The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-31
sects are plenty. They are No. lay
ers, hardy and easy to raise.

, three-fourths. Low grades are tn
, opposite, or all gradations below hal
, breeds.
In the counties in Northern Illinoi
the wages of farm laborers the presen
season average 81 with board, 81. p
without board, $3.50 per month with
board and S2775 without board.
Wages are lower in the central and
southern portions of the state.
The culture of hemp has been re-
vived in Central Illinois the present
season. The fiber is to be sold to the
manufacturers of Irvine for self-bind-
ers. 1t is thought that the demand
for hemp for this purpose will cause
this crop to be extensively raised in
! the future.
The Gardeners Monthly says that
those who have set out trees the past
spring should take the first chance of
dry spell to loosen the soil deeply
about them with a fork, and imme-
diately after beat it down hard again
with the heel or with some tool suit
able for the purpose.
The sweet potato is one of the most
valuable crops grown. In addition to
being favorite on the table it makes
excellent food for stock. Hogs fatten
very quickly on cooked sweet potatoes,
which are cheap article of food, con-
sidering that three hundred bushels
per acre is not an unusual yield.
The tropical gooseberry, which is
cultivated IN Florida, grows on
handsome tree from ten to fifteen feet
in height. The fruit is rather smaller
than the Siberian crab apple and the
shape ffattened globe. 1t contains
one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
erately valuable, but the tree is orna-
mental.
1t may not generally be known that
the English walnut is the most profit
able of all the nut bearing trees.
When in full bearing they will yield
about 800 pounds of nuts to the tree.
II only twenty-seven trees are planted
IN an acre, says Los Angeles or
'hardist, the income would be $549
Der acre, or from twenty acres, S1O,-
800 per year.
Complaints are becoming more and
more rife of the ravages of the army
worms and chinch bugs IN various
ections of the West and in California.
eedlng to wheat year after year is
ure not only to impoverlsh the soil .
isastrously, but also favors the null
pl1cation of insect pests whenever
avorable seasons occur for their {
The Increasing preference of manu- +
lcturers the past season for unwash-
woods to be washed has been more
otlceable of late, in that many lots c
washed woods held at what have t
zen considered relative prices are f
Ill unsold on all markets, while un-
ashed, of the same grades, are all il
Id. 1t is better for all concerned a
at wool be shorn unwashed. r,
Millet, hungarian and orchard grass v
e poor Substitutes for good mead s.
7 of clover or timothy, although thew q
n serve on occasion to supplement
e loss OF these more valuable pro-
cts. The search for new varieties ~
plants to take the places of the I'M "
sirable old is commendable, but the u
rage plant that can take the place of
,ver and timothy for hay is yet M
1gling the soil of some whatsoever 81
country.
Jabbages and caullfowers will do IL
ter upon old ground, which is rich
d mellow from previous cultivation. NJ
Q manure should be old and we'll al
ted, as green manure will not I'D
Ike a solid heat, although 1t NAV
Ike rank growth OF leaves. Many IL
our good gardeners are using arti-
al manure for these crops, apply M
, no stable or barnyard manure,
,epting such as may have been nut ST.
for previous or earlier crop.
If the use of cotton-seed meal for IN
ry COWS an En- glish writer says -n'
y COWS get from three to four
lnds of cotton cake every day. The az 80.
nifty and quality of the cream IS e.
sensibly increased by its use that if he
chance the cows are without it for ~
, days it is at once noticed. In h.
amer the cake IS especially valua- ~
making the butter firm. Oat- =
al and bran induces large yields of or'
K, but cotton-seed cake gives e em
am" CIV
Speakin' of productive soil," said an,
man from Dakota, 1.-THE half has the
been told A few weeks ago my fri,
oaiu my oohh, utf6 tha
we took to CROWN agin.'
lsured myself, an | hope Gabriel mo
Miss me at the final roundup, if l
MT grown six inches in two weeks. wo
couldn't account for it for somo sin,
3, till at last mbled to the fact On
, thar war holes in my boots, an c
internal soil got in thar an done ~ p
work. lns
bushel of clover contains between ask
en- and sixteen millions of seeds, me,
eek to the acre would give eighty hus
N seeds 10 the square foot. One A
TT to the acre would be ten seeds, "
from this it is easy to determine to I
many seeds would stand on each fral
ire foot of land with given num- Il
of quarts to the acre, supposing saw
y seed 10 be perfect and grow. gun
about twenty per cent, on the av- folh
e, is imperfect, and frequently eve
lty-five per cent of the remainder %
for want of suitable place for frar
nination. dres
A Fable. IT