Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-01
AGRICULTURAL NOTES,
A Column Devoted to the Interests Of Farmers
and ktockmen.


you make the habit worse.
Rub the hands with slice of raw
potato to remove vegetable stains.
More than one. half of the crop
acreage of New York is devoted to
hay.
A pail of water at time is all a
horse shonld have. In an hour it
may have more.
Air-slaked lime will destroy all
kinds of sluglike larvae that have a
sticky skin.
James Johnson, living near DAYTON
w. T., threshed $500 bushels of wheat
from fifty acres of land.
The best tly-net for farm horses is
not a net but white cotton sheet
strapped on over the harness.
II is cheaper to supply work horses
with green food in the stable than to
have them gather it at pasture.
Perhaps spraying with weak So
luton of copperas will check the
mildew that attacks the leaves and
fruit of the ounce.
A lemon has been grown at Marys
vile, Cal, which measured twelve and
half by fifteen inches, and weighs
one pound eight ounces.
There is not the least Bit of use in
fretting over work, for it accomplishes
no good purpose, while it wears away
energies much more than performance
The Commissioner has approved
36OO presumption and committed
homestead entries, 1000 of which
are in the Fargo, Dakota, land dis.
trict.
There is always fair demand for the
best products of the soil, and when
they are obtained by skilful manage
ment there is also ID tair margin Of
profit.
The increase in the number of
sheep in the United States since 1880
is 1856, 1889 900, while the total loss for
the United States is 100000 head
since 1885.
1t is more important that fertility of
the soil be maintained than TO get pro-
fits from its products in a single year,
for continued profits are Immediately
dependent on continued fertility.
When plants are properly supplied
and encouraged to most vigorous
growth, insect pests are powerless to
destroy, for they cannot keep pace with
growth that resists their assaults.
Good winter apples are reasonably
sure to find ready market abroad this
year at prices that will give profit for
producing them, but they must be
sound and good or they will not be
worth transportation.
A farmers club managed for show
may have some influence toward add
vancing agriculture, but it will not do
as much good work as another club
that makes direct effort to improve
methods of farm work.
Old sods, weeds, dead animals, vege
table waste, ashes, lime, plaster, refuse,
salt and many other things blend
amazingly well in the compost heap
and repay the labor OF collecting as
certainly as any returns for labor on
the farm.
Every farmer whose lands have been
long under cultivation wants more
manure than he can get, but there are
thousands who permit vast quantities
OF tertllizlng matter to go to waste
without so much as the slightest ef-
fort to save it,
The caterpillars have almost taken
possession of the fruit trees at
Tumwater, w. T., and the pest has
developed to such magnitude amid
the leaves of the alder trees along the
bay below the village that it will be
extremely difficult to exterminate
them.
1t is as necessary that calf should
be halter broken as that colt should
be. The time to do both is when the
animals are young. A cow that will
lead easily is much less troublesome
to manage under any circumstance
A ring in the nose will greatly facili
tate learning to lead, and the lessor
once well learned will never be for
gotten.
Ponds are not good for young ducks
Wet grass, dampness and cold sleep
ing places will kill young ducks al
quickly as such influences will de
stroy young chicks. Feed the ducks
on bulky food. Cooked turnips or pc
tatoes, thickened with oat meal, max,
good and cheap food for them. Civ,
them plenty of water for drink, bu
not to bathe in until the down is of
and the feathers cover the body. TheI
you may let them enjoy themselves il
the water as much as they desire.
The Spokane Falls Chronicle cor
respondent writing from Wild Ros
Valley in the Calispel country, w. T.
says that hop vines planted there 70
ornamental purposes show a remark
ably thrifty growth, having made
growth this year Of twenty-five o
thirty feet and heavily laden witt
blossoms He wants TO see n hO