no easy mat
ter to find perfect tomatoP 1t must |
not only be seamless, but firm, |
smooth, without crack or blemish,
and ripened evenly in every part.
An apple twelve inches in circum-
ference and weighing one pound was
picked from tree in the orchard of
Loveland (Col.) ranchman, good evil
derce of that being fine section for
fruit.
The best potato as to real value, is
the one containing the largest per-
centage of solid nutrimept, that is,
starch and albumen. 1t is the starch
that makes the potato cook dry and
mealy.
A California bee-keeper takes the
position that no plant makes better
pasture for bees than alfalfa clover.
The honey made from it, he says, is
almost equal to that from white clover.
Bee keepers of other sections are of
the same way of thinking.
Many sheep will go into winter very
hin. Now is the time to feed well,
md be prepared for cold winter or a
bleak March. Stick to the good sheep
md take care of them, and let the
Door ones 60 to the butcher for NUT
on.
The agent for the Agricultural De-
,artment in Washington says that the
european wheat crop, though above |