Gilpin observer., 1900-08-02
(From Field and Farm)

An individual reservoir on "A farm is
a great convenience and often Il source
OF great profit. In many soils there is
trouble from seepage which prevents
| the building of them. There is n sim
PIE way to overcome this difficulty. If
there is any clay at all in the soil 1t is
not necessary to add any. but if not,
haul II few loads of the best clay OBJ
tainable and scatter it thinly Then
dampen SO that it is quite wet and drive
Il band of sheep, goats or young cattle
over the surface. They will quickly
puddle 1t so that it will be as tight as Il
bottle
The cantaloupe crop in the Arkansas
valley this year will probably be from
twenty to thirty per cent. short The
blight has attacked the vines and in
some places ruined the crop altogether,
while in other places which have scant
irrigation facilities the dry season has
worked a good deal of damage. The
growers, however, will not suffer, for
the melon crop is short all over the
country and the increase in price will
probably more than compensate the
Colorado melon growers for the poor
yield.
Leach & Lane of Otero county are
| now contracting alfalfa and expect to
work the automobile machine in the
fields, balng the hay direct from the
windrow or cock without stacking it.
This new baler which runs all over
the country without horses and will
put up forty tons a day by consuming
only four gallons of gasoline and two
gallons of water. The firm is making
inquiry for an opening on alfalfa in the
eastern markets where the hay crop Is
short this year and soon hopes to be
shipping great quantities of alfalfa di-
rect from the field
1t is reported from Vienna that one
of the scientists there has discovered
that all the bacteria in milk may be
easily killed by means of electricity and
very moderate current at that. 1t is
declared that the treatment Is simple.
This is of immense value to the human
race, If true. 1t means that milk can
be steriliZed without the application of
heat 1t would not only place in the
hands of dairymen the means of max
| ing better butter, but ii would make
the pasteurization of the private milk
supply popular, thereby decreasing all
the diseases the germs of which are
carried in the milk.
Running pigs in the orchard is COM
paratively II new proposition In this
country, yet 1t has been done with
good results by some men. w. s. Co
burn of Delta county Is one of these.
He ran sixty hogs last year and desir-
ed to put in more this season. In
writing on this subject a reader says:
Ten years ago we thought we would
have to surrender to the curcullo and
borer, as they ovcrran our orchard. So
many peaches were wo:'my and un-
salablc that ! thought | would make
pork out of them anyway. So we sur
rounded the orchard with hog proof
fence consisting of five barbed wires.
We have kept enough hogs ana shotes
| In this inclosurc 10 eat up all fruit that
falls from the trees. Whenever we
find n defective fruit we always drop
1t on the ground for the hogs. The cur
culios have almost entirely disappear
| ed, and strange 10 say, the bOrcr has
also gone. In former years II would
| take weeks to dig out the boreIs Now,
| II scarcely requires II day In the sea
son. Perhaps the hogs did not eat the
borers, but the fact remains that they
have gone. The best hogs we have
| found for n peach orchard are the Es-
sex, either pure, or crossed with Po-
land China or Berkshire. They arc
quiet ana keep fat. After leaving the
orchard about November list. the get
ready for the market with little grain"
The Red river ranges In the Catskill,
Vasquez and adjacent vicinitics have
been heavily restockcd from southern
New Mexico ana Arizona. and II Is es-
timated that 10000 head Of cattle can
now be counted ON these ranges, where
three years since 5000 could not be
tailed.
| Babbltt Brothers of Nogales. Arizona,
have shipped In the nelghborhood OF
sixty cars of cattle TO Bent county In
this state during the past few days,
and disposed of them to local cattlcmcn
In punches of 100 to 800 head. who will
feed them for market the coming win
ter. The stock Is mostly Of the dogie
order which we all know so well.