The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12

Last spring Mrs. Jane Dickinson,
living north of Lafayette, in Boulder
county, Colorado, secured sample of
what is known as corn wheat from the
Agricultural Department at Washing
ton, District of Columbia. The grain
Is very long, over t. &c as long as the
average wheat and Is slender. One
hundred pounds of the wheat was sown
and the yel6 W. be about four tons,
! the crop running seventy-f1ye bushels
| to the acre.
| Two new remedies for snake bite
| have been successfully introduced. One
is the injection of specially prepared
anti-venom which acts as an antitoxin.
The other is treating the afflicted part
with permanganate of potash, which
has the advantage that this substance
| can readily be kept at hand and does
not require to be specially prepared
and stored Ike antiyenom. A special
| form of lancet is used which consists
of a sharp steel-pOinted blade inserted
in wooden hollow handle containing
several crystals of the permanganate
Of potash. AS soon as the victim is
bitten a piece of cloth is tied firmly
above the bite, which is then enlarged
| with the lancet and rubbed with the
crystal.
w. l.. Scott of Boulder has written
letter to the Horticultural Department
of Colorado in which he says the apple
crop is the largest ever seen in that
county. He says the orchards are so
full of apples that it is really going to
be great question as to what disposi-
tion can be made Of the fruit The
apple crop is described as being al
most free from worms and many east
| ern investors are expected to buy the
crops on the trees. The Boulder fruit
growers will not be prepared to win
ter the apple crop and for this reason
the attention Of Mrs. Shute. secretary
of the Horticultural Department, is
being called to the matter She will
make an effort to provide for the safe
keeping of the crop.
The Pennsylvania railroad is said to
be considering the expediency Of adopt
ing a plan-long in use IN France-of
providing small farms for its employees
along its various lines. Land belong
ing to the corporation and other land
yet to be acquired for the purpose will
be parceled out among employees hav-
ing families, giving profitable employ
ment for the latter in many cases. In
France the Northern railway has To-
Gated 5000 employees on farms, the
Southern railway 2.GU0, the Eastern
$500 and the Orleans 60OO. These
companies are in position to finance
advantageously the purchase and free
distribution of small tracts suitable
for homemakers. Their scheme is
considered great success, since it
tends to convert the emplOye into
conservative, steady citizen and at the
same time increase the traffic of the
railways.
The pumping plant for irrigation
has come to stay and it needs no vivid
imagination to be able to draw a pic
ture of the time when it will be found
all over the arid west and will be rec
ognized as an Indispensable factor in
horticultural and agricultural develop
ment This pumping machinery is an
nually becoming perfected in higher
degree of efficiency while the cost is
being reduced commenSurately with
the requirements Of the times. All the
large mining machinery houses in Den.
yer have taken up the subject in real
earnest and the most of them have de
partments with expert men at the head
of them set aside to meet the demands
of the irrigation trade and in this way
a vast amount of benefit is accorded to
people who are thinking about putting
in mechanical means for supplying
watey-Field and Farm.