Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-18
AGRICULTURAL.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
AND SToCKMEN.

Nothing pays IS well on the iarh' aS
good garden.
THE peach trees IN Arkansas are so
heavily laden with fruit this season
hat much shaking off will have to be
done in order TO preserve the trees.
An English authority has computed
that in the last three or four years
more pigs have died in the United
States Of cholera than have been
raised in the British Isles.
Vermont's maple sugar crop thus
spring is in quantity and quallty
above the average, owing to recently
introduced improvements IN It's man
ufacture. The yield is estimated al
fifteen million pounds.
The use of commercial fertilizers
makes it possible to apply some ma
nure to every crop, and in land that
is constantly growing something, this
means manuring every year.
As the farmer sees the wealth OF
blossoms in his fruit orchard, he
should be reminded that it requires
an enormous amount OF plant food OF
various kinds to make the fruit ma
tnre.
Soaking seed corn in tar water Is
claimed to be an excellent remedy for
protecting the plants against the
ravages OF both worms and crows.
Some believe ii to be quite as effec
tive as soaking in copperas water.
BY far the best potato for late
spring use is the Blue Imperial. II
does not sprout readily, but remains
comparatively solid until early planted
potatoes are ready for use.
Fire is the best preventive OF disease
in orchards and vineyards, If all the
old wood be piled up and burned 1t
will greatly lessen disease and insect
attacks. 1t should be done early in
the season.
Do not force young pear trees too
rapidly, rs it has been demonstrated
that the blight does not as readily at
tack trees that grow slowly as it does
those that grow quickly. A grass
crop will soon ruin peach orchard.
Pick fl all the blossoms that may
appear on your young strawbelry
vines set out this spring. Do not al
low any of the young plants to fruit
1t will injure their growth and lessen
their productiveness next season.
To prevent the sparrows from driv.
ing the wrens away bore round hole
in the box one inch in diameter. Tht
sparrow could not get into the box
through SO small an entrance, while
The wren would be able to go in Oh
out at will.
The value Of any kind of farm
stock is very largely determined by
its feeding the first year of its life
Breeding counts for much, though
every successful breeder knows how
greatly the character of Il young ami
NAL is changed by lnnutritious or i'm
proper food.
A party of New Jersey gentlemen
| who returned from recent visit tt
| Florida, have decided to introduce the
cocoanut tree into Florida, and hay,
secured long stretch of territory il
the southern portion of the State.
o. most farms the manure is too
mequally distributed to give the bes
profit. Some parts are manurec
heavily annually. The garden is on,
such spot, and IS it requires NOR,
labor than any other equal area, it il
fairly entitled to II greater portion O
| manure.
California farmers increased thei
acreage in prunes this year, but tn,
unfavorable weather during the bios
o.ning period diminished the yiel,
C 'nsiderably. 1t is, however, expected
now that the quantity will be doubl
that secured last year. Santa Clar,
county is the principal prune section
In planting out patches of tn,
hermaphrodite strawberry plants t.
lertilize those that are only pistillate
it is important to have the two bio
SONS at exactly the same time.
there is not uniformity in blossoming
the earlier or later berries as the cas-,
may be, will be unfertilized.
1t is risky business taking small pc
tatoes for planting, if they are tn,
leavings from bin. They may max,
good seed, if well ripened and from
strong, thrifty plants; but potatoe
that grew small, because their growtl
was checked by blight or other de
>truction OF their leaves, are WORTHLESS
as seed.
The sour currants are sure to b.
plagued with the currant worm. Lool
| out Tor them. A little hellebor
busted on the leaves is an eflicien
protection. The worm never gets
second taste of this insect DESTROYER
Apply it early in the morning, Will
dew is on the leaves of the bushes.
The tomato is commonly grown il
gardens ON soils made much too rich
The vine attains remarkable vieor
but the fruit ripens slowly. If onl,
moderately fertile soil were used TO
growing tomatoes the crop woul,
ripen earlier, and be less subject I,
rot, though this disease is apt to tax,
the first ripening fruit of some kind
OF tomatoes on anV soil