Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1890-07-19
FACTS FOR THE FARMER
HalfHsss WITH sAs Progressive
Western Agricoulturist.


Western Agrioultuiist.
f1usrsss II Farming In The ssntt-1hs 1sd
Iyidsr-PaAs Absst Positry- Hats On
baisy Masssu-- Assissitsrsi xstss and
0tAR valuable Infsrnatasa
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tab%sisrmsst 1t asuthsra AStteaitxss.
Pew persons even Ii ths south
know q what is going on In regard 10
% asvsiopmsnt OF tno great industry
q agriculture. Some years ago, scarce
n N agricultural Journal could be-
pisked up. without thB reader finding
fspeatsd lessons giysn "a The ims
HSstanos Of diversity Of crops; more
usaAs; more live stoek; home grown
nFk; butter, etc Bht few have kept
watch over the gradual approach Of
~ these acknowledged improvements
When one. however. finds q farmer on
800 acre farm In North Carolina
Flowing with Q steam plow; hears OF
one town In Georgia receiving from
tie farmers $500 bushels Of homo
grown clover seed; and Of farmers
hseo and there rearing swine on clover
pasture and skimmsd milk from their
butter diaries for . cost Of three oeats
. pound for the pork. he will not be
sl0v 10 admit that 1.-THE New South"
y not fancy or d wild, visionary
klea. but solid TACT And these
things are 90. Tho South has we'll
skastsd on course OF agricultural
Improvement which will make II
producer Of all It's oiEn domestic sup
PLAZA besides crops for shipping which
Will mako Il the richest part OF the
Union Intelligent Southern men are
Vide awake ~ this fact which Is the
outgrQwth OF free labor and the ming
ling Of Northern men and money In
the great Southern industries.
The leading farmers In the southern
states arc able TO do much for their
lloighbors IN the way Of encouraging
them 70 road and study, aud by circu-
lAting among them such agricultural
Journals ~ will afford them practical
valuable Information. and by which
thoy themselves have profted. I'm
provement Ii contagious, and one en-
terprising farmer soon becomes the
tiAlk Of county; other farmers are
apt 10 follow the example, and 20, one
instance becomes the seed for a wide
ly extended result II farmers In
stirute were held In every county in
the south. or every Eouthern far mer
should read q good paper devoted TO
his industry, the agricultural wealth
Of the southern states might be doub-
led 10 three years.
Ned spldss
Some interesting experiments have
been carried on at Amherst by S. T.
Maynard, the hortEculturist OF the
Massachusetts Agricultural Expert
mont Station. whiih indicate that
evaporated sulphur ib not only a good
funGioide, but that IL IN an excellent
remedy against 7etranychus teiarius,
the common red spider. The remedy
consists In heating a kettle oil sulphur
for three or four hours twice or three
times q week to nearly boiling point
In the room with infested plants. care
being taken not to heat II so that IL
will take fire. but evaporating enough
10 fill the room with visible vapor. and
TO make the sulphur od,r perceptible.
So perfect remedy this Is claimed TO be
that infested plants exposed for a few
hours in tho room where sulphur is
used are said TO be completely freed.
Gro kth Of Tsrnip..
The seed Of n Globe turnip. says an
exchange. 10 exceedingly minute, not
larger. perhaps. than the twentieth
part Of an inch In diameter. and yet In
tho course OF few months this seed
win DO elaborated by the soil and The
atmosphere into 27,0O0,O0O times its
original bulk, and this In addition TO q
Considerable bunch Of leaves. DIR.
Dessguliors has made some expert
mepts proving that, In an average
condition. . turnip seed may increase
its own weight fifteen times In a
miuute. By an actual experiment
made on peat ground. turnfps have
been found 10 increase by growth 49,
800 times the weight OF their seeds
each day they stood upon it
MssAiasry Cheaper Than Hired Melp.
The proper use Of improved farm
machinery Il to enable the farmer to
do more work himself. and either grow
more and better crops than be-
fore, or else 10 hire less help. 1t n
not very often that help can now be
found which IL capable OF running
such complicated machinery as reap
ers and mowers. Braakages. wear and
tear OF machine and loss Of time.
while the hired man 10 waiting for its
repair, make the machinery more ex-
pensive than even the slowest OF the
old-fashicned methods Of harve sting.
But II the farmer Is handy with
machines and gives them his personal
care. doing most al the work with
them bimself. they will save him
much more than the. n cost, by enabling
him to accomplish N pre- than he ever
could under the old plan.
HAIR Of B,srses.
The breeding Of the borse can be
sean In the amount OF hair there 10 in
his name and tail and on his legs. The
hair IL not 70 long in tho tails OF
horses with long. heavy names az It is
In those OF horses With short, light
names. A full, long uail is a great
ornament to horse, and 1t Is much
more pleading 10 see horse with a
full. long tail and lighter name than
TO sec Elm with . short tail and q
heavy, long mane.
Co-opsrstivs stock Improvement.
One Of the very best suggestions
soon lately IL thst the farmers of
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