The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-24
Industrial Breyitles.

Industrial Breyitles.
The Michigan horticultural report
gives the following condensed and
useful directions. for the management
of apple orchards, furnished by j.. ID.
young orchards should be annually
cultivated until 10 years old. Barn
yard MANURE and leached ashes are
among the best and cheapest %fertiii-
zers, and literally applied they pay
well. When well in bearing the or
chard may be seeded to grass provided
it is kept fed short by sheep and pigs.
If the hogs are rung when weighing
sixty pounds or more they will not
bark the trees. Pigs aud sheep kept
early in the orchards during all sum-
mer, year after year. will destroy the
codling worm, keep the grass short,
and enrich the land with their drop
pings.
An Indiana farmer writes about tho
proper time to sow cloverseed. He
SAYS: ''For four successive years L
sowed in March, when the ground
was freezing and thawing, and failed
each year to get a stand worth leav-
ing. For three successive years | have
waited until my wheat had grown to
about eight to twelve inches high.
By that time it is firmly rooted in the
ground, then l dragged it with a light
sharptooth harrow or drag; then 1
sowed my seed while the ground was
fresh. Then l sowed about thirty
pounds of plaster per acre, and for
these three successive years | have
had a good stand of clover and good
crops of wheat"
A bird which attracts much atten-
ton in Arizona is named the road-run-
ner. 1t has u body about twelve in
ches long, with a tale of the same
length, and runs like a race-horse. 1t
is the determined enemy of the rattle
snake. Upon finding this reptile, it
gathers in its beak a cactus leaf load
ed with thorns, which weighs about a
pound, and lowering over the snake,
drops it upon him. This makes the
snake coil for fight, when the bird re-
turns with another and another, until
the mad serpent is either killed by his
bed of thorns or dies by his own pois-
on. The bird then proceeds to feed on
lis victim.
Orchard grass is a robust grower
and very tenacious of life. 1t masses
its roots so as to resist the encroach-
ment of other grasses, covering much
Of the ground with its large pendant
leaves that spring out near the base OF
the plant to shade, nourish, and enrich
the soil not occupied by the plant it.
self. This, perhaps accounts largely
for its ability to endure excessive
drought. 1t will produce two large
crops of good hay on rich soil, and
submit TO more abuse than any other
forage plant, except blue grass which
is of little value in a very dry sea-
son.
Improvements in g%unpowder manu-
featuring are attracting attention. Sew
eral new methods have recently been
proposed, but the latest thing in this
line comes to us from the other side OF
the water. A Mr.. Nordenfelt is elab-
Grating a plan for mixing the ingredi-
ents in a liquid state. The sulphur is
Dissolved in bi-sulphide of carbon, the
carbonaceous matter is cellulose or
cotton fibre. reduced to an impalpable
powder and mixed with it, and lastly
the s~altpetre is added in the form of a
saturated solution.
On April Is, an industrial conven-
tlon will be held at Richmond, under
the auspices of the Virginia State Ag-
ricultural society. to discuss the best
and most practical means of further
ing the general prosperity of the state.
The executive COMMITTEE of the society,
Messrs. r. V. Gaines, w. @. Wick
ham, and A.. S. Buford, in their adj
dress to the people of Virginia, call
attention to the losses of the state by
large emigration from it to other
states. Good results are likely to arise
the proposed convention.
An Englishman is travelling through
with two pairs of ferrets, with
he is making money by killing
prairie dogs. He visits ranches where
there are indications of prairie dogs,
and offers to clean out the dog town
for l cent per dog. The cost is so
that the ranchman doesn't hest
tate to accept the offer. One ferret
will clean out from n to fifty dogs
he tires out, and when n is
tired out a fresh one is put into ser
vice, and so on until the place is rid
Of dogs.
A patron of the Edwards county,
Kansas, cremery says he received in
cash from the creamery for cream
rom twelve COWS for eleven months
Nov. 81, 1884, S2SS.93, and
375 cash for hogs made from the
,reamed milk, and also raised twenty
calves which are worth, to him, as
much as the cream brought, making
n all S54 per COW for eleven months.
lie says he don't know how he could
made the same amount so easily.
The total values of the exports OF
domestic cattle and hogs, and of beef,
,ork, and dairy products during Feb
'uary very S7,421.5 SS; February, 1884,
Sc, 954, 800; two months ended Feb |