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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
New Remedy For Potato scab.

The Indiana experiment station bull
letin 43 says:
Potato scab is a source of material
market, and a great blemish in all
cases. 1t is one of the triumphs OF
practical botany that the cause of this
trouble has been traced to a minute
germ that feeds on the surface of the
potato tuber, and to a less extent on
other fieShY roots and tuberS. 1t has
also been found that a suitable fungi
eide will kill the germs on the tubers
without injuring the growth of the po-
tatoeS Corrosive sublimate meets
these requirements and has been advo-
Gated by the Purdue experiment sta
ton where its application originated.
So effective has it been found, so cheap
and easy to apply, that many large
growers, who get extra prices for their
crops by having high grade product,
have adopted the treatment as a regu-
lar thing. The deadly poisonous ma
ture of corrosive sublimate, however,
has kept it from coming into general
use. 1t is. therefore, considered mat
ter of considerable moment to be able
to announce the discovery of a new
fungicide for potato scab, one that is
thoroughly efficient and not poisonous.
The new substance is fOrmalin (Some-
times called formaldehyde), a watery
solution of gas, not very expensive,
and rapidly coming into favor as a
general antiseptic, so that it is likely
to become still cheaper and better
known. 1t is sold by the fluid ounce,
and can be obtained at most drug
stores. The method of using the new
fungicide is very simple. Eight ounces
of the formalin are added to 10 gallons
of water. and in this the seed potatoes
are soaked for two hours. After taken
from the bath they can be cut and
planted as usual, either at once or af-
ter some time. Formalin is not corro-
sive. and so can be used in any kind of
vessel, and not being poisonous, there
are no particular precautions to be
1t does, however, make the
hands smart, if there are any raw
spots, and the fumes irritate- the eyes
and throat But these are only slight
Further information
a bout formalin and it's use as a fungi
eide will be given in a bulletin to be
issued in a short time. The potato
crop of the state of Indiana reaches
annually the large figure of over 10000
acres. and nearly 100000 bushels, and
is sometimes larger. The treatment of
the seed tubers as here recommended,
will materially raise the market value
of the crop, and prove a source of
profit of no mean proportion. Try it,
T. C. ARTHUR, BOtaniSt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
Hand separators for Farmers.

The cost of good hand seDarators runs
from se5 to SIPS and their capacity is
from 160 to 400 pounds of milk an hour.
With good care they will last long
five wears ago. 1t has separated the
milk for AZ. coo pounds of butter Only So
has been paid out for repairs on IL, and
il runs now as fine as ever and DDS falr
to last many years yet. There are a
number of hand separators. but which is
best really | do not know. Some like
one the best and some another. | be-
lieve any one or the standard machlneS
will do good work.
Many people when they find out that
they are losing considerable Dutter Dy
not using a separator. try to console
themselves by saying: "Oh, it is not all
lost. Butter is low, anyway, and the
calves and pigs get it and it does them
good. | want to say for the benefit OF
such persons. that separator skim milk.
warm, new and sweet milk, fed within
10 minutes after being drawn from the
COW without q particle of butter fat
in it. is better for calves than old and
latter does have butter in it. l am very
certain this is so. because | have had
years of experience in raising calves on
both kinds of milk. | wish to remind
is that even at present prices butter is
very dear food. for one cents worth of
oil meal fed to a calf or Dig -rsll do as
much good as a pound of butter.
Although IL 10 easy " luiu a III sep
arator by hand. it takes time, and if one
has to turn for 30 or 40 minutes without
stopping, it becomes tiresome- Most of
tho farm separators. except some OF the
smallest. are so constructed that some
kind of a power can be attached to them
Some use a gasoline engine. This works
very nicely, but the expense prevents all
but a few persons from getting one
Many use a small tread-power on which
is used dog, goat or other small animal.
there is a dog who seems to
enjoy the work and is always on hand at
separating time / know of several men
who use goats, and they give good salts
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
OUR MILLIONAIRE FARMERS.
What They Are Doing For Agricul-
ture-Mr. Havemeyer's Invest
ment at Mahwah.

