Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-12
AGRICULTURAL NOTES,
A Column Devoted to the Interests Of Farmers
and stockmen.

this season.
With hay above $40 per ton it is
very poor policy to feed cattle that
when sold will not bring top prices.
Good ripe fruit is never too plenti-
full for use, but it may be so abundant
that marketing will not give profit.
Nobody has seen ground narrowed
too much as preparation for wheat,
for it is hardly possible to get too fine
filth.
If swine are to be kept on the farm
the best profits will be found in the
finest breeds that run into matured
meat the first year.
The agricultural distress in Germany
is SO great that it is proposed to divide
large estates for planting in the col
onies among German peasants.
In Marion and Polk counties, Oregon,
the hop crop has not turned out as
well as expected, and in some places
there is not more than half crop.
Deep tillage is the privilege to which
latent fertility In the lower soil re-
spends with alacrity where the exer-
else gives invitation, so multiplying
fruits to the measure of enlarged re-
sources.
The methods of wheat farming in
these days OF hurry and worry to get
work done cheaply, are much inferior
to those employed a few years ago
when hindrances were less trouble
some than now.
Despite the numerous chapters on
weed entertainments that have filled
reams upon reams of agricultural
papers their extent increases, and each
succeeding year finds them more
firmly established.
Mr.. George Graham, of Beaver
Creek, Clackamas county, Oregon,
threshed an average of 40 bushels OF
grain, wheat and oats, off of 25 acres.
The most of this land has been in
constant use for the last % years.
1t is said that tablespoonful of
powdered alum, sprinkled into hogs
head of water and stirred, will in a
few hours, precipitate to the bottom
all the impure particles and leave the
water clear and pure as spring water.
Four gallons would need but tea
spoonful.
Keep dairy salt and all other that is
to be used for human food in clean
packages and away from all foul odor,
for salt will absorb impurities from the
atmosphere and afterward impart it
into food with which it comes in con-
tact. Serious losses have occurred
from ignorance of this fact.
A blacksmith who does not perceive
the requirement that the foot of a
horse must be pared to natural shape
after long wearing of shoes until the
heofs are overgrown, has an important
lesson to learn, for no horse can travel
easily with projecting toes and re-
latively shortened heels.
Catnip is one of the most valuable
plants for bees. The flowers are rich
in honey, and for several months, COM
mencing with June of each year,
yield it freely at all hours and in every
kind of weather. A patch may easily
be raised from the seed, sown the lat
ter part of summer or early in the
spring.
The turnip crop in all parts of this
country and in Canada is reported as
very poor. The dry weather and in
sects have interfered with the growth
of the plants. Roots that grow under
ground, like carrots and parsnips, have
done much better, as they have not
been exposed to the dry air and the
heat of the sun.
Apple, peach, pear, plum and cherry
trees set along boundary lines of
farms interfere very little with cult
walton, and their fruit is produced
almost without cost after the trees are
well established, while at the same
time they may serve a useful purpose
as screens to mitigate the force of
driving storms.
PRESERVING EGGs.-The following
is the Havana process" of preserving
eggs, the formula for which has been
kept a secret or sold to persons who
were willing to pay ~ for it: Take
twenty-four gallons of water and put
in it twelve pounds of unslaked lime
and four pounds of salt. Stir well
several times day and then let it
stand and settle until perfectly clear.
Then draw off twenty gallons of the
clear lime and salt water. Byputting
a spigot in the barrel about four inches
above the bottom you can draw off the
clear water and leave the settings.
Then take five ounces of baking soda,
five ounces of cream tartar, five ounces
saltpeter, five ounces borax and one
ounce of alum mix and dissolve in a
gallon of boiling water, which should
be poured into your twenty gallons OF
lime water. This will fill whisky
barrel about half full, and such a
barrel holds $50 dozen eggs. Let the
water stand one inch above the eggs
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