The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-18

nome pears crop OIL happiness IN I'M
severest drought.
The sunfiower deserves to be called
the national flower, since it has grown
SO luxuriently this season.
The ground in the poultry yard
should be spaded up occasionally
Fresh earth is a great deodorizer.
If you have heretofore neglected put
A~ting in feed grinder to be operated by
your Windmill you have missed gooo
thing.
The cow is not an object to be wor
SHIPPED. She will be better satisfied
with plenty of food and kindly treat,
ment.
Our experienced stock feeder say:
that oil meal and bran mixed with hay
or straw chopped, makes an excellent
and comparatively cheap food ration.
Do not overfeed swine; give only as
much as will be consumed at the meal
never allow any to remain in the
trough; clean it out for the store pigs
Gooseberries are not as much cult.
waited as they should be. They are very
easy to grow and yield annually large
crop that is always in demand in the
markets at a good price.
The wild cherry tree grows more rap
idly that walnut, is freer from insects,
charitable lumber. which ranks next
TO mahogany in value.
Have the strawberry beds clean. cul-
tivate well that a good vigorous growth
may be made before the ground freezes.
Then be ready to cover lightly with
marsh hay or other litter Tree from
weed seeds.
Poultry keepers who desire an abund-
ant supply of eggs during the winter
Shnnl1 nrPn3rPn In give their 1iOckS
good care. Their roosting houses should
not be built too high; warm air rises to
the top while the impure air settles near
the floor
the fall is the time to use the scales.
Weigh everything that goes into the
barn and also that comes out. BY so
doing You always know how much has
been consumed and also how much re-
mains on hand.
Ice water has no place on a hens bill
p 81 fare, and the less snow they eat the
more eggs You will get from them. 1t is
a good plan to give a warm meal for the
morning feed: boiled potatoes and beef
scraps or dissected fish added to the
mess viii improve the eggs.
The drainage of public roads should
be looked after in the fall Of the year.
Such work cannot be done when the
frost is going out in the spring, and it
is then that a road with imperfect
drainage becomes impossible.
When the horse is of a nervous tenn
permanent great judgment must 6e used
in its handling. If nervous horse
hears the sound of a ffrecracker the
animal thinks that everything it sees
has powder iii H. Handle gently.
1t pays to raise ducks. Their eggs
hatch remarkably well and the young
ones are easy to raise. Both Old and
young stand confinement well. They are
quick growers and command q paying
price. See that a small-szed brood is in
your poultry yard.
The farmer who fails to advance any
IN his vocation from year to year is
gradually slipping into the incipient
stages of foygism. The only preventive
of this condition is d free perusal of
the agricultural papers. There is no
other possible way of keeping up with
the procession.
1t is not as much work TO take care
and good care, too, of ten acres Of
Dorchard as it is TO take care of ten
acres of corn. and the income will be
far greater. Ten acres of orchard would
contain about SOC trees, and a barrel
to a tree when the trees come well into
bearing is only a moderate yield.
Average quality of wheat contains
about 6S per cent. of fat and u per
cent of flesh formers, and at conSidera-
bly, over its present value may be profit
dplN uSSh III SllttiJ AetuluS- IL MS ana
all other valietis Of grain are possibly
employed to most advantage when
given in mixture.
Sales of sheep of the mutton breeds
at the fairs this fall for breeding pur-
poses are reported to be very encour-
aging in number A good mutton
sheep that affords a fair clip of wool is
one of the things that is growing into
appreciation with the better order Of
things in general.
There are weeks of time in the fall
OF the year during which grading about
buildings can be done, walks made, and
other work done which will add to the
beauty and convenience of the home.
and the man who loves his home will
prefer TO do such work rather than
spend his time elsewhere.
We can't build shelters for our dairy
stock and young cattle when the tenn
perature out doors is down to the zero
mark, and we shall hardly be excusable
If we are as lacking in foresight as the
fabulous citizen of Arkansas who did
mt need a roof in dry weather and
couldn't make one when it rained.
A live stock writer says that it is
beginning to dawn upon those who eat
beef for the purpose of sustaining bod
lily vigor and health rather than for
the pleasure Of the palate, that our
bCtL ID IileaIS IOO lat 1nere Is more
nutriment in a given weight of grass
fattened beef than that fed largely on
corn.
There are 47,OOO,OOO sheep in the
United States, Ohio coming first. with
100000, and Texas following with A.
100000. New Mexico Montana, Nichi-
gan, Oregon and Utah each have mort
than 100000. In the production of
wool Australia leads with $50 900. 900
pounds, then comes Argentina with
4OO,O0O,000 pounds, and third the United
States with 3OO,0O00OO pounds.
The solubility of manure is the most
important point connected with it. IT
can never become soluble until it has
6ecomposed, and when a large mass of
coarse, bulky MARTIAL is spread on the
land the farmer will have to wait until
it becomes fit for plant food before his
crops derive any benefit from such.
Commercial fertilizers are sold as
much upon their guarantee of solubili-
ty as upon the plant food contained.
To be thorough and successful in
farming operations in this country. we
should subsoil our blowing each year.
How many are going to do it this COM
ing season? A suDsoil plow will cost
from ten to twelve dollars and the adj
ditfonal crops on one acre will pay for
1t. If you do not expect to cultivate
more than forty acres next year, bet
ter cut it down to twenty and use your
subsoil pillow or even ten, and in the
end it will pay you best.
Those who raise large crops of onions
spread manure in the fair, pillow it un-
der with a. one-horse plow, and. if the
weather permits during the winter the
land is cross-plowed, which incorpo-
rates the manure with the soil. The
rains and frosts pulverize the manure.