Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-07-29
THE FARM AND RANGE

last seasons business 1t was found
Notwithstanding the light honey crop.
the regular ten per cent dividend
could be paid to stockholders. The
members who sold their honey through
the association have received In re-
bates nearly all the commission they
paid. Those who sold through the as
sociation and graded their honey ac-
cording to their rules. received good
price and got rid OF their honey early.
From what We can determine from
specimens sent us the winHless iocusts
which are cutting such aswath through
Routt county this summer are the
larvae OF the Xerophioea viridis. Sea;
Hayden on the Yampa they have ex-
tended over strip OF territory ten or
twelve miles wide and nifty or sixty
miles long. The streams have little
, or no affect upon their progress. n
they cross In untold numbers. The
pests are destructive To all grain. al
faifa and garden truck. These en-
bryonic insects advance from "A quarter
to half mile dag In great hordes
and will begin To hop lively by tho
middle OF August when the Image be-
come full grown or adult as IL In call
ed. II is evident that the species is
/, two broodcd In the mountain regions.
They can be poisoned by putting out
tHr GttNulr mtNtutr Ut WIN "tbVuttat
bran mashes or by sprinkl!ne great
areas Of gras, with paris green soiu-
lion and this ought to be- done before
they begin to iy.-fi-id and Farm.
4 Boulder dniyyman writes NJ fol-
lows: In running n ico-Guart-asdny
rotlic. We keep from twelve To fourteen
cows. We calcuiat. to have the cows
] so dry from six weeks to two months.
| 20 that t~o or three are out Of s.rric.
nearly ali tho time. II IL n dinicuit
matter to keep an even run Of milk
] when foods vary 40 much ~ In the
| common pas,uI. feeding method. and II
| r- quir-4 akiiltul work not to have u
| shortage In August and November. or
q big surplus In May and Ju.c. We
plan to have more OF tho cows come In
from July tn dec, mb~r than the cor
responding period. As the shortaE~ VIII
come In the former period. Cows Will
give more milk In = year by coming In
from September tn p~c-mb~r than ~
any other time Of year. Common cows
will not average more than eight quarts
| n day the year around. When soiiing
or eut-aifaifs feeding .. practie-d. tho
quantity of milk eau b. much moIr
easily controlled and then COWS can
come In at about equal distances apart
throughout the year
For twenty years tho fru., growers
| OF Colorado LIVING east os the noun
taias have been fighting pear blight In
/ their orchards and while u IL not -
prevalent as tra or twelve years ago
u IL still a great nuisance which MUS,
he watched and cut out. The Western
, slope people have been troubled with
the disease for four or ave years no~
and go siruirni has u become that
they arc thoroughly alarmed and are
anxious to adopt means to prevent
further destruction. The only remedy
Ia the knife and all affected t~is>
should bc cut back a, least a foot IN
sound wood by blade or saw and the
instrument should he dislnfrct-d with
carboiir acid solution every time u IL
used while all detached iints. t~iEs
and terminal buds mus, he burned al
once. Al the Madison orchards near
Denver a man IL employed to CONSTANT
| Iy patrol tho grounds and by this sys-
TEN Of vigilance but very little dis.
case can be seen to-day. The cutting
IL done promptly and In this way the
whole plantation has no doubt been
saved.
A good many people arc proposing
TO say. cherry pits this year for plant
Ing purposes to grow seedlings for
hedge and ~ind-brcak purposes or for
hardy stock upon which to ~ork SOME
thing better. One great caution In this
arid climate is not to let the stones be-
come dry. as their vitality is iesscned
and IL takes much longer to <crmina'e.
When clean mi1 them In q boz contain.
ing about an equal amount OF moist
sand and see that they are all covered.
Set the boz behind some building out
of the way and see that they do not
dry out too much. A still better way is
g.. H,sR In shaltnvr mi a n ut gf
them with IA, stones. The seeds may
be keps over winter by either method.
but In this country II IL advisable to
plant them In nursery OF hedge rows In
the fall. Our country roads now so
general devoid Of trees could be well
shaded by putting out cherry pits ncs,
fall before freezing time. They start
growing with the nrst warmth Of
spring and aside from locuis We have
no trees In this arid region that will
stand druuth better.
many Of our orchards this season. and
they will have to be fought hammer and
tonzs to preveu, heavy damage. The
appearance of the leaves indicate the
presence Of the insect. as they are
curlei with the lice ON the under side.
These inse sects belong to the class which
suck and sap and therefore arc not
killed by arseBicaI spray mixtures.
Kerosene emulsion IL prescribed az
remedy. but the latest experiments in
dicate that the quassia and whaie-oii
soap solution gives better results. The
greatest care must he exercised. how
ever. in spraying for this insect. and
the work must be very thorough. or the
lice will get inside the curied leaves
and will not he reached. They must he
Killed by the spray mixture coming in
contact with them. and the mos, thor
oueh work is necessary. The auassia
solution is made as follows: Take
eighteen pounds Of quassia chips. put
in a barrel and pour ten gallons Of boil