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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
FEEDING HOUSE PLANTS.

Eva Gailland gives in the Ohio Farm
News few suggestions as to the best
methods of fertilizing the window flow
er garden. Her first sugge stion is to
use prepared plant food If these are
not TO be had. excellent results can be
mao by the use of some good substitute
For flbrous-rooted plants she says
theTe is no food that is better than
common glue. A piece an inch square
dissolved in teacupful of warm wa
ter is sufficient for a plant in an eight
or ten-inch pot, if given once in two
or three weeks.
Nitrate of soda is also good, but it
Is more of stimulent than food. and
tne result is not SO lasting. 1t is one of
the best things for sick plants that
ever knew of. Work up the surface
OF the soil with a fork, and water with
the solution as described, later on, and
plant is far gone that will not take
on new lease of life.
A 'teaspoonful of the nitrate of soda
to quart of water and applied twice
a week is about the right treatment
for either sick plants or bulbous-rooted
plants THAT are coming to bud. Be
little careful about giving this to
bulbs before they show buds, or the re-
suit may be a luxurient growth of
foliage at the expense of the blossoms.
but after the buds are formed it will
make them fairly hustle"
Nitrate olf soda Is extremely sollIaible
and so is quickly taken up by the
plants, and care must be used that too
much is not given and the plant slim
lated beyond which is natural and
healthy growth.
The looks of the plant will ten when
enough has been given, and then wait
until the plant shows signes of needing
more.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
FOR THE HOME GARDEN.

If you have no asparagus bed, one of the
most important things to be done this
spring is to plant one. A bed may be
started by planting the seed. but it will be
three years before it will give any return
if started from the seed, SO it will doubt
less be more satisfactory to buy at least
fifty good strong plants, and save time.
The bed may be cut sparingly the second
year after planting, and it will continue
to give good returns for twenty years or
more. with very little work. AS aspara-
gus will keep for several days after being
cut and bears transportation well. bed
of few hundred plants will furnish quite
an income, besides giving the family
delicious and healthful vegetable. Do not
be content with raising only the common
vegetableS-corn. beans. peas, cabbage,
etc.-but experiment with some new ones
in small way at first, and be sure to
get your seed from a reliable seedman.
who has an established reputation. If
you have never raised egg plant or okra,
try some this year. l have never seen
them growing in northern farm gardens,
but they could be raised by starting the
plants when the tomato is started, and
planting out in warm, sunny place after
danger of frost is past. Okra is excellent
in soups. and the tender pods may be
sliced, dried in the shade, and kept for
winter use.-Farm and Fireside.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
NONRESIDENT COURSE IN AGRI-
CULTURF

The Nonresident Course in Agricul-
ture conducted by the New Hamp-
shire College of Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts was established in Jan
uary, 1894, and has been in successful
operation ever since. The course is
primarily designed to meet the needs
of those farmers sons who are unable
to leave home to attend college, but
who feel the need of the fuller knowI-
edge of their work which the college
offers. 1t has enrolled a considerable
number of such students, and also has
attracted many young men in cities,
who intend to become farmers.
The course is conducted as a CORE
spondence course, books and bulletins
being sent the student, who studys
them and returns answers to examina-
ton questions. The bulletins are fur
nished free and the books at a dis
count from the publishers prices aver
aging about twenty-five per cent
1t is free to all, with no entrance
examination or fee. The student may
begin at any time, and the privileges
of the course are not limited to resi-
dents of New Hampshire.
For particulars as to methods, list of
books, certificates and all other needed
information. address Clarence NJ
Weed, Secretary, Durham, New Hamp-
shire.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
AsPARAGus CuLTURE.

Asparagus thrives best on a deep,
warm. sandy loan, enriched by heavy
applica tfors of weIl-composted stable
manure. Make the soil fine and mel
low. Run burrows five or six feet
apart, ten inches deep. Scatter we'll
rotted manure in the burrows. cover
and mix with soil. Set out good l.
year-old plants three feet apart, so that
the crowns viii be about six inches
below the ground-level. Cover the
plants with two inches of soil and
compost, and then fill the furrow
gradually during cultivation. Keep
the bed we'll cultivated and free from
weeds Some garden crop may be
raised between the rows during the
first season. Every fall remove the
tops before the seed falls. Mulch with
sta BILE manure for winter protection.
Everp spring give an application of
salt After the second season the bed
may be cut two or three times. IF
you cannot readily procure plants from
seedsmen, you can grow them from the
seed Sown early in the spring. Pour
hot water on the seed, and let it soak
i'm a warm place for a day. Sow thin
ly in drills one foot apart. and thin
out to three inches apart. If sown on
rich, mellow soil and well cultivated,
the Seeding plants may be set out
permanently the next spring.-F'arm
and FireSide.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
ROTATION IN CROPS.

