Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-25
AGRICULTURAL.
devoted to the Interests of Farmer,
and Stockmen.


~ ' ny many years Guilt |
vation. Turned out fields are grown
10 sedse, briers and bushes, and have
many washed out gullies. A century
or less oil cul ivation, so-called. has
zone thus, and he now is experiment
ing With grasses to find some wav tn
make available pasture and return the
SOIL to usefulness. He saws there arc
nundreds OF millions of acres in SINH
lar condltion. 1t is we'll enough for
the people who commence to till a new
spil to look ahead to what the land
they own may come as a roor inheri-
lance for their heirs, and try to follow
some method OF farming that can pre.
serve some degree of fertility. rather
than exhaust its virtues and thereby
beggar their heirs. There are MANY
farms in this beautiful and fertile val.
ley that have already lost SO much
productive power as to not bring nearly
80 good crops as in the beginning.
There is no profit left in growing
staple crops on such land, and the
question is: How long will it be be-
fore cropping such land will cease, and
1t be turned OUT like those worn cut
lands in Tennessee?
1t 10 possible to pursue a profitable
system OF rotation, with clover as a
restorer, when clover will grow, or by
putt ng land to grass and feeding
stock on the land, and by prudent
management prevent the continuance
OF such waste as has been practiced
here. There is downright wickedness
in destroying the fertility that has
been accumulating for untold ages.
TO do this ignorantly and blindly is
bad enough, but the world has reached
common-sense knowledge of soils
and their management that no man
can be ignorant Of, unless he is blind
to all sense and deaf to all reason.
Robbing the roll should be made
worse crime than felony.
The market for fat sheep shows
these days very clearly that the man
who remembers that carcasses as we'll
AS fleeces ale to be sold from his focks
is the shepherd that is going to win.
In 1850 the English sparrow in
America occupied the area of a single
tree or tree-box. Now he disports him
self over an area $4,000 square miles
in the United States and 10000 in
Canada.
The largest horse in the Tnited
States is owned by Mark Thode of
Nation, Ill. He is only three years
| III ,,1pntna,, hnnI, h;.,L
and recently gained $50 pounds in
five weeks.
DR.. W. L. Challs, of Atchison, Kas.,
is having the cottonwood trees on his
farm cut down and sawed into lumber.
These trees were planted by DR.. Challis
n 1858, and are now an average OF
three feet in diameter.
1t requires more labor to engage in
gardening as compared with farming,
but less land is required. The most
profitable crops are not those tn 1t
give the largest yields, but which
bring the highest price, compared with
the cost.
Pig pens should not be on the same
location every season. BY having
them movable much valuable manure
can be secured from the saturated
earth around the old sites, while the
hange to frtsh places will greatly
promote cleanliness and health.
Among the catLlemen who attended
the recent convention in Denver of th'
Internal lal r inge Association wa
Ex-senator Stephen W. Dorsey, wh'
is one of the largest cattle owners il
New Mexico. His holdings Of rancl
lands at one time aggregated 1O4 ,0O'
acres.
After removing the mulch in tn
spring from the strawberries hoe be
tween the rows after the soil shal
have become somewhat warmed, a
that will let more warmth and al
down to the roots. A small portion c
wood ashes scattered along the row
after hoeing would be very beneficial
The MARBLES, or lunches on tn
backs of the cattle, may be killed b
puncturing them through the er
trance hole with an anvil, or by syrine
ing in a few drops of carbolic aci
slightly diluted. Ii let alone eac
grub will make another gadtly to to-
ment the cattle next summer.
"False blossoms" or "rose blossom
on the blackberry peculiar to tn
Wilson especially is caused by worr
Matched from eggs deposited by
winged insect. The canes should b
cut below the enlargement cause b
, the worms, in the fall, and burned, /
| order to destroy the insect.
: The persimmon tree does not d.
nriye the oil of a large amount of fe
tilizing elements, and for that reaso
makes the best OF sha de trees for stoc
a In the South, even on abandont
a fields, the persimmon is allowed
. grow. It's growth is slow, howeve
but its fruit is highly valued by som
O Severely cutting back the dead woo
a on the peach trees will start them in
- new life. If the tree be dead at II
" I, d and the wood near the trur
green, the new buds will soon give
new top BY keeping all the injur'
y old wood cut away the tree Will do g
I, vice much longer than is usually Il
"a case with peach trees.
In securing Sc d be careful that v
are not buying varieties with M
he names, Old, dried varieties OF yes
De ,bles should never be discarded
lie | ,ba, Give good results