Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-12-17
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
A Column Devoted to the Interests of Farmers
=. and stockmen.

buShel OF peaches that enters thai
country from the U. S.
The beet sugar crop of Germany
this year is estimated at 100000 tons
and that of all Europe at 2,095, 1921
tons.
Dakota farmers are growing flax for
| fuel 1t is said ton of flax straw is
worth more to burn than a ton of soft
coal.
Chesire, Mass, farmers are disposing
of their surplus apples at $40 ton, to
be shipped to mince-meat factory in
Mexico.
Some families of Jerseys are no bet
ter than scrubs" and poor Jersey
bull in neighborhood will spoil the
reputation of the breed.
Counterfeit butter is ruled out of all
the public institutions of Paris by the
authorities, it having been found not
to satisfactorily fill the place of but
ter with the sick.
Small chickens should never be
kept or fed with old ones; they are
apt to be injured. Have two or three
yards and separate them according to
size and strength.
Young chickens need animal food.
When it fails to do them good it is in
consequence of the common fault of
overlooking. They cannot bear large
rations of rich food.
The cultivation of any crop that
will ohoIo +ho 1o,I c,,ob
as cabbage, squash, corn-fodder sown
thick, will kill every root of witch
grass in one season.
Ben Snipes of Yakima county, w
T., expected to raise 1900 bushels of
wheat on his ranch, but when it was
threshed it measured 2579 bushels,
which made the yield fifty-one bushels
per acre.
The best varieties OF lettuce for sum-
mer use are the yellow butter and the
white summer cabbage. In deep,
well-enriched soil they stand the heat
well and remain for long time in d
condition for use.
do not plant the stumps of cab
bage to grow seed from. You may
therby get cabbage seed that cost
nothing, but like most other things
got without expense it will be worth
even less than it costs.
Montana will send fully 100000
head of cattle to market this season,
and we should not be surprised if the
aggregate reached 275 900 head. From
rs to 100 cars are loaded every day,
and it will go on till December
Near North Yakima, w. r., E. r.
Leaning planted five acres of peanuts
last spring and now has a crop equal
to any ever raised in Tennessee. The
vines are loaded and the nuts large and
well matured. Yakima seems adapted
to the raising of almost anything pro
duced in the sunny south.
English farmers first learned the
beneficial effects of phosphate on
turnips. 1t is equally good for cabbage
either in seed bed or after transplant
ing. For cabbage it has specific
effect in preventing the disease called
club root, which is apt to prevail
where cabbages are grown more than
one year on the same land.
Profit in farming consists in devot
ing most of your land to grass and
stock; in making large quantities of
manure, and applying it to a small
portion of cultivated land, giving high
cultivation. In this way more grain,
roots, etc, will be raised on the farm
than by the usual skimming and half
cultivating process. Here is success
in nutshell Your farm and pocket
will grow fat; no mistake about it.
1t is shown that if each person in
United States eats one egg per day
which, from the number used in cook.
ing, might be taken as fair average
this would amount to an aggregate
of over $3.50, 100000 per annum for
eggs alone. The value of poultry
consumed has gone up now to 1927
100000. The value of stock carried
over each year is placed at 1927 900, 900,
and the sale of fancy fowls and eggs
at 100000. This gives a total of
something like $545, 100000 as the
annual value of the poultry produc-
ton of America in a year.
An orchard of plums and prunes
is undoubtedly the most profitable
that can be grown here. The soil and
climate are well adapted to their cul-
tivation, the trees yield abundantly,
and there is always a demand for the
fruit, green or dried. Dried fruit, like
wheat, has the world for a market,
and there is springing up in Europe a
demand for that dried on this coast,
especially for plums and prunes. On
one acre, Is feet apart each way, you
can plant 135 trees. These when well
grown will average at least $50 pounds
to the tree, green fruit, or so pounds
dried. This at the moderate price of
10 cents per pound amounts to SIS
per tree, or $675 per acre. Now allow
81 c-nalf for expenses, which is GER
trinity more than enough, and you
have left the snug little sum of 1887 so,