Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-20
AGRICULTURAL.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
AND STocKMEN.

able. stick to them. If not, get out.
II is estimated that to collect one
pound OF honey from clover o2'ooo
heads of clover must be deprived OF
nectar and 4,750,000 visits from bees
must be made.
II the apple tree leaves turn lighter
coIored before frost changes them
lock for the cause in the trunk near
the root. The cause will be found in
borer working his way to the heart
OF the tree, and the way TO lind nm
is with flexible wire inserted IN the
opening to his retreat.
Don't neglect to clean your orchard
OF all nests OF worms, etc, and, II
necessary, make missionary tour ~
your lax neighbours orchard--fof 1T Ii
not only an act Of charity, hut OF self
defense. And the same remark will
apply to such contagious and cantan-
kerous nuisances as Canada thistles
and like evil weeds. 1t is something
wise to discharge the duties OF your
neighbors in addition to your own,
such benevolencc being profitable.
This is what a good many farmers
want to know, that is how to make
more corn, and here is bit of sensi
BILE talk about the matter The best
way to get more corn is get increased
yield from the same acreage. A poor
corn crop necessarily costs so much
labor that it rarely pays profit. But
if the land is MANFRED highly and cul-
tivated thoroughly the crop rarely or
never fails to pay. 1t is easily possible
to double the corn yield on the pres
ent acreage, and that, too, without
coming near the large yields which
have been obtained in special cases.
4 The advantages OF dishorning old
animals have probably been exsgger-
ated. A bull or COW used to hooking
is only temporarily made harmless by
dishorning. While the recent wounds
are sore, such animals will keep quiet,
but with returning freedom from pain
will be found return of former vic
iousness. The art OF butting is not
lost with the horns, and good butter,
if viciously inclined, needs to be
guarded against with or without horns.
1t is held that the destruction of the
cabbage worm may be accomplished
by the use of pyrethrum. 1t should
be in the use of fresh powder and in
this form may be bought at any drug
store. 1t "should be mixed with about
three times it bulk of wheat flour and
applied to the plant by means of a
small bellows, made expressly for ap-
plying insect powder. These bellows
are also kept by druggists. A very
small quantity of this mixture will be
sufficient for each plant. One pound
OF the pyrethum is sufficient for an
acre of cabbages.
1t is easily possible in seasons OF
abundant poisoning for one-half the
set of fruit to make more bulk Of an
Piles than the whole. The cooling
moth thins, and usually too much, but
does not do it the right way. The APP
pies are half or two-thirds grown be-
tore they drop and fall. The true wav
Is to spray the tree with Paris green to
destroy the worm, and then hand-pick
the fruit before it FERNS seeds. and
thus exhausts the vitality of the tree
The corn crop in all the great corn.
producing States is very large one
and is now safely ripened. No other
gram crop is quite so important as this
to the prosperity of all branches OF
farming, and therefore OF the entire
country. 1t is the pivot upon which
everything else swings. The crop this
year ano will be something more than
2,oOo,oO0,O0O bushels, and in butter.
cheese, beef and pork will largely
swell our exports, and make up for the
oehciency In our wheat crop.
Oats are almost exclusively sold by
weight, and all grain should be. There
is great difference in the weight of
TINS grain, varying with season, variety
and locality. Western oats, for son,e
cause, are much lighter tn n those
grown IN New York and Eastern
states. The standard weight ner
4ushel Is also two to four pounds less
Light oats are usually caused bv hot
ury weather as the grain is flling
Wherever such weather prevails 10
SEE d quickly degenerates, and needs to
oe renewed every few years byimporl-
atoms from Europe, where cooler SIM
uierS make the conditions for grow
ing heaVy oats more favorable Than
here. ''i"h
Desperate efforts are made nv Soma
farmers to finish blowing or planting
or cul'lvating crop just to beat soma
he'gnoor who has the enviable renu-
tanon OF always being ahead Of a p"
one else with his work. The idea -,
keeping work well in hand is rood
one, and the honor of LEADING tho u,'
IN ne'ghhorhood in all kind y of wo%h
= one worthy to be sought after b..
r're are other considerations that sro
uluch more Importance than that
OF neing able to say that no ono y
lsrther along with their work tban
you are. Ground is sometimes 49, 49,
nal1 to cultivate by being ,lnwaI
while too wet, and crops ara go
n. n,r ruinea by putting the sc ed in