Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-28
AGRICULTURAL.
DEVOTED - THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
AND SToCKMEN.

ness of sailing stock by an ingenious
continuance that is already finding is
way to the stalls OF livery stables. IL
consists of metal roller bracket that
is put up over the nanger aud ron
OF hard rock salt is cast in shape to
Git it. These salt lis are where
horses can lick them whenever they
feel inclined, and livery stable men
who have been using them say they
completely answer the purpose IN
tended, and do it yeiy economically.
Loose salt wastes great deal IN or
binary feeding, but this hard Ioll
never gives way or disappears until it
has been used by the stock.
All grains should be cut while yet
the kernel is SO soft as to be easily
broken by the finger mail, as if allowed
to stand longer there is loss from
Smelling out OF the grain in handling,
and the grain il not as plump or as
heavy as when cut earlier.
1t is mark of careless housekeep-
ing to have pork spoil in the barrel.
AS long as the pork is kept under
sweet brine it is safe. ii there are
impurities in the brine, as blood, they
will rise TO the surface and can be
skinned off when the brine is heated,
as it always should be at the begin
ming OF hot weather.
The idea that salt is specially health
full TO asparagus is nov denied. But
potash is an important constituent OF
this plant, and much Of the lighter
soil devoted to its growth is deficient
in this mineral. Ashes or some OF
the German potash salts are indicated
as manrres for asparagus rather than
salt.
There is little nutritive value in the
first potatoes that come to market.
This tuber at its best is mainly starch,
but the unripe potato has not even
that. The potatoes whose skin can be
rubbed off By the hand show by that
fact that they are full Of raw juices
that need time to be developed i'll
large part into layers OF starch.
The choice quality OF most Of the
European potatoes has given them an
excellent reputation in this country,
especially the variety called the Mag
mum, and the wide outlet and eager
demand have made them salabie at
profitable prices the entire season, ex-
cept once or twice when the market
staggered under enormous receipts.
The tomato is commonly grown in
gardens on soils made much too rich
The vine attains remarkable vigor, but
the fruit ripens slowly. If only mod
erately fertile soil were used for grow
ing tomatoes the crop would ripen
earlier and be less subject to the rot,
though this disease is apt to take the
first ripening fruit of some kinds OF
tomatoes on any soil.
There is only a profit realized from
the orchard when there is full yield
of fine marketable fruit. The markets
are over-stockcd with common fruit
while there Is a large class of dealers
whose customers want fine fruit and
who are willing to pay good prices for
1t. The apple grower must attempt to
meet this demand for fine fruit if he
would make his orchards pay.
In New York State the grape CROP
gives promise of being unusually large
Every year the vineyards are receiv.
ing better attention from the growers
and what has for years been known as
the Hudson River peach district, is
fast giving away to the cultivation OF
grapes. Growers say there is much
more money in them, and they re.
quire, as a whole, less attention.
Peter Henderson states that patch
of alfalfa about twenty-five feet by
one hundred, or only about ne-six-
teenth part OF an acre, used as a soil
ing crop, near st. Augustine, Fla, fur
nished feed through the summer
months for COW and that twice that
amount, or about one-eighth OF an
acre, would be ample to supply COW
with food during the entire season.
1t is stated that since the sunhower
has been cultivated on certain swamps
OF the Potomac malaria fever has de-
creased. AT the mouth OF the Scheldt
in Holland, it is stated that similar re-
suits have obtained. The suntlower
emits large volumes of water in the
form OF vapor, and its aromatic odnr
as well as the oxygen it exhileS, may
have to do with the sanitary influence
in question.
The warmer the milk when set, the
more complete will be the separation
OF the cream from the milk at any
given lower temperature and the
more rapidly the temperature falls,
the more rapidly will be the separation
OF the cream from the milk. Cream
rises best when the temperature is fall.
ing; very slowly when the tempera-
lure Is stationary, and little or not at
all when the temperature is rising.
In termination, heat and moisture
are the powers which awaken the
germ to action, and no plant food is
needed at this stage of the plants
hte, except what the seed in itself con-
talns; but as soon as the plant begins
to send out its little rootlets it must
have food in abundance, of suitable
kind and in suitable shape ior its as
sanitation, or it will starve. the same
as an animal would ii deprived of
food.
The folly of pasturing the meadows
soon becomes apparent when We com.
pare the difference in yield with those
1 that have not beap Dss,,,rl ~,