Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-11
AGRlCUL TURAL.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
AND SToCKMEN,

Ewes that have weaned their lambs
3 NAV be fattened very easily If giver
| two meals day of grain with plenty
OF grass in the pasture.
} Radishes may be had at all periods
Use plenty of manure and grow them
r quickly, so as to have them crisp and
tender.
All the leguminous plants that have
been tried make good ensilage, but
they are so highly nitrogenous as to
make too rich food to use alone In
any quantity.
Keep squsshes and pumpkins
away from cantaleups and water
melons. In fact, it is best to grow nc
pumpkins on farm where melons
are raised, as the bees carry pollen
from one plant to another.
The hoe may now be used with ad.
vantage both on beets and carrots
The spaces between the rows can be
cleaned with cultivator, but the hoe
should be used to clean out grass and
weeds between the plants.
Young corn makes an excellent
green manurial crop for blowing UNI
der, but the seed is expensive. Sor,
ghum may be used also, and the seed
for few acres will cost but little.
Sow it thickly and pillow it under when
the plants are about two feet high.
1t is not desirable to pasture cows
in woodlands. The grass grown I'M
der the shade is less nutritious, and
the animals are apt to find many wild
plants, the flavor of which spoils the
milk for any use. This is especially
true of woods where wild garlic
IL punds.
Many cases of milk fever may be
traced to the manner in which the
cows are fed before calving. If the
COW is waiting to come in, and has
been dried off, she will require but
very little grain. The best food is
grass, with light mess of moistened
bran at night. If too fat the chances
are that she will have milk fever.
In majority of cases the loss of
young chicks and turkeys may be
traced to lice. At this season, when
the weather is becoming very warm,
lice multiply rapidly, and few days
only are necessary to have the entire
flock infested. Constant vigilance
should be exercised in order to pre-
vent lice from destroying the young
poultry.
This is the time when close search
must be made for borers in trees.
They can be more easily destroyed
now than later on. Remove the
earth from the trees to the depth OF
six inches around the trunk, search
for the borer and fill up with coal
ashes, as the borer does not work on
trees where wood ashes have been
freely used.
All grass crops make the best hay
if cut before the seed-heads form.
When plant produces seed it has
performed its mission and stored
much of its nutritious matter in the
seed. To secure the largest amount
OF nutrition in hay the grass should
be cut while the stalks and blades
contain the elements that would
be directed to the formation of seed.
Old strawberry fields soon become
overrun with weeds. This can only
be prevented by pulling the weeds out
between the plants as soon as the crop
OF berries is picked, at the same time
working between the rows well with
cultivator. If all the weeds are
pulled out as fast as they appear, so
as to prevent them from seeding.
there will be but few of them next
season.
Look carefully after the gratis set
the past spring, and give them timely !
attention. Remove any shoots that !
start ON the stock, so that they NAV
not rot the graft. A horticultural au-
thority tells us that graft should be
as if it were a young tree in
stead OF in the ground. When there
are several buds upon the graft one
will often get the start of the others
and outgrow them. Check this nv
pinching the ends of the shoots Of
the exuberant grower.
A farmer who uses fertilizers is pre-
'umed to know what he is about. If
ne applies them to an entire field if il
because previous experience has salts.
led nm that they pay. This being
30, IL Is important that the fertilizer
Dc evenly distributed SO that the great
Isl proportionate good may result.
Much depends on the condition of the
ertillzer as to dryness and fineness
md something also on the kind Of
irlll used and its condition. Even If
orce feed will not distribute evenly a
he fertilizer has been left in it to rust
ma rum 1t. At the best there will he
ONE imperfection in distribution
n long bout the larger amount Of
put on at each end has a
endency to pack, and will not run
hrough 30 easily as if less were mt
n at time and more frequently. On
ccount should intentional break, in
lstribution be made for experiment
here will probably be too many
laces where the fertilizer was missed
ccldentally. The uneven distribn.
ION OF fertilizer causes uneven growth
grain and uneven ripening. still !
ir'her aetractlng from its quality.