Rotation in crops is one of the essen
tiais TO good farming, says al writer in
the Western Farm Journal. Plant physi-
ology tells us that certain crops consume
certain elements extensively, while
others consume the constituents of fer
tility in different proportions Some crops
draw their nutriment from the ground
almost exclusively, while others obtain
a portion of it from the a .mosphere.
Some crops have a root system which
feeds close to the surface, others pene-
trate deeper and obtain their nutriment
from lower strata. These facts together
with others, explain the advantages of
rotation. To run one grain exclusively for
years is peculiarly exhaustive of the con-
stituents which enter most largely into
soil may have sufficient fertility to nour-
ish other kinds of crops. The judgment and
practice of the best farmers favor a rota-
ton of crops with the regularity of the
seasons as far as possible. 1t is wise to
sow the grasses and plow sod each year,
and especially should clover or lucern be
sown, which for its nitrogen is largely an
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
FARMERS VEGETABLE GARDEN.

1 cannot understand, writes William
P. Perkins in Farm, Field and Fire
side, how it is thar any sane farmer
will lose half the pleasure of farm life
by neglecting to provide himself with
that great luxury within reach of all,
viz: the kitchen garden. No matter
whether you make a business of fruit,
grain or live stock, have a garden any
way, and have a good one; one that
supplies large variety and also keeps
UP a close succession of delicacies all
through the seasons of summer and
fall
You say you can buy your vegetables
cheaper than you can raise them. You
cannot, nor would you have enough
vegetables or as good quality, if depen-
dence were put upon purchasing your
supplies.
The labor of cultivating a garden is
very inconsiderable, if only modern
methods and modern tools are made
use of. Lay out a garden upon some
of the richest and best-cultivated land
the farm possesses; where there are
no fences or walls to hinder free til
lage by horse power. Let the rows (or
garden length) be long, so a minimum
amount of time will be occupied in
making turns at the ends OF the rows
Then thorough and repeated tillage
with the horse cultivator will leave but
little hand work to be performed. Keep
UP the tillage so not a weed is al
lowed to show itself.
The tillage is not alone to keep down
weeds but also to open the soil to
admit sun and air and to keep, at all
times, thin mulch of loose, dusty
earth upon the surface. Therefore
cultivation should always be given as
soon after a heavy rain or shower as
the ground is dry enough to work
properly. The conservation of mois-
ture in dry time through the agency
of unremitting culture can hardly be
calculated, so enormous is it.
OF course the particular sorts of veg
etables to be sown in any garden will
depend upon the tastes of the individ-
uals especially interested. But certain
ly every garden should boast of sue
cessions of peas, beans, corn, tomatoes.
spinach, beets, turnips, cucumbers and
squash.
Sow peas, spinach, turnips and beets
in the open ground just as early as the
soil can be thoroughly broken and
fined. Sow tomatoes in a hotbed from
middle of March to first of April. This
is plenty soon enough, as the plants
cannot be safely set out in the north,
before last of May or first of June,
and not very large plants are best for
Plants that are short,
thick and blocky are best for setting
in open ground. Beans and corn must
not be sown before settled, warm,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
Logan, Utah. March I, 1896.
ExPERIMENTs w1TH MANuREs.

Bulletin q, of the New Hampshire
Experiment Station, gives the results
of several years experience in the ap-
plication of manure directed toward
ascertaining when and how to apply
manure and how much, to obtain the
best returns, etc. From the results of
all the experiments the following con-
clusions are drawn:
Manure applied in the Fall to the
surface either of plower or grass land
will, b. the action of the frost
and rain, become so thoroughly pull
verified and distributed through the
soil that it acts more quickly and is in
better condition for plants to assimi-
late than the same manure would be
If applied in the spring.
The loss from evaporation and DRAIN
age, unless the surface is very steep.
will probably be much less than the
loss resulting from fermentation. or
washing if left in the open yard.
On most soils and for most crops
surface application is better than
blowing in, especially if manure is an
piled in the Fall. but in any case ex-
cept for manure THAT is so coarse that
1t cannot be mixed with the soil bv
cultivation, 1t is safe rule to keen
the manure as near the surface as
possible and to have it as thoroughly
mixed with the seed bed as can be
done. This carries with it the neces-
sity of using only such bedding and
absorbments in the stable as are of
themselves fine or easily pulverized
For our common field crops-corn.
oats, rye, barley, potatoes. etc it is
not profitable presumably if it has to
be purchaSed) to use more than from
fifteen to twenty carloads = five to
seven coros-of manure per acrs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
BETTER ROADS NEEDED.

