Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-07-28
s. Farm Department.

/ vide. some sort OF u storage Tor HIM
self. Files of Field and Farm show
how this may be done.
II has been the unanimous opinion
OF the handlers OF apples all over the
United States that there should be
/ uniform sized barrel 10 bc known as
| the standard barrel, ana that only one
sized barrel should be used anywhere
| In the United States. A large crop OF
apples IL expected this season and TO
| realize fair price we VIII necessarily
| export a large amount. The National
Apple Shippers Association ana the
National League of Commission Mer-
chants have already adopted the fol
lowing dimensions. Head. seventeen
and onc.elghth inches: s,ave, twenty.
eight and one-half inches between
crozins: bulge, not less than slNty-four
inches outside circumference. Buyers
and shippers are signing an agreement
that they will not purchase apples
packed In barrels that hold less than
this.
For a $1,000 to $1,000 creamery the
following outfit IL needed: One fifteen
horse power horizontal boiler. one ten
horse power horizontal engine. one sep
arator-belt power-capaclty 1000
pounds an hour, one 4OO-gnllon milk
receiving vat. one 3O0-Sallon twin
cream vat with ice box on end. one tcm-
pering vat. two rotary milk pumps. one
siXty-gallon weigh can, one Compound,
two-beam scale. one 3OO-gallon cedar
churn, one milk conductor head and
fifteen feet of conductor pipe. one but
ter-worker. one vat-strainer. one thirty
siN-bottle Babcock tester complete, one
wash sink. one 2OO-Gnllon skim-milk
vat, one 200-gallon buttermilk vat: one
ten-barrel water tank, one butter
spade, one butter packer. In addition:
Mops, brooms. scrubbing brushes, pals.
dippers, ladies' and thermometers.
shafting. hangers and collars, pullcys
and betting. radiators and heating
pipes with connection, globe and check
valves, according to local need.
Western cattle taken up In the fall
and put onto corn with high-prcssure
feeding make some wonderful gains
and are all right when handled prop
erly. The other Gay on n river mar
ket Miner brothers OF Red Cloud. Ne
braska, sold fifty-fiye steers Mt ei.S5
that averaged 1,3G4 pounds. They
corn till March, when soaked corn
was substituted. The Boyd milling
company OF the same place sold
thirty-seven Colorado steers that
weighed 1851 pounds Mt S4.75. These
had been fed eight months on ground
corn with cane and straw rs rough
ness. There was one bull in this
bunch that -"'-rI coo pounds. L.
NJ. Crawford OF Sabetha, Kansas,
marketed sixteen head averaging
1.465 pounds at So, and thirty-tive
head, 1.4S9 pounds Mt $4.S5. They
We're originally Utah cattle and never
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they We're fed shelled corn with an
extra ration of bran and timothy hay
the last sixty days. The gain was
something over 400 pounds.
Alfalfa should not be cut earlier than
earliest blooming nor later than full
Towering. Period for period and
pound for pound. the three crops cut in
one season seem to have about the
same feeding value, the second crop
being slightly less valuable than either
of the others. At the early Towering
period of every hundred pounds of dry
hay fifty to sixty pounds are stalks and
forty to fifty are leaves. The stalks
contain three or four times as much
fibre as the leaves, but the leaves con-
tain two or three times as much al
buminoids as the stalks. Tests Mt the
Colorado station made for the purpose
of determining the extent. IL any, of
the variation in the composition and
therefore of the feeding value of al
falfa hay grown at different attitudes
and by different methods proved that
whether grown on high land or low
land, by irrigation or without irriga-
ton, alfalfa hay grown in Colorado
varies in composition but slightly in
protein-less than two per cent-but
very considerably in crude fibre, as
much as eight per cent. But in Texas
different samples varied in protein as
much rs ten per cent, and in crude
fibre as much as seventeen per cent.
However, the Texas samples, us those
from New Jersey, We're richer in pro-
tein than those from Colorado, which
shows that while alfalfa flourishes in
the mountains 1t makes richer forage
in the low lands.
The festive potato bug is as numer
Gus as ever in certain sections of the
state this summer and correspond
ent's views may be of some value, as
county, the home of the tuber: Il
have used the dry powder gun on my
entire acreage and find that 1t distrib-
utes the green effectively. The makers
| of this implement say that the green
| can be applied successfully without
any diluent, but I have used two
parts of flour to one of green. This
takes but very little flour and one has
| the s"t'~r"ctibn of seeing what he is
doing. This amount makes almost no
show on the potato tops, but one can
see 1t issuing from the machine. I
find that two rows can be treated at
once just as well MS one. OF course
| the rows have to be equal distance
| apart. not simply straight to do this.
but there is no trouble when they are
| planted by machine and reasonable
care taken in the planting. Treating
two rows at once I can average an
acre in Il half an hour. This means
that l can treat in one day as many
potatoes as l could in six with the
use of the perforated tin can. The