The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-01
Farm and Garden.

Farm and Garden.
England will spend $4,000, 900 TO
American apples this year.
First class COWS can be raised chear
err than they can be purchased. /
fact it is the only way to secure a prim
herd.
A New York horticultural societ,
recommends putting a teaspoonful o
sulphur about the roots of the cabbag
plants when set, as a remedy for clu
foot.
At the New York Experiment Sta
ton Jersey COW refused for thirty-si,
hours to eat stale brewers grains
This is good enough evidence that hel
"head was level. "
1t is found by experiment that while
the different forms of commercial pot
ash increase the crop of potatoes they
impair the quality, making the tubers
watery and spongy.
A couple of ounces of carbolic acid
to three quarts of water sprinked in
the poultry house from small water
ing pot, once or twice month, will
destroy lice and other parasites.
President Lyon, speaking of the
peach yellows, says: wherever the
disease attacks the extremity of the
longest limbs, the tree is doomed, and
the only safe way is to destroy it."
Light, friable soil should he rolled
before putting in the seed and after
ward. Nothing is better for the gar
den than well rotted stable manure.
Hog manure proves detrimental to
cabbage.
Sheep should have their feet trim
med twice year, says an exchange.
If they are not trimmed, the hoof
curles under at the edges and retains
a mass of filth and dirt, which is apt
to cause footrot.
Galvanized wire netting can now be
obtained for one cent per square foot,
and as 1t is more easily converted into
fence than is lumber, and Is at the
same time more durable, more of it is
being used this year for poultry yards
than ever before.
Good COWS are always in demand,
but fresh COWS always command
higher prices from the first of Janu-
airy to the first of May, than at any
other season, and it is we'll to so man
age your herd that the heifers and
cows which you may have for sale will
calve within this time.
The american CultiUator says: sit is
scarcely possible for grain to stool
much on very poor soil. We can get |
but few heads from seed, and these |
need, therefore, to be sown more
thickly to make crop than on land |
where large number of heads may
be expected from single plant"
A veteran sheep-breeder in western
thinks the remedy for
he disease in sheep known as grub in
he head, is plenty of grub in the
He thinks healthy sheep
lave maggot in the head, and when
lot properly cared for, the grub gets
he better of them, and the result is
leath.
1t is estimated that fully fifteen mil
ion gallons of amber cane syrup were
made IN 1884. Of this very small
went on the market. Prob
bly, three-fourths was made for farm {
rs who grew small patches of cane
nd had it manufactured into syrup
Dr. themselves and neighbors.
Beets and turnips raised by phos-
hate are not disiigured by growth
coarse, struggling roots, which so
luch affect their market value, but
re smooth and attractive in appear I
nee. Superphosphate of lime in
reases the yield of potatoes, with t
roper cultivation, and the tubers are t
lrely, if ever, affected by the scab. l
A correspondent of The Neu York I
ri6une says sour land is not indicated e
7 a growth of sorrel, but by coarse
srbage or unhealthy looking moss on i
lie surface. Draining is the best cure 0
+ sour land, and when this is done, v
dressing of lime will help to decom-
use the coarse vegetable matter and Il
ing the soil to a fertile state. c
In breaking the fresh heifers to :,
ilk, the farmer does we'll TO attend to =
himself, and use the utmost gentle 7,
'ss and kindness towards the timld -
Id oftentimes nervous brute. Vic
usness, which is sometimes exhib- III
ID at this time, is almost always the 81
oduct of fear either for herself or ii
spring, and can be overcome by gen. o.
ness. d.
A correspondent OF The Country
'ntleman says that in Ohio at pres W
it would have paid farmers 81 per u
shell for all the corn fed had they M
| their sheep early and made them d'
for the winter market. He saws 10
has found by experience and obser- DC
ton that it is never good plan to ne
| stock of any kind when it is unu- Ia
Ally low.
The american Cultiuator says that TO-
planting apple. seeds it is important mi
get a vigorous growth the first up
II, as on that the number of roots WI
be grated depends. The seeds re
'uld be planted early on well-ma-
ed ground and as free from weeds
possible. The young plants re-
re nearly as close care and hand tb,
eding as onions. w