Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-01-30

some kind Of grain on the ground
would serve 10 keep them away from
the trees.
Mr.. Augustine suggested that there
must be different varieties of wild rab-
bits, for tho kind that lived In his yicin.
ity began to gnaw the trees as early as
July.
Mr.. Gilbert protects his trees by using
only common wrapping paper. such rs
can be obtained In any grocery or dry
goods store. He tears these papers into
strips eight inches wide. These he
wraps around the tree on the bias. be-
ginning near the ground. and stopping
twenty inches above 1t, where he tiea
the paper.
A discussion arose on the value Of
the yellow transparent for commercial
orchards. Some believed 1t a mistake
to plant largely of this variety on ac-
count of Its poor keeping qualities
However. when in good shape. It sells
readily. and men from Southern ILL
nofs expressed great faith In Its COM
mercial value.
Much time was devoted to the discus
sioa Of the efficiency of spraying. and
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
mented with spraying mixtures?
Twenty-seven replied afnrmatively.
ouestion.-How many recommend
spraying?
Thirty-hve votes were cast for II, and
none against It.
The growing of small fruits was dis
cussed. and the growing of strawberries
in hills came up. While hill culture
gives large, fine berries, yet growers
on q large scale do not follow It. 10
1t 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 ex-
tensive use Of barnyard manure made
1t possible for the soil to use q greater
mass of chemical fertilizers than II
1t were not used at all. Thus In tho
neighborhood Of large cities the market
gardeners arc enabled to use immense
quantities Of commercial fertilizers be-
cause they also use immense quantities
Of barnyard manure.
NE. NlOIEiiis VI AiChs&oup opOhc Oh tuo
marketing Of fruit. The first requisite
Is to have something desirable to mar
ket. He could not tell 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
o jealousy against any man being paid
to look after the work. He believed
the time to be approaching when farm
ers would use more business-lkS
methods.
The superintendent Of the insane asy.
lum at 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-tenths Of cent per thousand
| gallons. During the last season they
had raised vegetables worth over $4,000.
By vote Of the society the life mem.
| bership fec was reduced from $40 to
IS.
The election OF officers resulted in the
| following choice: President, Mr.. Good
rich; vice-president, Lem Small; Sec
retary, H. M. Dunlap; treasurer, Ar
thur Bryant.
The next annual meeting will be held
at Springfield.
William Gould spoke on the culti-
walton of grapes. He plants Sx8 or
7x9, which gives about 700 vines to the
acre.
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. 1t
must be in the food. 1t cannot be given
in the crude form, in which 1t is not a
food, but an active medicine, producing
a laxative action on the bowels and an
excessive excretion through the skin.
1t is this which makes 1t useful as an
antidote to all kinds Of parasites. the
sulphur thus passing through the skin
being extremely offensive to all in
sects. But its action on the skin Is to
open the pores and thus make the ami
NAL more subject to changes Of the
weather, and especially to injury by
rains. 1t Is thus not desirable TO give
sulphur as food or nutriment except
in the food, such as white mustard or
any other plant of the turnip and cab
bage tribe.
Transplanting Large Trees.-Garden-
ing gives this method, and we can GER
tify to its being good one: We prefer
doing this in the spring, and would pre-
pare for it now. II you want to move
a moderately large tree. say four, five
or even six inches in diameter Of trunk.
next spring, head in its top now all
you think ought to be done at planting
time, then mark a ring on the ground
around and four, five. six or more feet
away from the stem, the distance away
depending on the size Of the tree. Now.
along, but outside Of this ring mark,
dig narrow trench say three
feet deep, the object being to cut away
all roots projecting beyond it, and fill
up the trench at once with the same soil
that came out of it. By spring the tree
will have fairly recovered from the
shock caused by cutting in root and top.
and may be dug up and transplauted
with fair chances of success.
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