Delta chief., 1885-11-18
Agricultural Dots.


@1.5O; oats, $1.45@$l.50; potatoes, 20; ven-
ison, &c by carcass; pork, by carcass, Sc !;
beef, by carcass, steers, &c, dry fat cows, DC;
onions, .2@3c; cabbage, 11@2c; squash, 1c; /;
chickens, Sc live weight, 124c dressed.
Robert f. Dillon this season had one acre
of white Australian corn, from which he
will gather not less than seventy-five BUSH
els. The corn was planted on the goth Of
May, and was ripe the first of September
ii has IL few hundred pounds of the seed for
sale ut five cents pound
George Cherry brought in the boss potato
last week, of the pride Of America" varie.
ty, weighing five pounds and two ounces. In
the same hill We're three other potatoes, the
lightest one weighing three pounds and eight
ounces, the other two three pounds and
twelve ounces each, making IL total of sixteen
pounds and two ounces in the hill. George
sent the big one to his friends in the east.
John j Marsh has shipped three car loads
of potatoes this fall, and has in the neigh
borhood of two car loads stored away for the
spring trade.
George A. Purdy aud Robert F. Dillon
have between them shipped five car loads of
potatoes this fall.
The cultivation of celery seems to have
been overlooked to II great extent by our mar
ket gardeners. although this article is one of
the highest priced and most desirable and
sought after that comes to our tables. Our
supply comes almost exclusively from Cali.
fornia and Utah.
The last of the watermelons are being de.
livered to the city markets.
Home made sorghum of Il superior quality
is now sale by our merchants. Messrs
Rogers, Adams, Fawcett, Snelson and others
in the county have mills and other necessary
appliances for making the syrup.
To ESTABLISH PERMANENT PASTURE.
A perfect pasture should last forty years.
1t will not wear out unless 1t is allowed to
be cropped too close trampIed cut up
IN wet weather. Here is II list of grasses
that is sai,isto be the most approved torma
ton Of pasture sod: Timothy, six pounds !;
medium clover, six pounds; alsike clover,
three pounds blue grass, tpoa pratensis) -four
pounds orchard grass, (doctylis glomerata)
four pounds; fat-stalked blue grass, (poa
compressa) four pounds red top, (asrostus
vulgaris) fur pounds perennial ry. grass,
live pounds rough stalked meadow grass,
two pounds sweet verral grass, one pound.
This list ought TO establish an excellent per-
nlanent pasture on good land.
SMOKE INJURIousNTo VEGETATION.
Schroeder, in Germany. bus been investi-
eating the influence npon vegetation of the
acid fumes which are present in a smoke.
l,,,l, n nF
sulphurous acid in $4,000 of air is capable OF
occlsioning serious damage to plants in p
short time. They are less sensitive to hy do
chloric acid. Conif.rous trees are more
sensitive to sulphurous acid than deciduode
trees, while ordinary field plants resist long
! est. Fruit trees are very sensitive. plums
and cherries more than pears and apples.
THE ART OF MAKING BUTTER.
The art of butter making will never reach
perfection until we STOP putting salt in the
butter. 1t is IL depraved taste that requires
salt taste in butter. The most critical
judges in the old country never think of al
lowing salt to come near the butter, and after
getting accustomed To it there is all the dii-
ference between the two that there is between
salt and fresh fish, other prepared food.
The true epicure could eat pound of un-
salted butter at a sitting. 1t will be money
in the darymans pocket when salt is aband-
oned in the dairy .-American Ddiryman.
LARGE PROFITS IN SMALL COWS.
The farmer, AS a rule, wants a large COW,
as he thinks Us much of the beef qualities OF
his cattle as of their dairy qualities. A large
COW. though on the dairy farm, where the
COWS are only kept for their milk, and no at.
tention is paid to the calves, would be con-
sidered expensive to feed. A large animal
will eat more than u smaller one, and every
item of expense, however small, must be cut
down as low MS possible in these times, ifany
profit is expected from dairying. ia
bright OUTLOOK.
Montrose, Delta and Mesa counties are de.
veloping capabilities for fruit raising not
dreamed of by the old settlers of the States.
The day is not far distant when these coun.
ties will raise all kinds of orchard and small
fruits sufficient to supply the State demand,
and will also compete with California for
the markets of other States. The day of
high priced frui. is almost gone, and il will
only be few years until our people can en-.
joy the luxury of eating all the fruit they
need without impoverishing themselves
Coiorado Farmer.
WINTER EGGS.
.Th. ad;tor nf a leading noultry panpr hns