The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-27
NOTES in SEASON.

A kerosene emulsion is successfully
used for lice on cattle. Until they are
rid Of it no herd can prosper.
1t is a great blunder for a farmer to
sell off his good breeding mares, yet
this is often done and the gelding re-
tanned.
Practice and chemistry agree without
reservation that good clover hay is the
best roughness which can be used in
the dairy.
Effective farm work is as a rule the
result of sober and systematic plan
ming. The haphazar6 order of things
is fast going out of date on the better
! class of farms of the country.
Room at the top applies to agricul-
ture as we'll as other occupations.
There is always an abundance of in
different farm produce on the market,
and where practicable it will pay to
carefully assert such as is intended
for immediate sale to consumers.
One of the most useful and convenient
things for the farmer to use in case of
wire cuts on his horses is carbolic acid.
OF course, it should be diluted in water
in the proportion of about 10 to 1. 1t
costs but little and should always be
kept on hand. It is also good for a dis
infectant.
nut trees thrive well in this region.
they ought to be grown more extern
sively throughout the state They are
well worth growing for their nuts
alone, coming into bearing eight or ten
years from seed, and producing val
liable timber when twenty-five to
thirty years old.
After the strawberries are picked
NOW down the vines with a scythe, and
when dried burn over the entire patch.
thus destroying weeds insects and dis
ease in one operation. The fire must
not be fierce enough to injure the crown
of the plants. After the operation give
a thorough irrigation and the plants
Will come up in fine shape and, unless
it be q very old patch, will form large
plants for next seasons fruiting.
The COW should be bred with as much
care as the mare 1t is better that
those owning one to four or five cows
should join and buy partnership ami
NAL of high merit, rather than buy a
cheap bull for each farm. Two farmers
with ten cows between them can better
afford to pay $3.50 for a choice, pure
bred bull, than $50 each for two COM
mon bulls.
No man can farm successfully and
ignore weeds. There is nothing more
clearly settled among good farmers
everywhere than the entire practical
bility of keeping all weeds in a state
of subsection. 1t is this very fact that
always sets a premium upon good
farming. Aside from this the careful
cultivator takes more pleasure in max
ing his fields clean than does the in
different one in sleeping while the
weeds grow.
Ex-Governor Hoard of Wisconsin
l1rOnnrlU
have not yet furnished the conditions
whereby they can make the most profit
out of the creamery. They are furnish
ing half the amount of milk they
should furnish. There are thousands of
farmers with 200 acres of land. who are
keeping not more than ten to fifteen
cows. The making of the milk from
these COWS costs them nearly double
per pound what it would if they made
four times as much.
Don't put the new grain into the
granary until you have thoroughly
cleaned up the old bins. If any old
grain remains it is better to keep it to
itself. When possible clean up the bins
several weeks before threShing time In
this case if there are any insects at
work in the grain You get chance to
starve them out.
Success on the farm is the surplus
over expenses. without surplus q
farmer may be a desperate toiler all
his life. BY propagating from the best
Of everything he always finds a market
for his surplus; it brings the highest
price and it will always pay his debts.
There is an almost Incredible differ
ence in what different farmers would
CAN the art of agriculture.
One thorough spraying is better than
three or four pcorly done, and can be
made in less time and with a great
saving of material. If rain soon fol-
lows spraying with london purple or
paris green, repeat; but where these
are used with bordeaux, if the mix
ture has an opportunity to dry before
a shower comes, it will be found on the
trees at fruit-picking time, especially