The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-08

only common wrapping paper, such Dis
can be obtained in any grocery or dry
goods store. He tears these papers lhto
strips eight inches wide. These nc
wraps around the tree on the bias, be-
ginning near the ground, and stopping
twenty inches above it, where he ties
the paper
A discussion arose on the value or
the yellow transparent for commercial
orchards. Some believed it a mistake
to plant largely of this variety on &C
count Of its poor keeping qualities.
However, when in good shape, it sells
readily, and men from Southern Hi
nois expressed great faith in its com
mercial value
Much time was devoted to the discus
sion of the efficiency Of spraying, ant
successes and failures were reported
The prevailing opinion was that the
failures were due to ignorance in do
ing the work.
Question.-How many have expert
mentcd with spraying mixtures?
Twenty-seven replied atlirmatively.
Question.-How many recommend
spraying?
Thirty-fye votes were cast for it, and
none against it.
The growing of small fruits was dis
cusscd, and the growing of strawberries
in hills came up. While hill culture
gives large, fine berries, yet growers
on a large scale do not follow 1t, as
it does not pay for the extra trouble.
The question of fertilizers was dis
cussed at length. The most impor-
tant point developed was that the ey-
tensive use Of barnyard manure made
it possible for the soil to use greater
mass of chemical fertilizers than if
it were not used at all. Thus in the
neighborhood of large cities the market
gardeners are enabled to use immense
quantities of commercial fertilizers be-
cause they also use immense quantities
of barnyard manure.
Mr. Morrill,, of Michigan, spoke on tho
marketing of fruit The first requisite
is to have something desirable to mar
ket. He could not tell a man how to
market undesirable fruit. The great
necessity with farmers is to learn how
to cooperate in the sale of goods. The
cooperative organizations have largely
failed for the reason that there seemed
a jealousy against any mal being paid
to leok after the work. He believed
the time to be approaching when farm
ers would use more business-like
methods.
The superintendent of the insane asy,
lum al Kankakee spoke ON the great
success of irrigation at that place. The
water for the irrigation works is
pumped by steam engines that can sup
ply from 100000 to 100000 gallons per
day. The cost for this pumping is only
three-tentks of a cent per thousand
gallons. During the last season they
had raised vegetables worth over 5000,
BY vote of the society the life mem.
bership fee was reduced from $40 to
S..
The election of officers resulted in the
following choice: President, Mr.. Good
rich; vice~president, Lem Small; sec,
rotary, H. M. Dunlap; treasurer, Ar
thur Bryant.
The next annual meeting will be held
at Springfield.
William Gould spoke on the cult
walton Of grapes. He plants SxS OF
7x9, which gives about 700 vines to the
Sulphur for Sheep.-The American
Sheep Breeder says: While sulphur is
indispensable for sheep, as furnishing
one of the important elements of the
fleece, it must be given in such way
as to be available for this purpose. II
must be in the food. 1t cannot be given
in the crude form, in which it is not a
food, but IN active medicine, producing
laxative action on the bowels and ar
excessive excretion through the skin
1t is this which makes it useful as ar
antidote to all kinds of parasites. the
sulphur thus passing through the Skin
being extremely offensive to all in.
sects. But it's action on the skin is t
open the pores and thus make the ami
NAL more subject to changes of thu
weather, and especially to injury by
rains. It is thus not desirable to giv'
sulphur as food or nutriment excep
in the food, such as white mustard o.
any other plant of the turnip and cab
bage tribe.
TRANSFORMING Large Trees.-Garden
ing gives this method, and we can Ger
tify to it's being good one: We prefe
doing this in the spring, and would pre-
pare for it now. If you want to NOV
moderately large tree, say four, fiv
or even six inches in diameter of trunk
next spring, head in it's top now al
you think ought to be done at planting
J time, then mark a ring on the groun,
around and four, five, six or more fee
, away from the stem, the distance ava,
J depending on the size of the tree. Now
along, but outside of this ring mark