The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-10-16
FARM NOTES.

stitch in time that saves nine.
One apple tree well nourished is
worth ten gnarled and starved by years
Of neglect, for its fruit WILDE pore fair,
more abundant and far more satisfactory
in use.
An Illinoia hog raiser states that he
always keeps a mixture OF EPSON salts,
sulphur aud wood ashes-equal parts Of
each--in his pens, aud is not troubled
with the swine plague or other diseases.
Paint applied 70 buildings in autumn
after rains have washed dust out Of the
atmosphere and f.osts have driven
winged insects to secure retreats, will be
cleaner and brighter than when applied
in summer.
The cheapest and best way to salt
cattle is to place in the fields heavy
chunks Of rock salt where the animals
may have free access whenever appetite
Graves, aud similar provision may be
made in stables with equally good re-
suits.
All the virtues Of good soil abundautly
enriched by manure count for paught
when there is not sufficient water to act
as solvent whereby plants may receive
through their roots nourishnent that in
no other way can pass to their support.
| Farm machinery no longer required
for use should be cleaned carefully, then
stored under good shelter. To clean
bearings, oogs and other working parts,
kerosene may be used BY free application
then operating the machine to give it
effect, after which the parts should he
wiped carefully and the work is done.
| The herd Of dairy cows owned by N.
| P. Haskall, Of 0romo, Me. grade Jerseys
u varying ages up to IL years, thirteen
animals in all, gave 66.5l3 pounds Of
milk during the year and made 1874
pounds Of butter. This was an average
Of 8, lis pounds Of milk to each COW, OF
an average OF fourteen pounds Qess thar
seven quartsl per day. The butter pre-.
duct averaged fraction over 237 pounds
each. But the best COW gave 1921
pounds Of milk.
, Lancaster county. Pa, is the banner
county Of the United States in thu
value Of its agricultural products, whict
are set down at over S.. 800, 900. Monro,
county, New York, in which is sitnate'
: the city OF Rochester, is the second il
Q rank. There are thirty-three countie
q whose annual products exceed $4,000,
, 600, Of which fourteen are in New York
seven in Pennsylvania, six in Illinois
: two in California, two in Massachusetts
and one in each Michigan and Con
= necticut.
/, The gardener of the Johns Hopkin
I estate in baltimore county, Nd, ha
cultivated fgs for the past twenty-fv
{ years with success, having never faile'
. to secure crop. He gives the metho,
. Of treatment a. follows: From the lott
. to the 18th Of November we dig trencl
. around the bushes, cutting away abou
y half the roota they have made the lat
o season, when the bushes are GROWN
vigorously. and less when they are no
so robust, bending down the branches t
y the ground in the form Of cross, an
g covering them with earth from the tren
70 ches from three to four inches in thick
% ness, and in spring uncovering Their
. from the LIST to the 10th of April. The
" bear fruit abundantly, ripenng abcu
r. the LIST Of July, ard continuing to bea
q until November. and later if not de'
\ troyed by frost.
Jake BIount, well.known characte
at Leadville, COL, formerly membe
. Of the notorious Younger and Jane
d gang, was shot and instantly killed o
y The. afternoon OF the 18th inst.
N There was in the State Treasury o
:" September 2Sth $262, 49, IS in coli
70 sl3,77l .6S represented by vouchers, an
DC $793, 900 school fund securities.
II Tuscarora Times Review: Ore, Iich'
al than ever and more of it, was epcoul
tered in the winzs cf the North Bel
Isle.
.. Tho proper time Tor the closing Of r.
=. gistration books. throughout the Stat.
: Is on tho evening Of the goth.
~ The county ticket, throughout ii
" State have all been nominated.
or There are 1856 cattle and 69,7(
I'd sheep in Humboldt county.
Douglas county ranchers are shippil
apples to California.
70 On the 18th silver was quoted at
cd cents.
th Good men continue to journey to Ca
ok ada.
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