The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-11

/ to remember next spring, when planting
potatoes, to put in each hill a couple, OF
/ fax seeds. That is, If you have faith in
| what a Wisconsin man says he has
proven viz. that the growing fax
plants will keep off the potato bugs.
At the last meeting of the Illinois
Wool Growers Association, member
said II am satisfied that the free use of
sulphur will prevent, if not cure, the
scab in sheep. Two flocks of sheep on
farms adjoining mine, were badly affect
ed with the scab, and several times, for
three or four years, scabby sheep
would occasionally be with mine, and
did not then and never did have scabby
sheep. While these scabby focks were
near me and.for two or three years after
| fed freely of sulphur. Should ever
have scabby sheep I would use sulphur
freely inside and outside before trying
any other remedy"
Josiah Hopes says: Eve frequently
notice plants tied up in huge mass of
straw, as if the owner intended to pre-
vent air ever reaching them, and in
many instances he accomplishes this
end. The plant is really smothered to
death, or else is quite often rotted by
Vic D1lCSS b4ldL anu
which mostly causes a growth of mold
destructive to plant life. The true OBJ
ject of protecting the portion of the
plant above ground is to shield it from
the vicissitudes of our changeful eli
mate; and while aiming at this, care
fully avoid using any material that will
prevent free circulation of air through
the branches. There can be nothing
better than evergreen boughs for the
purpose, butin fact, anything will answer
that thoroughly shades the tops from
the sun, while breaking the force of
high, cold winds. Keeping the plant
warm by means of covering was long
since classed as an exploded idea"
Some people, on every occasion when
opportunity offers, take pains 10 remove
all the stones they can see from the soil
IN their gardens. Perhaps it might not
be too much to say that, nine times in
ten, mischief is done rather than good
by the practice. Stones in soil serve
more than one useful purpose. When
laying on the surface, they act as
slow decay and disintegration by the
tribute to the replacement of the food
lAOlil tllC Gull ny bltO 1OObo Vi
plants. When the staple of the soil is a
stiff clay, their action is particularly
beneficial, as they break up its coherency
and modify the texture. Professor
Wrightson, in his handbook of "Agri-
culture" says: MANY soils now work
ed as light lands would be unavoidable
clay were they not lightened up and
divided by countless stones" 1t is true
light, stony soils soon dry up, the water
easily percolating through them, and
subsoil being generally of the same
character, water Is soon drained away.
Further, stones absorb no moisture, the
amount of moisture absorbed by. the
soil being in the inverse ratio (other
things being equaD to the quantity of
stones it contains. But removing the
stones will not remedy the evil. That
would not add to the stock of moisture,
neither would that removal increase
the quantity of plant food nor enlarge
the extent of root room. With regard
to the aforementioned particular. the
only effect of the removal of the stones
would be to make the soil shallower.
There is yet another Office performed by
stones in the soil. By breaking its con-
tinuity it checks capillarity or the up
ward motion of its moisture to the sur
face, thereby indirectly retarding evap-
Grafton. Howbeit, if the subsoil con-
tanned marterials OF sufficient quantity
and suitable to the end, and it were
practicable by deep trenching, with the
removal of the stones, to form a soil of
sufficient depth and of suitable texture
for the healthy, vigorous growth of
plants, then the carrying out of the OPP
Grafton might prove an advantage.-Er.
An experienced and extensive cattle
raiser writing to an exchange, says:
will now give few more reasons why 1
prefer to handle Polled cattle:
In the first place we all prefer those
cattle that can be raised with the least
trouble and expense-those that will
give the best pay for the amount of feed
consumed; those that can be shipped to
market with the least expense, risk and
shrinkage. and those that when on the
market will bring top prices. The kind
of cattle that will fill the bill are those
that take the least room around feed
troughs, racks or rickS or i'll the barn,
and waste the least; all this without in
juring each other. Space for feeding
purposes costs money, whether rack
room. trough-room or barn-room.
The Polled cattle will stand as close as
sheep, 10 eat, anu tildl, LOU, WltHOUb III
turing each other You can safely let
them run with any kind of stock and
there will be no damage done. [ never
heard of man being Killed by a Polled
bull, but we often read of men being
killed by horned bulls. never heard
of any serious damage being done by
Polled cattle; on the other hand, where
is the farmer that has not suffered from
the i'll effects of horns? If not in prop
erty, in person?
When it comes to shipping to market,
you can put at least one more in the ear
than you can of horned cattle OF similar
weight; so, in every fifteen or sixteen
cars shipped you can save freight on one
car They do not hurt themselves or
each other in the car as the horned cat
tie do, not having horns to hang i'll car
Stats and break off, or hook and scar
their neighbors. They are not SO liable
to get down in the car, and when down,
they can get up more easily, having no
horns to hold them down. 1t is the
horns that causes the principal part OF
the trouble in. shipping.
1t is well-knOwn fact that when an
animals suffering pain OF any kind, he
is shrinking more rapidly than one that
is being transported without pain; con-
sequently the shrinkage is liable to be
heavier on a car OF horned cattle than