The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1895-02-16

lind Il lot of stun that actually looks
repulsive. We see plenty of wilted
vegetables, and s%peckled, spotted and
gnarled fruit. Californians are about
the only ones that have learned how
to put up good fruit, and put it up in
an appetizing manner Otherwise, It
is seldom that any Of the stuff offered
for sale in the open market tempts
our appetite. have never cared to
buy a quart of Strawberries in the
city markets, no matter how cheap
they were offered, or have W
cared to call for a dish of strawberries
and cream in a city hotel. But 1 can
eat my quart of that lucious dish at
any meal at home, when l know the
berries have come fresh from the
field and the cream from our own lit
tie Jersey. If 1 expected to get ber-
ries and ream just as good in the
hotel or restaurant in the city, I would
frequently ask for it.
Poor stuff spells the market. An
instance of this is given in a new
book on market gardening, by Burnet
Landreth Orange Judd & Co., New
York; PIG pages; cloth; price, $3.50
as follows:
early shipments are always profit
able when the fruit or vegetable is
properly developed, but quality should
be aimed at by the grower, rather
than early, large or extensive ship
ments. AS an example of the evil ef-
fects of producing quantity at the ex-
pense of quality, notice the result of
the introduction of the Kolb Gem
watermelon, an early, reliable sort, q
good shipper, SNOWY ~outwardly, but in
quality only third class, so poor in
texture and flavor that the cOnsump-
ton of early wateemelons by people
Of discrimination has fallen off over
one-half, because it Isl impossible to
obtain anything but a miserable Kolb
Gem until after the Northern-grown
watermelons come Into the market"
I have been taken in by these Kolb
Gems myself. They looked so appe-
til = in the hot days Of July. long
before our own melons were ripe, that
l occasionally did buy a specimen or
two; but since 1 found the quality so
very inferior. I did no feel the temp
tation to repeat the experience very
often. If these early w~atermelOns
bad been really good, always, 1 would
have bought ten where l bought one.
Farm and Fireside.
Management of Manure.
Farmers Bulletin No. p, issued by
the United States Department of Az
riculture, is a compact little mono
graph on the value and proper man.
agement of barn-yard manure If the
tertilizing constituents of the manur
produced by all the farm animals
Of the United States are estimated
at their market value the total amount
toots up to the enormous sum of more
than $4,000, 200, 900 in a year. This es-
innate does not mean that n
produced by u farm animals is &C.
tually worth that amount of money to
the farmers, for much of it Is actually
thrown away and much of it is care
lessly applied. 1t means, however. that
the p~hosphoric acid, potash, and nitro
gen which this product contains would
cost that much If it were pl released.
It ought to be borne in mind, too, that
If this valuation is too high it takes
no account of the use of MANURE in i'm
proving the mechanical condition and
the drainage of the soil, which is al
most as important as it's actual fer
dlizing 1alre. Prof. Roberts Of Cor
hell University, thinks that $3.50 is a
conservative estimate of the value of
the produced during sever
winter months ON a small farm which
carried four horses, twerty cows, fifty
sheep, and ten pigs. At least one-fhird
pf this is lost, which would lei for
the whole country a waste of nearly
e70O,00O,OOO.' This little pamphlet of
thirty odd pages gives plain directions
for protecting this valuable product
from loss by fermentation or by the
teaching out Of it's soluble constituents.
It also explains the rational methods
Of preserving and applying manur
Advantages Of Crimson Clover.
Crimson clover is attracting a good
deal of attention throughout the coun-
try, but especially in those sections
where the ordinary red clover does
not thrive well. In the South and far
Southwest it would appear that this
plant should be widely cultivated.
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