The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-02-20
FARM NOTES.

Beets containing, as they do, more
sugar, are better for the COW than tur-
nips or potatoes.
The Michigan agricultural college
credits one cow with more than $50
pounds of butter fat for one year.
You must not expect to cut good
crop of hay and gather good crop Of
apples from the orchard the same year.
The best fruit raisers recognize the
fact that an abundant and healthy
foliage is essential to good crop of
fruit; hence, spray.
It is stated that i'm 1894 $4,000, 900
pounds of butter were made in the
home diaries of Ohio, while only $780,
600 were made IN the creameries.
The average yield of hay in the
United States last year was only LOS
tons per acre as against 1.15 tons in
1894. The average yield in Oregon
was 1.7S; in California, 1.66; Washing
ton, 1.S5; and Idaho, 2.57.
A discussion is going on in the
Rural New Yorker as to the cost of
producing busbel Of potatoes. The
figures vary considerably but average
near II or II cents. This includes rent
and in some cases fertilizers.
The gooseberry and currant bushes
are subject to attacks from the currant
worm. The best thing that can be
done to check their work is to scatter
Quicklime, ashes or SCOT close around
the bushes now and dig it into the soil
ifi can be done.
AS showing to what extent crops in
the United States are damaged by in
sects of various kinds Prof Fletcher,
entomologist of Canada, alleges that in
of 300, 100000 there was an actual
loss by insects OF $3.50, 0OO, 900 or 10 per
cent of the whole.
There are only four counties in Iowa
without creamery, and there are ia
in the entire state. Of these 33l are
operated by individuals, 275 by CO.
operative societies and 1l6 by stock
companies. The butter product from
theses concerns aggregates in value
about SIS, OO0, 900 year.
It is only recently that clover hay
has been found to be the cheapest and
best winter food for laying hens. and
that by it's use the great difficulty of
procuring green food is overcome. In
fact, the essential want of hens in VIM
ter is not so much that of green food as
bulky food of a heterogeneous character.
Yakima county has 1900 acres of
fruit orchards, which are a greater
source of profit than comes from any
other industry i'm the county, says the
Seattle Trade Register. Although the
perniciOus scale troubles the fruit
growers there, they now understand
that by spraying it may be practically
suppressed.
Hoard's Dairyman says first-class
COW should give 5000 pounds of milk
per year, containing per cent of fat.
This, with the necessary salt, water,
ETC., will result in 278 pounds of good
butter, worth an aver
age of Is cents per pound, or say $69.5O.
The cost of feed and care for such a cow
is placed at $35.
Tue cStlIlidClOH Ill WHICH ulucTeuC
varieties of apples are held in the Chi
cago market is indicated by the prices
as taken from recent quotations in that
city as follows: Northern Spys, So to
$3.50; Ben Davis, $l.25 to $1.75; King
of Tompkins, So to $3.50; Greetings, 81
to $3.50; Jonathans, $3.50 to $3.50;
Fameuse, So to $3.50; Pound Sweets,
So. so to So.
The farmers table should not be
without seasonable fruit single day.
Judicious planting will bring on a most
desirable succession. Strawberries, cur
rants, gooseberries, raspberries, black
berries, grapes, each have place. and
these come in the cherries,
peaches, apples and pears. If any one
should live like king, it should be the
man who grows his own living.
There is great difference in the
of different kinds of APP
piles. Some are very rich with hard
and solid pulp, while others are juicy
and digest easily. The Spitzenberg
apple has very fine flavor, but it cam
not be eaten by some who can eat at
will of varieties like the Fameuse.
Most of the the sweet apples are hard
to digest. Even when cooked they
are tough and do not break down as
sour apples will.