Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-19
AGRICULTURAL. NOTES.
A Column Devoted to the Interests of Farmers
and stockmen.

Wheat in south Australia only yields
seven bushels to the acre.
The wheat shortage in England is
put at 60,OOO,OO0 of bushels.
The Arlington Times says that calves
are dying all over the hills with black
leg.
Last week $4,000 pounds of water
melons were shipped from Rogue river
to Montana.
Bananas of good size and excellent
flavor are now being grown near San
Bernardino, Cal.
1t is claimed that over 1000, 900 lbs.
Of vegetable seed are shipped annually
from Santa Clara. county, Cal.
The average turnip crop in England
last year was sixteen tons per acre.
In Scotland it was seventeen tons.
The Prussian crops are officially
estimated as follows: Wheat 50 per
cent, rye SO, barley 81 and oats 10I.
Land plowed when it is too wet be,
comes cloddy, and may be injured to
such degree that years of sod will
not effect restoration.
Clean out all the rose bushes by
taking away the old wood and then
shortening the stronger shoots one
third. The growth and appearance
will be greatly improved thereby.
A Holstein COW in the East closed
six-year-old record the other day with
little more than 10000 pounds of
milk to her credit, or about seventy
pounds day. The highest previous
record was 23,775 pounds.
1t is not good policy to dry hay to
brittleness before drawing it from the
meadow, for that causes waste in
handling and reduces quality. Grass
is well cured when it will rattle slightly
in the handling, and then is the time
to store it.
The largest vine in the world is said
to be one growing at Oys, Portugal.
which has been i'll bearing since 1902.
Its maximum yield was in 1864, in
which year it produced a sufficient
quantity of grapes to make 155 gal
Ions of wine; in 1874, 146a gallons,
and in 1884 only 794 gallons. 1t COW
ers an area of 53I5 square feet, and
the stem at the base measures 81 feet
in circumference.
The latest reports of the wheat crop
harvested this year in India make it
the largest recorded. The estimated
acreage is 27,302,6S acres, against
27,620,223 acres the preceding year.
The production this year, 2SS, 1895, 496
bushe's'of 60 pounds, compared with
2S7 ,955 1884 bushels last year. The
exports of wheat from India for the
year ending March 81, 1886, were &c.
312, 696 bushels, against 29,550,744
bushels for the preceding year.
The Walla Walla Union says: Talk
about fruit country Seventeen
months ago Mr.. B. F. Simmons took
up bar on Snake river, near Gilbert s
Landing, containing 100 acres of land.
He Immediately planted $500 small
fruit trees purchased of Philip Ritz,
and consisting of peach, apricot, pear,
plum, cherry and apple trees. At this
present time every tree is growing
nicely and Mr.. Simmons expects to
sell 5000 pounds of fruit of this years
crop from his young orchard. The
trees were so small that it was found
necessary to rid them of most of their
fruit early in the season. What coun-
try can make better showing?
The results of the milking COMPETE
ton at Bristol, in connection with the
show of the Bath and West of Eng
, land Agricultural Society, have now
} been declared by DR.. Noelcker, the
, examiner and analyst. The first prize
is awarded to George Ferme of Streat
| ham for his Ayrshire COW Lady Elphin
stone, and the second prize to j. Ben
nett of Dursley, Worcestershire, TO
, his shorthorn COW Fillpail. Thu
? former of the two COWS calved or
) January 9th and the latter on Febru
2 airy 18th. The quantities and weight
$ of the milk given at the morning ant
: evening milkings together were twenty
: three quarts, weighing tifty-six pound
3 ten ounces, by the Ayrshire, ant
:, twenty-four and a half quarts, weigh
i ing slxty-one pounds, by the short
i horn.
: 1t is we'll for those who plant larg
J. market orchards to set the trees on
by the hundred after having made
wise and careful selection of sorts, an
: a thorough preparation of the grounC
1t will prove most convenient to sc
each kind in a row, extending acros
o the orchard, or in two or more row
: so that in gathering the spring WACO
o may be driven directly onward will
u out turning. For home supply tn
II systematic method is less essential
l. but all newly set orchards, large {
v small, should be registered, so thu
e when the names are lost they may
easily restored by referring to the 7
. cord. The small home orchard shout
o be annually replenished by fe
q additions of new sorts or of tho,