The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-27


Montana
Too much salt will kill poultry, but
IL Is well to remember that when the
mock does not have free range their
moist feeds should be sailed. They
need salt In just the same way that
man and other animals do.
The bulbs which were put in the Gel
lar last fall should be inspected to see
they are getting rooted properly.
Possibly they may need watering,
while some that have made a good
start might be brought upstairs to fur
nish the FIRST bloom of the season.
There is surely a screw loose or a cog
out Of place In the makeup Of the well
fed farmer who drives to town in his
big fur coat when the thermometer
registers below zero, yet leaves his
team unblanketed for an hour or more
on the street while he warns his shins
before the store fire.
II measure which is to be introduce
I'd into congress becomes a law 1t win
mean hard shedding ahead for the Bra
Hlian coffee trust. The measure In
question proposes to authorize the
seizure by the proper government au-
thorities Of any imported product that
b controlled by a trust
At Berkeley, CAL, tie police have or
ders to kill every cat they find out
doors, and the order includes the fancy
pure breds along with the multicolored
cat arabs that frequent the back al
leys. The health authorities believe
the cat tribe is instrumental In spread
ing smallpox, and this Is the reason
for the order.
That lurid yellow hue that il now
and then beheld on buckwheAt cakes,
sometimes at hotels and sometimes
elsewhere Is due to the fact that re-
peated fixing Of the batter with soda
has made 1t a fearsome alkali concoc-
ton. If such batter can't be freed
from Its surplus of soda by washing, 1t
would better be thrown into the alley
and new batch started.
According to Professor Galloway,
chief Of the bureau of plant industry
Of the department of agriculture, the
governments irrigation projects all
throughout the west are doomed to
eventual failure as a result of the
wearing out of the soil through satura-
ton. He asserts there has never been
any long continued successful frriga-
ton in a semiarid climate.
Miss Esta Beaman, the Oklahoma girl
who won the 5000 prize in the Okla
homa boys corn growing contest, has
sold ninety of the ninety-f1ve bushels
of corn produced on the acre at So per
bushel She recently addressed an as
sembly OF 1000 farmers at the Okla
homa Agricultural college. and when
she was through orders were received
from her hearers for the corn in Ques-
tion.
In many sections of China SO In
tensive Is the type Of agriculture fol-
lowed that no spot of ground that can
possibly be stirred with q hoe is left
implanted and untitled. Patches are
tended so small that we would consid-
or them nothing but doll gardens.
Every clod of earth is pulverixed, and
every weed that terminates is destroy
ed. The wheatlelds are hand hoed
very carefully to conserve the moisture
that Ii In the soil and encourage the
growth Of the plants.
One Of the most successful farmers
cooperative creameries In the writer's
home state Is located within a stones
throw of his Office. It has been estab-
nshed some twenty-three years, has be-
tween 400 and 500 patrons, and. while
its plant Is not expensive as such
establishments go. 1t Is efficient Last
year this creamery made 100000
pounds Of butter. which brought the
patrons $4,000. The product, practi-
cally all Of 1t. was sold at topnotch
prices on the New York market
A lady friend reports an interesting
fact regarding small limb from q
Transcendent crab, which she broke
or the tree last fall and stuck into the
pot containing her Gala lily Instead
Of drying up and shriveling. as would
ordinarily be the case, this twig seems
30 have rooted and has sent out a lot
Of blossom buds. several OF which have
come to full bloom. 1t will be inter
esting to see II any Of these blossoms
will fertilize under the conditions
which exist and whether any fruit will
set
The other day the writer attended .
baking demonstration Of a high school
class In domestic economy. One Of the
procedures that were quite interesting
was the way the girls mixed the short
sning into the flour. They took cold
case knives and chopped MP and down
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