Thirty or 40 gentlemen live in this
city who are doing for American agri-
culture much the same services that
certain large landowners of England
have done for tenant farmers of that
country, says the New York Evening
Post. The New York Farmers is a
society of very rich men who come
together three or four times a year for
a dinner in the Metropolitan club,
Fifth avenue and Sixtieth street. Each
member is a specialist in some line
of farming, stock-raising, or horticul-
ture. Samuel Sloan, for instance, like
the late Jay Gould, knows roses. Bay
ard Cuttin's favOrite pastime is culti-
waiting rhodoendrons. Frederic Bron-
son, president of the Farmers, is presi-
dent of the Coaching club, and A. J.
CaSsatt is a horseman. Levi P Nor
ton has spent S1,000.00O on his place at
Rhinebeck. John Jacob Aston has
5.000acre estate on the Hudson, near
Rhinebeck. II. Mckay Twombly has
laid out $1,000, 900 on a 2,00G-acre farm
al Madison, n. J., which he has now
closed, however. w. K. Vanderbilt, w.
Seward Webb. w. D. Sloane, W. w
Law, and Abram S. Hewitt have prac-
teal farms attached TO their country
seats.
The members of the society, after
dining, hear addresses and papers by
guests who are authorities on the sub
jects they are invited to discuss. At
the last dinner. January 10, THE Pig"
was the subject of discussion. hilbert
T. Riddick, manager of the Export
Livestock company, spoke on the COM
mercial value of the hog.
A conspicuous member of the society
is Theodore A. Havemeyer of the
American Sugar Refining company.
His recreation is farming. He follows
dairy farming with such force and
common sense that from 5000 enfeebled
New Jersey acres. representing an in
vestment of s2500O0, he gets a yearly
dividend of from to 10 per cent
farm, Mr.. Havemeyer's
place, is at Mahwah, an hours ride
from New York on the Erie railroad.
From the highest of the boundary
peaks New York bay is in sight. George
Washington and his insurgents spent
six weeks in camp on the farm, and
the apple tree under which he used to
sit is there yet. Mr.. Havemeyer has
!, large and comfortable house on the
farm. 30 horses for private use in the !
stables, a 900-acre deer park, with
nerd of so deer in it, and a pleasantly |
If 1000 birds. But these things have !
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
Intensive culture-an Experiment.

George May Powell says of one of a
series of experiments he has made at
his home in Newfield, n. j., to help
develop intensive farming: THE point
of these experiments is to aid in show
ing how farming can be made so at
tractive and profitable that people
need not leave rural life and endanger
the nation by crowding into cities and
towns. In this case a single tomato
plant was made to grow over 100 feet
or vine and supply more fruit than an
average garden furnishes. Also, to
yield near two months after such fruit
Is gone in most gardens. A hole Is
inches square and IL inches deep was
dug, the top soil laid on one side and
the lower soil on the other. A half
bushel of good manure was put in and
the top soil on that. A tomato plant
IN bloom, with a spadeful of earth on
Its roots, was set in this and the lower
soil put in a circle around, making the
plant to stand in the bottom of a cup,
10 mold Stops and water, daily put in.
AS the plant grew it was 'eSplanaded'
over frame with a southerly slope.
Or course, the same plan can be made
TO help anyone of tens of thousands of
poor families in any of our large cities.
A back yard or a roof or window and a
oox or barrel of earth with a tomato
or cucumber or winter squash plant,
would so furnish healthful and profit
able SuStenence >"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
farm and 0ardeflZ

suit the crop to be grown. will be found
| d very effective fertilizer perhaps super
/ Tor TO any other mixture
When the supply of home manures is
inadequate for the demands of your crop.
these may be supplemented by cotton
seed meal, acid phosphate and kainit.
mixed 10 suit the kind of vegetable
grown.
PROPER rotation must be observed in
truck growing as in general farming if
the fertility of the soil be maintained
ana maximum results desired A slieht
knowledge of botany. yea, even of the
character of vegetable grown. will greatly
assist the farmer in determining the ro-
tation to be adopted. Melons, cucumbers
and squashes belong to one family. and
should not succeed each other Egg
plants. tomatoes and Irish potatoes form
another. and beans and peas another
Always follow crop by another of
a different family. Expressed in simpler
manner. roots should not follow roots.
A tap-rooted plant will follow well a
hbrous-rooted one. After a heavy manur-
ing, cabbage. onions. Irish potatoes end
egg plants should be planted. since these
require excessive fertility for best re-
suits. Follow these crops with tomatoes.
squash. etc, and these in turn h.. beans.
peas. etc. farmer will soon have a
suitable rotation of both crops and
fertilizers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12

