Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-16

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give sliced turnips, beets or carrots.
Peach trees will sometimes partially
renew themselves if the dead limbs and
twigs are cut away. In this manner
a tree may be induced to bear wear or
two longer, but when the tree is old, and
the new wood grows slowly, it may be of
little advantage to attempt to prolong its
| existence.
The longer the corn fodder remains
stacked in the field, the darker it will be-
come in color from exposure, and the
greater the deterioration in the quality
of the blades Bright fodder is more
highly rehshed by the stock, as it is ten
der, while exposed fodder gradually be-
comes tough.
The time to apply lime is in the fall g,
so as to allow it time to act on the soil
The beneficial effects of lime may not be
apparent until the second season, much
depending upon the condition of the soil
and it's composition 1t should be ap-
piled on the surface to be carried down
| by the rains, and not plowed in.
About one and a half pounds of corn
will suffice as grain ration for one sheep
if the animal is given all the hay or grass
! it desires The breeding ewes, however,
should be allowed oats in preference to
corn. To fatten wether give mess of
cooked turnips and cornmeal with the
other food, and it will gain rapidly.
A Nebraska fruit-grower thus states
the results obtained on a small plot of
ground: 81 sold 1928 quarts of raspber-
ries, which netted me $150.2S, and 796
quarts OF backberries, which netted $40.
These were from one and One-siXteenth
acres OF land (measured), and do not in
include the quantity eaten, canned and
given away.
Ounce trees are benefited by heavy
manuring more than any other fruit trees,
and if the ground a ound the trees is well
covered with manure this fall the bene-
! fetal effects OF the manure will be very
marked next spring. Too much manure
around peach trees, however, sometimes
does harm, but light covering Of COM
post will be beneficial
The horses on some of the stage routes
| in Nevada are trained to wear shOwshoes.
! After an animal becomes used to them
he can travel four or five miles an hour
where it would be impossible to get that
distance in week without them. The
shoes are made OF thin steel plate, and
measure about nine by eleven inches.
The horses are shOd with long heel calks,
which 90 through the snowsboes and pre-
vent their slipping going up and down
hill.
Professor B. D. Halsted finds that the
common asparagus is heliotropic, i. e.,
! follows the sun in it's daily course. In
early morning the shoots are nearly up
right, but when the sun is two hours
above the horizon the same stems lean
Enthusiastically to the eastward. At noon
| the stems are leaning somewhat to the
southwark and at evening they point
westward. The curving is most prom;n
ent with average sized stems which have
escaped the gardeners knife, and are be-
! tween one and two feet in height.
| Rye straw is preferred for bedding, as
| it is long and easily spread over the
stalls; but in preparing the bed some
consideration must be given the handling
| of the manure and ahsOrbents, for which
reason the material will give better re-
suits, so far as labor is concerned, if cut
up for bedding. Wheat straw is equally
as good. The finer and shorter the bed
ding material the better it will absorb the
LIQUIDS. AS soon as the leaves begin to
drop they should he raked up and hauled
to the stables for bedding.
w. Brazelton tells in Hoard's Dairy
man how he kills the horns on his calves.
He saws get stick OF caustic potash,
then when the calf is say, ten days old,
take it by both ears, stand straddle Of it,
then let an assistant have a little water,
wet the place where the horn would
come, then after wrapping a rag around
one end OF the caustic, rub the other end
of the horn spot 1t being wet, will dis
solve enough OF the caustic to cause dry
scab to form. If thoroughly rubbed for
saw minute, one operation is all-suffi-
cient. Mr. Brazelton's calves six months
old thus treated have not sign OF horn
1t requires but small plot of raspber-
ries to give an abundant supply for a
family. They should not be set out un-
! til late in the fall or early spring, and If
a protected location be selected for them
they will bear little earlier than If ex-
posed. The raspberry delights in a rich
soil and the canes should be well man
ured every season. The red variety is
the best, and sends up new plants from
the roots, which gives thick mass OF
canes in the row. The black caps are
propagated by roofing the tips of the
canes, which are bent to the ground and
covered.
Four lots Of lambs, OF ordinary grades,
were fed by Professor Roberts, to deter
mine the cost and ratio Of increase, from
different foods. not only OF the ca cass,
but of wool also. From November to
| April-fye months-the lambs were
given luite a variety. The four lots con-
tanned three lambs each. One lot was
fed on a carbonaceous diet, having all
the whole corn and timothy hay they
could eat. with half pound of roots each,
the estimated cost of the food being $2.70.
Another lot was given food OF Miro
genous character, c. insisting of 233 pounds
| bran, 1O6 pounds cotton seed meal, 3l3
pounds clover and 100 pounds roots, the
cost being 81 Sc. The other lots were
fed on mixed nitrogenous foods, for COM
parison with the first two lots. A re-
markable result was that the lambs led
ON nitrogenous food drank much more
water than the others, nearly four times
as mnch. While the cost of the carbon
aceous food was So 20, less than that OF
the food of the other lot $3.50, the gain
from the carbonaceous food in the five
months was 48.7O pounds, the gain from
the nitrogenous foods 7l.3l pounds, the
cost of the gain from the carbonaceous
food 81 SO; and the cost OF the gain from
the nitrogenous food $6.02. The increase
in wool was also in favor of the nitrogen