The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-05-02
FACTS FOR THE FARMER
Tips That May Be Of Interest as Well
as Value.
HORSE FLESH TURNED into PORK
whitman County Tries TO hest Yak
lima Ia Potato Growing - The
Weather service Bulletin Makes
a Queer Error.

Prosser is to have q creamery before
fall.
Keep salt in places where stock can
help themselves.
The Yakima farmer should remember
that little water, applied at the right
time, will accomplish great results.
Cowychee valley residents report the
fruit crop in that section as very heavy,
and not at all damaged by the late frosts
and cold snaps.
The Irrigation Age says that it is folly
to skip from one crop to another in the
hope of catching the market at high
tide. A we'll selected variety pays better
1t is estimated that In Oregon, Wash
ington, Montana, Nevada and Idaho there
are at present 5000 900 of half-breed wild
hor SEES, for which no market can now be
found.
Mckee fruits are uninlured. In fact,
Mr.. ii. B. Scudder would be thankful if
some buds had been blighted, as there Is
great amount of work now necessary
in thinning.
The available stocks Of wheat in the
United States and Canada April g are
thus stated by Bradstreets: East Of the
Rocky mountains, SS,976,000 bushels !;
Pacific coast. 1882 900.
Hop vines three feet in heighth were
seen upon Walter Walton's place as early
as last week. Mr.. Walton ia located on
the school section lands, south of the city,
and has a yard Of ten acres devoted to
hops.
st. Paul Pioneer Press: The scarcity
of fat cattle is causing shipments to be
made from the Pacific coast. Recently
several car loads OF steers, shipped from
Yakima, Wash, were sold in Chicago.
They weighed less than 1900 pound each,
but sold for $5.05.
Two ounces of powdered corrosive sub
Innate dissolved in wooden bucket,
and when fully dissolved poured into
barrel containing fourteen gallons of
water and thoroughly stirred, forms q
wash which will effectually eradicate any
trace of potato scab on seedlings. The
potatoes should be put in sacks, soaked
in the above mixture one and one half
hours, and then be taken out, dried and
cut for planting.
The agricultural traditions OF the in
fluence of the moon on vegetation are no
longer scoffed at by true scientists. Many
of them are absurd, but underlying them
is what some now consider a general
principle that the moon produces air cur
rents as it does sea currents or tides, and
that through this influence on the wealth
er it exerts the marked influence on vege-
table growth with which tradition has al
ways credited it. Science is slowly learn
ing that it will never do to close its eyes
to any tradition of the general expert
ence of practical men, however unlearned.
The last weather service bulletin issued
from the bureau at Seattle on april %,
states that yakima county men COM
plain of the unusually dry spring, and
fear 1t will prove unfavorable. Those in
most other counties consider it a favor
able spring." This is the veriest nom
sense. We of Yakima are never much
distressed over "dry" springs, because
we do not depend upon the moisture OF
the heavens in the growth of crops. We
get our water out of the rivers and they
from the SHOWS Of the mountains--and
there has been more of "the beautiful
this year than for twenty years previous.
We have several million gallons more
water than we need. and ths crop will be
a heavy one this fall. However, we have
not had "dry" spring, any, On
the contrary, the reverse is true.
A Pendleton stock raiser has a scheme
which might be worked among the 75c@
81 cayuses of Yakima, and decent profits
expected. As for killing more valuable
horses, the average American would look
upon the act as little short of crime. One
can hardly think OF slaughtering good
horse to fatten a pig. The Pendleton
raneher's scheme is in line with the plan
followed by the drouth-ruined Nebres-
ksns. They find that equine flesh ia
metamorphosed into porcine avoirdupois
with profitable results. The Pendleton
man has now a scheme by which he will
be able to improve on this process. He
will buy steam generator. and connect
it by pipes to large watts which will con-
tain horse meat. The animals will be
skinned, carefully dressed and dissected
into quarters or Fights. These will be
thoroughly cooked in the watts, after which
the contents will be left to cool. The
grease will be skinned and sold for the
manufacture of soap. 1t is estimated
that one animal will yield so pounds
of tallow. The meat will be mixed with |
water and fed as slop to growing pigs. |
He expects to kill 10 horses a week and |
feed $50 pigs.