flour mills to cost 100000 are now be-
ing built at zaragoza, and the inten-
ton of the founders is eventually to
sell nothing but the finished product.
The business of this one ranch is so
large that the Mexican Central rail-
road is now building a 50-mile spur for
the sole purpose of handling its COM
merce. The labor question has been of
serious concern The improvements at
Tlahualilo have now cost over $780,
600 and more are in contemplation
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
To Make Bordeaux Mixture.

This suggestion comes from Mr.. W
A. orion. of the Vermont experiment
station:
In making Bordeaux mixture hang
the sack containing the copper sulphate
so it will just touch the surface of the
water, and. because the solution being
heavier than water. when the whole
is at the bottom of the water only as
much is dissolved as is in the water
that covers it. Then lime and the
copper are each prepared separately,
and then each one diluted with one
half the total water of the recipe. Then
the copper should be added to the lime.
One cause of failure is in adding the
lime to the sulphate- If any one thinks
it doesn't matter, then try with a little
both WAYS and see the difference.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
Two Good Tree Washes.

This is the modification of the Dor
Professor Pierce's Bordeaux Mixture.
deaux mixture with which Prof. Pierce
had such good results against the curl
leaf of the peach. 1t contains double
the amount Of lime generally recon-
mended. The formula is as follows:
pounds of bluestone. 10 pounds of
lime, for 10 gallons. Prepare in the
same manner as other bordeaux mix
lures. For curl-leaf apply from one to
three weeks before buds open.
Paris Green and Bordeaux Mixture
When it is desirable to use these two
ashes at the same time, as for Goblin
moth and scab, the green may be
stirred into the bordeaux mixture at
the usual proportion, i. e., 1 pound to
200 gallons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
suggestions For Truck Growers.

The following suggestions from the
Suisiana experiment station are to the
int for the farmer, trucker or one who
ants family garden:
|'"Truck farming means intensive high
rning. Lands dedicated to truck must
i. heavily fertiliZed. not with commercial
|rfilizers only, but with such home
|ade manures as will insure large sup
lies of organic matter. The frequent in
rpofation of vegetable matter by the
lowing ana turning under of some
3 lsninous rop-preferably COW peas
Hover at the north VIII answer the
me purpose.-Ed. )-supplemented by
|ffseral manures will in a few years
|nder these soils we'll adapted to truck
lowing.
lIs stable manures be used. they should
st be thoroughly composted and several
mes piled and cut down. in order to
ing Them into most available condi-
9n as plant food. A compost of stable
'anufe. cotton seed. acid phosphate and
Init. mixed in such proportions as will
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
SELECTION AND BREEDING


