Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-17
FARM, RANGE AND GARDEN.
Statistical and Instructive Notes for the Farmer,
Stockman, Gardener and Dairyman.


Thorough culture will help growing
crops to withstand drouths.
More new vineyards are being plant
ed in western New York than ever
before.
The annual yield Of one of Cali
fornia's big grape vines is over three
tons of grapes.
England produces less than half
the vegetable produce consumed with
in her borders.
An English authority says an acre
of roots judiciously used has greater
feeding value than ensiIaye that can tie
made from the same ground.
In France every school has its garden
and teachers are required to pass an
examination in regard to their know!-
edge of such subjects before they eau
qualify.
Oats fed frequently to hungry
chickens are apt to kill them. TIE
fowls eat too large quantities at once,
the oats swell in the crop, and the
points Of the oats penetrating the crop,
induce Inflammation, ending in death,
In japan there are silk worms that
subsist on the leaves Of the oak. As
they can not withstand any great
change of temperature they are IN
fit for our climate Attempts are
being made to acclimate them in
Italy.
Some men are naturally good milk
ers. They have firm yet gentle hand
and way of winning the cows con-
tidence. No man can be good milk
er who is Indifferent to the cows com-
fort, or who is continually startling
the animal by hasty words or other
wise
An experimenting farmer says the
most critical period with corn is when
the seed is maturing or filling, and it
is then that the roots should have ap-
propriate matter within reach, for the
nourishment of the crop. A little fer
tllzer when the crop is in tassel gives
it new life, and the increase in the
yield pays well for the extra care.
A poor COW is bad purchase at any
price, if she is to be used in the dairy.
At best, the profit for her will be small,
while she may entail loss; while an
excessive price paid for superior COW
may be returned in the larger profits
derived from her. Such COW is cheap
at any price within the bounds of rea-
sou. There is seldom a loss in buying
first class stock.
A correspondent asks if it will pay
to feed potatoes to stock. Well, that
depends entirely upon the price of
potatoes and the price of other feeding
material. We have no hesitancy,
whatever in saying that if there is
nothing else of similar character on
the farm to feed, it will pay to occa-
sionally feed potatoes to stock, what
ever may be their price, unless some
other like food is procured.
Keep your tools in place and in
order. How many farmers when they
want an ak, hammer Or spade, have to
ransack the woodhouse, barn and all
over the farm The time wasted look
ing up tools, and working with dull
ones, besides the aggravation of TEN
per, is worse than wasted, while if
we could get the boys in the habit
of order in keeping tools in proper
places how much better it would be.
In spite of the protests of many of
her best thinkers and writers-says
Our Country Home-Great Britain
shows a tendency to become Il land Of
graziers instead of cultivators. The
returns show that in 1888, as com
pared with 1882, there was falling
of in area devoted to grain and root
crops of 214,700 acres. 1t is an &C
copied fact, however, that dairying,
poultry keeping and gardening are on
the increase, especially in central and
southern England.
Prof Dabney, the state chemist, of
North Carolina, says, regarding what
crops take out of the soil, that 100
bushels of wheat contain As pounds of
phosphoric acid, 80 pounds of potash,
and 125 pounds of nitrogen; 100 bush
els Of corn contains 80 pounds of
phosphoric acid, 80 pounds Of potash,
and SO pounds of nitrogen; 1000
pounds of tobacco contains pounds
of phosphoric acid and 81 pounds Of
potash. The 460,O00,000 bushels of
wheat produced in this country in
1880 contain 100000 lbs. phosphoric
acid, 100000 tons of potash, 2,6OO,OOO
tons of nitrogen, these quantities being
ten times as great as those contained
IN All the mauures used on HI the crops
in the United States that year"
No~ttme on the farm is better spent,
says the Massachusetts Ploughman,
han that of thoroughly destroying all
weeds before they ripen any seed; 70
do this two or three years lessons the
labor of cultivation at least one.half,
and at the same time very much IN
creases the product Of the garden or
field. Some farmers say that rs the
manure is full of weed seeds, 1t is
hut little use to try to get rid OF
weeds in the garden; but they FORGE
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