We need better roads. Why we have
so long been blind to the economy of good
roads is a question that passes under
standing, for we usually are not a. people
that are penny wise and pound foolish -
In South Carolina the system of working
and building roads by convict labor is
giving eminent satisfaction. and in other
has many things TO recommend it. prin-
cipally that it gives us what we need
without interfering with the labor of hon
est men, as is the case under the abomi-
nable contract system The sight of a
'chain gang at work on the public high
way is not an edifying one, perhaps, but
it is certainly better than taking bread
out of honest mems childrens mouths in
order to keep the convicts at Work.-Farm
News
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
THE SALT LAKE HERALD, MONDAY. MARCH %, 1895

learned by all. There are so many things
winch 1t is painful to hear. very many of
which, if heard, will disturb the temper,
corrupt simplicity and modesty, detract
from contentment and happiness. If
man falls into violent passion. and calls
all manner of names, at the .xrst words
we should shut our ears and hear no
more 1T in a quiet voyage of life we
find ourselves caught in one of those
domestic whirlwinds of scolding. we
should shut our ear as a sailor would
furl his SAIL and, making all tight, scud
before the gale. If hot, restless man
begins to infiame our feelings. we should
consider what mischief the fiery sparks
may do in our magazine below, where our
temper is kept, and instantly close the
door: If all the petty things said of one
by needless or il-natured idlers were
brought home to him, he would become
a mere walking pin-cushion stuck full
of sharp remarks. If we should be happy
when among good men, we should open
our ears: when among bad men, shut
them. 1t is not worth while to hear what
our neighbors say about our children.
what our rivals say about our business,
our dress, or our affairs.-Presbyteria
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
a GARDEN ON EVERY FARM.

Farmers make mistake in not having
more and better gardens. The farm work
must be attended to, and the garden must
wait until a convenient time; consequent
ly they may have few of the most COM
mon vegetables. that is if the women
folks see that the seeds are planted and
the garden tended. l know of farmers
who have to buy their vegetables for
harvest, while scarcely any who have
gardens grow anything but the staples
cabbage, potatoes, etc. How they would
enjoy cauliflower, asparagus, pieplant,
ETC., and succession of others that they
plant only once in d season. OF course
there are a few farmers who have rea-
sonably good gardens, but they are the
exception. Then there are those who oc-
casionally have more of one thing, such
as cabbage or onions, than they can use,
and instead of taking the surplus along to
town when it is necessary to go on other
business anyway, they let it go to waste.
If the farmer cannot leave his other work
to make garden it will pay him to hire
help few days. He could raise enough
more than the family requires to pay for
the work hired done and would thorough
ly enjoy the many extra good things
Doctor SeWell
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
FARM AND GARDEN

horse out of the question. The collar
should always fit quite snugly, so as
not TO allow it to work about from
SIDE to side while the animal is pulling.
Another point for the accomplished
teamster to bear in mind is that the
horse. to draw a load with least in
convenience and exertion, requires to
be able to throw himself well into the
collar with head at a level with the
pody or lower. Hence no check reins
should be tolerated on draft horses.
Give thy horse his head is an ex-
cellent piece OF advice to drivers.
IN winter and spring we must expect
BAD roads, mud and snow for sew
efal months, so do not expect to draw
as much weight as was the custom in
summer. Carefully gauge the load to
the road to be travelled and do not
expect more of the horse than he can
comfortably do
NJ. SUMNER PERKINS.
Danvers, Mass.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
MENACE TO THE SHEEP INDUSTRY.

This nation is almost a century and a
quarter of age. Yet in some respects it is
not out of its neutrality-suspicious.; it is an
infant of very tender age. This is as good
sheep country as there is on the globe
The soil is fertile, the climate salubrous
land can be had almost for the asking,
and the people are VIGOROUSLY enterpris-
ing; still, they grow much less wool than
they use. Not only this, but in addition
to importing wool and wooden goods, more
than seventeen million pounds of wooden
rags are also imported annually to adul-
terate the wool with shoddy.
If our people knew generally where and
how these rags are obtained and how
used vigorous protest would be raised
throughout the land that would be heard
and needed in the halls of congress. These
rags are gathered in the slums of Euro
pean towns and cities principally those
of Italy. They are cast off of the backs
of Dagos in their squalid quarters, and in
hospitals of both contagious and uncon-
tagious diseases. Before our government
required these rags to be disinfected pre-
vious to landing upon our shores fhev
ance of smallpox and other infectious dis
eases to our citizens. Our manufacturers
grind the rags up fine, and, by some pro-
cess best known to themselves inject the
shoddy into other cloth to give it body
and weight and to make cotton cloth feel
and appear like wooden.
It is base fraud from its inception I'M
til it scatters out of peoples clothing as
they walk the streets or are about their
daily duties. 1t is used mostly in the
cheaper grades of clothing cloth, but
there is no certainty that it is not en-
ployed to give body to the highest grades
made in this country. Farmers and la
horers suffer most from the fraud, as they
usually wear the cheaper grades of cloth
ing. After wearing a few days, the
shoddy drops out, leaving the garment
only a skeleton of its original self. When
the farmers son is at his own wedding
he does not know but that he is sprink-
ling his father-in-law's "best carpet with
shoddy as with black pepper from a pep
per box. No other country in the world
suffers the existence of such a fraud. We
can get rid of the shoddy fraud by each
one invoking the aid of his congressman
to that effect--Dr. Galen Wilson in Farm
and Fireside.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.
Alive Organization Mt willard.