L Select the best COWS in your herd, Of
that you can buy, to keep, and dispose o.
the others
2. The best COW for the dairy is the on,
that produces the greatest amount o.
butter fat in a year (for food consumed
wher being rightly fed.
8. Test your cows by weighing the mill
of each cow for a year and testing il
occasionally with the Babcock milk test
er. and know how much butter fat each
one does produce.
L. To renew or increase your herd
raise the heifer calves from your bes'
cows.
5. Use the best dairy-bred sire you car
get; one, if possible, that has a long line
of ancestors and have been first-class
dairy animals.
6. In this way you can make each gen.
Grafton better than the preceding one,
if they have at all times proper care and
feed.
I. 1t is neither profitable nor necessary
for a COW TO go dry more than four TO
six weeks.
s. Especially should your young cows
be watched and not allowed to acquire
the habit of drying up too soon-
9. Darken the stable in which the cows
are MIXED through fly time. 1t will not
only economic the patience of the milk
er. but the cost of milk production as
well.
are bred. and have no guess work 1t
the time of calving.
II. Provide roomy box stall. ar al
low the cow TO become accustomed to it
a week prior to calving.
Il. Rich foods should be withheld for a
short time prior and subsequent to
calving.
13. The udder should receive prompt at
tention. An obstacle may be removed
from the teat the first hour that might
battle science later.
IA. A pail of scalded bran should be
given to the COW as soon as possible af-
ter calving.
15 The calf should be permitted to nurse
its mother for two or three days.
t. After separating the calf from its
mother. feed the natural milk as soon as
drawn. for a week or ten days.
II. Then begin gradually to substitute
skim milk with oil meal jelly stirred
into IL.
Is. Scald the calf's feed pail daily.
10. Feed three times d day and not
more than three quarts at time until
the calf is we'll started.
20. Warm the milk by placing the YES
sci that contains the milk in hot water.
u. Warm the milk to 80 degrees Fahr-
enheit.
% Don't trust your finger, but a Their
1t will save many a calf's life.
q. The man whose ideal of a COW Is
high. coupled with good care, feed and
gentleness, is sure to receive the highest
profit in milk and pleasure that can be
made in dairying.
We will add a couple of other points:
"a Always clean out the box stall after
a COW has calved therein. and thoroughly
disinfect it with solution made of one
part of sulphuric acid nine of water. This
is to prevent septic poisoning of the next
cow. which may easily occur.
%. Do not milk the udder out clean I'M
til the fourth day after calving. This
will often prevent a chill, which often
produces milk fever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12

The base of Ayers Hair Vigor is a
refined and delicate fluid, which does
not soil or become rancid by exposure
TO the air. and which is as perfect a
substitute for the oil supplied by ma
ture in youth and health, as modern
chemistry can produce.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12

49, Let the bulb of thermometer.
touch fertile egg.
80. In the winter the hen will not
hatch over one-half of her eggs, nor
raise c1e-half of her chicks. The in
cubator and brooder, if slxillfully man
aged. will do better than this-H. P.
Jacobs, in Farm Poultry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12

value to his farm than he can put upon
it any other way. Every farmer owes
it to himself to give earnest thought to
this matter of wind breaks for the live
stock of the farm
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
The Goose.

No fowl can be reared with as much
profit and with so little care as the
goose. After they have atta.4sed the
age of four months but little attention
Is required other than supplying plenty
or fresh water, a good grass range and
whcih must also be free from lice and
other vermfn fatal to the young says
Fancier's Review. If it is impossible to
provide free range, the next best sub
stitute is wire netting, which need be
but about Is inches high to confine
/ them until they mature Give
them fresh water twice day,
also green food such as tur-
MP tops, celery and cabbage,
or allow them free range morn
ing and evening. There is no doubt
that there is profit in the goose culture.
When Thanksgiving time arrives you
can generally dispose Of the young
goslings at 10 cents per pound, and
their average weight will be about ten
pounds. Suppose, for instance, you have
twelve ''gooselets'' at 81 each, the re-
ceipts from the sale would be $12 and
the cost of feed has been but a trifie.
1t is safe to say that your profit will
have been $40 on the transaction. OF
course they cannot always be disposed
of at 81 each, but on the other hand
the price is often more than a dollar,
hence we take it as a. basis on which
to figure. We doubt if fancy fowls
would pay better, considering, of
course, that we always have a ready
market for our geese. By crossing a
China gander on Toulouse geese, large
goslings are obtained quick to grow,
nicely marked with medium length
necks, yellow bills and remarkably easy
to domeSticate. My experience has
clearly demonstrated that the rearing
of geese should be done entirely sepa-
rate from the rearing of fowls. as the
old and young Of both are naturally
SO after the young are about half
grown.
We favor Matching by hens, remarks
the Fanciers Review, giving four eggs
to each, and after one month the at
tention of biddy is no longer necessary.
Late in the season if females are
plenty we allow the goose to hatch her
young, and we give each a clutch of
ten eggs. This number is sufficient for
safety. If too large a number is placed
under the goose some are liable to be
broken. Geese are easily and profitably |
raised in the south. They are experts
in Kidding a cotton field of grass.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
Points in Breeding Dairy Cows.

