Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-12-18
AGRICULTURAL.

The cotton plant has been proposed
as a substitute for jute.
Over one million bushels OF pota-
toes we're imported last year into this
country.
The vine growers of the Argentine
Republic have engaged in the produc-
ton OF raisins.
Crops in Guatemala have been cut
short by severe drought. In many
departments of Salvador all crops
have been lost for want OF rain. In
Nicaragua also q famine is threatened
on account of drought.
The annual value Of the dairy pro-
duct of the State of Illinois equals the
value of the gold production of the
United States. Who says the COW Is
not the best friend of the farmer?
A Michigan man says that his
Manchester strawberry (pistillate var
iety) were 80 much influenced in form
by the Sharpless growing near that he
sold them for Sharpless.
There are many instances where
thirty-five bushels Of grain might just
as we'll be grown ON one acre as
twenty, if the right variety had been
sown.
1t is reported that the round-headed
apple borer has been successfully ex-
Guided from trees by placing fresh
manure around the base of the trees
and in contact with it.
The cost Of colt at three years old
is said by q correspondent OF Rural
New Yorker, who has computed it, to
be $S4. He also states that such colts
should sell for $3.50.
Toads are the policemen of the
garden. They speedily transport in
sect depredators to place where thew
will do no more harm. And this in
terror Jail is quite capacious.
Mr.. Havmeyer, of New Jersey, has
twenty-four silos of 1000 tons capac-
ity. He recently opened one that was
filled seven years ago and found its
contents in excellent condition.
The introduction of labor-saving
machinery has disarranged the old
methods of farming, and in nothing
more than in the changes it has neces-
itated in the employment OF hired
help.
Mrs. w. NJ. Dills, of Springfield,
Mo-, has charge OF stack farm and
is said to be the best Judge of horse
flesh in that vicinity. She comes
naturally by her knowledge, as she is
a Kentucky woman.
1t is just century since the first
fuchsia was introduced in Europe.
Since that time travellers in the noun
tains OF tropical America have brought
back specimens. Now there are fifty
distinct species known.
AS the grass disappears let the
change from green to dry food be as
gradual as possible, in order to pre-
vent the COW from falling off in milk.
10 do this begin the use of hay and
other dry food now, so as to supply
the deficiency of the pasture.
Good, clean seed wheat of a variety
well adapted to the soil, should be Sc
lected for seeding. There should be
no delay now in having the wheat in,
as the better the growth the less liza
bllity OF the young plants being thrown
out by the frost next spring.
Guide boards have been growing
numerous in the country towns of
New England for few years past. In
some sections of Massachusetts at
every corner are set solid granite posts
ten feet high, to which are bolted iron
sign boards with raised letters.
Preserving eggs for winter use is not
but care is required. Eggs
from hens not in company with males
will keep three times as long as those
the germs of chicks. Keen
The eggs on racks in ceol place, and
turn them half over twice a week.
Oil Is cheaper than machinery, so
use 1T freely on all the working parts
Of the mowers and reapers. Lumber
is also cheaper, and when not in use
every piece should be carefully |
housed, as we'll as all the tools used
about the farm. Tools, carts and ma
,hlres rust out mach faster than thew
will wear out.
In the dairy contest at the Mime
'ota State Fair, a few days ago, a
Holstein-Friesian COW took the first
orlze and ano ner took the second
The butter test is reported to have
oeen the seyerest known to science
these two Holstein-Friesian COWS we're
ast on from grass, and had received
10 gram or other special preparation
Damp floors cause cold, due to
evaporation. The feet of animals are
INJURED, and disease of the limbs oc.
'ors when they are compelled to
tand or sleep on damp locations
Inc bed OF the animal is very import
mt. 1t is economical to use clean
Try material daily, and not delav
hanging the bedding until the whole
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