The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-08
NOTES IN SEASON.

When a farmer has plenty OF land
and fails to grow his own fence posts
and firewood, he is not living up to his
privileges.
Some of our cattle feeders have
/ learned that a plump, meaty l,zOO-
pound 2-year-old steer will bring more
cash than a long 4-year-old.
The chap who is wondering whether
it will pay him to till his land next
| season should ask himself what he
can get out of land if it lies idle.
AS matter of business, if it were
not gain to cut the feed, it would not
be the common practice of the en-
ployers of hundreds of horses in single
stables to use cut feed.
The depression in prices and general
I encouragement of farming must not
be permitted to interfere with plans for
improved farming. Improvement is
the way to overcome depression.
very valuable book for all who are
interested in farm darying is Good
Butter and How to Make It." pub
lished by the Kneeland Crystal Cream
cry company, Lansing, Mich. They
send it free to all applicants.
When pruning the old orchard and
removing a large limb, first saw a
notch on the under side of the limb;
then saw down from the upper side
to meet that below. This will prevent
splitting the limb. Use gum shellack
dissolved in alcohol, or a thin, light
colored paint to coat the wounds.
One reason why women are over
worked on farms is because they have
not discovered that men can do most
of the heavy work about the house.
And there should be nothing discredit-
able in a man doing any work which
is honorable for a woman, provided, OF
course, his time is not worth more at
some other labor.
Cleanliness is the best mode of get
ting rid of odors, but even with the
greatest care in that respect odors will
often prevail. The best remedy is to
burn a spoonful of sulphur in the
poultry house once a week, first clos
ing it. The use of a tablespoonful of
carbolic acid in a gallon of water,
freely sprinkled in the poultry house
once a week, will be found very eff
fective in disinfecting.
The ideal location for an apple
orchard, Miss Cutler told the Boston
farmers at their meeting a week ego,
is on a hill. The advantage in this
over a plain being that the trees are
more open to the light and air, giving
better color and flavor to the fruit, |
better natural drainage and freedom
from froStS.
For the table nothing equals the |
Budlong, or as some seedsmen cata-
logue it, BreadstOne, turnip. This is |
the sweetest turnip grown, and if |
planted late, not earlier than July, and |
on rather poor land, or on sod land, ,
it will not grow large, and when once |
grown, will be always grown" Every |
one should try this.
A Phillips county settler, named !
Fred Boreland, of Holyoke, writes: In
1888 I invested 5000 in sheep sheds and
corrals. The number of sheen pur-
chased was pa, for which 1 paid $500. |
| kept this flock and increase until
1890, without adding anything to my
investment, but during that year I in
vested $500 more in sheep. During 1891
sold the entire herd for SO, 600. In the
meantime l made my living and kept
up all the expense of running the band
out of the sale of mutton and wool
from it. Last season l re-entered the
business, and have purchased 1000
head OF sheep. ] know of no business
hat yields such satisfactory profits
With as little risk"
The horticulturists of Grand juno
ton, Colo, have begun movement by
means of public meetings for the better
protection of the orchards of Colorado.
A bill has been drafted which will be
brought forward by Representative
elect Bucklin, which provides for the
appointment of county inspectors by
he boards of commissioners of each
county, and provides each inspector
With a proper salary, so that he may
levote his entire time to the duties of
lis office. The proposed bill will be
by all. the legislators of the
western slope. The present law re-
tricts the expenditure of any one
county to $500 a year for inspectors
ees, and it is to enlarge this sum and
emove the restriction that the new bill
S proposed. In some counties the
rchardists find that an Inspector is
leeded all the time, hence the neces-
ity for amending the prevailing law