Heard's Dairyman says: There is more
dairy literature floating around in the
newspaper than ever before in the his
tory of this country. Some of it is good,
and much of ii is worse than nothing
fo- ii is based on exploded ideas. The
following % points we find in a daily pa
per, evidently culled from some other
source. so we do not know to whom TO
give credit. In the main they are good
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-01
EXCITEMENT ON CHANGE
Strong Market Fluctuating Widely
on Heavy Dealings.
Bears Cause Spasnodic Declines,
Followed by Recoveries-S
and Tobacco Features.

New York, Sept. 1.-stocksopened strong.
The industrials were the conspicuous rea-
lures In the early dealings, Sugar and To
hacco showing wide nuctuation on heavy
transactions.
There was nothing further In the way
OF news TO explain the increased interest
In the stocks. but it was inferred that the
buying OF Sugar reflected an Increase in the
rate OF dividend to be declared this month.
In the railway list the Reading shares.
Missouri Pacific and Louisville and Nash
vile were the strong features. Among the
specialties Tennessee Coal and Iror and
the Cotton Oil shares were very strong. The
grangcrs were comparatively Gull, and
were rather heavy, the Ia king of profits
being evidenced on a large scale in their
case
Great activity prevailed In the first hour
and decided irreguiarity in prices was
developed. Realizations and bear at
tacks ;aCsed frequent downward nuctua-
lions, but there were equally abrupt re-
covertes- The market continues varia bic
and excited.
Government bonds are unchang ed: rail-
road bonds strong and active.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-01
NOMINATION OF SETH Low
Citizens Union Presents Him for
Mayor Of Greater New York.
PILL FOR PLATT TO SWALLOW
Republicans of the Great City Gen.
orally Afraid to Risk Their
Chances IN Triangular Contest.
MT. Quige's Views on What Is Best
for the Party. "a

New York, Sept. 1.-Seth Low was NOM
mated for ma yor OF Greater New York by
the Citizens Union, which met In this
city today.
Conference committees representing five
boroughs of Greater New York were in at
tendance and participated in the nomina
ton.
joseph n. Larocque acted as chairman
of the meeting. The brooklyn delegation
was not present when the nomination was
made. The members Of the delegation.
Messrs. Orr, Maxwell, Creevy and Dough
erty had been in attendance, but they LEFT
before the nominating resolution as pass
ed by tie Man haitian, Bronx, Richmond and
Queens del ega tons.
Mir. Orr SAID the committee had merely
presented the resolution passed last night
in Brooklyn, and had waited for nothing
else. The nomination was made 10y pass
ing the following resolution unanimously:
Resolved, That the representatives OF
the Citizens Union Of the several Dor
oughs, in pursuance Of the authority in
vested in them by their respective organi-
cations, tender TO the Hon. Seth Low the
Nomination or mayor Uf the city OF New
York.
The resolution was at once dispatched
to Mr.. Law, who is now at his summer
home In Maine. Ii was sent by q special
messenger.
The leaders OF the Republican organiza-
ton and other politicians representing
the anti-Tarnmany conference met In the
A s,or House today.
President QuigG spoke first for the Re
publican organization and repeated the
statement he has made publicly a number
of times. that the Republican city eonven-
ton would not make a second hand nomi-
nation. The meeting adjourned at 12:45,
and Chairman Qugg announced that this
resolution had been adopted unanimously
Resolved, That in the Judgment of this
conference, the nominating conventions
OF all organizations opposed to Tarumany
Hall ought to be held on the same day, 50
that ready conference on all questions
may nc assured, and September 20, be-
ing the earliest day on which, under
the constitution or the Republican county
committee OF the city and county of New
York, the Republican city convention can
be assembled, IL is hereby recommended to
al UfRdHiLdtruus Opposcu 10 1dluuiduy
Hall that they hold their nominating con-
ventien Oh that day"
In answer to questions Mr.. @ uigg stated
that the Brooklyn committee entered the
conference with the understanding that
they were committed TO Mr.. Low for mayor.
When Msssrs- Orr and Maxwell left the
meeting the above resolution had been
agreed on. and they authorized Mr.. Steele
to vote for It.
Tie general opinion here is that the
Plat Republicans will have 10 indorse
the nomiE alton of Mr.. Low.
tits g bitter pill for them to swallow but
they win have to take IL. A three-cornered
fight would mean the certain election OF
Democrat.