Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-05
FOR THE FARMER.
THE CARE OF FRUIT AND ORNA-
MENTAL TREES.
Introduction of the Tomato tgg-fiah
The Management of Seed Pota-
toes-The Amount of Food
Necessary for Hogs.

A ULYSSES, Nebraska, man has the
"largest corncrib on EARTH" 1t is 4oo
feet long, twelve feet wide and twelve
feet high.
Crows have become so abundant IN
Maine that it is estimated they cost
the State 100000 a year in corn, po-
tatoes, young chickens, fiuit, gram
and the like. The next legislature VIII
be asked to gi bounty OF ten cents
for every dead crow.
A New Jersey farmer has succeeded
in raising in the rich soil OF the Hack'
ensack bottom the genuine whi'e
VAN. or "buneato" OF Cuba, and he
predicts that in few years this de-
licious vegetable, grown across the
North river, will be as common IN the
New York market as the Southern
sweet otato now Is.
New Zealand, according to recent
writer, is a splendidly endowed COUP
try. Besides such natural curiosltles
rs boiling lakes of sulphur, smoking
volcanoes, snow. clad peaks and mag
nifcent waterfalls, it has splendid VIZ
gin forests of rare and useful woods,
great fields of coal, iron, copper, gold,
silver, etc, all awaiting the capitalist
and workman.
Taking the amount of food require
to make pound of grain on swine
weighing thirtyf five pounds, 80 per
cent more food is required by swine
weighing seventy pounds, IA per cent
more by swine weighing 125 pounds,
10 per cent more by swine weighing
IT'S pounds, % per cent more by swine
weighing 900 pounds, 81 per cent
more by swine weighing 27O pounds,
and "a per cent more by swine weigh
ing 1926 pounds.
Overhaul yonr store of seeds and
throw away those OF doubtful vitality.
There are but few seeds that are not
good at the end of two years, while
the average are good at the end OF
four or five, and squashes, melons and
all of that family, last almost iadef-
inately. Onions, parsnips and car
rots are The seeds which growers are
the most particular about. Those who
supply tn market with crops should
put their dependence on varieties
known to be marketable.
The management Of seed potatoes
is one of the most important arts Of
the potato grove. The chief poin,
is to prevent them fir m sorouting
. | Ia tot
: ture as near to the freezing point as il
possible without touching it is desira
BILE. Nearly everywhere farmers fine
that the late varieties of potatoes are
more productive than the early ones
Is not this partly due to the fact thai
early varieties have been injured by
sprouting, while late varieties are less
liable to this injury?
, The buyers of fruit and ornamental
trees can hardly be too careful in get
ting stock grown on land free from
quack. The fine underground root
Of this pest are often mixed among
. those of fruit trees, and once planteo
are difficult to get rid of. Whenevel
quack grass appears for the first time
t ON farm it is usually in the orchard
} and has been introduced by the pur
, chase of trees without careful exam
4 ination to see that quack is not mixeC
with their roots.
. Everybody knows how difficult it i
I to prevent the water from fres Yin,
:, during very cold weather Tin will
: rust, wooden troughs become Shiny
4 aid earthcnwIre crack from the ic
formed on the water. To obviat
these faculties, give water thre
times day. Use vessels that onl
permit the birds to get their beak
: wet, 50 as to avoid freezing their wat
ties, which results when they get we,
l and give warm water three times
day. They will soon learn to look 70
l. it at regular periods, and it will invig
n crate them. By the time the water
Y somewhat cool all will have drank
;, when the surplus should be throw
t out and the vessel left empty.
The tomato egg plant has the ger
!. eral appearance of common egg
plant, while its fruit, when ripe, re
:. sembles a medium sized, ribbed tc
~ mato. Its skin is very glossy an,
bright red, much like that of a cayenn
= pepper. The history of the plant i
that the year before last single spec
% linen of it came up among l4rg
number of black Pekin egg plants
l. growing in southern New Jersey. Til
i flesh OF the fruit is very solid and dry
apparently unit for use, but as
/, curiosity and ornament the plant i
VI worthy of trial by those in search O
s unusual novelties. The cultivation
y of the plant is the same as that of tn
egg plant.
IS What is the best feed to give
" horse that is run down in strength
> and llesh2 The Massachusetts, Plow
y man says; Ii you cannot get pastul
y age, feed your horse fresh.cut gr .sg o
a clover hay, with few oats, say fou
;; to SIX quarts daily, and give hin
IL gentle work or exercise so as to kee
3 his appetite and digestion good. A
II he gains strength you can substitut
corn-meal mixed with cut hay for on
1t or two rations daily, using not owe
l iour quarts a day. Corn-meal alou
Is is not 20 safe grain for horses a
d oats most cases of collie are to b
5. traced to iniudicious use of corn-meal
h but horses fatten rapidly on it, and
IS Is cheaper than oats. To make it