In your write-up of Farmers Clubs
and Agricultural Societies in the Feb
ruary % issue, you give as too much
credit in Cache Valley. The county
meetings have been regularly held
this winter once each month. The at
tendance has varied from about 80 to
800 at the different meetings. Very
few ward meetings, I regret to say,
have been held this winter-in fact, a
step backward has been taken in this
respect. However. I think. taking the
matter as a whole. there has been an
Improvement.
On Friday, March G. we held our last
county meeting for the season at Hy-
rum. All day long there ragged heavy
snow storm, which lasted into the
night. However. there were about 300
out to our meeting, and about third
of thsse were ladies. The meeting was
an exceedingly interesting one, Pro-
dessor Linfield talking for an hour and
fen minutes without wearying his au-
dience in the least, on THE Dairy
Cow" To assist in showing the diff
ference in the type of dairy and beef
breeds, he had a large picture of
Brown Bessie, 1897, the Jersey COW
that gave the most milk. from which
was made the most butter and at the
least cost. Of the cows exhibited at the
Worlds Fair; also "a picture of a very
solid beef type, the Short Horn bull,
Baron Cruickshafk. 1062 97.
On Saturday / attended. by invita-
tion, a meeting of the Willard Agricul-
Tural Society l was very much
pleased with the condition in which
found this society. The Willard people
come the nearest to my ideal in run
ming their society. of any / have at
tended
This meeting opened by a song from
the Willard Glee Club, after which
gave them a y-five-minute talk on
Soils This was followed by a brisk
lot of intelligent questions, showing
that the people had been thinking
while 1 was talking.
The president. Mr.. Edwards then
called for a song from Mr.. Jones. The
song was well rendered, and the peo-
pie called for another. Again the
questions We're renewed, and another
half hour was spent in asking and
answering them.
The regular meetings of this society
however, are the ones I specially want
TO speak of. The programme consists
of songs, recitations. farm talks and
dialogue. at the last meeting previous
to the one / attended the president
wrote a short dialogue for two boys
10 recite-the dialogue setting 2orth
the objects of the society. All of
these things go to make up a good
meeting and prove beneficial. AT all
of these agricultural meetings there
should be some solid farm talks, and
them some other matter worked in.
The Willard society, though not
much more than six months old, has
begun to ship its own produce. They
also had an agent from one of the
nurseries meet with them and arrange
to buy their spring fruit trees at re-
duced rates. They have fifty MEM
beers enrolled, while there were about
$50 people in attendance at the meet
ing the evening 1 was there.
Respectfully,
A A MILLS.
Logan, Utah. March I, 1896.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
TEaAIING.

TO be a first-ralte teamster man
must know horses and have a de-
cided liking for them. He should also
have q quick eye and mind to see when
any trouble exists or threatens to eX-
list Nine times out of ten where there
is difficulty with a horse in the shane
of refusing to pull the load and show
ing a downright balky spirit, the blame
lies with the man and not with the
horse.
How many cases of balkiness occur
where there is trouble with the har-
ness, especially with the collar An
1ll-fRting collar will produce lots of
mischief, for it will chafe and gall the
horses shoulders, and obviously rem
der efficient service on the part of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
EyERGREEN WIND-RREAk.

The Scotch pine is a very much fast
er grower than the red cedar. The
latter, however, is the much longer
lived tree of the two. Use them mixed
in the rows, or in separate parallel
rows. The red cedar is very compact
near the ground, while the Scotch pine
is much taller and more open in habit.
Norway spruce is also good ever
green for such situations. Seedlings,
or young trees, from seed, that have
never been moved, are not so desirable
as transpIanted stock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
DIVER SIEY.

There are exceptional cases. perhaps,
governed by their own special circum-
stances, in which it is proper to grow
single staple crops, almost to the ex-
clusion of everything else. Bonanza
wheat farming in the northwest af-
forded, as a temporary policy, an il
lustrat ton of this, and yet its rapid de-
cadence proves that even it could not
be made permanently remunerative.
For the farmer under average condi-
lions. however. diversity carried just
as far as these conditions will permit,
is the plan most likely to result in COM
fort, independence and, in time. in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
Cnre For Hendnche.

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ing the needed tone to the bowels, and
few cases long resist the use Of this
medicine. Try it once. Only Fifty
cents at q. c. NJ. 1. Drug dept.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23

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For time see posters.
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