The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-04-04
AMONG YAKIMA FARMERS
Yakima Potatoes Pronounced the 'BBaaSt
In the World"
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELLH VALLEY
The New Natcheez Orea merry Prom-
ises TO he a success-HaIstead q
bakers Fine Ranch-The Zee.
Keepers Meeting.

baAGEh ttSs
Keepers Meeting.
w. o. Steele is breaking lot OF horses
for William Grant Of the lower Yakima.
Andrew Kunz was up from Parker Bot
tom on Saturday last and reported that
the peach and apricot trees were begin
ming to show the bloom.
N. III. Lille came up from Toppenish
on Saturday last, having just finished
seeding $50 acres CT land to oats. This
is the largest field OF oats in Yakima
county.
Cows that are thin from the lack OF
grain feed during the winter should have
grain at whatever cost for month before
calving. 1t is the worst possible econ
omy to let cows be weak and thin ct
calviag.
This recipe for preserving meat ID
gives Wy PoStiCai hau' roi Aoo ioo
OF meat take salt, ounces; saltpeter, 8
ounces; soda, ounce; molasses, quart
water, gallons. Boil, skim, and when
cold pour over your meat. Be sure it
covers the meat.
Pumping fowls ia one OF the tricks Of
the trade" often practiced by those who
have dressed poultry to sell says the
Northeastern Agriculturia 1t is done by
dipping the picked fowl for moment
into clean, clear, scalding water Just be-
fore it is drawn. 1t improves the appear.
ance of the carcass, giving it a smooth,
plump, full look, and is as efficacious for
those that are scalded before picking as it
is for those dry picked.
Hog cholera is said to have made its
appearance among the "slop" hogs about
Ellensburg. Central Washington has
always claimed that the country was free
from disease to swine, and so it is when
pure food 10 used, and the least recogni-
ton given to cleanliness; but no hogs
will escape disease when they are fed on
putrid Stops, the offal from slaughter
houses, and housed and yarded amid
filth and foul air. A. d. Eglin and Will
liam Shaw lost many hogs from cholera
several years ago, but they were fed
mainly on slops. Dishwater should go to
the compost heap, and meat and other
scraps from the table to the poultry, but
never to the pigs. With clover and al
falfa pasturage, pure water and milk, and
grain at the proper time, there is no
question but what the swine will be
healthy.
Halstead d Baker own 100 acres OF
fine bottom land in the Sunnyside, l0s of
which is under cultivation. They have
32 acres in alfalfa, II in hops, 20 acres of
orchard, and perhaps SO acres of pasture
fer their stock. Fifteen acres of the
orchard tract are filed with bearing trees,
8 acres being prunes and peaches. Mr..
Halstead says that there is every indica-
ton for good crop this fall, and fair
market. Thursday of last week, how
ever, gave orchardists in the Sunnyside a
considerable fright from frost, and it was
thought some OF the trees were injured.
The cold was not so severe as at first
supposed, and the trees are now in good
condition. What made the danger so
great was the fact that the apricots were
about to bloom. Many of then did so
on the following day, Friday, and Mr..
Halstesd expects his peaches to bloom
today or tomorrow. He says his hops
were also sprouting last week, and that
alfalfa was 80 high that stock could easily
find good pasturage. He thinks the Sum
nyside country is at least 10 days earlier
than North Yakima and the imme-
diate vicinity, and accounts for the re-
markable development in his neighbor-
hood upon this basis.
Mr.. J. P. Berg made a short address to
three or four beekeepers, who had assem-
bled at Beck's hall on Saturday last.
One or two of Mr.. Berg's ideas were par
ticularly valuable. although they are
slightly colored by the gentlemsn's PEN
chant for bees. Among other things, he
said that the people Of this valley SHOULD
be educated to alfalfa-which should not,
be thinks, be cut so often. II it were al
lowed to grow longer and less cuttings
were made, the crops finally secured
would be stronger, and bees would also
take more kindly to it. They do not al
ways do SO now, and perhaps may ne. at
all If other pasture is afforded them. Mr..
Berg thinks, too, that alsike clover could
be most advantageously grown here, and
be found of more value that the white or
red varieties. 1t slightly resembles the
white in that 1t thrives well under abund-
ance Of water; and there the gentleman
again reveals the ruling passion) it is one
OF the very best products for bee pastur-
age. He objected to some of the trees
planted in this country, and thinks
We should have laws compelling their