The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-23
FARM AND GARDEN.

Young animals should be fed consider
able bulk in order to develop the stom-
ach. Heifer calves, especially, should be
fed considerable bulky food. When con-
centrated food alone is fed the stomach
is contracted.
The crops well adapted to this late
sowing are few. Vetch is probably the
best which has been we'll tested in the
state. But everything points TO GRIM
son clover as the ideal orchard cover
and green manure.
1t is said that a city man who was
born and bred on farm, never quite
overcomes the ways of his early train
ing. Many such men have succeeded
in overcoming entirely too many of
such ways.
Few culture plants. and no fruit trees,
moisture, but the trees should not stand
in water. If ground is sWamped with wa
ter much of the plant is carried away
with the percolating water, and tree roots
standing therein are likely to decay.
The cheapest food for young stock to
produce bone and muscle: For colts and
calves / think oats is the best, as corn
makes too much flesh and not enough
bone. For pigs I think oats and wheat
make the best and cheapest food at pres
ent prices for producing bone, muscle,
and of that which is good.
There is no fruit so delicious, none
more productive, more HedlluIul, 50 easily
or so cheaply grown, none so easily cared
for and protected from drouth or blizzard
as the strawberry. They can be grown
on almost any soil, and d child can grow
them 1t is dainty the poor man can
have as bountifully as the rich one.
A green manure improves the soil by
adding fibre to it and by increasing its
fertility. 1t catches the nitrates which.
earlier in the season, are used by the
tree roots. Vegetable fibre in the soil
increases it's power of holding both
moisture and plant food.
The gist of it all is that orchards
should be cultivated and fed. Cultiva-
ton should begin early and be con-
tinued often. 1t may be stopped in
August if the grower thinks best. and
then. if the land needs it, a green crop
may be sown for turning under the
next spring.. H. Bailey. in Bulletin
70 Cornell Experiment Station.
Peas sown as early in spring as pos
sible make good feed for hogs. This
crop is not appreciated by our far
mers as it should be, and they prob
ably will be in the near future. They
are ready for use just when the pas
ture begins to fail, and before any
other farm crop is available.
If you are going out Of sheep"
don't go out by letting some sharper
take away your young anu thrifty
sheep and leave only old ones that
will only become less valuable. The
way to sell old stock is to insist that
the buyer take an average run of the
flock, or old with young.
In the case of prunes it is a question
whether it is not more profitable to
prune the trees so they will not bear
so heavily, rather than to allow SO
much bearing wood TO grow, and then
thin the crop by removal of the extra
fruit. In either case it pays beyond a
doubt to curtail in quantity and secure
quality.
The varieties of cherries which have
proved the most satisfactory in Cali
fornia are Bigarreau, Black Eagle,
Elton, Governor Wood, Black Tartar
ian, Belle d'Orleans and Bauman's
May.
There is nothing gained by keeping
pigs beyond the growing period. When
they cease to grow the profitable feed
ing period has passed. This is a good
point for the consideration of those
who grow pigs and then fatten them.