The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-05-16
A FEW FARM FANCIES|
Tips Which Nay Prove Of Value to the
Yakima Husbandman.
K. ". DUNLOp'S PORCIHE MOHSTROSITY
The Hop outlook, and what &c Pres
ages for she Coming season-ken.
newick and Its Progressive Farm.
ers-Hint TO Fruit shippers.

newick and Its Progressive Farm.
ers-Hint TO Fruit shippers.
Feed fsrrow COW all she will eat TO
fatten her.
1t is never to early to begin spraying
trees and vines, to destroy fungus and
spores.
Mrs. T. II. Shannon has planted ten
acres Of her Sunnyside ranch to orchard,
having set out apples and plum trees.
The Florida tomato crop which will be
ready to ship this week, is one Of the larg-
est that has ever been raised In that state
In case Of fire, II horses refuse to wslk
out OF the stable with blanket over their
heads, try Harvesting them. This has
been known to induce many horse to
let himself be saved.
Oregon expects to raise 100 900 bales OF
hops this year, bssing the figures on the
early growth of vines and crop conditions.
The crop last year amounted to 85 ,00J
according to the Oregonian.
Carrots are excellent food for old horses,
giving them new energy and life; but for
those under ten years should be used
sparingly, as they have tendancy to
make young horses nervous and irritable.
II you want hornless cattle, buy stick
Of white potash and rub the incipient
horn OF OF q young calf, after dsmpening
it. This is an effective method of pre-
venting horn growth and is painless. to
the calf.
A Yakima poultry keeper wants to
know why his hens lay double-yolked
eggs. He is simply feeding them too
much. Authorities say that green food
and meat and less grain will remedy the
complaint.
Harkins & Sons, of Champoes, Ore,
last week contracted $4,000 pounds OF '95
hops at 10c. They offer us Sc in Yakima,
yet our product is equal to il not superior
to that of any other section of the west.
There's colored gentleman in the wood
pile, somewhere.
Clean stalls are the best preventive
against disease; sunlight and air and
fraab ahaorhank ~, fav;aI o-a uvopth ,,,o-o
than medicine, while dampness is source
of disease. Remember. too, that horse
blanket saves ten times it's cost in q short
time, in feed and labor.
Plant peas in the orchard. They dis
solve air in the soil and put nitrogen into
active use. They do not drain the soil,
either, but keep 1t moist. In the fall give
the pea vine and the fallen apples to the
hogs, and they will produce better meat
than il fed on corn diet
News by the grapevine route comes
from an Oregon paper to the effect that
yakima people are agitating the cree.
ton Of a securing and wooden mill at that
place. They believe that they could get
the wool from 100000 sheep" That's
good; bnt what's the matter with that
big frame building owned by Mr.. Meal
lister, at Yakima City.
tits said that the Yakima Hop Growcrs'
association will put the picking price
down to rs cents this year, and it is I'M
derstood that some members of that body
favor IS cent rate. One thing 10 GER
tain, i. e.. that whatever figure is estab-
lished no grower member will this year
be allowed to depart from it and still
profit by his connection with the sssocia-
ton. The rate once determined, no
"raise" in order to secure crew will be
permitted.
Yakima might follow the example OF
Oregon orchardists, and import few
thousand Australian lady bugs. These
little bugs propagate very rapidly-snd
they are sure death to the San Jose scale.
Within q week trees In Oregon almost
covered with the scale were completely
cleaned, hundreds of the lady bugs hav-
ing been feeding upon the insects. Spray
ing, 1t is said, is fatal to the bug, and
should not be INDUCED in. They do not
injure foliage, and there is, therefore, no
danger to follow their introduction.
Last year, during the hop picking sea.
son, red-headed walking delegate for
what he probably fancied was an embryo
pickers' union, informed q HERALD re-
porter that, as the growers combined last
year. the pickers would "get back at
them" during the coming year. Aitken
that was the agitator's name-may not
be in evidence this year; but some of his
ilk might materialize. 1t is we'll to in
form these anarchists-if any there be-
that no organized demand for increased
pay will be recognized, and that the lead
ers of such movement will be blacklist
ed summary upon the first faint demon
stration toward a Strike" There are In
dams enough to care for much OF this