The Glenwood post., 1906-07-28
PRESS CLIPPINGS

The present outlook for hay crop
the country over is not exceedingly
promising and our alfalfa growers
will do well to take the utmost care
of their product, for prices ought to
be high next winter. Kansas has
had such drouth in the greater part
of the state that the hay crop will be
quite curtailed. Iowa. Illinois, In
diana, Michigan and Wisconsin all
report but half crop. Texas has
had long drouth and will need hay
in quantities before the winter is
over. So taking it all around the al
falfa states have the best outlook this
year and the grand old legume will
acquire more prestige than ever.-Ex.
Within few weeks farmers of the
west will see their fields devastated
by millions of locusts is the prediction
made by Prof. Willis Marshall of
Sioux City, Iowa, formerly professor
of mathematics in Moiningside col
lege and the Sioux City high school
and scientist of some distinction in
the northwest. According to Prof.
are on schedule time, and the winds
which will sweep over the corn fields
Of Iowa and Nebraska and the wheat
fields of Minnesota and South Dakota
during August and September will
bring from the northwest millions
and millions of locusts. -tirand juno
tion Daily Sentinel
The Grand Junction Fruit Growers
association is shipping car load of
fruit every night by freight, the first
going out last Friday. The cars con-
tain peaches, early apples and peals
with few plums. The market last
week was very poor indeed but the
outlook is for better things this week.
The Triumph and better grades of
peaches are now beginning to come in
and the Texas Elbertas are practically
out of the way. The Alexander
peaches were almost entirely 1Os to
the box and brought but little money,
and this is the record for the past ten
years Tees are encumbering the
ground, much more useful for raising
potatoes or any cid thing else Grand
Junction Daily News.
It's rather strange isn't it that no
one has ever tried growing persim-
nous here. Those who have once
tasted this finely favored fruit even
when grown in wild state will surely
agree that an experiment with it here
would be worth while. The wild va
riety. while possessing a fine flavor, is
small and has too many seeds to be of
much use commercially. But good
many of the state agricultural schools
in the middle Mississippi valley have
cultivated the persimmon and have
reduced the number of seeds to one.
and in very few cases have produced
seedless varieties, The size of the
fruit has been greatly increased too,
the average being already equal to our
| '90' peaches. --Palisade Tribune.
7. P. Reed has a method of graft
ing peach trees which is all his own.
Many even of the experienced nurserG
men are not on to it. The regular
method of grating peach trees with
the use of wax has never been very
successful and the practice usually is
to propagate by budding. The buds
are put in the fall and lie there
dormant until spring. But Mr.. Reed
does his grating with buds in the
spring. He uses growing buds which
have attained length of one or two
inches and inserts them in the ordi
nary way. They frequently attain
a. growth of two or three feet the first
year. He put in about 1000 this year.
and about 8 or out of ten lived and
are in thrifty condition. If you have
anything new of this kind tell the
Tribune .-Palisade Tribune.
The government is making an in
vestigation into the shale of this vi
cinity with view TO establishing a
factory for the manufacture of Port
land cement for use on the Gunnison
tunnel. Several tests of material
near Montrose was made but it failed
to meet the requirements necessary
for good cement. There are a num-
Der of lime rock and shale beds in
this county which should be tested,
for if the proper material were found
it would not only enable the govern
ment to make great saving in the
use of cement for the tunnel project,
but it would be the means of estab-
alishing permanently Portland &C.
ment factory near here. If any per