Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-03-20

keeping Of fruit will be found easier
to regulate than the best appointed
house cellars.
Dsstreviag ClodS
II you have q piece Of hard land IA
break, which is 10 baked as to come
up In clods, We would suggest that you
run over 1t with disc or cutaway har-
row ahead Of plows, and break with
very small sco0ters, says southern
farmer. Do not try to turn such land.
II you still have clods do not wait for
them to harden, but run heavy roller
or drag over and follow with some
pulverixing harrow the same day.
An hour or 70 will do this for each
days blowing. Thus You viii pulver-
| ixe most OF them quite easily. Rsn
roller ahead Of harrow 90 as to crush |
AZ many Is possible and fAsten the
others 80 that they cannot dodge the
harrows. 1t will pay to take time to |
| do this, your crop can be cultivated
! 20 much cheaper Afterwards; and tho
| yield will be 90 much greater. Every
time you 70 over with harrows and
crushers you viii increase the yield
of the crop.
We once selected one acre In .
twenty acre field. average spot, and
plowed and narrowed this acre four
teen times right along before We quit
We then planted and cultivated this
aero lust a. We did the rest u the field,
running the rows right along through
Il The yield was much more than
double any other acre. This has con-.
tinued to be true for nve years. In al,
kinds OF crops. All through the grow
inr season this acre can be distin-
euished ~ Tar a. yeu can see the neld-
All crops grow Oh quicker and yield
heavier. Culture L. Manure" u true.
But after ali the old proverb AN
ounce Of prevention II worth . pound
Of cure" holds good heZe ALSO. II the
, hard pan II broken up and the water
, permitted to 60 ON down, % - not
. to saturate the soil and remain In 1t
too long. the baking will Be prevented
| II the baking or running together =
prevented the clods win not form This
, il a. true Of bottom land - Of upland
Stop the soaking and you VIII prevent
. the clodding. One other point u worth
. considering here. Do not burn any
vegetable matter IN your farm. Plow
1t into the soil, This Will enrich the
: soil and prevent the baking and clod-
> ding.
e vaius Of Kansas Livs steek.
a The compilation Of Kansas assesa-
b ors returns. showing the value. at
J. home or on the farm. Of animals
If slaughtered or sold for slaughter and
l. the poultry and eggs marketed in the
h year ending March l. just completed
% by Secretary F. d. Coburn, Of the stats
le board Of agriculture. evidences that
Kansas not only is well forward but
re- continues to rapidly advance in thu
In rank Of meat-producing states.
70 The value returned for anina2s
d, slaughtered or sold for that purpose II
b. the year named is $54 1921 1888. or ~
De per cent greater than In 1899, and tn
re largest value in the history Of tn,
IL state. In 1895 the value was $36,5oz.057
~ since when there has been hand
.. some increase each year, aggregatinl
at total gain Of $17.729,S31, or 48.5 pe
III cent
m The value of poultry and eggs mar
keted within the year was 5000, S31
gain over 1899 of 1913 per cent, an
Likewise the largest value ever report
IN ed for the state There has been y
is increase annually In the value of poul
70 try and eggs marketed since 1895. an
in the total gain made during the flv
al- years is 62.65 per cent, or $1.745.7s'
IN the largest increase being 1900.
ire The combined values OF animal
ro- slaughtered or sold for slaughter an
50. OF poultry and eggs sold in the yes
M is $59 1882, 220, and for the ave yea,
The (1S96-1900) they aggregate &249, 260. So
his making an annual average of $4s.S62
Inc 1876.
cd Desirable qualities are not the onl
ILL., ones that are perpetuated by inner
lance. Undesirable qualities are ali
handed down from generation to gel
nm Grafton to be An annoyance to Il
red breeder. It is said that the variatio,
oee are ~ apt to be toward deterioratio
ate az toward improvement While In
ers state Of nature the standard Of Il
did breed IL kept up Dy natural aeAe
AZ ton that We call the survival Of Il
the fittest. This not only keeps the go'
ow. qualities in the foreground, but al
lral establishes new ones that appear
liar they are of enough consequence to su
IL vive. When the wild birds and vi
.rds animals are domesticated 1t is
ght longer . case of survival Of the I
pos test. for the old laws are set aside
fer man Thereafter the chief factor
han improvement must be artificial sell
lsed ton. The birds are no longer able
BY exercise any volition in the matt
the The need. therefore, OF careful stu
VIII ON the part Of the breeder is appare
any
That feed affects the quality Of
agRa is without contradiction. It