Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-02-06

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room to spread their branches and to
form a low and spreading head. Close
planting has a tendency to force the
trees to run up, and preventing the
fruit from obtaining its proper color
Ing from the sun, and making it more
dimcult to gather the fruit. At the dis
lance OF thirty feet apart II will require
Twenty-Five trees to the acre. Before
planting the tree. remove all bruised
and broken roots by cutting clean with
sharp knife. Lay out your ground in
straight lines, so that your trees will
be IN line each way and at equal dis
tances, thirty feet apart.-Wm. Gray.
Thayer's Kerry Bulletin.
For December, 1895.
Any intelligent farmer can grow ripe,
luscious Strawberries, ready for pick
ing, at two cents per quart.
With good cultivation. at least 100
bushels per acre should be grown.
Two hundred bushels per acre is not
an unusual yield and 800 is often pro-
duced.
Fruit that can be grown so cheaply
and will yield so much. should be con-
sidered a necessity in every family. No
| one can SO well afford to have straw
berries, every day in the season, as the
farmer.
No one can have them so fresh from
the vines. so ripe, so delicious, and at
so little cost, as the farmer, and yet
as class none have so few.
The cost of placing berries on the
| market depends somewhat on locations
| and the manner in which it is done.
For good berries. carefully picked in
clean new boxes. well packed and hon.,
estly measured it may be estimated by
the quart as follows:
Cents per ct.
Cost of growing ready for picking. 2
N'o ''''.''' 2:
Cases, packing and delivery. 1
Freight or express charges. .1H
Commission for selling
Actual cost on market .....S
The commercial grower must receive
his profit, after all these expenses are
paid.
The farmer may have his berries at
first cost. He saves expense Of picking
and provides a pleasure for his wife
and children.
He saves boxes, cases, packing,
freight. express and commission.
Every farmer in the country and
every owner of a house in the village
should grow big berries and lots of
them" for family use
He may thus have them fresh from
the vines in summer, and canned, dried
or preserved for winter.
There is no better food than ripe
fruit.
There is none more healthful. and at
two or three cents per quart there is
none cheaper.
A berry garden for next season
should be decided upon at once.
The best preparation for it is the
reading of good books and papers.
Subscribe for them now and thus pro-
vide the greatest pleasure for long win
ter evenings.
NJ. A. Thayer
Sparta, Wis.
Georgia Peach Orchard.-The foun-
datiOn Of the orchard of the
Hale, Georgia, Orchard Co.. Fort Valley,
Ga. was an old cotton plantation of
300 acres, purchased in the summer of
1880, and 600 acres were planted with
little over 100000 peach trees in the
winter Of 1912. 1t is all laid out in
blocks 1000 feet long, and 500 feet
wide, with avenues running north and
south named after the peach growing
states Of the union, and streets running
east and west, named after leading
horticulturists Of the country. A resi-
dent superintendent. thirty or forty
negro assistants and sixteen mules have
kept up most thorough culture for the
past three years. There was a full
bloom on the orchard in the spring OF
1894. but a heavy frost the last of
March destroyed all the fruit prospects.
This year. the fourth summer after
planting, all the trees set full amount
of fruit, and during April and May.
forty to nifty hands were employed in
thinning out the surplus.-EX.
Swine Improvement in Texas.-The
hog breeders of Texas are entitled to
great deal of the credit for the i'm
proved character of our Texas swine.
They have educated the farmers to ap-
preciate good hogs. l have seen quite
stir made in the neighborhood by the
advent Of pair of fine pigs 1t is a
disgusting sight TO see a Texas farmer
go to the grocery store and give up his
good cotton money for slug of toler-
ably hard looking bacon, and am sorry
to say that it is a sight altogether too
common. Bat even in Western Texas
the numbers who do not raise their own
bacon are growing gradually less
Claridge Stock Farmer.
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