The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-29
NOTES IN SEASON.


The dairy COW is more nervous than
the beef animal, and hence requires
gentler treatment
Sixteen thousand barrels Of apples
were gathered last fall from three adj
Joining farms in Maine.
Every active farmers son ought &c
learn TO graft, bud and spray. and do
this work for the neighbors
The little details of the dairy need
close attention, and unless it is given
total or partial failure will result.
Teach the horse to obey the word
whoa and to have confidence in you.
1t may save human life sometimes.
The product of every plant shocld be
worth dollar. In setting it out be as
careful as you would in saving dollars.
Cultivate, hoe or rake around plants
Immediately after setting, and every
few days thereafter throughout the
season.
Don't be afraid to pillow the orchard
IN the spring. 1t won't hurt it. But
do not go deep, only about three or
four inches.
When you have anything to sell, let
people know 1t. Judicious advertising is
just as important to the farmer as TO
the merchant
The fact that We can get more milk,
with less feed, from cows kept in warm
stables, is so universally admitted as
TO need no argument.
A kit of carpenters tools saves many
dollars by mending breaks and making
general repairs, surprising each man
has some genius for their use.
The COW before coming in needs some
attention She ought to be in a, thriving
condition by being fed oats or oil meat,
but no corn, as that is too heating.
to keeping an account with the COW,
the pig and the orchard, there would
soon come a different order of farming.
AS a rule, those crops pay best that
require the most care and attention.
The brains ana the labor are what sell
in the markets in the shape of the
c-op.
Every little fine rootlet is a constant
sucker, severely taxing even the best
prepared soil for its sustenance. In
poorly prepared soil it literally starves
to death.
Are you inexperienced in the sheep
business? A safe plan would be to be-
gin with a few, say a dozen or 20, and
increase the number with your grow
ing experience.
Not only must the soil contain food
elements. but they must be thoroughly
mixed and incorporated in the soil, to
become available as plant food. There
fore let the ground be heavily MANFRED
and every square inch for foot in
depth well pulverized.
Combine bee-keeping with fruit
growing, and you can more easily pro-
cure two crops from the same land;
and this double cropping requires no
additional fertilizing, is not exhaustive,
demands no extra blowing or cultiva-
ton. Few crops ask so little outlay as
the honey crop
Do not keep healthy and diseased
animals together They should be sep
arated as soon as disease is recognized.
Their diecses are due to germs and
cannot exist without germs being pres
ent. They are taken into the body
with food, water and air, and the closer
hogs come in contact the greater the
danger of spreading
The German potash salts are not
caustic potash, hence they do not dissi-
pate ammonia by fastening fermenta-
ton when applied to manure. Instead,
they form compound with the am
lnonia, thus helping to keep 1t from
washing. The nitrate of potash thus
formed is the most powerful fertilizer
known, and it is one that can be ap-
piled TO nearly every kind of crop or
fruit with benefit.
Plant as early as possible. The ad-
vantages, and even if the seed is lost,
the soil gets the working over it great
~ needs. II helps one along in the
multiplicity of work which presses
upon the farmer at this time Of the
year, and if good judgment is used
may usually be done with safety.
There is a right and wrong time of do
ing everything.
Good barnyard manure worked into
the soil and a top dressing of wood
ashes will furnish the soil with nitro
gen. potash. pig sphoric acid and hui
mus, all necessary to vigorous plant
growth. Cultivation will conserve
moisture and with these conditions
present, good crops will result. Do not
mix the manure and ashes before APP
plying If you do, the nitrogen, the
most valuable constituent, will escape.
The successful farmer of today is a
man Of broad intelligence and sound
business judgment. He is familiar
with the situation; grows crops and
stock that are adapted TO his soil, eli
mate and markets, then studies to
make surrounding conditions and cir
cuns.ances contribute to his needs. He
not only uses the light that comes to
him through the experience of others,
but also keeps his own lamp trimmed
and burning
It is a bad mistake for farmer with
p family not TO raise strawberries and
Just as bad to plant them in the gar
Den and expect his wife to hoe them.
If your garden will not admit of a
horse and pillow, put them in the field
and keep your cultivator going as reg
ulariy on them as you do on your corn,
but don't lay them by until frost
comes If you know how to use cult
vator you will scarcely need a hoe.-W.
I. Anderson. Ind.
Another crop that the young market
gardener must have, and which is sure
TO bring good profits if well managed.
is the strawberry. You will want at
least half an acre. Select a rich,
clean loan, if possible, and set good.
strong plants of Bubach, Haverland.
Crescent or any other very productive
variety new or Old as long as il is
suitable to your soil and locality, not
20 forget TO mix in an occasional row
or two Of some good perfect-fowering
sort like Warfeld Wilson, Beder
Wood, etc. This is for the purpose of
providing fertilizing pollen for the pis-
tilate varieties.
Nitrate of soda is valuable fertilizer
for Strawberries and raspberries. It
should be applied with powdered phos-
phate of lime to produce its best eff
fects The berries are larger il size,
bandsorler in color and finer flavor
Ordinary manure viii not produce such
results, for the reason that il is not
converted into plant food until after
the demand of the fruit. The plant
grows early in the season, and nitrate |