The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-17
NOTES IN SEASON


In many places the shallow wells are
| falling, and farmers are economizing b,
( Stlll using the water in them When sick.
I ness comes to the younger members of the
family, the head of the household viii
! look around to see if he can account fo1
I 1t. The well will probably be the Iast
place that he will think Of Perhaps the
! physician will be paid enough money to
/ nave drilled tubular well which would
| supply water taken from so far below the
/ surface as to be beyond the possibility OF
| contamination. Remember it is not cheat
/ ing the doctor to keep the family in good
/ health.
The farmer who has a good, bright
/ spade Is about as scarce as the farmer
who has sharp saw, bright bits and a
good brace. If these tools are to be used
on the farm, they should be kept in good
repair. A bright spade on the farm is
a [ tl; good thing, but in order to keep
IL TINS way it must not be used by toe
many 'wimmen folks or boys who have
not been taught to replace tools in good
shape. A dull saw is provocative of bad
!1anguage' ana ten cent file will have a
| tendency to prevent the warping of the
! commandment against profanity If you
Go not have saw set use a nail.
The Florida Aericulturist cites a case
where potash administered to a. peach
orchard made a most remarkable df-
ference in the fruit The fruit ripened
two weeks earlier than that of neigh
boring orchards not treated with pot
ash, while the color and quality of the
fruit were irconparably finer. 1t was
a young orchard and each tree had re-
ceivad about pound of sulphate of
potash and acid phosphate during each
Of the two seasons
Getting close to the consumer, Just
as far as this is practicable. will do
much to solve the question of profit in
farming. The grower of the big staple
products cannot do this as well as the
specialist, who may thus avoid some
of the middlefnan's charges, which al
ways come out of the producer. The
market gardener, or the poultry-raiser,
in localities adjacent to thrifty towns
or cities, can often build up a profitable
trade direct with families.
A horse that can trot mile in two
minutes and twenty seconds. the COW
that makes twenty pounds of butter a
week, and the pig that weighs 800
pounds when nine months old are all
good animals. but they are never raised
on the range They spring from
thoroughbred stock and grow up under
the eye of the master From good
seeds good plants spring. If you wish
the best, don't build on an unsound
undation-Colman's Rural World
Analysis of rye, wheat and oat straws
SHOWS IrldT a ton Oh rye straw contains
10 pounds of nitrogen, 5 pounds of
phosphoric acid and pounds of pot
ash. and these elements in the ferti-
lizer market cost $3.50 A ton of cat
straw has fertiliing elements worth So
Wheat straw is worth about the same
as rye straw. If rotted down the hui
mus of straw helps soil to retain
moisture, and prevents fertilizers from
teaching out of sandy soils.
In hot weather, during a honey flow.
when bees ought TO be at work in the
sections, but instead are loafing in
clusters AT the entrance, ventilate them
a little by putting a tenpenny nail
under the cover and see how quickly
they will go to work. 1t may help to
warp the cover little, but you'll get
more honey. When it gets too hot
for the hive the bees have to come
out to get a breath of fresh air, Just
like people. When the field bees come
in loaded and find the rest of the fam
lily out on the veranda on account of
the suffocating heat in the inside, they
don't go in and unload, hut remain with
their sisters, and the cluster gets larger
and longer until it grows cooler in
side.