The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-03
FARM AND GARDEN.


hundred, or little over three pounds
per bushel.
1t is a mistake to enter into any
branch of farming or stock raising
without thorough knowledge of it in
all its points and bearings.
The first point to be learned in sue
cessful stock raising, is never TO allow
an animal to lose pound of flesh.
This is equivalent to throwing two
pounds away.
Illinois and Wisconsin had each over
1000 plates of fruit on exhbiio at
the New Orleans exposition. The
great state of New York made no fruit
exhibit.
Look to the cellars. Decaying ap-
pies. pumpkins, potatoes, cabbages,
turnips and the like are thought to be
the cause of malignant fevers, diph-
liberia and the like.
A writer says in The Garden that in
growing peas, the fact is that, sin
point of earliness we have not gained
a single day in the case of any of the
new introductions for these last thirty
years"
j. j. Thomas estimates the value of |
white grapes, as regards quality alone,
as follows: Duchess, as highest in
havor, then Prentiss, then Niagara,
and nearly equal to Niagara, the
Rocklngton.
A deep, rich soil is recommended
for ounces. They will bear well on
dressed with stable manure. They are
Of |
'ather than bushes.
Ohio sent an exhibit of woods grown
in that state to the New Orleans Expo
sition. There were sixty-three cards,
twenty-five by twenty-eight inches. ar
ranged under glass, and also eighty !
feeces of wool shown.
Draft horses have increased in pop
ularity during the past year more
rapidly than ever before. The i'm
pOrters have large stocks of horses on r
hand, and while prices are no lower, d
they are offering better lot of horses. a
A warm mess of bran, meal, chop Ii
ped and steamed fodderor, other food b
will quickly quiet shivering flanks r
bring an imme date reward in the ii
the cows, or more spirited work from le
she horses. tc
The keeping of colt on farm is b
'ne of those small things the expense hi
II which will pass almost nnoticed, W
md yet the growth of the colt is so til
that in no way does the ST
armer receive any better compensa- ht
ion for hay and grain consumed than ca
rom feeling such hay and grain to a hi
ew good colts. dc
An over production of pure bred m
took need not be feared. When the en-
majority of farmers breed and feed su
o other, the skillful breeder will te
lerely have to moYe up. There will he
ways be certain lines or families OF
lore highly priced than others, and ed
| his efforts with these he will find ca
is pleasure and his profit. ed
The great trouble with celery grow cr'
g is that the plants, at one stage of GU
'owth or another, are permitted to WI WI
ffer for water. This invariably la
uses tough and hollow stalks. Keep hsl
Q plants growing from the time they WI WI
pear above the ground in the seed io'
ID. Transplant them to rich soil
We them water as often as they need
and give it in abundance, and you :,
Ill have tender, plumb celery. pa
The American Cultivator says: at fol
poor time to sell sheep or go out {
the business when thousands upon clu
ousands of sheep are being frozen ce,
ID starved to death in the far West, g
d when an unusual number is being tba
at all leading markets. car
rmers may rest assured that it is ing
v tide in sheep husbandry, and now 2
the time to take advantage of the th;,
ing tide which is sure to follow" ofTe
A French scientist calls attention TO be
} indiscriminate use of the tncture pos
arnica for horses. He says that it g
often employed in considerable ten,
antilles for petty sprains and Civ,
nises, and is kept in contact with yon
affected surfaces until they are :,
ollen, heated, and blistered, thus woo
satly aggravating the original trou- est
!. lie also cites cases in which the
'sipelas has been induced in men in u
M an over use of this irritating NC
nedy. ..
The fruit grower needs to have Ease
lrageous heart and an unboundinr joys
III in his pursuit He mas numer- and
enemies with which to contend 81
to conquer; unfavorable seasons rasc
not infrequent: numerous insects the {
| parasitic fungi are constantly dis a IA:
ing possession of his plants, trees, Each
fruits; general business depres-
q, or an excessive supply of fruit
an deprives him of all or nearly all NJ,
his profits. But these difficulties as e'
probably not greater than those chpr
ending many other pursuits. NOT
has often been claimed that pro. ne
tiveness and earliness in the melon ine.'
promoted by pinching back the =. u
ling stems, A test of these state W nc
ats was made at the New York Ex- "ais'
lment station, last season by pinch "a.
back the main shoots, as fast as IigSe
: attained the length of two feet, in Iigsi
W of the Christiana melon, seventy Pa5'
feet long, leaving the stems en- a ahu
y unpinched in an adjoining row oig Ts'
quail length. The first impressions Ill a'
\ fhnf fln