Rocky Ford enterprise., 1900-08-03
tfpm Field nni rarm.)

An individual reservoir on u farm I.
\ sr-a, convenience aud often n source
Of great pront. In many sells there is
1 trouble from. s-rpas- which prevents
Z the building of them. There Is sin,.
plc way Ia overcome this difficulty. II
there !. any clay nj NIL in III. .oii II 4.
not necessary To a,ii any. hut II not.
haul Few load. OF the less; clay oh.
4 tninnbi. and scatter IL ihiniy. Then
inini-'n - that II IL lniir wet aud drive
a hand of sheep. goats ar y.unS cattle
/, over the .nffnc-. They will quickly
puddle II -o that II will H. ~ tight u.
bottle.
. The caniaiour-. cfur in the Arkansas
valley this y-ss win probably H. from
twenty to thirty t-r r-nt. .i,.rt. The
blight has attacked the siu.s an.i in
eam- pin--s ruin~i the crop altogether.
while In other plncr. which have s.an,
irrigation faciliti-. the dry .-a.an has
worked a good deal II damage. The
growers. however. viii not suffer. for
the melon crop IL short all over the
country ani the Increase In pri-.s will
probably taor- Than -otnt-,n-ai. the
Coiorai. m-i.n growers for tbs. i-ror
yield.
now contracting alfalfa and expect To-
work the automobile machine in the
fields. huiins the hay ,iirrt from the
winirow or cprA without stacking II.
This new hai"s which runs all over
the country without hor-.'s ani will
put ur forty tnns q .iny i,y consuming
only four gallons .f gasoline aIii two
gallons Of water. The tiIn /. making
inquiry fut an opening on alfalfa in the
eastern markets vt-r- the hay srup !.
short this year nbi sopn haI,-> To- -
shipping Errnt lian,i,i-. of alfalfa III.
rect frum the field.
II l. reported from Vienna that on,
II the scientist. ,h-r- ha. discovered
that all the bacteria in milk may H.
easily Killed 10y means II electricity auJ
very moderate currcnt n, that. II il
declared that the treatment il simple.
This IL Of immense valur To- the human
racr. IL true. II means that milk rl1
bc s'-riliz-d without the application of
heat. II would not only placr in the
hands Of dairytiirn the means af-mak.
ing better butter. hut II wunl,l make
the I,asfrtirigntiun uf the private milk
supply popular. thereby decreasing ali
the diseases the germs - which ar,
carried in the milk.
Runnins pigs in the orchard is cu,n.
parativcly new proposition in this
country. yet II has i--n done with
good results hy some urn. ". < Co.
burn of Delta county is one of these.
lie rau sixty hogs last year aui ,lC.iE-
cd to put In more this season In
writing "n this subject Tradcr says:
Ten years ngo We thought W. wuuld
, have tn surrender to- the cuprulio and
borcr. as they orCrtan our orchard. So
many peaches were wo.my and un.
salnl,lc that I thought I would make
pork mt of them anyway. so We sur.
rounded the orchard with hog pro1f
fence. consisting of live bari,r,i wires.
We have kept enough hogs and shn,c<
In this Enclosure iv eat up all fruit thar
falls from the trees. Whenever We
find defective fruit We always drop
IL on the ground for the h"es. The cur.
c,ilios have almost entirely disappear.
cd. and strange TO say. the lSurrr has
also gone. In former years IL wnulJ
take weeks to dig on, the lpurrrS. Now.
II scarcely requires n iay in the sea.
son. Perhaps the hogs did not eat tho
borcrs. hut the fact remains tiia, tbcy
have gone. The lrsi hugs We have
found for y peach orchard are the Is
sex. either pure. or crusst-l with To.
land.China or berkshire. They nr-
quiet and Keep fat. After leaving the
orchard about November ist. the 20,
ready for the market with little grain.~
The Red river ranges in the CatsEIll
Nasguez aud adjacent Viciniiies have
been heavily rcstOckcd from southern
New Mexico aud Arizona. and II is cs.
timatcd that 5000 head uf cattle can
now he counted on these ranges. whore
three years since 5000 could not iuc
tailed.
Babhitt Brothers Of Nogales. Ariznna.
have shipped in the nCiglilburI,ooJ q,
sixty cars Of cattle 10 Rent county i'm
this state during the past few dnys
and disposed Of them TO local cattlen.t,
in punches Of 100 To zoo head. who will
Feed them for market The coming win.
ter. The stock is mostly nf the ,Ing,,,
order which we all know so well.