The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-10-12
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Monthly Sales.

NHOhthtN sAttss
A correspondent wants us to urge the
farmers of each county to establish
monthly sales day. The object would
be to bring together at some stated day,
monthly, in the principal town in the
county, such horses, cattle, sheep, hogs,
ms the farmers had for sale, and not
enough TO justify having special sale
for their disposition. 1t is also good
place for the exchange of stock among
farmers. One farmer may have an
article of stock which another man in
the county greatly needs, aud that
same man might have something which
the first man had demand for, such
as male-breeding animals which had
served their time in the homo herd.
Frequently the finest animals OF this
kind have to be sacrificed for q mere
song, because the owner did not know
any other farmer in the county wanted
just that animal. And there are
thousand reasons why the farmers of
each county ought to have monthly
sales day, and that they ought
to attend and patronize it. But
then this would be an organization of
farmers of practical character for
their own good. And it is hard to get
farmers to do any thing of this kind.
The fact is few of the real farmers take
any active part in organizing, perpetu-
ating and sustaining any organizati on
OF this class. 1t is true alliances, gran
gos and associations are kept up, but
the leaders in them, and who are the
motive power, are usually such per-
sons as are seeking notoriety, and who
hope through such activity to eventual
ly get place and position by such
means. BY constant drilling, few
farmers crn be, for season, induced to
attend such meetings, especially if
they are held in town, where they can
pretend to attend the alliance, the
grange o. the association, but who will
take occasion to attend to their own or
somebody else's business during the
hours of the meeting. With this knowl-
edge OF the inclination and prac tees
OF the farmers, our correspondent need
not try to enlist our services in vitaliz-
ing monthly sales days. 1t would be
hopeless work. -Des Moines Register.
Timothy Grass on Low Land.
On many lands too wet in the spring
to DO proitably planted to corn or
sown with oats, it is quite possible to
grow large crops of timothy hay. But
in the course OF few years red-top
and blue grass choke out the timothy,
and it is necessary to reseed. The
usual method OF reserving old
meadow or pasture land is to pillow it
up and cultivate it with corn or pota-
toes, so that the sod shall be we'll SUBJ
dued and the weeds and blue grass
roots killed. But on the kind of land
we have now in mind this can not DO
done. The land is dry in July, but it
is too wet-at least in part-to plow
for ordinary crops.
We have had excellent crops of
timothy on such land by breakingit up
in July and keeping the surface we'll
worked with harrows to prevent
weeds from growing, and the in
August gang-plow AMI work the soil
ALL n iS fna and m al lnu Cu - coil ;c
easily worked. The real point is to
kill the bluegrass roots. Work it till |
this is certainly accomplished. And
then, any time in August or the first
week in September. SOW from eight to
iRa|ye quarts OF timothy por acre,
and aoyep.it With o smoothing harrow |
pggnlleh Wthh work has been well |