Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-11-15
FOR THE FARMER.
Some Picked up Pointers.

pair buildings, and make improve
ments generally.
The next meeting of the National
Grange will be at San Francisco,
Cal, beginning November Is.
If wheat is to follow corn the latter
shonld be now cut at once and re-
moved from the field.
All root crops liable to injury from
the frost should be gathered without
delay.
Mr.. E. F. Stevens, OF Dickey Coun-
ty, Dakota, in a letter to the Rural
New Yorker says, 81 planted our
field potatoes somewhat after the
Rural New Workers. trench system:
result, l have potatoes to sell to my
neighbors who planted theirs in tho
old way and hilled them up.
A little dry earth is necessary .or
fowls in Winter to roll themselves in,
and there is nothing better than dry
road dust gathered in barrels and
kept in convenient place for use when
needed. 1t has also some manurial
value, as it is on much travelled
roads always mixed with the drop
pings OF horses driven thereon.
81 made test plot by planting
every other hill of potatoes, with u
teaspoontul of sulpher sifted in
planting time" says q Forrestville,
N. T., farmer to the Rural New
Yorker. "The potatoes in the sui
pher hills came out perfectly clean,
while those in the other hills were
badly scabbed."
AS soon as frost comes either re-
move the cows from pasture or give
them additional feed to make up for
its lack OF nourishment Frost is
not like the drying up after cutting,
which turns grass into hay. Frost
disintegrates the particles of matter.
and when rains come the value ofthe
grass for nutrition is soon washed
out, and the grass after that is near
ly worthless as food.
If q farmers time is valuable he
cannot spare much of it to gather
leaves merely for their manurial val
lie. If bedding is scarce it may be
worth while to gather them as an
absorbent in stables, but to merely
rot down into leaf mold, leaves are
worth more where they lie in the for
est than anywhere else. There they
serve as q mulch and protection to
the soil they cover.
Any lot of slop, by the combina-
ton OF various grains and meals,
can be improved for the pig by a
liberal addition of whole or skim
milk. Any farmer who annually
raises a lot of pigs will find it to his
advantage to keep n sufficient num-
Der of cows to have a good supply
for the pigs after the wants of the
family are met.
II you wish q superior kind of corn
husks for mattresses, writes fnrm-
er, do not loosen the husks from the
ear, but press it close to the base
f and break it off The rough, coarse
lusks will be left on the stalk and
all the finer sort OH the ear. Throw
the ears in pile and when enough
are broken off husk them, sort ouU
the silks, and you will have q very
superior article.
In our experience the late crop OF
white turnips generally does better
among potatoes than among corn.
So soon as potato tops die tho tur-
nips have all the soil from which to
draw, and they are rather benefited
by the stirring of tho soil required in
digging potatoes by hand. If a
horse potato digger is used, no tur-
: | n1DS Cdn De grown, dS Uie ulpSef llec-
essarily upturns the entire soil, in
Guiding turnips CT whatever else may
be growing on it.
A fowl fancier pertinently declares
that, no matter who runs the poul-
try branch of the farm business
whether the boss, the good wife, OF
: the boys-itis well to remember that
this is the proper time of the year to
: get rid of the old inferior fowls, and
, the surplus cocks and cockerels. II
| is n dead loss to feed either of these
classes through the Winter. Better
, eat them or sell them for what they
will bring before they ''eat theiI
: heads off,"
In passing any piece of sowed corn
late in the growing season, it is easy
!, to see what will and what will not
, make good feed. That which has
3 been thickly sown, especially on pool
! sell, is light yellow color, tastclcss
and nearly void of nutritive value
!. That sown in drills and cultivated
, once or twice, is large thick -stemmed
/, and dark green in color. Taste il
and you will find the sweetness that
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