Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-23
HOME AND FARM.
THE VALUE OF STRAWBERRIES vs.
WHEAT PER ACRE.
The Best Grasses. Those Naturaiy
Adapted to the Soil-The ooor OF
Weeds Detected In MIX
Low Grade Fertilizers.


and hook of some kind should be fast
ened to the handle by stout cord. The
hook would allow the basket to be hung
on limb often, giving the picker the use
OF both hands.
Apple ForIY.-Two eggs, one cup oil
white sugar, three sour baked apples,
vanilla. Beat the whites of the eggs and
fine sugar together, then add the inside OF
the APPLES, which should be roasted soft,
flavor with vanilla and beat this to stiff
froth. ANY kind Of jelly can be used IN
stead of apples.
MurroN STEAKS, FRIED.-Make bat
ter of grated bread crumbs, milk and one
egg. Put into shallow dish. Have some
mutton steaks cut from the ION, with
bone cut short. Have ready in frying
pan hot butter or dripping. Dip each
steak twice in the batter, then Try them
brown and send to the table very hot.
An acre of land will produce five or six
times as many Strawberries, in bushels,
as in wheat, and the prices usually OBJ
tanned for strawberries are more than
three times as much as for wheat. One
acre of strawberries will bring as much
cost of growing the Strawberries is pro
portionatelv but little more than that OF
growing the wheat.
| The better the preparation of the soil
the less seed will be required. Many
failures in the seed are not due so much
to the vitality in the seed as to the I'M
favorable condition of the ground 1t is
always a matter of chance termination
when seed is brCad-casted and left to be
covered by the washing of the rain, and
the harder and firmer the seed-bed the
greater the difficulty in securing a crop
from the seed. Pulverize the soil, har-
row it down as fine as posi- bic and then
| brush the seed in.
The best grasses are those naturally
adapted to the soil. In America about
one dozen varieties are made speclaltles,
while in England the farmers select from
over one hundred. A firm sod of native
grass should never be turned under to
make room for some other kind until the
new grass has been tested on the farm.
Soils vary, and grass that may thrive on
one farm may fail on another.
When all the milk from dairy herd
is put in the same can any odor from
weeds eaten by any one OF the cows will
be communicated to the entire contents
of the can. 1t may happen that one par
ticular COW may be fond of some weed (or
find a small quantity of iD that other
cows would not touch, and she will thus
influence the odor OF the milk from the
other cows. Some cows will not eat gar
lie ii they can get good clover, while
al, IL Mo,
vidual characteristics of each COW should
should know every animal in the herd.
The rock on which many who enter the
ranks as breeders of good stock split is
that of stinted feeding, SAYS Professor
Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege. The Shropshire, Percheron, and
Shorthorn owe their excellence to the
fact that they can make good paying use
of a large amount of food. Unless they
have the food to work upon, they fail OF
their function, and their keeper fails OF
his expected gains. 1t may be best to
half starve the Jersey in his calfhood,
but surely it is ruinous to thus treat the
5 Shorthorn or Hereford. The breeder s
7 motto should be: 'sKeep all those ami
mails in thrifty growing condition from
first to last" Unless we intend and will
: feed literally we had better keep the
scrub. 1t was brought up to enjoy rough
ing it.
The intrinsic value of pure dissolved
+ bones is frequently made apparent as al
ingredient in low grade fertilizers. A few
hundred pounds are introduced in for
mula mainly composed of cheap mate
rails, from the use of which surprisingly
good but very transtory results follow
= 1t is a leaven OF dissolved bones which
has qulckened the mass and given it the
, only vitality really possessed. Impuri
e ties and foreign matters akin in color anc
weight to dissolved bones cannot be
mixed with them beyond the chances O
, discovery any better than they coulC
with bone meal. Deception can no more
: be effectually practiced with the partially
S calculated bone than with the raw bone
q The sulphuric acid employed in dis
solving has simply honey-combed tn,
+ PARTICLES in such state that the natura
: action of the soil and the elements car
! convert them Immediately into plan
: food. Bearing these facts well in mind
and having the guarantee OF the manu-
5 facturer that the article is made of raw
bones, that pure sulphuric acid is EN-
4 ployed in dissolving; that it is not made
V wholly or in part of foreign matter, it is
: better Tor farmers to use strictly pure dis
solved bones than to invest the same
amount OF money in substances contain
/ ing less phosphoric acid. 1t is unuues.
$ tlonably the better policy to select fer.
tlllzer that is ready for immediate action
, and one sure to give two-told quicker
1 return, with an almost equal reserve
5 store OF rich ingredients for the benefit
OF grass and hay crops.
The Rural is asked if it will paw tc
arrange pipes that will carry water iron
a tank filled with water by wind
mil, so as to supply water for small
: fruits. The same correspondent also
asks ii the pipes might not run under
ground with advantage. We are unable
r to answer the questions, and we doubt i
: anybody can answer them definitely
q Even ii some such system worked vel
with one mainland we believe there is
t one fruit grower who has adopted some
' such system of irrigation-he coulc
hardly say whether it would paw anothe,
man or not. 1t is certainly verv desira
Die to have water for both fruit and veg
etables. Not to have it is to lose the
: crop IN some cases. To have it artificial
\ y. supplied is to save the crop very often
\ we think there is no way for anybod,
, TO settle the question of profit, but to ST
: down and give the subject his own close
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