Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-29
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
A Column Devoted to the Interests of Farmers
and stockmen.

edy for cholera in chickens.
Some persons prize charcoal highly
as preventive and cure of costiveness
in SWINE.
A dust of sulphur while the dew is
on is said to be effective against the
striped bug.
Prune out all useless wood from
young trees and bring their heads into
proper shape.
Keeping the pores OF farm animals
open is as essential to their thrift as
bathing is to our health.
A h.ifer fin White county, Tenn,
is but five months old, yet it is said to
give quart of milk day.
A great raisin crop will be cured at
Fresno, California, this season. One
grower will ship $4,000 boxes.
The California honey crop will be
very small this year, only about one
third what it was two years ago.
A week OF exposure to the hot sun
will injure the horse rake, mower and
reaper more than a whole seasons use.
Frank Rhodes, of Centralia, Lewis
county, w. T., exhibited hundred
pound mammoth squash at the County
Fair.
The grain crop of Colville Valley,
w. T., is about all gathered in, and
will average from 25 to 80 bushels in
wheat.
The fruit product of Stevens county,
w. T., this year is greater than that
of any other county in Eastern Wash
ington, north of Snake river.
Throw little straw under the to-
mato vines, to keep the fruit clean and
ground moist, making much finer
fruit and continuing it longer.
Sulphur mixed with grease and
rubbed along the backs of cattle will
keep off the gad-hys and prevent the
animals from having MARBLES or grubs
in the skin along the spine.
The largest barn in the world is
probably the Union Cattle Company
of Cheyenne, near Omaha. 1t covers
five acres, cost $4,000 and accom-
modates 1850 head of cattle.
A few trees, evergreens and flower
ing shrubs planted among the hives
help to remove the sameness of the
scene, and in summer give a grateful
shade to the bees and their keeper.
The greatest kindness you can do to
a young chick is to simply leave it
alone for the first twenty-four bours
of its existence. There will be little
difficulty experienced in getting it to
eat afterward.
In buying pigs for breeding stock
the best is the cheapest, though it
costs little more money. The reason
why breeders Justify themselves in
saving runts is because some men are
thoughtless enough to buy them at a
low price.
All small apples and others de-
fective in form or damaged by worms
have their best market on the farm as
food for animals. If packed with
sound fruit, even in small proportion,
they reduce the price of all often to
the point of loss.
Owing to the freeze of last year, the
Louisiana orange crop of this year
will amount to one million against
thirty and fifty million heretofore.
The worst of it is that nine years OF
propitious weather will be required to
restore the trees and there will be a
full crop again.
1t is question with some good
wheat growers whether the manure
should be applied before the first pillow
ing or afterward. but the prevailing
tendency is toward blowing first, then
to draw and spread the manure on the
surface and afterward work it into the
soil in subsequent cultivation. The
manure is thus kept nearer the sur
face, where it is believed to do the
most good.
Something depends, of course, upor
the kind of COW, but no COW is a goot
one that does not yield $500 quarts o
milk in one year, or about sever
quarts day for 365 days. She will
be dry portion of the time, and o
course yield more when fresh thar
toward the close of her milking period
but she should not give less thai
seven quarts daily for every day il
the year. The milk should produc'
about two hundred pounds of butter
or pound to every twelve quarts o
milk, which at % cents a pound tn
whole year, would yield $50. Thu
value Of The calf depends upon it
breeding, while the skim milk fed t.
pigs and the manure should realize a
least 1926 more, making $75. We ma.
safely take one half for cost, leaving
$37 so as profit. The sum fixed a
profit, however may vary, as the pric
of food is cheaper in some localitie
than in others. Dairymen differ as t
the amount of profit COW SHOULD
give. Some claim as much as $50
year, but such dairymen sell the mil
directly to the customers at fai
price. The fairest estimate is mad