El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-24
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Honey by the carload is now going
out from Tempe, Arizona, to the east
ern markets.
Methods of preserving soil moisture
have not been troubling Texas farmer'
much lately.-Ex.
Tests have shown that cows secrete
as much milk in daytime as at night
Farm and Ranch.
Oklahoma has an immense whea
crop this year. The yield is estimated
to be between SO and 40 million bush
els.
The Nebraska farmer says grasshOp
pers are more destructive to crops in
that state thans drouths and all Other
insects combined.-Ex.
The average Texas farmer with q
big crop of corn and no hogs to eat it,
will learn something by another year,
that is, if he ia susceptible.-Ex.
There is great demand from Den.
yer for Salt river valley canteloupes.
Every other day carload is shipped
by the Melon Growers Association un-
der the direction of Mr.. Lincoln Fowl
er of Phoenix.-Tucson Star.
Cotton receipts at all American ports
between September LIST, 1898, and June
9th, 1899. estimated by the department
of agriculture, amounts to 1922, 44S
bales, falling off from same period
last year of 1862, 1858 bales.
Fannin county, Texas. has big sur
plus of old corn, and is marketing it in
the ear at % cents. The new crop will
be the largest ever raised in the coun-
ty. Oh, but we shall have lots of hog
and hominy next winter!-Ex.
The Irish are famous for their bulls.
| We select the following as q high-scor.
ing specimen from q leading editoria-
| in the Irish Farming World: There is
on the farm: perhaps, no animal more
cart horse. He is the maid of all
work. Texas Ranchman.
Some of the farmers in the over
flowed district in the Brazos valley are
going to replant cotton to some extent.
One OF them says he does not expect
very good results, but he is going to
try the experiment anyhow. He
thinks it Is better to do that than to do
nothing. Antonio Elk.
The almond harvest has begun in
real earnest, says the Mesa Free Press.
The yield for this season will be very
heavy and the quality of the product
will be first class. The Trippel Or
chard will yield several tons of fine
paper shell almonds. This almond is
considered to be the very best variety
and always demands first class price
In all local and eastern markets.
Enterprise.
Good broom corn is now selling
around $3.50 per ton, and broom manu-
facturers find it hard to secure suffi-
few broom factories in Texas, due, it ia
said, to the fact that it is herd to Sc
cure the raw product. 1t seems to US
that sll brooms used in Texas should
be made in Texas. and that Texas
farmers would find it profitable to raise
the raw pr oduct.-Stockman and Farm
err.
Reports from the corn belt of Kansas
give promise that Kansas will have the
largest corn yield this year in it's his
tory. The acreage is much larger than
usual. Thousands of farmers plowed
up their wheat after it was frozen out
and put the ground in corn. The sea-
son has been somewhat backward but
the corn crop is in fine condition.
Jewell and Smith counties, combined,
are figuring on raising 20, 900, 900 BUSH
els.-Ex.
Itiis probably better for the COW if
the calf is permitted to suck for three
or four day before the final separation,
and also better for the calf. The COW
will be more quiet at the most critical
time, and the calf will be more easily
taught to drink milk. There is less
trouble about it If the calf is re moved
as soon as born, 80 that the COW knows
nothing about 1t; but many young COWS
are nervous and fretful and feverish at
such times, and the application of the
calf to the distended udder is natures
measure for relief, and hard to improve
upOn.-Ex.
The divisions of statistics of the De-
partment of Agriculture has changed
the name Irish potato" to "White po-
tato," and hereafter in statistical re-
ports they will be so denominated. The |
reason given for the change is that the |
name Irish potato is misnomer; there |
fore, to distinguish it from the sweet |
potato, the spud will go as "White pot
ato." The new name, it strikes US, is |
also a misnomer, and utterly fails to
it from The sweet potato. |
De white or brown or pink or red or
yellow, or any one of large number of |
shades; so also may the sweet potato.
There is no color presented in one that
8 not represented in the other. We
all to see any advantage to accrue
rom the new name, as neither brevity
Tor perspicuity is attained.-Farm
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